Jarrett T. Gupton

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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Florida Educators File Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Florida’s S.B. 266, Defending Academic Freedom and Free Speech The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida Senate Bill 266 (S.B. 266), a law passed in 2023 that curtails academic

BREAKING: ACLU of Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Florida law that curtails academic freedom by imposing restrictions on university programs and discussions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The anti-DEI/CRT/LGBTQ movement from the last few years has always been about removing LGBTQ people from public life and re-segregating public spaces. The movement and its associated politicians started with books and curriculum, but they didn't end there. They won't end there.

Where I grew up, most "storytelling" is fiction.

The myth that diversifying businesses led to discrimination against more qualified people has *always* been belied by the empirical evidence from hiring audit studies (which consistently show anti-Black discrimination) and basic demographic facts. Yet, the myth persists, comforting fragile egos.

How the Ingroup Representation of First-Generation Students in Residence Halls Predicts Short-Term and Long-Term College Success - Research in Higher Education Despite a burgeoning literature on first-generation college student success, little is known about how the presence of first-generation or continuing-generation peers may facilitate desired outcomes a...

New publication in Research in Higher Education!

Does it matter to #FirstGen student success if a first-gen student lives with a first-gen roommate or floormates instead of continuing-gen peers? Learn more: link.springer.com/10.1007/s111...

Under Jim Crow, business leaders sometimes complained that the system of separate bathrooms, waterfountains, and waiting rooms was losing money. But they were afraid of white supremacist terrorists (and their fans in legislatures) so they lost money to keep them happy.

::taps mic::

It's useful to think of NYT as a cult that worships power, influence & the status quo. They will normalize anything as long as it allows them to retain their position. The institution selects for people who share this perspective. Chomsky isn't always right but he was right on this.

Part of the problem is I don't even think they *teach* 1984 anymore.

Can’t really describe living in the “Black people are the problem” society with this batch of white folks. Shit is darkly comic in way that shouldn’t be funny but always is

You know who don’t pay bills in this house? The folks who make Uno.