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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

folks will often remind you that you are not yt even when you do their bidding!

me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence

savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical

the trump administration:

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

Building the world anew: on critical hope in climate change education In this article, we grapple with the notion that the world is ending. In doing so, we revisit dominant discourses on hope, anxiety, and despair in climate change education. Across lands and waters,...

got to write with some of the homies, and it’s always a pleasure.. check out our piece on critical hope in climate change ed — www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Three Democratic congressional representatives from New Jersey had also attempted to visit the facility on Friday. In a social media post, one of them, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, wrote that the facility had opened without permission from the city.

and the destruction of the arts as a whole allows for eradication of culture, identity, knowledge and creativeness tied to place, being and difference.

imma need folks to not stand harvard bc they’re a corporation who is banking on the brand of ‘the uni who saved democracy’ making them money down the road.. money makes money in this system & they be neglecting folks doin the work!

Thank you to guest editors Ricardo Martinez and Ezequiel Aleman; senior editor Gail Boldt; and contributors Ángela Shamira Morales Pereira, Ana Corona, Rodrigo Alemán, Kaleb Germinaro @kalebgerm.bsky.social, Alvin Logan, Jr. (1/2)

You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

on resisting & combatting misinformation.. this piece solidified the route that i’m currently striving towards and some of what i view as my contribution to movements as a black disabled scholar.. figure this entire issue is timely — Speculative Youth Archiving www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

young folks storytelling is so rad bc how do they make connections from being cold to poison oak to jelly fish and it all be cohesive, like i love it

Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.

It finally happened. The first documented case of a public school teacher being fired for referring to a student by their chosen name, instead of their dead name, as required by a law signed by Ron DeSantis in 2023: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.

Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

organzin folks go lobby for this is something that’s highly beneficial too!

part of growing in my relationship with my chronic illness and disability is realizing i can’t do research the same way i was doin before.. that switch up is a lot 😮‍💨 not that the current climate would allow for either way

Image description: A white background with half a box outlined in black with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:" Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says: 1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth 2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes) 3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers) 4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries. 5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth. 6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults. At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids' Lives!"

Image description: A cream background with half a pink box with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:" Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says: 1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth 2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes) 3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers) 4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries. 5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth. 6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults. At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids’ Lives!"

We noticed some hateful flyers in our neighborhood and they were giving a rage headache every time we saw one. So instead of just being mad, we created new ones.
Please feel free to use!
This one is: Protect Trans Kids in black and white and in color.

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

We're living through a nightmare. (Yes, this is authoritarianism.)
www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Thank y’all for this great work, already have plans to cite in my dissertation.

imma need a roster of 🧊 officers — so like like how student sections do at sports games — we get all their personal info for sabotage

A brave American created a dashboard to track people who are deported, detained or renditioned for political reasons by the Trump Adminstration: @disappearedtracker.bsky.social We should all visit and learn how widespread this problem is. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

with you!

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

With Trump ramping up efforts to disappear people under the dubious pretext of "gang affiliation," Hannah Dreier’s gutting @propublica.org story from 2018 is a must-read.

It exposes how high schools, police, and ICE funneled students into detention and deportation over nothing more than a doodle.

slight motivation 🙂‍↕️

The amazing @ologies.bsky.social won best Science Podcast and giving my recommendation to listen to our episode on “Indigenous Pedology” 🌱