Dr. Tati

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look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet

Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real

Threads is atrocious too

UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.

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this is an abomination

I used to encourage my Sociology students to look for job opportunities with Gallup. Yet, with Gallup's decision to stop collecting presidential approval data, I don't think I can offer that advice in good faith anymore.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise:

-21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers
-69 mil married women who took partner’s name
-21 mil w/out valid drivers license

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Backlash is also a reckoning:

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

So the US federal government is trying to completely ban gender-affirming care for adolescents. Evil shit, life-threatening shit.

Here's a resource to walk you through one thing you can do about it:

www.patreon.com/posts/commen...

I can send you what I commented if you DM me, for reference.

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Political action is now crucial for US scientists Nature Human Behaviour - Political action is now crucial for US scientists

We wrote this piece as a call to action before what has been happening in MN. The myth of neutrality is a luxury scientists can no longer afford— we all have a role to play. Please repost w/ links to local orgs to help connect scientists to existing collectives they can join.

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Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...

NEW: The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

The Reactionary Centrist instinct—“things were bad, now are less bad, so why are ppl still trying to make them better?”—is generally obnoxious in the best of times, but also true that activists can over-reach, deny gains, etc.

But when the govt is DESPERATELY trying to MAKE THINGS BAD AGAIN? C’mon.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

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Screenshot of article which reads: TEMPE, Ariz.—In October, President Trump asked a handful of top universities to accept sweeping campus changes in exchange for federal-funding advantages. Most schools rejected the proposal, fearing Trump would undermine their independence. One college president, though, had a different response: Why wasn’t I invited?

Screenshot of article which reads: Michael Crow, the outspoken longtime leader of Arizona State University, was miffed he hadn’t been approached. ASU’s sister school, the University of Arizona, had been invited. Crow, who had long championed higher-education reform and had signaled willingness to work with the administration, believed he should have been included. He and his advisers wondered if officials had mixed up the two schools, people familiar with the matter said. While schools like Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly refused to sign onto the proposal, Crow contacted the Trump administration and offered to provide input, the people said.

Imagine this kind of desperation to be seen as valuable by the current administration

Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education.

Talked about this article somewhere else and someone wanted me to talk a bit more about it so here ya go! First, gift link. Second, my overwhelming takeaway is that, in a world where we rebuild in the coming decades, a good chunk of universities need new leadership.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Trump hits new negative milestone in polls that he never did in his first term: analysis President Donald Trump has hit an ominous new milestone in polling that he never sunk to when he was last in office, Newsweek reported on Wednesday."As of Wednesday morning, Trump currently has an average disapproval rating of 55 percent, while 41 percent approve, according to The New York Times' po...

President Donald Trump has hit an ominous new milestone in polling that he never sunk to when he was last in office, Newsweek reported on Wednesday.

In Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences, enjoying the NASEM meeting on the Status of the Field of Discipline Based Education Research.
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BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚

Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!

November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom

Register via QR code in graphic

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Grijalva Signs Discharge Petition to Force Epstein Files Vote Right After Being Sworn In The congresswoman called House Speaker Mike Johnson's delay a politically motivated "abuse of power" and reiterated her support for releasing the documents, declaring that "justice cannot wait another day."

House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore in Adelita Grijalva, who swiftly became the crucial 218th signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing files related to deceased sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact” The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell Pr...

UT alumni, sign: Longhorns for Liberty: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...

Freaking infuriating