18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).
Colin Kaepernick is pitching schools across the country on his AI app—a chatbot kids can use to generate entire graphic novels with a few prompts—as a literacy tool *and* an extension of his activism. The student comics we obtained from South Bronx teens tell a different story.
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The activist and tech CEO wants your kids to find out.
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if this reasoning is true, then there is a zero-sum situation where it would be impossible to include any neutral reference to or depiction of Jewishness in popular media without subconsciously bolstering support for Israel, regardless of the actual politics or intended message of the creator.
I’m heartbroken by what’s happening at Muhlenberg & grateful to the students reporting on it. I was thrilled when my amazing new public health colleague joined in fall 2025. I am shocked the college decided to lay him off months later w/no explanation of the criteria they used to make this decision
“He would sing his song every single morning... When asked why he sang all the time, he replied that he had only two choices: 'Sing all the time, or cry and die. He preferred to sing.'” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
“Did you get a lot written on sabbatical?”
apnews.com/article/trum... officials went after dozens of colleges. Now they're rewriting the rules for all of academia
“The sector is getting its feet under it, and it’s only getting stronger,” AAUP’s Wolfson said. “I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.”
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Israeli soldiers shot and killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the illegally occupied West Bank, leaving him to bleed to death while his family desperately tried to save his life.
This is not a one-off incident, but daily reality for Palestinians living under Israel’s brutal military rule.
🚨On the recent Vanderbilt report on the humanities: “the committee takes a…disturbing direction toward endorsing academic authoritarianism—the use of administrative power to seize control of academic departments + impose ideological standards on them in order to purge leftist scholars.”
On May 19, 13 faculty received letters of non-reappointment following the 2026-2027 academic year, and nine staff members were laid off. Additionally, the administration announced that 16 vacant staff...
The family of Olga R almost threw out the collection of 20 songs written by concentration camp prisoners after her death, before discovering its incredible history
www.theguardian.com
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President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda.
B'Tselem Footage From Hebron Shows Israeli Soldiers Remaining Nearby After a Seven-month-old Palestinian Infant Was Shot, as Civilians Tried to Render Aid. The Family Rejects the Army's Claim That The...
www.haaretz.com
There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.
