also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Thank you, CUNY University Faculty Senate Executive Committee

www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyuf...

How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Chicago teachers, community leaders say they mobilized to protect kids amid reported ICE activity Teachers at Roosevelt High School and local officials said they gathered 50 people to help with school dismissal across Albany Park amid reports of ICE arrests in the neighborhood on Wednesday.

Teachers at Roosevelt High School and local officials said they gathered 50 people to help with school dismissal across Albany Park amid reports of ICE arrests in the neighborhood on Wednesday.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.

70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.

In this town, one school keeps kids divided.

(Published May 2024)

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

russ vought saying "no, its a three year term" when Biden asks for his resignation on the naval academy visitors board

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Hand holding black and white illustrated hand lettered zine titled "Who is this Zohran Mamdani Guy Running for Mayor?". Portrait of Mamdani on the bottom right.

NYC! New zine just dropped! "Who is this Zohran Mamdani Guy Running for Mayor?"

It's got important dates, what he plans to do as mayor, how he'll pay for it, why a little socialism is good for us: the regular people, etc!

And of course you can print your own!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

Had a family member who was the main ‘breadwinner’ but considered husband head of household.

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Thank you for your support, Speaker Adams! 💙

Is there even a 7 Express any more?

GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - LGBTQ Nation He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.

GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. -

“Every accusation is a confession" keeps ringing true day by day.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

In a stunning violation of OPSEC, we’ll be announcing to our adversaries when and where all of our top military leaders will be. Doesn’t seem Pete learned much from Signalgate.

His incompetence is staggering.

NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

“Stillbirth is such a huge public health issue,” one expert said. “The fact that we have this investment of centers that are going to be taking these different approaches to fight stillbirth ... it’s a piece of hope that I think we all needed.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

Current situation in downtown #desmoines at protestors are cheering for Dr. #IanRoberts who was detained by #ICE earlier today. #WHO13 #protest TikTok video by Lindsey Burrell

Des Moines protests ICE’s detaining of its school superintendent www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMYfMjCj/

BREAKING: PSC members are here with 100s of New Yorkers to shut down the streets surrounding 26 Federal Plaza. We will not stay silent as ICE commits violent & unlawful actions against our immigrant communities.

Faculty insert AAUP academic freedom statement into class syllabi Some Columbia professors have inserted a statement supporting academic freedom into their fall 2025 class syllabi in light of the University’s July 23 <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2...

I attended a fantastic @aaup.org academic freedom workshop on these statements and even learned from sample lesson plans on the topic.

This stuff is so vital right now: we all benefit from better understanding of why our profession is shaped the way it it.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

Black in the World: Art. Resistance. Belonging Join us for a day of celebrating Black art and resistanceWhat is the relationship between art and social movements? How does this relationship shape the everyday experiences of people who identify as ...

Limited space so please register! effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

There are going to be a lot of state college professors and public school teachers reinstated in the coming weeks. Being distasteful about someone's assassination is supported by the First Amendment regardless of how you feel about it.

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story. Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.

Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

(Published Dec. 2022)