BBC News#BBC Trump Order causing Irish students to re-think studying in US https://w.st/nVVgq3
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Immigrant. Photographer. Queer. Parent. Pinky White. Nature lover. Beavers are the best water conservators. Started reading the newspaper when I was 9. Favorite articles were about liberation struggles. Inspired by the Greensboro Four, Ruby Bridges, Little Rock Nine, Viola Liuzzo, many many others. Safety and Justice for All. Laughing keeps me healthy.
kottke.orgM. Gessen: “This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and [bring] education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-higher-education.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k4.A-Y1.r7Au7UOCYdzc
Nation.CymruMPs and peers call for Trump to be blocked from addressing Parliament
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https://nation.cymru/news/mps-and-peers-call-for-trump-to-be-blocked-from-addressing-parliament/
MPs and peers call for Trump to be blocked from addressing Parliament
A number of MPs and peers have called for Donald Trump to be blocked from addressing Parliament when he visits the UK. The US president has suggested Buckingham Palace is ‘setting a date for September’ for him to stay in Britain. But some parliamentarians have voiced concerns that it would be ‘inappropriate’ for him to […]
Dr.NickIn reality, plants are actually farming us by giving us oxygen daily until we eventually decompose so they can consume us.
Auschwitz Memorial21 April 1887 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Kamm, was born in Tarnów. A hairdresser.
In #Auschwitz from 27 December 1941.
No. 25056
He perished in the camp on 7 February 1942.
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19 April 1886 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Anna Izsak (née Szekely), was born.
In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
David RevoyA dream come true: to see my art in a museum! 🤩 It's the portrait I painted of Charles Darwin.
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1073/my-portrait-of-charles-darwin-is-in-a-museum-now
Open Culture (Official)Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/actor-john-lithgow-reads-20-lessons-on-tyranny.html
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yale, now at U.
James GleickGood news if you're a super rich tax cheat!
In the rare cases when the IRS has enough resources to audit you and detect your fraud, there will still be no one to enforce the law. Trump's DoJ is shutting down the entire tax division.
"If you make more than, say, a million dollars a year, paying taxes is probably going to be voluntary going forward.
"It’s a new feature of billionairedom."
