Sara Goldrick-Rab

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury.

You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi is en route to Moscow to meet with Putin.

Jon Stewart @thedailyshow.com is 😂😂❗️🔥now

‘Man with rifle’ — Photos capture the frightening scene of the shooting at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.

The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

today in one pic

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination.

Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers & their spouses were shot in their homes by someone impersonating law enforcement. Former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman & her husband have since died from their wounds.

Days ago, a sitting U.S. Senator was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference;…

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

10:30am: "Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead." 10:49am: law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center.

Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them.

We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.

2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incidents, in grave condition; manhunt underway Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said.

Nightmare in Minnesota: A gunman shot State Senator John Hoffman & State Rep. Melissa Hortman.

Political violence is a lethal threat to our freedom & democracy.

Let’s keep the nonviolent movements of American history close in our hearts today & pray for these public servants.

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.

We the People.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

Kristi Noem pictured in various law enforcement and military-style gear, including tactical vests, rifles, and uniforms—alongside police, ICE, military, and fire personnel.

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

Happy Musk vs Trump day for all those celebrating.

Congrats. Leaving the university is so liberating!

I’m 99% sure it’s already happened.

The main cause of rising student debt is RENT.

Andrew Gillen is out of touch, to put it mildly.

So glad that Russell Lowery-Hart is there to speak for community college students, overlooked in policy conversations!

Today’s Senate hearing is clearly about making higher ed private, Christian, and white again.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect