testing

Trans people: please use our correct pronouns and don't call us freaks

The Trump administration: if you publicly oppose genocide our secret police will disappear you and send you to a torture gulag in El Salvador

Centrists: these two things are the same

yup

the board of Columbia is delighted to be “forced” into these changes

shame on them and every similar institution aggressively cracking down on their own students

it’s true that a lot of major universities and law firms have the resources to fight back against these awful executive orders

it’s also true that many of them are run by powerful people who are delighted to have an excuse to go after a bunch of people they’ve always resented having to listen to

👀Marko Elez, who was fired from DOGE's team at Treasury after the discovery of racist social media posts, was apparently rehired at the Labor Department and detailed earlier this month to HHS. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Maybe the fact that Fetterman wielded a shotgun whilst
chasing down an innocent black jogger was a pretty clear indication of what a vile creep he is?

Probably should have been a dealbreaker.

Same tbh 😂

Thank you!

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The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

Also important to note we’re also witnessing the long shadow of Reagan’s efforts to crush higher education to stop student movements from gaining power in the US.

theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

Telling how Fetterman's analysis of 2024 is nothing more than the crude identity politics practiced only by the right.

Progressives got a Black woman who wasn't in her 80s, ergo, "what they wanted." Nevermind her positions, her campaign, or what progressives said about both; identity is everything.

From the rear, it could almost pass. No help for the front, though.

How do you determine whether they violated the law without due process

That's what complicity gets you.

One of those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers but for your Columbia diploma

"Ask yourself: if a Hamas fighter were hiding under an apartment block of Jewish people in Israel, would the Israel Defense Forces destroy the entire building to kill him? Of course not, but it did so in Gaza because Palestinian lives are devalued."

Any time anyone who is anti-immigrant makes this argument, they are revealing themselves as white supremacist. Concerned about falling birth rates, also concerned about there being too many people in this country.

Can’t square that circle without white supremacy.

This piece decrying "the crushing pressure inside [higher ed] to conform with dominant political views" gives two examples.

1) "Only" 60% say it's OK to teach that "efforts to redress racial inequalities represent anti-White racism."

2) Some professors voluntarily bring up climate change in class.

Why are there no articles that begin, “Fascism has a long history of inspiring massacres and war crimes. In this time of overt corruption and unconstitutionality, the Republicans should go fuck themselves.”

Does the Letter mention what happened to their President?

Does it include reflection and an apology ?

Does it mention Derrick Bell?

Has that been shown

Kappa Alpha, surprising no one

“we’re revoking your visa because of your viewpoint” would have been obviously unconstitutional at any point up to Jan. 20 but who the hell knows now

they want worldwide jim crow

The #TeslaTakedown protests are smart, because they have a clear, actionable, achievable goal—make stock price go down—accurately assessing that a lot of Musk’s power derives from his extreme wealth, and that he’s more vulnerable than Trump.

And if you doubt that the protests matter, just ask Elon.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

keep thinking about that post about the left is too mean on social media & the dissonance between that veneer of an idea and the news about hundreds of students having their visas revoked and people being taken by the state. The problem has never once been decorum, it has always been power

A passage of text describing an incident where a victim was attacked by two men who punched and kicked them. The victim escaped into a restaurant, pursued by the attackers, but was protected by customers. The attackers reportedly used the phrase "Semper Fi" and referenced "Trump ending transgender acceptance in the military." Police arrived shortly after.

A group of men violently assaulted a transgender veteran in Seattle walking home from work. They cited Trump's trans military ban as they beat her.

One of the perpetrators was already wanted for domestic violence and was previously charged with a hate crime.

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/03...

The only thing that's weird about this is that they didn't exhaust the incarcerated population first.

Just heard a radio ad address gen X'ers and assert, "We gave the world the internet."

For what definition of "internet" is this plausible?

Here’s an updated list of students known to have been targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out about what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza, in a clear attempt to chill/stop free speech: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19058...

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”