As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

It occurs to me that this photo looks like a tombstone.
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

'These folks often say that they are concerned that DEI threatens merit. The real horror they confront is that DEI threatens monopoly.'

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Grown-ass men teaching kindergarten cootie theory on live television

what a world we have made

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Alternative splicing generates a Ribosomal Protein S24 isoform induced by neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645676v1

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.

As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Free speech in America

The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...

This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.

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That the THE published this perspective is deeply worrying. The propaganda machine is in high gear.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

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

Please keep this in the public eye. It's very difficult to work with individual stories, but the director has a name. Horrible, as always. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

just thinking about the job hunting process for no particular reason

Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live Order challenged by Democratic state attorneys general as NAACP says it is a ‘dark day for millions of American children’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news over the next couple…

Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live

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@immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.

Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

I hope my senators @markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov will be occupying Chuck Schumer's office tomorrow morning and making the case for him to vote no on the CR.

What a dangerous moment to flirt with such a ludicrous capitulation. The government is ALREADY shut down by these walnuts.

Another example of university managements weaponising dignity at work rules to silence critique of the rulers by the serfs. Something my colleagues and I have experienced here too.

Doing the right thing and caring about what others will think of you often conflict. Don't worry about the latter; just do the right thing.

As a short dude who also attracted a taller goddess to him through the power of dance, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for this video

(To be clear, Tom Holland, a trained professional dancer, has much better moves. And he looks better in hot pants.)