Now that I've completed this excellent book by Nick Witham (published by UChicagoPress), a thread about the content, argument, & merits of this book is in order. (Warning: This is kind of long, more like a book review.)

NEW: Internal CNN directives force all Israel news through the Network's Jerusalem Bureau, subjecting it to oversight by the IDF censor. CNN also hired a soldier out of the IDF Spokesperson Unit to cover the aftermath of October 7th. theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn…

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The CIA manual on disrupting activist groups largely explains most meetings in academia.

Labour has won two thirds of the seats with one third of the vote As it stands, Labour’s vote share is the lowest to have secured a majority. (Let alone a landslide) To put in context: David Cameron got a higher share of the vote when there was a hung Parliament in 2010

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.Royal Historical Society is deeply concerned by the scale and speed of further #History redundancies Goldsmiths, University of London. These cuts will remove student choice, wreak havoc on careers, and end specialist teaching and research. Our statement: bit.ly/3zO2nAF #twitterstorians 1/5 🧵⬇️

Open Letter EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group/European University Institute to the Warden, Senior Managment, & Members of Council Goldsmiths, University of London unequivocally condemning the closure of the pioneering MA Queer History & redundancy threats made to colleagues such as Justin Bengry ([email protected]) Centre for Queer History. Please circulate widely!

.The Times and The Sunday Times reports today on the financial crisis facing UK universities and reports: "Goldsmiths’ proposed redundancies included half of the history and sociology department." In facts it's worse: History was first cut in 2022. 2024 could see staffing fall from 24 to 6 in 2 yrs

This is part of what transphobia was always leading to: policing cis women who fall outside narrower and narrower lines.

Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the

Wow, even South Korea - who normally always align with the US - is now publicly denouncing Israel at the UN: "This was Israel's 8th bombing of a school sheltering civilians so far in August alone. We are all aware that civilian infrastructure should not be targeted, this is all

Liars. Gender identity is a reason for disciplinary. Please RT. Contact all the press. Don't let them get away with this blatant lie.

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New article alert! Co-authored with Will Ranger, Muskian Futurism situates the political perceptions, ideas and beliefs centred around the public persona of Elon Musk into its broader ideological context - triple-c.at/index.php/trip…

This means under British law you can now be prosecuted as a terrorist for saying that you disagree with a law. Quite something that.