Notices by Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫 (inquiline@union.place)

@aral Psst, he only has two kids. Not to detract from your main point ofc!

@pvonhellermannn I don't even know what to say to this. Appalling!

"Tlaib &, to a lesser extent, Fain, are using their positions to try to shape politics, not just reflect the political status quo. The momentum around Harris is so intense that, ultimately, those efforts may be in vain. But if the support of the progressives is to mean anything, it should be leveraged to make political demands

The left should not simply offer a rubber stamp to Harris before she has clarified the positions of her campaign"

Thank you K-Y Taylor

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-did-progressive-democrats-support-joe-biden

#uspol

I don't understand why anyone thinks we shouldn't be pressuring KH right now! Billionaires certainly are:
https://www.levernews.com/dems-billionaire-tech-donor-presses-harris-to-fire-antitrust-regulator/

#UsPol #harris2024 #antitrust #LinaKhan

"Because they are Nazis"

Just saved us all an 8-minute read

#uspol

While I myself might not agree with everything student protesters choose to do, I find a certain genre of handwringing about their (not centralized/top-down) choices quite tiresome. If only demands could be expressed sufficiently moderately, then they'd really succeed! 🥱

@dneary What are the students supposed to do instead?

This is what's going on in these campus protests.
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

Congress and corporate media are distorting this, yes, but what is a better option for students than speaking out and knowing what they are doing and seeing isn't what's being represented in the news and halls of Congress?

Hats off:

"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

"we must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community...

In the meantime, we must be aware of the pain that all this is causing our fellow Jews who have not yet found their way out of the web of false beliefs. As James Baldwin said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/why-they-hate-us-anti-zionism-in-the-jewish-community/

#Zionism #Israel @jewishvoiceforpeace

Never a dull moment: my employer has just canceled the valedictorian's commencement speech, seemingly because they are afraid she will say something about human rights in #Gaza

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/provost-announces-valedictorian-wont-speak-at-graduation-in-may/

ETA, Here is a #CAIR statement:
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-la-demands-usc-reverse-cowardly-decision-to-cancel-muslim-valedictorians-speech-in-response-to-anti-palestinian-hate/

#USC

Well, it's now in the #LATimes :

"a swarm of on- and off-campus groups attacked Tabassum. They targeted her minor, resistance to genocide, as well as her pro-Palestinian views and “likes” expressed through her Instagram account."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-15/usc-valedictorian-asna-tabassum

#USC #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #gaza

It was in the LA Times too: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-clashes-with-pro-palestinian-activists

And to @jdp23 's point I only saw a protest at Pomona College where students were getting arrested bc I happened to hop onto on Xwitter. I think @AdrianRiskin later posted a news story.

@elsantonegro @misc

"The last poem read aloud was titled “If I Must Die.” It was written, hauntingly, by a Palestinian poet and academic named Refaat Alareer who was killed weeks earlier by an Israeli airstrike. The poem ends: “If I must die, let it bring hope — let it be a tale.”

Soon after those lines were recited, the university administration shut the reading down"

🎁: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/opinion/free-speech-academic-freedom.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.AzSX._SyL-SdrUZ5f&smid=url-share

#HigherEd #Gaza #NYU #AcademicFreedom

The future is here and it is fucking atrocious:

"In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-university-suggests-replacing-striking-grad-students-with-ai

#AI #HigherEd #unions #strike #HigherEdWorkersUnite

@aral @SallyStrange I just had one block me bc she smugly replied "citation needed" & told me that my posts about Gaza were "overly simplifying a complex situation" & I provided her with some citations & told her to block me if her reaction was to continue to patronize me. I think I'd have preferred to have blocked her/been blocked at the outset bc she wasn't interested in anything but being a jerk

@skinnylatte This story rules (hope he was ok)

@twotone This isn't exactly what you asked for but there is a growing body of evidence that Covid can cause potentially substantial effects on female repro systems, hormone signalling, etc. Here's another piece that's coming into focus, #Covid causing menopause: https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/20/long-covid-menopause-research/

That article also mentions other menstrual changes post infection.

Oh and the researcher whose survey you did is probably Kate Clancy. https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/96242458

#LongCovid

"We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand. The safety of each people depends on the other’s.

We also call on governments & civil society in the US & across the West to stand up against the repression of support for Palestine.

And we refuse to allow such demands to be suppressed in our names."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/

"Two of America’s largest defense contractors told investors this week that #Israel’s brutal war on #Gaza will be good for business — with one executive predicting its recent four-fold increase in artillery production will not be enough to meet additional demand"

https://www.levernews.com/the-israel-situation-is-going-to-put-upward-pressure-on-demand/

(Hey @davidsirota will #LeverNews #TheLever be spinning up over here? Hope so)

North American Ass Holes:

"we found that ass holes in North America—where feral donkeys and horses are widespread—dramatically increased water availability in desert streams...

The wells were also used by more than 57 other species, including numerous birds, other herbivores such as mule deer, and even mountain lions"

https://theconversation.com/feral-desert-donkeys-are-digging-wells-giving-water-to-parched-wildlife-159909

via @TheConversationUS #asstodon