The complete and total bullshit about this is that it should have been the FIRST question asked of Johnson. It is a disgrace that he was not asked about this before he ended his press conference. Unbelievable that he continues to get away with this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

Agreed! Penn must not capitulate!

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

This is why you shouldn’t be chickenshit. You’re not saving anything. You’re dooming everything you claim to love. bsky.app/profile/thef...

Months, and several rounds of authoritarian escalation later, we are still waiting for the urgent, loud, public collective action from university presidents.

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Show me one corporation, one person, one institution that has willingly caved to the Trump administration's bullying and had things work out for the better. I'll wait.

Agreed! Penn MUST NOT CAVE IN TO THIS THREAT!

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants.

aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda.

The country’s two biggest private prison companies are poised for a major profit windfall, with this summer’s budget bill providing an infusion of funding for immigration detention. Once the increased detention and deportation capacity ramps up, it will be difficult to unwind.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

If you wondered how many of the major newsrooms covering the Pentagon would give in to Pete Hegseth and sign a new agreement if they wanted to maintain access, it looks like the answer is... none. So far. Via @status.news

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"The House budget does something new and scary: it openly targets funding for students in poverty. This is not something that we see ever."

— @zahavastadler.bsky.social, Project Director, New America's Education Funding Equity Initiative

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if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

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a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas

instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

Imagining Trans Futures Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.

How can trans history facilitate knowledge and solidarity beyond the 'existence' of trans people?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo argues for trans history as a tool of political education, through the history of access to healthcare:

BBC News at 10 did an unusually good job at demolishing Trump's absurd, vainglorious, speech to the UN. What an embarrassment he is ti the USA, and to the human race.
#BBCNews

if you’re canceling your Disney and worried about what your kids will watch…might i suggest supporting your local PBS station, which gets you streaming access to all their content via PBS passport

“It is through empathy that we can genuinely connect with the experiences of others and build a more compassionate society. ” Educator Valencia Abbott reflects on the courage it takes to center marginalized voices and teach in politically charged times.

Read Valencia’s piece: buff.ly/wJmJnT2

Amazing

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

This gets to my annoyance with the lionizing of Kirk perfectly. He wasn’t elevating political discourse on college campuses. He was humiliating college kids using his massive dark money funded propaganda apparatus.