Kate Peeples, Ph.D.

THIS. Thank you, Professor McMillan Cottom (with a heavy sigh and a smh).

Alums, time to organize LOUDLY on behalf of your educators.

And alums with any access to donor cash— all the more so.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

Arresting journalists.

Fatally shooting protestors.

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are

-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food

Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.

They're afraid.

One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/immigration/...

-DHS won’t cooperate; is ignoring court orders now
-“The border” is a 100mile zone inland encompassing 2/3 of the population including LA, NY, PHI, etc
-We’ll never see the body cam footage, you idiots, you absolute shits

If putting your body on the line against ICE is not a physically safe or viable option for you right now, that is okay.

But if you have the privilege of being safe and warm in this moment, there are other ways to resist. Do not look away.

An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Universities have had plenty of time to prepare to comply, but by & large have prioritized other things over of the needs of students. Fits right in with the higher ed industry standards of today. 😡

$$ is certainly an obstacle for many IHEs, but again, look where the $$ they *do* have gets spent.

Just a reminder ▶️ Brett Kavanaugh did this. #KavanaughStops

Hey home adults,

If there’s a teacher in your students’ life who is making a positive impact on their learning, please send them an email, class dojo message, Remind, etc

It’s REALLY hard to keep going right now and a little kindness can go a long way.

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

I realize that every word that comes out of his mouth is outrageous in one way or another but unambiguously framing execution as a legitimate response to disrespect is still noteworthy

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.

This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.

Me personally, I’m not gonna be watching the video.

But, louder than ever:

CHINGA LA MIGRA.
FUCK ICE.

Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡

NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman

a man in a red shirt says " i don 't like it " Alt: a man in a red shirt says "i don 't like it, it’s too much responsibility”

Been doing WAY too much “responsible oldest-sister” family caretaking bullshit this week. I’m exhausted.

New American Educator article with Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social on what IQ scores mean. www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

NOOOOOO

I hate Duke. I hate the CFP. I am cranky and going to bed.

AHHHHHH CARDIAC CAVS!!! That was insane