Veena Dubal

Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

Roles reversed: A veteran Gaza aid worker pleads for survival An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons program

"tale of isolation and working from home in a gig-dominated economy where increasingly everything happens..."

Wait, what?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away

“Huckabee defended the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an aid group led by his friend J. Moore, another evangelical Christian. The group, backed by Israel & run..by U.S. contractors, has been..criticized for shootings by Israeli troops near its food dist. sites.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

OSHA: The Optional Safety and Health Administration - Confined Space Is OSHA now the Optional Safety and Health Administration? Giving employers the "opportunity" -- but nowlegal obligation to protect workers?

Has #OSHA become the "Optional" Safety and Health Administration where voluntary programs are prioritized over enforcement, where regulations are weakened so that employers don't have to experience the discomfort of a citation for endangering workers?

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Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."

The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.

I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.

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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“It is impossible to teach this coursein light of Columbia’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition..conflates Jewishness w/Israel, so that any criticism of Israel..becomes a criticism of Jews.”
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Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Yes but it also facilitates OCR review of OECR investigations, so includes potential course eval and personnel file review of faculty members who are subject to any kind of harassment complaint.

The reason I separated it out is because these course evals would not likely make their way to the OECR in the absence of this agreement, so it’s an additional avenue for the government to access course evals in the absence of formal complaints to the OECR.

Also not sure what the case law is in Rhode Island, but I can imagine it is not as clear on this as we would like.

Yes!

Yes! But I’m worried given how poorly unis complied with state privacy laws this last year under govt pressure — and because the section specifically contemplates personnel files. It is also often easy to figure out who a prof is even if their evals are redacted for PII.

This is about all complaints to the OECR about harassment. So, a student could make a bogus complaint about how a male professor made a bawdy remark in class, and the prof’s personnel file, regardless of the outcome of the investigation, would be subject to govt review.

My hope is that Brown would decide that course evals and personnel files cannot be released because of state privacy laws. But since the language is actually in the agreement, I’m worried.

Because it has come up, these evals go to the OCR (govt) via the OECR (brown), as per 13(e)(iv).

The OECR complaints GO to the OCR as part of the university obligations under 13(d)(e) - this includes the evaluations about complaints of antisemitism.

Please stop spreading misinformation! As I teach my students, a critical aspect of being a lawyer is reading carefully.

On campus, it would not include specific professor’s personnel files or course evals, it would be an investigation into how the uni responded to the complaints.

Sure! First, it’s important to know that Personnel files are covered by state privacy laws. Second, Title VI enforcement at a federal level is about a university’s response to complaints, not about the actions of the complaint’s targets. So, in a federal investigation into anti-black racism 1/2

Nope not going to engage anymore because I think I’ve made this quite clear but pls see 13(d)(4). As general counsel of the AAUP & an employment law prof, I know how this works quite intimately.

If anyone is unsure of the mechanisms by which the Brown-Trump agreement facilitate government oversight of course evals, I’ve laid it out here in response to a skeptic.

(3) Finally, the agreement allows for gov’t audits to check for Brown’s compliance. This means (at a minimum) at-will review of all course evals to ensure Brown’s compliance with 13(f), and possibly 13(d) & (e).

Hope this helps. [5/5].

That allows for government oversight of faculty evals is in the context of OECR complaints. These investigations at the uni level always include review of evals, & they are part of the professor’s personnel file, which as per 11(d)(4) of the complaint, the government can review at will… [4/5]

B/c Brown has not demanded the gov’t NOT interfere in hiring, firing, & termination decisions (as Columbia did), these evals & gov’t pressure will be used to make faculty personnel decisions, again contravening academic freedom, shared governance, labor contracts, etc. [3/5]

(2) The second clause…

in which students complain of antisemitism. A student can complain in an eval how a prof’s extramural critique of Israeli policy in Gaza made them uncomfortable. That professor’s evals then go to the fed government for inspection. [2/5]

Sure! It’s not obvious if you don’t know how course evals, title vi/vii/ix complaints, employment privacy laws, gov’t oversight of agreements like this work. The agreement facilitates gov’t oversight of course evals in 3 ways.

(1) Brown has agreed to send course evals to the feds [1/5]

Hahahah yes. His terrible take, never yours, dear James!

And you know what, if he actually bothered to read the blog and its authors instead of constantly churning out his hot takes, he might think differently!!