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The wind howls outside the arts building, drowning out the sound of the approaching deans. We don’t know exactly where they are. The Porcupine and I stand guard by the west entrance. None of us uses our real names anymore.

We are forty strong, the last holdfast of humanity against the gathering administrative flood. Forty full-timers and adjuncts combined, music professors, theater professors, dance professors, game development, web development, graphic design, studio arts, interior architecture and design, and art history. What do we know about fighting deans? What are we going to do? Fend them off with all-combinatorial hexachords? Teach them about Etruscan ceremonial urns? What did the Etruscans know about deans?

Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.

The post Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee appeared first on The Intercept.

The 1122 program, as it’s known, presents a danger to protesters facing off against militarized cops, according to a new report.

The post An Obscure Military Program Helps Local Cops Buy Armored Cars and Spyware. It Might Balloon Under Trump. appeared first on The Intercept.

I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and left you with a tricolor bruise. I think it’s time you open me up, for inside, I have all the health-related answers you’re seeking.

First and foremost, you’ll have to log on with a password that you have long forgotten. I’ll wait as you do your two-step authentication. I promise I am worth the wait. This is serious business after all. This is life or death.

When you open me, you might be looking for a spot where someone, anyone, ideally the doctor, explains me to you. It gives me more pleasure than I care to admit that there will be none of that here. There is no one here to handhold you. You’re on your own, and I don’t owe you shit. You probably should have gone to med school like your parents wanted.

A composer encourages viewers to find beauty in the mundane rhythms and repetitions of everyday traffic patterns

- by Aeon Video

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I’ve always been terrified of spiders, yet one day I adopted the daddy longlegs in my bathroom

- by Ruth Kogen Goodwin

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As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come

- by Manjeet S Pardesi & Amitav Acharya

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Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip this week, which killed more than 100 Palestinians (including 46 children), shows that the country’s genocide has not ended. It still has the ability and the will to continue its horrific bombing on a defenceless population. After the so-called ceasefire had been agreed, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in […]

New research sheds light on a familiar problem, with important implications for food safety

The post No More Tears? Scientists Take a Keen Eye to Onion Slicing appeared first on Nautilus.

Anthony Albanese’s visit to Donald Trump in Washington brought together two war criminals who have backed Israel’s genocide and now want to plan for war against China.

The post Albanese’s Trump visit shows his enthusiasm for US and Israeli savagery first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Palestinians and their supporters celebrated the ceasefire as bringing hope of an end to the killing in Gaza. But it’s already clear it does not mean peace.

The post No peace in Gaza as Israel blocks food and keeps killing Palestinians first appeared on Solidarity Online.