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“Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students The first trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism is underway in Boston....

"Ideological Deportation": AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students

Chenjerai Kumanyika of the AAUP Governing Council kicked things off.

First they came for the students.

POWERFUL RALLY today in Boston at the conclusion of our first day of trial in our case against the Trump administration to end the practice of ideological deportations of students & faculty they disagree with.

#DefendHigherEd

🥳🥳🥳 congrats!!!!

Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes

Do not split

Congrats!! It looks incredible!

Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver Announced at Summer Game Fest

This year's Summer Game Fest included the announcement of a brand new Wu-Tang Clan game from Brass Lion Entertainment: a cooperative action RPG called Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. #IGNSummerofGaming #SummerGameFest

Battle the forces of a corrupting entity called the Deceiver as you harness the mythical abilities of the Wu-Tang Clan!

Check out the trailer below, and wishlist Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver on the Steam & Epic Game Store!

Steam – bit.ly/ROTDSTEAM
Epic Store - bit.ly/ROTDEPIC

"Academic Freedom & Research Ethics: Context and Perspectives" Northeastern University Monday, June 2nd from 4pm - 5pm at the Cabral Center, 40 Leon St., Boston Join Boston-area scholars for a discussion of how executive actions are changing the research landscape, exploring the social and historical roots of current threats to academic freedom and research infrastructure Hosted by the Critical Science and Technology Studies Working group, wtih CAMD and CSSH Research Development Panelists: Daniel Lee Kelinman, Hilary C. Robinson, Alexandra To Moderator: Laura Senier

I'll be speaking at this panel on "Academic Freedom & Research Ethics" this afternoon!

In preparation I re-read Vannevar Bush's 1945 report, "Science, The Endless Frontier" - it's good reading, would highly recommend if you interact at all with the NSF! nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/Endl...

Why Can't Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Excited to be presenting our latest work "Why Can’t Black Women Just Be? : Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monolith” at
@TheOfficialACM's #CHI2025 Conference in Yokohama, Japan on April 29th
#HonorableMention

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals" highlighting two lines in particular: "Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose "Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

A reimagined Harvard home page that makes the case for universities. Research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, stroke, hearing loss, aging, autism, MS, sickle cell, diabetes, education and on and on. Powerful account of the way Harvard “touches countless lives” as it rejects Trump’s demands. www.harvard.edu

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Op-ed: We, your professors, believe our universities are worth fighting for - The Huntington News As members of the Northeastern community, you need to know that we — and our institutions — are under attack. Federal funding cuts and freezes have halted our work on topics from generative artificial...

huntnewsnu.com/85741/editor...

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

Slowly making my way through Sunrise on the Reaping and Suzanne Collins really said we’re done with subtly. 😂😂❤️

Re: universities today, a mostly-spoiler-free-quote,
“[district x] said no?
They said they wanted to remain neutral so the careers don’t target them.” 🙃🙃

The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

"But I'm a citizen," you say. "This doesn't apply to me." It's a pretty short step from deporting lawful residents without due process to "show me your papers, you don't LOOK like a real American to ME" on the street.

Demonstration for Mahmoud Khalil in Boston on March 16, 2025. Sign: “Protect free speech, free Mahmoud, hands off our students.”

Demonstration for Mahmoud Khalil in Boston on March 16, 2025. Sign: “Release Mahmoud Khalil! Hands off our students!” - Party for Socialism and Liberation

Demonstration for Mahmoud Khalil in Boston on March 16, 2025. Two people wearing keffiyehs exchange literature.

Demonstration for Mahmoud Khalil in Boston on March 16, 2025. Two women dressed in traditional Muslim clothing, hold Palestinian flags.

Scenes from the demonstration in support of Mahmoud Khalil today in Boston.

Free Mahmoud Khalil!
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

Mahmoud Khalil's Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities Schools across America have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.

"Schools across America have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

Please read and consider signing the letter demanding the immediate release of Palestinan Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention centre 👇🏻
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

A photo of an open book reading… Chapter 1: Beyond Alarm, toward Action Followed by a quotation from Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, “In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.”

Finally getting into my copy of “Let This Radicalize You:
Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care” by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba over our spring break
❤️❤️

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

It's official: Worcester is a sanctuary city for transgender community In a vote of mine to two Worcester City Council voted to establish the city as a sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people

WOOSTAH MASS
www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Today is National Day of Remembrance for the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were put into internment/concentration camps by an Executive Order.

This is a very real part of US history, and I can only hope that we never repeat it again, but it feels, more than before, a real possibility again.

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate

Kendrick: actually