Jarrett T. Gupton

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius Namwali Serpell’s study of Toni Morrison – Omari Weekes

“To notice the difficulty of reading Black literature is to acknowledge the difficulty of rendering Black lives. And to call Black life difficult is not simply to describe the hardship of being Black in an anti-Black world. Complexity, ingenuity, beauty—all are contained within Blackness…”

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

"How Academic Freedom Will Make American Higher Education Great Again" Webinar Set for October 28th at 12 pm PT Bill Tierney, University Professor Emeritus at the USC Rossier School of Education, will speak about the roots of academic freedom in the 20th century, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and put fo...

From a #higher GOAT: academic freedom during the #maga movement #academicSky #webinar #free

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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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ASU LGBTQ+ community expresses concern regarding 'The Family Under Attack' event - The Arizona State Press Concerned members of the ASU community sign letter advocating against ASU event. 

🧵 Tomorrow, the ASU Center for American Institutions will host an event, “The Family Under Attack,” featuring a speaker who uses her interpretation of faith to further transphobia. Read about our response & desire to center trans people’s humanity in this article: www.statepress.com/article/2025...

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan, nominated by Trump in 2019, absolutely is a disgrace

He’s simply stopped paying postdoc fellow salaries until the hypothetical time that their grants are “reviewed” for consistency w Trump’s edicts

He’s canceling climate projects

Obeying in advance to the max

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Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.

For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly.

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Also NEWS -> Pell Grants & federal direct student loans, though not paused, are still among the programs OMB wants more info about by Feb. 7, according to agency instructions. Among other things, OMB is asking whether programs "promote gender ideology" or support "illegal aliens."

BREAKING: The Department of Education has confirmed that the federal spending pause does *not* affect Pell grants or student loans. You will get the money. Story coming shortly. 1/2

Whenever he and his team call something a "hoax" it means they're playing defensive. They know book bans are a losing issue for them. So, don't stop talking about book bans. Highlight every single book ban, all the time. We can organize and win political power by advocating for intellectual freedom.

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!

That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like

A planet parade of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shines in the skies this month All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.

Florida’s ‘Vague, Viewpoint-Discriminatory’ Law Is Unconstitutional, Professors’ Lawsuit Says Six faculty members argue that a 2023 law mandating that general-education courses not teach “identity politics” violates their First Amendment rights.

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"Allowing this law to stand continues a dangerous precedent, emboldening other states to adopt similar measures and casting a chilling effect on academic inquiry nationwide."

How University of Arizona Global Campus' Online Recruitment Ads Drain Its Finances It can cost UAGC more than $11,500 just to enroll one student.

The taxpayer-supported University of Arizona is paying nearly $12,000 *per student* to Google and Facebook to recruit customers for the scandal-ridden for-profit online college it bought for $1 and rebranded. Read more from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social :

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The End of the DEI Era As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.

You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.

Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
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