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Tjohnmax 1d ago

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Sam Litzinger 1d ago

I strongly encourage you to read the analysis above. I find it thorough and correct. Maybe you will, too.

Tjohnmax 4d ago

A. Rivera 4d ago

> How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. https://lithub.com/how-black-studies-departments-are-being-dismantled-at-american-colleges/

FTA: “The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government,” he writes. “It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”

#academia #HigherEd #DEI #racism #BlackStudies #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges.

A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at A…

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Tjohnmax 6d ago

@rvaweather

Heard and felt it very clearly down in Chester.

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Tjohnmax Mar 10

@LeslieBurns Close to the Edit for me. I've also always had a warm spot for the Moments in Love remix.

Tjohnmax Mar 8

@samlitzinger

Can we get some Trump "I did that" stickers on pumps like they did to Biden?

Tjohnmax Mar 3

NPR (bot)Mar 3

The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/03/03/g-s1-111940/the-candy-heir-vs-chocolate-skimpflation

Tjohnmax Mar 3

tomate 🍅Mar 3

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Tjohnmax Mar 2

Tim Mak Mar 2

Trying to spend more time on Mastadon. Who do I need to follow to better track US politics, Ukraine and The Middle East/Iran?

Repost for better signal boost?

I’m Tim, I run The Counteroffensive, on Ukraine, and Iran War Dispatches, which launched on Saturday!

www.iranwar.news

Tjohnmax Feb 19

Jack Jenkins Feb 19

The thing about Mastodon is that it doesn’t *necessarily* have immediate benefits for a journalist like myself compared to other platforms (e.g., Bluesky), but I also just, like, really appreciate what the Fediverse has done/is trying to do.

Tjohnmax Feb 16

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James Feb 16

@jonty All investors will have their assets gracefully transitioned to a unique DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN address.

To be fair to them, this does feel like art.
Even Banksy only managed one half-shredded piece.