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Two headlines on front page of NYT. First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference." Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."

Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

If you receive a response claiming that it is legally necessary, know that this is untrue: there is no federal law to this effect and other, more visible, institutions like the UC system are still actively advertising their own LGBTQ+ Resource Libraries.

Scientists, your voice has never been more powerful in fighting the silent creep of authoritarianism.

Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.

If you are American faculty and aren't loudly speaking out against what's happening at @tamu.bsky.social right now, I suggest you read the news. Absolutely despicable actions by their admin and true loss for reliable, unbiased higher education.

Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING

A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims."

The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.

Image of a New York Times article. The New Hork Eimes SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1939 Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Wireless to THE NEW YORX TIMES BERLIN, Feb. 3 The text is too long to post here.

«The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of 5 prominent German comedians. Their crime? Making political jokes about the Nazi regime.»

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Image of the Times article below.

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Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week The mainstream media is up in arms about Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech rights — but barely made a peep about Mahmoud Khalil.

The mainstream media barely made a peep about Trump’s latest attack on Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech rights.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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A ship with a red hull used for icebreaking in the Arctic. Blue sea with icebergs, glaciers, and mountains.

US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers

As a trans person, it's really starting to feel like I genuinely wouldn't be safe working in American academia. It's beyond disheartening.

I was on this cruise! Awesome stuff from the Balch Lab at Bigelow and similar evidence recently out from the Bishop Lab at UC Berkeley. What other interesting things do diatoms have to tell us?

AI is not unbiased, do not seek information from it.

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza Stars read Michael Rosen’s 2014 poem Don’t Mention the Children in film released by Save the Children Guy Pearce, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave are among the celebrities calling for an end to the “normalised horror” of children being killed in Gaza, as part of new short film. Released by Save the Children and Choose Love, it features the stars reciting the words to a poem by Michael Rosen. Titled Don’t Mention the Children, the poem was written in 2014 in response to a Guardian article about the Israeli government banning a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza. It begins: Continue reading...

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza

At this moment in US history, we need you in the streets, not just donating to the politicians who let the system bring us here.

MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?

Local community driven action is the way out of this mess.

If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.

BREAKING: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act again, for a sign which said "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Harvard $2 Billion Funding Freeze by US Was Illegal, Judge Says Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.

NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)

Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds. Gift link: nyti.ms/41CEOWy

Following in case you're able to get a transcript, I'm curious to know what's said

EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.

I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.

I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.

I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.

Gov. Pritzker today:

"In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from
unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters
about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."

Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

Much much appreciation to UC faculty Dr. Sean Malloy for using his position as tenured faculty to lobby the University of California reagents and make a loud call for a reformed academia.

Please, if you have tenure, consider using your position.

Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

More framing like this, please

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