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07.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 127 🔁 131 💬 0 📌 10
All the panics & long features about political correctness & “free speech” on college campuses - with real buy in from centrist pundits at prestigious mags - was always a ruse for this: right-wing control over universities
24.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 541 🔁 145 💬 5 📌 10
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
21.05.2025 02:03 — 👍 8395 🔁 3894 💬 158 📌 586
Cowardly US universities, institutions with vast endowments and independent financial resources, are refusing to host the Berkshire Conference, the largest US gathering of women historians. Northwestern U ($14.3 billion) cancelled, no one else would agree in time. The 2026 Conference is cancelled.
18.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 174 🔁 70 💬 5 📌 5
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
09.03.2025 22:30 — 👍 25184 🔁 9246 💬 238 📌 254
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
09.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 6044 🔁 2696 💬 136 📌 481
Seems more likely causal order goes the other way. Being LGBTQ makes people more likely to identify as liberal.
24.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No More Compliance: Historic LGBT Clinic Whitman-Walker's Erasing Of Trans People A Step Too Far
On Friday night, it became widely known that several links to gender affirming care and transgender resources disappeared from Whitman-Walker's website. Their stated reason is harmful to us all.
1. On Friday Night, it became apparent that historic LGBTQ+ clinic Whitman-Walker in DC had erased trans care and resources from it's website.
The stated reason is harmful to us all.
I make my case against it, and other orgs, erasing us for federal dollars.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
22.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 2038 🔁 450 💬 25 📌 32
Hey friends! We're seeing a lot of terrible things. We're not able to cover all of them, but we felt this latest one is a really big deal and needs much more awareness.
Our summary is this: It's an administrative coup. Trump has ordered tens of billions (maybe up to $3 trillion) of budget halted indefinitely in a blatantly illegal move. He's claiming power to halt and potentially redirect funding that's already been authorized by Congress — a classic authoritarian move.
Here's what we know. And we're doing our best to catch up with this story, because it's moving fast.
There's a memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget. (That's the same government entity who set-up the DEI "snitch" line, that's now been spammed by tens of thousands of our fellow residents.)
In typical Trump-style, the memo gets its facts wrong. It claims in FY2024 the US government spent $10 trillion (actually it was $6.8 trillion). It says money should be used for the administration's priorities — "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve." (Again, it's very fact deficient.)
The memo says a pause will begin at 5pm on January 28th where, "Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal."
Anyone promised federal grants might have their money at risk, even states. This is Congressional directed spending and Trump is ordering people to not do it. This funding includes universities for education and research programs, nonprofits, local and tribal governments, disaster relief aid, e…
So what can we do?
It's been a lot. And the shock approach of this administration is to overwhelm us with nonsense and a state of paralysis. We continue to believe the best thing is to stay grounded and keep yourself sane amidst insanity.
At this juncture, three actions we suggest that make sense to us:
1) Urge media to cover this story properly
This is not "possibly illegal" — it's "patently illegal." You can read notes on that here.
It's not "temporary" — it's "indefinite." There's no timetable for ending it.
It's not just a memo — it's an administrative coup.
2) Urge your Representatives to act like this is a big deal
If you know us, this isn't a knee-jerk action we suggest. We think this is a strategic because it's Congress that's being violated — their power is being directly undermined.
3) Continue to support ACLU and Democracy Forward
These groups have been preparing litigation for some time. Unless Trump revokes this, this will certainly make its way through the courts. Our read is even the biased courts will have trouble swallowing this — so it may end up being shut down.
Keep breathing. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again," Nelson Mandela.
Warmly,
- Choose Democracy
Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.
28.01.2025 15:52 — 👍 4018 🔁 1587 💬 64 📌 84
