Mia K. Markey

Huge self-own:
- Columbia educates many uniformed W. Point faculty
- C-M = home Army’s AI Innovation Center
- JHU = Space Force PME
- Many doctors attend these schools via Health Professions Schol. Program
- W&M = MBA program for log Os
- DC area schools educate JCS interns + Congressional fellows…

What students lose in the name of ‘efficiency’ The Editorial Board argues UT’s decision to eliminate 4 student services departments will cause students and faculty to lose access to valuable resources.

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New policy proposal could limit 'controversial topics' at UT System schools The policy states faculty should “ensure a broad and balanced approach” to teaching controversial and contested issues. But the policy does not define controversial.

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'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

If you read nothing else this month, please read this.

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‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

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Harvard’s AAUP Set Out to Reform the University. Instead, It Went National. | News | The Harvard Crimson Seven Harvard professors logged onto a Zoom call hoping to strengthen faculty governance. Less than a year later, their fledgling AAUP chapter was in federal court, challenging the Trump…

Seven Harvard professors logged onto a call hoping to strengthen faculty governance. Less than a year later, their AAUP chapter was in federal court, challenging the Trump administration’s pressure on higher ed.

Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report.

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College of Liberal Arts to consolidate ethnic, gender studies departments The College of Liberal Arts will consolidate seven ethnic and area studies programs, along with the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, into two departments, according to an email fro...

“Rosen did not respond to questions about whether any faculty or staff will be laid off as a result of this restructuring.”

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UT Austin Closing Ethnic, Gender and Area Studies Departments Social: X @TexasAaup and Bluesky @texasaaup.bsky.social

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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

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Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

UNC-Chapel Hill Sets New Policy on Recording Professors UNC-Chapel Hill aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy involving Larry Chavis and growing fear of surveillance.

“I don’t know of any faculty member at UNC that has any faith that the provost, human resources officer, or especially the university lawyers have the faculty interests anywhere in mind when they’re making these decisions.”

—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material. “Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk said on 22 January, a short time before taking the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, while reposting an Irish anti-immigrant influencer’s video about demographic change. Continue reading...

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Here are the real-world consequences of the Republican SAVE Act: Voting will become harder for Rural America, full-time workers, mothers… the list goes on.

This is voter suppression, plain and simple.

UT Provost fires more than 20 staff in academic affairs cuts last month The University of Texas Provost's Office fired 23 people in cuts to its academic affairs department last month.

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The SAVE Act would put 1 in 4 women at risk of losing the right to vote. We cannot accept that – and no one should.

PEN America, 36 Organizational Partners, Call on Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies On February 10, 2026, PEN America, joined by a broad group of 36 organizational partners, wrote to the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University to request that they rescind two policies, passed in fal...

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Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive

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The "what would those proposing this policy say if it were applied to their activities?" litmus test can be overly reductive but it can also be elegantly simple.

Screenshot of headline reading: Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show

RFK Jr. is a liar. He lied to me about his anti-vax Samoa trip. The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is now stacked with conspiracists and the US is positioned to lose its measles elimination status. RFK Jr. must be removed now.

Can we please acknowledge the, er, penmanship here

The Ezekiel W. Cullen building with the UH logo on the front on the University of Houston campus.

Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to “Indoctrinate” Students https://bit.ly/4afgXQa

Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes

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There is nothing fake about my outrage.

The image shows a split view: on the left, a brick building with a clock tower labeled "Southwestern," and on the right, a photo of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.

Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges

Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

The right to free speech is a core pillar of a healthy and thriving democracy. Targeting citizens for voicing their disagreements with this Administration’s policies is a totalitarian overreach of power.
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

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Why Alcohol Raises the Risk of Cancer Research links even one drink a week to an increased risk for multiple types of cancers.

Less than half of Americans recognize alcohol as a carcinogen—compared to 91% for radiation and 89% for tobacco.
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Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants.

Fight Back.

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