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BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

I think so too. And I know the LEAD came through the Alum Association. But not only were the optics beyond bad and the effects on individual students close to unforgivable, but it reeked of pressure from central administration, whether true or not. They raised money one day and ended the next

That would be great. My only point was that President Ono only mentioned a few initiatives, all to the rural north. Important, for sure, because rural/suburban/urban diversity matters, but not likely to expand commitments to African Americans

Right, but to the degree that’s true I read it as the sad reality that it takes a lot longer to get people to really talk even if one can get them to the table. DEI programs have been better at getting people in the door.

I would completely agree with the second part of your statement

Actually if you dig into the numbers it is. It does mean disaggregating the two or more category and looking at which two. If one does that it turns out the entering 2024-25 class was around 9.5% African American, for example. There was a big drop in African American numbers when two or morecame

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

This NYT-driven nonsense bugs me every time I see it. Let's set the record straight (again).

Our DEI office was *very* effective.

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Then why did President Ono (though noticeably not the five Regents) only talk about extending Wolverine Pathways to the rural northern communities. Surely not a bad thing, but not exactly designed to increase the enrollment of underserved African Americans

Fourth, why would anyone think that increasing diversity would lead to anything other than more friction?! No friction comes from everyone thinking and being the same. If you put say supporters of Israel and supporters of Gazans in the same space, they may not see eye to eye. That’s diversity

Third, as even the Regents have admitted, the Bridges program, the Go Blue initiative, and the stomped on LEAD Scholars program have all contributed in real ways to the university.

Second, the Collegiate Fellows program brought some amazing faculty members to UM, enhancing not only the diversity of the faculty but the academic excellence.

What you are saying is just factually incorrect. It seems like you are parroting the misleading information in the NYT article. Some contrary facts are first that this year’s entering class was per haps the most diverse ever, with African Americans and Latino-Americans reaching historic highs.

@jordanackermi.bsky.social UM President Ono is AWOL at this moment of national crisis. This is embarrassing. What are the Regents doing?

Think All This Gets Fixed With The Midterms? Think Again The midterms will be too late to tackle Trump’s extraordinary attempt at restricting voting.

with @wendyweiser.bsky.social on why Trump really wants 2024 to be the last free and fair election, and @mjsdc.bsky.social on what's coming to the Supreme Court

The Black Student Union post in response to @umich.edu’s decision to cut the Office of DEI. 2/2

Read this.

White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DON The Department of Justice in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) By Brittny Mejia, James Queally, Matt Hamilton and Matthew Ormseth March 29, 2025 6:24 PM PT

A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Adam Schleifer was terminated Friday morning, receiving an email informing him that the dismissal was "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump," according to two of the sources, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from federal officials. Joseph T. McNally, the acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California who is Schleifer's boss, was not involved in the decision, the sources said.

Though U.S. attorneys are political appointees who often ally with the agenda of the current presidential administration, line prosecutors like Schleifer are normally considered career employees. But since taking office, the Trump administration has made a point to drive those seen as political enemies from all levels of the federal government. "This is the most overtly political firing I've seen in my time at the Department of Justice," said Palmer, the former federal prosecutor. "I could absolutely see it having kind of a chilling effect. I also think current prosecutors are concerned about the ability to have free speech. An AUSA [assistant U.S. attorney] who I spoke to said they are concerned that the only people who will be allowed to stay are Republicans or very quiet Democrats."

"The message from Adam's case is that if you're going to indict some run-of-the-mill CEO of a company, you need to check if he's a Trump supporter first," the former prosecutor said. "It's going to cause line prosecutors to be considerably more careful about pursuing anyone who has even tenuous connections to the president, which is not good for the DOJ."

This is *extremely* alarming — White House fires a career federal prosecutor because he (1) went after a politically connected businessman and (2) criticized Trump during a 2020 congressional bid.

“White House fires a career prosecutor” is itself unprecedented.

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

This is absolutely horrific. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

23 and he knew to leave a death note.

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

Amazing deep dive into how Trump and Musk are destroying Social Security. Horrible.

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down

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Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

it seems like DC might now be a free fire zone for ALLEGED domestic violence, as long as you have an R after your name

Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮

In fact UM should be celebrating its successes in DEI. Like everything at UM, its big bureaucratic lumbering and at times annoying, but the greater diversity among students and faculty is a huge accomplishment