I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work.
Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.
Bluster on tariffs and bizarre/demented statements about buying Gaza are smokescreen for blatant raids on state agencies by Trump/Musk and Co https://t.co/64X67gIpkl
CfP "Political ecologies of health (or Airs, Waters, Places revisited)", panel convened by @jedstevenson & Angela M Filipe @Angela_SocSci. HEAT Conference (#PlanetaryHealth#Environment), Durham, UK, 23-24 April 2025. Send your abstract by 13 Jan 2025: https://t.co/YCBdstdjXg
Remembering Andreas Eshete
A revolutionary, philosopher, and devoted patriot, he was among Ethiopia’s leading public intellectuals. https://t.co/oqk0dE7A8E
As the old saying goes “it takes one to know one.”!
A powerful tribute to the man who was larger than life! Or in the words of the authors “…one of the greatest minds of Ethiopia’s finest generation of thinkers.”
Written by Ephraim Isaac, Joshua Cohen, Abdul Mohammed, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot, Alex de Waal, and Solomon Dersso.
Quote:
“Andreas embraced controversy and understood that there was much to be learned from disagreement. But he could not tolerate charlatans - the bullshitters who, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt has argued, foul public discussion because of their indifference to the values of truth and falsity. Andreas despised lazy thinking and vacuous sloganeering. He could be quick to anger, especially at pseudo-intellectualism, and he lamented the decline in the quality of Ethiopia’s political debate.”
“Students at Addis Ababa University remember Andreas’s course “Theory of State and Law,” which transformed how many law students thought about fundamental questions of government, state, law, and society. His lectures were eloquent, and, across every political and social spectrum, his former students maintained a lifetime of connection and friendship with him.”
If you feel able, you may wish to join this counter-protest against possible fascist presence in Durham tonight called by Durham Trades Council, meeting 6pm outside the Methodist Church at the top of North Road.
https://t.co/atmKqKPKfC
Judge Hehir asked jury to ignore concerns of the accused with climate breakdown. On same basis suffragettes and Civil Rights activists were once jailed for public disturbance without reference to their abiding concerns. How long before our society wakes up to this one?
The sentences handed to the five @JustStop_Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy. https://t.co/jE3YUrd9EY
Final details for this year's Gala day service @durhamcathedral.
New banners from Deaf Hill and Wheatley Hill will be blessed, Simon Kennedy from @NorthEastNASUWT will give the address on behalf of @DurhamMiners and @marykfoy MP will give the reading.
Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds, will preach the sermon and County Durham poet Bernadette McAloon will read one of her poems.
Bands and banners will process at 2.30pm ahead of the service at 3pm.
Full details: https://t.co/iW6SSTAufr
You showed how the present is highly informed of the checkered past. In that, you made everything we want to notice about the past eternally present.
By the memories you have renewed, the present you have contributed to, and the tomorrow you labored to create, your legacy will
🚨 Check out this new article “Between a rock and a hard place: A geosocial approach to water insecurity in Kabul”
Read about the findings and implications: https://t.co/DnwZpnRGAu
Our new article explores water insecurity in Kabul from a geosocial perspective—how the geochemical (salinity, bacterial contamination, drought) and social (poverty, infrastructural inequality) interact. https://t.co/k14eVUdzt4 w/ @DaudHamidi @HaenssgenJ M.Vasilevic & C.Greenwell
Can't find your poll card? Don’t worry, you don't need it to vote.
👉 All you need to take with you to the polling station is an accepted form of photo ID.
Find out which forms of ID are accepted: https://t.co/8XLW3k96g0
What you need to know for polling day:
❗ Don’t forget to bring photo ID
✅ Don’t worry if your ID is out of date. You can use out of date photo ID, if it still looks like you and the name is the same as the one you used when you registered to vote.