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Donovan Miyasaki

@dmiyasaki.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor. ‘Nietzsche's Immoralism’ & ‘Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left.' Continental, political, ethics, Marxism, existentialism. www.donovanmiyasaki.com

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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“Over the years the light he cast waned until, with his stance on Gaza, it seemed to go out. Historians will decide whether that was an anomaly or the culmination of a long process in which Frankfurt School critical theory turned into a form of liberalism too often complicit with US imperialism.”
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Rereading Beauvoir's Prime of Life: didn't remember that Sartre does Donald Duck impressions and tries to master the yo-yo (in imitation of Gide, apparently).
Since 1933 we had been watching the Silly Symphonies, in colour, appear on our screens, and Sartre used to do imitations of Donald Duck. I had delightedly renewed my acquaintance with a favourite childhood fairy tale, 'The Three Little Pigs', and for years we, like everyone else, went round humming 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?'He occasionally caught a glimpse of Jacques Prevert, and had once met Gide; but he cultivated an elliptic manner, and told me nothing of this latter occasion except that Gide was a highly skilled perf ormer with a yo-yo. This was the current craze and extraordinarily popular. People walked down the streets yo-yo in hand, and Sartre practised from morning to night, with sombre perseverance.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Eduard Bernstein has died.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Great day to read or reread IWD-founder Clara Zetkin's 1923 "Struggle Against Fascism." And her 1932 speech as Communist Deputy in the Reichstag's final session before its dissolution: "Fascism Must be Defeated." (There's even an audio recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qmi...)
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Clara Zetkin Reichstag Speech 1932 | Historical German Audio
YouTube video by Old Broadcast
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Pleased to realize the Pogues' Dirty Old Town plagiarizes Hank Williams' Lost Highway. Annoyed to realize Ballad of the Green Berets does too.
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Lee Cee @leeceelee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Springfield (eating the dogs / cats) Ohio desperately needs your help with ICE. Ohio Gov Mike DeWine said it will be “the next Minneapolis” as 15,000 Haitians (1/4th of the entire city) will have their TPS status prematurely revoked Weds Feb 4th. Here are links to donate and volunteer directly: 1/
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Lee Cee @leeceelee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Minneapolis is 2.6mil people. Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.) Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile. People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"If we'd stepped onto the precipitous slide to fascism at a point further up the slide, we wouldn't be so far down the slide right now" is both absolutely true and absolutely beside the point.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In this respect, our feckless universities mirror our feckless opposition party, both thoroughly corrupted by a phony spirit of seriousness. Taking a position is seen as a pathology, an embarrassing failure to serious personhood, defined as continually adjusting to, rather than adjusting, reality.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
True education is the constant disruption of ataraxia.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Although cowardice, bullshit, and cynicism motivated Texas A&M's Plato censorship, they've accidentally arrived at true ancient skepticism: absolute suspension of judgment entails absolute moral conformism. Being truly neutral or non-ideological requires accepting the status quo as default.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
For 2,000 years one could reasonably argue either “democracy has never worked” or “true democracy has never been tried.” (One still can.)
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Lenin's philosophical writing is so embarrassing. After claiming there's no differences between Berkeley, Fichte, and Mach (who tries to move materialism out of the 18th century), he goes out of his way to argue Hegel isn't *really* an idealist. The word "absolute" didn't give you a clue, buddy?
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
More Nietzschean moments in Schlick's moral theory.
we must add a supplement in
order to distinguish genuine kindness from the super-
ficial variety which is nothing but lack of strength,
and which is injurious to the capacity for happiness.
What we have here is a special case of a general kind
of disposition which exists whenever a man easily
gives in to impulses of the moment, without, so to
speak, first consulting the other impulses. In such a
case the single dispositions are but loosely joined to-
gether, as it were; they can be excited separately, with-
out the others thereby coming into play. The unity
which constitutes a strong character is lacking. In a
strong character it is as if the inclinations were all
directed from one fixed center.What appears here in a single example holds univer-
sally. The content of the moral precepts that hold in
a community, and that are taken over completely into
the moral consciousness of its members, depends en-
tirely upon its living conditions, upon its size and
strength, its relation to the surrounding world, its
civilization, customs, and religious ideas. I forego the
introduction of further evidence, and refer to Wester-
marck's Origin and Development of Moral Ideas, and
to Spencer's Data of Ethics, which contain rich mate-
rial. We see in the dependence of moral valuations
upon the states of human society a sure indication that
the content of morality is actually determined by so-
ciety. These functions constitute something
elevated and great in men in the double sense that their
power in the psychic life is enormous, and that they are
the source of very intense joys. Moments in which
one becomes aware of their activity are moments of
exalted feeling. Apart from certain exceptions, every
vehement psychic process, every deployment of power,
and lively activity is pleasant.we should understand better why
a human life can attain its highest value only by pass-
ing through the extremes. A life such as the modest
poet Morike prayed for:
Wollest mit Freuden
Und wollest mit Leiden
Mich nicht uberschuttenl
dock in der Mitten
Liegt holdes Bescheiden. . . .*
could not be truly great, not because it lacked the deep-
est suffering, but because of the absence of the greatest
joys, the path t
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I’d completely forgotten that Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna) made an album cover in the style of the old Vintage edition of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Amusing to learn how much Moritz Schlick's "Problem of Ethics" cribs from Nietzsche's moral psychology. (A quick search reveals that Schlick was even a confessed admirer!)
3. The Concept of Will
...a primitive psychology under the influence of the idea of substance treats the matter as if the choice or decision in the conflict of motives were made by a special power, the "will," which, watching the struggle from without, intervenes and bestows the prize...
Experience fails to disclose any such substratum which stands
behind the appearances...
No, there is present no "act of will" that, added to the oscillation of the ends-in-view, and the final triumph of one of them, decides which shall triumph; but the whole process that we have described is itself the act of will.
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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️
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Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in
The movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found.
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 16/09/2025
A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
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Gen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says
“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power."
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Harrison Stetler @harrstetler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Large union-led protests and strikes are expected tomorrow in France in rejection of Emmanuel Macron. My latest for @thenation.com on the French crisis and Macron's dwindling options: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Emmanuel Macron Is on His Last Legs
The French took to the streets en masse last week, days after the collapse of the latest Macron-aligned government. But the divided left-wing opposition is struggling to capitalize.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly. Labour is dead www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/
857 ppl arrested for holding signs
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
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Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
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Sexy Devonian Stone @devonianstone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
30 helens agree this is some bullshit
30 helens captioned "30 helens agree that's some bullshit"
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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
about four or five times a year for the past several decades the first ever study finds that giving poor people money really helps them. it's always the first ever time
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/08/2025
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
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A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
" Democrats are so worried about alienating a small slice of the electorate that they’re hesitating to condemn the most abusive act yet by a historically unpopular president from the opposing party." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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The Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing Voter
The party is responding to Trump’s authoritarian abuses with timid messaging that sounds as if it’s been poll-tested to death—because it probably has been.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333.  Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost.
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(ii)  The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.  In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes.  In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.
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Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Why would Fanon draw in the Damned of the Earth on the political philosophy of an expressed anti-socialist like Nietzsche? I try to answer that question on the Blog of the APA.
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Nietzsche, Fanon, and an Egalitarian Politics
What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsch...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites, arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
America now
When Rosa asked about his wife’s medical care, the agent cited HIPAA laws as a barrier to knowing her health issues. Taken aback, Rosa pointed out that doctors can share medical information with law enforcement when a patient is in custody, which is specifically outlined in HIPAA.

“He said a very disgusting joke after that,” Rosa recalled.

“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.”

“I knew I was dealing with someone that is sick in the head, and this was the person who made the decision to incarcerate her,” Rosa said.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/08/2025
Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd
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‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault
The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/08/2025
The former top State Department spokesperson has admitted that the U.S. knew that Israel was systematically sabotaging ceasefire negotiations — even as he spread the lie to the press and the public that it was Hamas standing in the way of a deal.
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Former Top Biden Spokesperson Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas
The former State Department spokesperson effectively admitted he and the president repeatedly lied about negotiations.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/08/2025
Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.
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Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: Report
Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.
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