"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."
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Perhaps rephrase this: Trump announces he doesn't want to cure cancer.
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From Peterr's great reflection on the entire ceremony of which Bishop Budde's plea was just one part: "They protected a poor, vulnerable refugee-to-be from a vengeful tyrant who feared for his own power." www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/22/h...
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Trump's reaction to the National Cathedral prayer service yesterday says a lot more about him than it does about Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.Peterr (emptywheel)
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About 10,000 Palestinians killed in the war are yet to be found and buried.
A UN damage assessment released this month showed clearing more than 50 million tonnes of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel’s bombardment could take 21 years and cost up to $1.2bn.
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NEW: The Trump administration has fired members of the Cyber Safety Review board, a committee that was lauded for its investigation into the Microsoft hacks of 2023, and was working on the recent Salt Typhoon telco hacks.
One source called it a “horribly shortsighted” decision.
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The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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UPDATE: In case you thought this was not a politically-motivated decision, here's what DHS just told us:
“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security will no longer tolerate any advisory committee which push agendas that attempt to undermine its national security mission, the President’s agenda or Constitutional rights of Americans.”
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sounds exactly like typical corpo jargon to me.
"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
-- Hannah Arendt “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, (1968)
this is some kind of bad.
Did anyone tell those fools that you get more in exchange for selling off national secrets if you make it harder for people to steal them?
Huh. Well that's different
"Convicted #USCapitol rioter turns down Trump #pardon"
"Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation... I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative"
Pamela Hemphill aka "#MAGA Granny"
...she saw the #Trump government as trying to "rewrite history and I don't want to be part of that"
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Former "Maga granny" Pamela Hemphill tells the BBC the Trump government is trying to "rewrite history".Robert Plummer (BBC News)
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Interesting that Trump considers US prisons as "horrible. [...] inhumane. It's been a terrible, terrible thing".
That's one point on which he's certainly right.
How will he justify to do nothing about it ?
Or to make them worse ?
This is sad and really scary for these guys. #Biden would have provided them security, #Trump will egg these muther f⁕⚠︎ers on.
Via Fmr #CapitolPolice Officer #HarryDunn:
Sergeant Gonell sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
#criminal #law #Jan6 #insurrection #extremism #PoliticalViolence #Felon47
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Reupping: I laid out a LOT of what would be in Jack Smith's Volume Two. Cannon claims there's a lot more that hasn't been released (but she's misrepresenting that DOJ said they would redacted a lot). It sounds like there's a lot of surveillance footage. www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/f...
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If you want to know how Democrats failed to make more of a political case against Trump during the election, you can start with the fact that Dan Goldman knows almost nothing about what was made public in the documents case against Trump.emptywheel
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#News #CNN Reverend critiques Trump’s theology after inauguration remark
Reverend critiques Trump's theology after inauguration remark CNN speaks with Manhattan University Campus Minister Rev. Edward Beck about his criticism of the prayers and theology at President Trump's inauguration. #CNN #News from CNN #CNN Check out the short video for this article here💛
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Reverend critiques Trump's theology after inauguration remarkCNN speaks with Manhattan University Campus Minister Rev. E...…SHION (東京トレンドニュース速報)
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Donald Trump wrongly says Spain is a BRICS group memberhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/jan/21/donald-trump-wrongly-says-spain-brics-group-member-videoPosted by Inaki199595BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Iranian international affairs expert Mostafa Khoshcheshm said in a January 15, 2025 show on Channel 1 (Iran) that the Europeans have never really had a say in the Iranian nuclear case and have deferred to the United States.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime, the future of women’s rights remains precarious.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would respond if President Donald Trump pressed ahead with his threat to impose tariffs on the US’s northern neighbour.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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This will be of acute interest to folks in Ireland.
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Ozempic was on the list of new drugs up for negotiation. But not only will consumers not get THAT benefit, but once Trump throws tariffs on Denmark it may raise prices that way.
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#News #CNN Ex-officer reacts to pardon of his attackers
Ex-officer reacts to pardon of his attackers Michael Fanone, a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, speaks to CNN's Anderson Cooper after President Donald Trump pardoned the men who beat him. from CNN #CNN Check out the short video for this article here💛
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Ex-officer reacts to pardon of his attackersMichael Fanone, a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, ...…SHION (東京トレンドニュース速報)
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Mahmoud Abu Dalfa’s wife and five children - three daughters and two sons - are among 35 of his extended family killed when an Israeli air strike hit their building in Gaza City in December 2023.
“My children are still under the rubble. I am trying to get them out … The civil defence came, they tried, but the destruction makes it difficult. We don’t have the equipment here to extract martyrs."
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“I hope I can bring them out and make them a grave. That’s all I want from this entire world. I don’t want them to build me a house or give me anything else. All I want is a grave for them – to get them out and make them a grave.”
Mahmoud Abu Dalfa
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