Fascinating data point from Pew Research on Hispanics and Catholicism- most Hispanics are now NOT Catholic. But only 15% are evangelical.

if i were in charge of a university, i simply would not call in the cops to unleash violence on students and staff. and if i did i certainly wouldn't expect to be able to remain in charge. i dunno

Good luck to all UoL Social Political alumni and students standing for election today. Great to see representatives of Pol&IR University of Lincoln, UK standing in almost every ward in Lincoln. Charlie Rogers, Joey Gwinn 🇬🇧 Calvin Bissitt Cllr Calum Watt Callum Roper Tom💐🏳️‍🌈 Cllr Matthew Fido Ash Delaney

Every local elections day, it's always great to see how many University of Lincoln students and recent alumni are running for local council seats. Good luck to all of them (even, perhaps paradoxically, the ones running against each other)

Do the Home Office genuinely believe the majority of the public want to see this? People being woken up and marched out of their houses in their pyjamas, forced into vans and taken to detention. I think this is likely to have the opposite of the intended effect.

Don’t forget that you need to bring ID when you vote tomorrow - unlike this Tory MP who is tonight asking local members for help

BREAKING: The Arizona State Senate votes 16-14 to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. The bill will soon go to Governor Katie Hobbs desk.

KVOA News 4 Tucson

just googled Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, to find out she is a member of the House of Lords. Britain, what a country

This is the second time we’ve gotten this flyer ahead of the local elections. There’s having your opinions about these things, I guess, and then there’s repeatedly shoving stuff about penises and vaginas through strangers’ letterboxes

UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES** members did it in style! Over 91% of members voting yes for industrial action in response to managements plans to cull 220 friends and colleagues. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿
#nocompulsoryredundancies #ucu

happy international workers' day, y'all

call me old-fashioned, but I support the medieval model of the civil authorities not being able to step onto the premises of universities without permission

There was no deep structural political logic compelling the President to declare that the Arabic word for 'uprising' is dangerous hate speech. He could very easily have just not done that.

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

The arrogant, toxic managers running universities these days are so divorced from everything that happens in them - education and research - that they are completely incapable of making a single decision in the best interests of anyone other than themselves.

The school that administers the Pulitzer Prizes will not be allowing press on campus 🥴

one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president

before other migration scholars see the animated film “Migration” (2023) I just want to let you know… it’s about ducks

Every course organiser at every British university: “Please, please, please have a quick look a the core readings for next week, there’s only two of them.”

Newspaper columnist: “Totalitarian indoctrination of the young continues!” (H/t Tim Bale)

Among developed countries, women have fewer kids in countries where people are more likely to believe that moms shouldn’t work.