LWTR
@lwtr.bsky.social
History of Science.
Medicine. Labor. Military. Behavioral & Social Sciences. 🇦🇺 Peace & Anti-War.
Medicine. Labor. Military. Behavioral & Social Sciences. 🇦🇺 Peace & Anti-War.
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Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
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A powerful post from @attackerman.bsky.social -- www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...
War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
www.forever-wars.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A powerful post from @attackerman.bsky.social -- www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...
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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
U.S. WWI conscientious objector, Arthur Dunham, on war as a violation of the Law of Love.
“…Love should be the motive for every thought, word, and deed.”
“…Love should be the motive for every thought, word, and deed.”
June 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
U.S. WWI conscientious objector, Arthur Dunham, on war as a violation of the Law of Love.
“…Love should be the motive for every thought, word, and deed.”
“…Love should be the motive for every thought, word, and deed.”
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They’re waging war on the constitution so they can make a corrupt moron into a king.
June 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
They’re waging war on the constitution so they can make a corrupt moron into a king.
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The Golden Dome could cost the U.S. $540bn over 20 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader
Gen Michael Guetlein of Space Force will be in charge of defense system that could cost $540bn over 20 years
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Golden Dome could cost the U.S. $540bn over 20 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Evidence continues to accumulate that what I wrote is turning true--even in the budget reconcilation bill that the House is about to approve. Golden Dome is about to become gold bars for Musk/SpaceX
May 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Evidence continues to accumulate that what I wrote is turning true--even in the budget reconcilation bill that the House is about to approve. Golden Dome is about to become gold bars for Musk/SpaceX
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The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.
May 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.
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Seems pretty clear that DOGE wasn’t ever designed to increase efficiency, but to destroy regulators in Musk’s way and gobble up the data of the American public and its government so as to provide Musk market advantage in AI race.
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Seems pretty clear that DOGE wasn’t ever designed to increase efficiency, but to destroy regulators in Musk’s way and gobble up the data of the American public and its government so as to provide Musk market advantage in AI race.
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This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
“Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy the bureaucracy,” write Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. But as he winds down his service, “he has found himself isolated within the upper reaches of the Trump administration”: https://theatln.tc/ckySMUOS
May 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
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Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage
Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, participated in graduation ceremonies Monday for the School of General Studies at Columbia University in Manhattan.
He spent more than two weeks in federal detention before a federal judge ordered his release. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage
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Here is a clip of the student's speech.
May 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
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The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)
May 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)
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Over 1.1 million people in Gaza face catastrophic hunger. UNICEF says 9,000+ children are already acutely malnourished. Israel has not allowed any aid to enter Gaza since March 2. This is a deliberate, manufactured famine—and the world is letting it happen.
May 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Over 1.1 million people in Gaza face catastrophic hunger. UNICEF says 9,000+ children are already acutely malnourished. Israel has not allowed any aid to enter Gaza since March 2. This is a deliberate, manufactured famine—and the world is letting it happen.
Havana Syndrome represents a paranoid empire tying itself in knots. Worked up on its own threat inflation (what mysterious weapons have the enemy secretly created?!) while also distrustful of its own military laborers (could they be making it up for compensation?!).
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
U.S. Spy Agencies Now Disagree on Possibility Foreign Power Could Cause Havana Syndrome
Two agencies say U.S. adversaries might have developed a device that could cause a range of symptoms.
www.wsj.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Havana Syndrome represents a paranoid empire tying itself in knots. Worked up on its own threat inflation (what mysterious weapons have the enemy secretly created?!) while also distrustful of its own military laborers (could they be making it up for compensation?!).
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Anduril & Palantir are the most dangerous corps in the US. They crave WWIII.
Anduril have announced an aggressive build timeline on a new factory in OH. To pay for it, push aside older MIC corps, & juice their eventual IPO, their threat inflation has gone into hyperdrive.
youtu.be/T72DfPEBn0A?...
Anduril have announced an aggressive build timeline on a new factory in OH. To pay for it, push aside older MIC corps, & juice their eventual IPO, their threat inflation has gone into hyperdrive.
youtu.be/T72DfPEBn0A?...
Anduril Founder Luckey on Building a New Ohio Plant, an IPO, Working With Trump
YouTube video by Bloomberg Technology
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January 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Anduril & Palantir are the most dangerous corps in the US. They crave WWIII.
Anduril have announced an aggressive build timeline on a new factory in OH. To pay for it, push aside older MIC corps, & juice their eventual IPO, their threat inflation has gone into hyperdrive.
youtu.be/T72DfPEBn0A?...
Anduril have announced an aggressive build timeline on a new factory in OH. To pay for it, push aside older MIC corps, & juice their eventual IPO, their threat inflation has gone into hyperdrive.
youtu.be/T72DfPEBn0A?...
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As a reminder, the AHA council approved the following, about a month after the invasion of Ukraine.
www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
January 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As a reminder, the AHA council approved the following, about a month after the invasion of Ukraine.
www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
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Structurally, the organization is beyond reform. It ceased to be democratic decades ago. Time to just move on. www.historians.org/perspectives...
On Politics and the 1968 Annual Meeting – AHA
www.historians.org
January 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Structurally, the organization is beyond reform. It ceased to be democratic decades ago. Time to just move on. www.historians.org/perspectives...
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The AHA ceased to be intellectually important decades ago - its conference is not a must-attend and its journal is not a must-publish-in; this is a good thing - there are so many intellectual centers within the American historical profession. Nothing is lost by withdrawing. 🗃️
January 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The AHA ceased to be intellectually important decades ago - its conference is not a must-attend and its journal is not a must-publish-in; this is a good thing - there are so many intellectual centers within the American historical profession. Nothing is lost by withdrawing. 🗃️
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Faced with an overwhelming vote by its members to condemn scholasticide in Palestine, the American Historical Association council has vetoed the resolution. Entirely in character for an organization that’s long been useless, but still galling
January 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Faced with an overwhelming vote by its members to condemn scholasticide in Palestine, the American Historical Association council has vetoed the resolution. Entirely in character for an organization that’s long been useless, but still galling
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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA
Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...
www.historians.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
The Dem. Party officials who managed & fed a deteriorating Biden b.s (to the point where he exited far too late & literally still thinks he could have won the election) will continue to run the party and reap millions in consultancy and lobbying $$.
Beyond outrageous.
www.wsj.com/politics/bid...
Beyond outrageous.
www.wsj.com/politics/bid...
How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge
Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.
www.wsj.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Dem. Party officials who managed & fed a deteriorating Biden b.s (to the point where he exited far too late & literally still thinks he could have won the election) will continue to run the party and reap millions in consultancy and lobbying $$.
Beyond outrageous.
www.wsj.com/politics/bid...
Beyond outrageous.
www.wsj.com/politics/bid...