Caleb Miles

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE fund vs. world's top defense budgets United States China Russia India Saudi Arabia United Kingdom Japan Australia France Ukraine Germany Poland Turkey South Korea Canada ICE Italy Israel Netherlands Brazil Switzerland $126.0 billion $75.0 billion $74.8 billion $71.5 billion $57.0 billion $55.7 billion $55.0 billion $53.7 billion $50.0 billion $48.7 billion $47.0 billion $46.3 billion $41.0 billion $37.5 billion _$30.9 billion $30.5 billion $27.0 billion $26.1 billion $25.0 billion

ICE now has more funding than the military in Israel, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere.

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today.

It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.

Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Screenshot of a X post from @ColumbiaMed: Obesity is a serious public health issue nationwide, affecting nearly 20% of children in the U.S. To effectively address this crisis, @columbiaps' Dr. Shoshana Shendelman stresses the importance of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and community organizations like Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) @: columbiamed.link/4eeUeFr

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Photo from Land Palestine on Instagram: “Iranians In Tehran City Are Taking One Last Picture Before Evacuating Their Homes Due The Israeli Attacks”

There’s a trend on Iranian Instagram where they’re taking last photos of their homes before they evacuate Tehran. Remember that Iranians are people with hopes, dreams, worries and fears just like you and I. Remember they lived lives similar to ours before the war.

Artl.S8.C11.1.1 Overview of Congressional War Powers Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: [The Congress shall have Power .. • I To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; ...

every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

Messy pile of postcards with handwritten questions for Columbia trustees

group of faculty and staff and Roaree the lion mascot knocking on the door of low library attempting to deliver the postcards

Photo of Low Library at Columbia taken from in front of the Alma Mater statue which is visible to the left, on the right the postcards which were left taped to the door of Low are visible in the background

Last week, faculty & staff across
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
campuses gathered questions for the Board of Trustees on postcards then delivered them during their meeting on campus! 📬

HUNDREDS of CU community members wrote postcards w/ questions or submitted them online ✉️✍️

Read them here ⬇️

Our “Defunded Science Fair” was a huge success! Thank you to all who showed up to present. We had such great conversations with alumni on campus for alumni weekend. If you missed it, we hope to host another — stay tuned!

Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent

I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical'

Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

Sign In Defense of Shared Governance at Columbia University Initiated May 8, 2025 Dear Members of the Columbia University (faculty, staff, students, and alumni), The Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (CU-AAUP) exe...

‼️Action item for Columbia affiliates‼️

We urgently need to stand up for shared governance at Columbia!

Please sign our petition in support of CU-AAUP’s recommendations for moving forward — grounded in democratic values: bit.ly/cu-defend-sh...

The grant that funded a large part of my doctoral work - a 40 year cohort study which has been running successfully and learning all sorts of things about disease and wellbeing - was just terminated. Surreal.

Well now we are!

If you're attending #ACIC, come watch us suffer tomorrow at noon, and you might even get a chance to get in on the action!

To Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher education Even before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...

Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things:
1. Stand up for higher ed
2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!)
3. Protect our students
4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance
5. Affirm tenants of DEI
6. Protect research & provide backup funding
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YouTube video by Katherine Franke Interrupting the gears of authoritarianism

What kinds of smart tactical organizing should we consider in these challenging times? ACT UP's organizing offers some inspiration for today. I explain why. To learn more, check out United in Anger, a study guide on the history of ACT UP: www.unitedinanger.com/unit-3-act-u... youtu.be/0KGtI7OGvMY

Flyer that reads: CUIMC Stands Up and Speaks OUT! Come join the CUIMC Community of Scholars, Students, Healers, the Care-Givers and the Cared-For to Say HANDS OFF! Our students, our science, our patients, our classrooms, OUR COMMUNITY! April 22nd @ 12:30pm Haven Ave Plaza

TOMORROW: CUIMC Stands Up and Speaks OUT! Join us tomorrow at 12:30pm in Haven Ave Plaza at the Medical Center for a rally to say HANDS OFF our students, science, patients, classrooms, and community!

post from Judge Luttig (reposted by Cheryl Rofer) The President of the United States fears only those who do not fear him.

wake up babe new Russell's paradox dropped

poster for RALLY FOR THE RIGHT TO LEARN on APRIL 17. March from Washington Square Park at 3pm and Rally at Foley Square at 4pm. Original illustration of the arch in Washington Square Park.

TOMORROW! Join CUIMC Stands Up and @aaupcu.bsky.social in uniting with 20+ groups from schools across NYC to resist attacks on higher education together!

✊ March from Washington Square, 3PM

📣 Rally @ Foley Square, 4PM

RALLY FOR THE RIGHT TO LEARN (4/17)

Flyer that says: CUIMC Stands Up Join Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, and faculty as we call on our Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, our research, our teaching, and our patients. Monday, April 14th 12:30pm Low Library Steps

Join us on Monday as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients!
📍Low Library Steps
⏰ 12:30pm Monday April 14

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

Higher ed leaders: Do Not Capitulate.

They will not stop coming for you.

We must fight to defend American higher education.

We must resist.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

I am truly so scared that they will put back enough scientific funding that 99% of academics - even the ones I like - will be thrilled to go “back to normal,” no matter what’s going on at that point with ICE or anything else

Hands off! NYC 🗽