Anna Meier

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

As usual, the far right is positioned as normal/default and anything left of center gets shat on as "radical" (derogatory).

We all know Kristi Noem getting shitcanned doesn't actually solve anything, we know, but it's still awesome that she's having a bad day, let people enjoy this moment

Noem will now be "Envoy for the Shield of the Americas," because the Trump administration believes we are living in an Age of Empires playthrough.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

It would be super cool if big national unions used their massive platforms to uplift worker voices and actions instead of posting illegible memes and screenshots of random tweets.

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Yup.

NEW: Department of Defense to limit ties with 13 elite universities, including Tufts - The Tufts Daily Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Department of Defense would end attendance for active-duty military personnel at 13 universities, including Tufts, due to what he called “wo...

Ah yes, the wokeness and indoctrination of a university that built a conservative anti-trans research center that's housed in the president's office & that just created a new admin position to explicitly "reduce the risk of additional unionization efforts."

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

Hard to imagine how small and insecure these ghouls must feel, going after 300 people in a state of 3 million.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

News headline: Death tolls rise in Israel, UAE and across region as Iran attacks continue and IDF strikes 'heart of Tehran'

Cool, guess there are no people dying in Iran for us to care about. 😑

Unions pass no confidence vote in University of Nottingham bosses They say it follows "years of shocking financial decisions and governance failures".

An understated part of this: teaching staff, PhD students, research support staff, technical staff, facilities workers + more ALL voiced zero confidence in university leadership.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get all these people to agree on anything. The boss is truly the best organizer.

BREAKING: DHS Agents Lie Their Way Into Columbia University Residence to Detain Student, School Says Almost one year after DHS took Mahmoud Khalil, Trump immigration agents have now taken another student

On Wednesday – almost a year after DHS agents took Mahmoud Khalil from his residency – Columbia students rallied on campus to demand the school protect them from ICE.

Less than a day later, DHS took another student from a Columbia residential building.

Things may have changed since I left, but when I lived in KS it was basically impossible to live without driving unless you were in the KC metro area or Lawrence. This is basically an immediate criminalization of all trans people in the state.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

More on this blatant fascist move:

Rest in peace, Nurul Shah Alam. His blood is on border patrol's hands. www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Boosting this directory of mutual aid projects and relief funds that still need support: www.standwithminnesota.com/directory

Strikes work. Congrats to NYSNA nurses on their historic contract wins.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

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Much like the One Ring, neutrality isn't real.

Gollum holding up the One Ring, captioned "My precious neutrality"

All y'all bemoaning academic institutions taking stances on issues in the wider world affecting your fellow human beings sound like this.

University: We will offer you a 3% raise.
Faculty: We need a 3.85% raise.
University: NO MORE UNIONS EVER.

(This is what higher ed collective bargaining is like, for those who still believe university admins are reasonable.)

St. John's University says it no longer recognizes faculty unions after 56 years St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university since 1970.

"Flexibility" = the explicit intention to pay your workers less than what they're worth, while paying your head men's basketball coach $2 million.

Shameful, embarrassing, and so damn disrespectful.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Watch universities cut faculty research funds even more based on the idea that applying for grants is "easier" now, while funders get inundated with slop & good applications get lost in the shuffle. The end result is less scientific research outside billionaires' control—which is the point.

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A map showing service areas for each hotline Unidad Latina en Accion is in Connecticut Mt. Washington Valley Rapid Response is in the center of the Map Rhode Island Defense Line, Vermont Migrant Justice, NH Solidarity Network Hotline for Raids, Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, and LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts are in those respective states

Updated graphics of ICE watch hotlines in every New England state. Please share widely!

The richest university in the world thinks it can get away with offering a 5–cent raise to the workers that keep it running.

Yesterday, the workers were loud and clear: it cannot and will not.

every time you remember that Rümeysa finished her PhD, an ICE agent gets a headache