Academic Anarchy🏴

Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds The office of Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff asserts it “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against immigration detainees and issued a report, first obtained by NBC News.

A monthslong investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff compiles hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers, according to a new report about his probe first obtained by NBC News.

August 1, 2025 Dr.Julio Frenk Chancellor Jniversity of California -Los Angeles 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 Ref: Updated Notice of Award Suspensions Dr. Frenk: I write you with an update on our prior letter of July 30, 2025. This letter supplements our previous communication. Pursuant to 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) $ 200.339(c), and our previous communications, UCLA is officially notified that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is hereby suspending the attached list of grant awards to the University of California Los Angeles UCLA). UCLA should immediately cease all activities on these award numbers. The purpose of this action is to address concerns reported and observed in UCLA programs and ensure compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations, and the terms and conditions of these Federal awards. This action is effective 7/30/2025. Noncompliance: NSF has identified the following specific examples of noncompliance: . UCLA engages in racism, in the form of illegal race-based preferences in admissions practices; • UCLA fails to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias; . UCLA discriminates against and endangers women by allowing men in women's sports and private women-only spaces.

‼️ Trump's NSF is demanding UCLA violate CA law and ban trans women from college bathrooms, dorms, and sports, in order to restore illegally withheld NSF grants.

After other universities capitulated to these ridiculous demands, UCLA students and staff must ensure UCLA doesn't follow.

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on twitter, the Nazis are pleading “black fatigue,” a concept that nonblack people are exhausted by black people’s constant complaining and frequent outbursts of confusing violence.

Please take note of this, because this is high level racial hatred. These people are crafting a narrative of hate

blue maga is also operating in their own manufactured reality

Rewriting history to exonerate yourself from your complicity in genocide is wild

If my students need a summary of the reading before they're able to engage with it effectively, that summary should come from me. That's literally, specifically, explicitly MY JOB.

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

NYT once again hoping to ease liberal concerns about the end of the constitutional republic and grease the wheels for an authoritarian plutocracy.

sure feels like we are careening into full constitutional crisis on many levels in less than a year

You can have reasonable protectionist policies without going all out neoliberal free trade free for all, but these high levels of tariffs will be reduced and at minimum a president will be stripped of the power to unilaterally implement them.

There are people out here for some reason claiming that future dem presidents will actually be pro-tariff, I’m not sorry but president AOC is not going to keep %154 tarriffs on penguins, coffee, and pharmaceuticals.

This is a form of wish-doomcasting policies into existence.

I haven’t heard him talk much about his economic policy but if he has a more progressive one he could be the next FDR

The causes of their delusion are capitalism. You perfectly describe the concept of alienation, and the capitalism induced psychosis as described by Lacan, Zizek, and others. The way you cure it is by getting rid of capitalism.

Abolish private ownership of the means of production and turn them over to those who actually produce the wealth.

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:

1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $

For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

New Jersey police lieutenant accused of killing ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in murder-suicide Prosecutors said Ricardo Jorge Santos followed Lauren Semanchik home from work and then fatally shot her and Tyler Webb.

A NJ state police lieutenant allegedly followed his ex-girlfriend home from work and fatally shot her and her new boyfriend, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office.

40%

Obviously labor has to get more racist and make even more service cuts and people will love them

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

another reason the republican party needs to be absolutely eradicated and not negotiated with.

A central lesson of history, in my view, is that the people who do monstrous things are mostly pretty ordinary. They love their children. They have nice gardens. They're perfectly nice to chat with. They have their reasons and rationales

That doesn't mitigate the crimes they commit

#ordinarymen

If you take their money, you are one of them.

That's how it has to be, that's how it is. If you accept their money, you are doing their work, and you will be judged alongside them.

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

It is still jarring that government organizations like NSF and DOJ now equate racism with including markers of class in application processes

I want to host a “MAGA + libs” party where the two sides are not allowed to talk politics. Instead they do an activity, like boardgames. I want to witness the dawning horror as they find themselves getting along

again, this fails to take seriously the fact that MAGA fascists are in fact often sincere bigots who want to hurt people.

www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...

Countdown to articles exposing ICE microtargeting white supremacists for recruitment.

Why would anyone want to come to this fucking shithole country?

I can’t wait to tear it down again.

We will topple it and burn it again. This time we will melt it down into a statue of Georg Floyd