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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.

11.06.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3306    πŸ” 2211    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

23.05.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 47965    πŸ” 11328    πŸ’¬ 1458    πŸ“Œ 458

It occurs to me that this photo looks like a tombstone.
Solidarity with you all ! ✊

03.06.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please share

23.04.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 667    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 7
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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.'

#HigherEd
#AcademicSky

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23.04.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grown-ass men teaching kindergarten cootie theory on live television

what a world we have made

08.04.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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My sports store!

07.04.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 985    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

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.

07.04.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 42360    πŸ” 12638    πŸ’¬ 508    πŸ“Œ 287

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

02.04.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
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.

01.04.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 24064    πŸ” 3235    πŸ’¬ 282    πŸ“Œ 133

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like β€œwe 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!

01.04.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 81634    πŸ” 10099    πŸ’¬ 512    πŸ“Œ 359

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.

02.04.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 135692    πŸ” 20116    πŸ’¬ 10550    πŸ“Œ 1603
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Free speech in America

27.03.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating The Office for Students' so-calledΒ 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.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

26.03.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 40

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

27.03.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 $.

27.03.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5465    πŸ” 2345    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 73
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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

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...

24.03.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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just thinking about the job hunting process for no particular reason

20.03.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2847    πŸ” 636    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 13

Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an β€œarmed 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.

19.03.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7143    πŸ” 1881    πŸ’¬ 326    πŸ“Œ 868
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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.

20.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5101    πŸ” 2219    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 158
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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 β€˜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

20.03.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 15

Some updates on our client:

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

20.03.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1634    πŸ” 641    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 36

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

16.03.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7160    πŸ” 1317    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 44

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

14.03.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2414    πŸ” 702    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 25

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.

14.03.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

14.03.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

12.03.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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.)

11.03.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 8