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The 5 Stages of the ‘Enshittification’ of Academic Publishing

Martina Linnenluecke and Carl Rhodes The Conversation
Enshittification isn’t confined to the online world. It’s now visible in academic publishing. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.

NY Takes Baby Steps Toward Free Child Care

Jessica Gould, Jimmy Vielkind, Andrew Giambrone and Walter Wuthmann Gothamist
The launch of “2-Care” will start in “high-need areas,” building on the city’s existing pre-K and 3-K programs. NYS socialist legislators want to 'tax the rich' to raise the billions that a full implementation will require.

ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

David Dayen The American Prospect
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?

Naaman Zhou The New Yorker
One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.

Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going To Hit All Kids Hard

Grace Segers The New Republic
The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.

Policies of Denial

Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

Tidbits-Jan. 8- Reader Comments: Renee Nicole Good: Mother, Poet – Murdered by ICE; US Military Aggression-Violation of Venezuela Sovereignty; Alzheimer’s Disease; Marty Supreme; Know Your Rights Resource; Iran Protests Surge; Venezuela Reading List;

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Reader Comments: Renee Nicole Good: Mother, Poet - Murdered by ICE; US Military Aggression-Violation of Venezuela Sovereignty; Zohran Mamdani; Alzheimer’s Disease; Marty Supreme; Know Your Rights resource; Iran Protests Surge; Venezuela Reading List
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