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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.

When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

Academia has a lot of free marketers (the No. 1 US major is business).

I teach NatSec, was trained by Cold Warriors, and know a lot of defense hawks.

A bunch of weekly church-goers too.

What remains are anti-truth, anti-science culture war ideologues. How can research institutions welcome that?

My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

We can get him back. We can get them all back. We need to demand that everyone who was shipped to that nightmarish place be brought back alive.

A massive banner was been furled in DC. It contained the names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 by Zionist ruling trash in Israel and the US.

Again, Trump and the corporate leadership of elite US universities are more aligned than not.

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Again, another day has gone by & the presidents of major research universities are deafeningly silent in the face of existential threats because of the potential end of federal funding. It's like watching the failure to stand up to Scott Walker & the Wisconsin GOP for a decade, on a national scale.

Today in monuments

It's just incredibly fucked up that one of the two major parties is demanding the largest forced migration in human history -- the sort that historically result in mass death -- yet since Saturday, the arbitrators of civility have told us that to call this what it is would be fomenting violence.