“Finally, disciplinary action will be taken against anyone who violates this policy up to and including termination.”
This was the second line of a response sent by senior leadership to me and all my coworkers at PEN America in an email thread on June 26, 2024.
I started the thread by posting a link to an article titled “What Unlearning Zionism Can Teach American Jews about Israel and Palestine” to my organization’s listserv channel.
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Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.Kori Davis (Mondoweiss)
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Una bella notizia! Leggendo la lista presente su mastodon.it/it/istanze-mastodo… mi sono accorto che varese.social fa parte delle comunità locali! Grazie mille al team di @devol (a proposito ho attivato ElasticSearch)😉
Ho realizzato però che mancava una regola sui contenuti VM18 su varese.social. L'ho aggiunta subito. So che è un argomento delicato quindi sono graditi feedback! Anche da utenti di altre istanze sia ben inteso. Buon proseguimento!
The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in her classic study No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, which came out in 1986.
Columbia University, while not the worst in Schrecker’s account, was certainly not the best. Today, as the New York Times has revealed, it’s probably the worst.
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McCarthyism in the Ivory Tower
Whether the target was communists in the 1950s or pro-Palestine activists today, university administrators have always worked to keep academia in line.jacobin.com
20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda
20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agendahttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/boycott-companies-tesla-trump-muskBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Israeli extremist settlers have been reported to have conducted over 5,250 illegal activities targeting Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank over the past decade, according to a new report released on Saturday.
The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance, led by the PLO, reported that settlers carried out violations such as violently attacking Palestinian residences and vehicles.
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5,250 Israeli settler attacks in West Bank over decade: report
A report by the PLO's National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance underscores a rise in violence, particularly since Israel's war on Gaza.The New Arab Staff (The new Arab)
Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, 2023.
All the pixels, none of the hard-to-get-a-ticket-for conferences, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53…
Washington Hilton, 2023
Washington, DC 28 June 2023 The Washington Hilton hotel, in the Kalorama neighborhood, opened in 1965. A classic modernist concrete slab Brutalist design, the curved facades and winged canopies evoke Eero Saarinen's airport terminals.Flickr
Israel Katz made remarks this week that solidified something legal experts have long stated: Israel is collectively punishing the people of Gaza.
The defence minister published a video directly addressed to “the residents of Gaza”, issuing a “last warning”.
“Soon, the evacuation of the population from combat zones will resume, and what follows will be far more severe: you will pay the full price,” he warned.
U.S.-backed Israeli forces drew international condemnation Friday after bombing the only cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip, where more than 700 Palestinians including over 200 children have been killed this week and where the death toll from 532 days of genocidal assault is approaching at least 50,000.
Israel Defense Forces troops carried out an airstrike on the abandoned Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor.
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Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate
Israel has already killed at least 700 Palestinians since it ended the ceasefire this week, including 200 children.Brett Wilkins (Truthout)
Canada’s next election will take place on April 28th
Canada's next election will take place on April 28thhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-s-next-election-will-take-place-on-april-28-sources-1.7490793BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Definitely seems like he is passionate about the art first and foremost.
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#videogames #gamedev #katamari
Katamari creator says he left Bandai Namco to develop games with people from other countries
"I wondered why I was only making games with Japanese people," Keita Takahashi saysChris Scullion (Video Games Chronicle)
It’s unclear how much misinformation is on X — if it could be counted, it could be deleted. But from X’s data, it’s obvious that most misleading posts go unaddressed. A high algorithmic bar for flagging misinformation means less than 10% of notes are regarded as “helpful” by the required quorum of users with diverse viewpoints — a percentage that has been trending downward as the system has scaled up.
DOGE is not an arm of the government. It’s a quasi-private goon squad taking a machete across Washington, D.C., at the personal whims of two men.
Trump v. Boasberg: If This Isn’t a Constitutional Crisis, What Is?
Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined the president’s campaign to get the judge impeached. This is attempted dictatorship.The New Republic
Outcome of transgender rights case in Kenya remains uncertain
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Outcome of transgender rights case in Kenya remains uncertain
Kenyan Attorney General Dorcus Oduor has asked the country’s High Court to dismiss a a transgender rights lawsuit.Sam Kisika (Washington Blade)
Plutôt que d'inventer des dangers qui pèseraient sur la langue française, on pourrait discuter plus sérieusement des langues vraiment en danger de disparition.
Un article issu d'un entretien avec le sociolinguiste Philippe Blanchet ⤵️
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"Une politique linguistique violente" : comment le français a failli faire disparaître les langues régionales
En France, il existe près de 75 langues régionales, dont une vaste majorité sont parlées en Outre-mer. Or, depuis la Révolution française, l'État tente de gommer les spécificités linguistiques à la faveur de la langue française.Quentin Menu (Outre-mer 1ère)
Simon (@simonxix@zirk.us)
Attached: 2 images A library of the native woodland: a xylotheque. Each book is made from a different type of wood.zirkus
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Blokfluitgroepen Praetorius en Arabesk treden hierna nog twee keer samen op, in Schiedam en Lochem. Echt de moeite waard om te gaan luisteren: praetorius.nl/agenda/
#oudemuziek
Serbie, Grèce : la révolte anti-corruption embrase l'Europe du Sud-Est
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Israeli forces bombed several villages in southern Lebanon on 22 March, killing four people and injuring others amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
Four people were killed, and several others were injured in the Israeli attacks on the town of Touline.
The Israel attacks came in response to claims in Israeli media that Hezbollah had fired five rockets from Lebanon towards the settlement of Metula.
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Israel kills four in south Lebanon attacks, threatens new strikes in Beirut
Hezbollah says Israel is looking for 'pretexts to continue its aggressions against Lebanon' amid a fragile ceasefirethecradle.co
Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (Gisela Salomon/Associated Press)
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Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
The Department of Homeland Security says it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.Gisela Salomon (AP News)
Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.
By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).
Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).
Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.
Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.
It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.
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in reply to mhoye • • •@mhoye I wish I did. Best suggestion is to find a local shop that will tolerate you wanting to proof things and that has a a decent selection of paper stocks.
I ended up buying a giganto Canon printer, which is not for the faint of heart.
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