Susan B. Harden

Unite and Rise 8.5: An Initiative to Defend Democracy | League of Women Voters Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, we’ve seen increased attacks on our democratic systems and a failure by Congress to intervene. This came to a head in early April, when the ...

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Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

All of this. Repair the world.

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Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion) In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.

“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”

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Nothing to do w/DEI. They want to erase our accomplishments, our heroes,our inspiration.

THIS is what Justice KBJ meant when she said at oral argument in the university cases that the conservative majority would privilege narratives of white students & disqualify the narratives of Black students.

YouTube video by Dylan Burrill Astonishing speech by Danish Prime Minister.

“The best thing about heroes is that they always win at the end. And if they aren’t winning, then it’s not the end.” —Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Kyiv

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Trump is literally purging the federal government of Black people and women.

So the people who told us he wasn’t a racist or misogynist were full of shit.