Dr. Andrew M. Byrne

Nodding confidently when a student drops a name of someone in your field, as if you know them, but you don’t know them, or even who that is at all:

Ahead of tomorrow’s storm:
California has pre-positioned resources — including dozers, hand crews, rescue swimmers, and helicopters — in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties to respond to potential debris flows and mudslides.

When you submit your rejected article to another journal without revising:

Another devastating blow for the disability community as this administration cuts almost every employee responsible for administering funding & oversight for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Education should be a basic human right..and disabled kids are just as deserving.

If you were just laid off by the Department of Education and your job was to help distribute IDEA funds, please be in touch for a @motherjones.com article. I can protect your identity in an article, though I'll have to confirm who you are. My signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

Mom of two children with disabilities here —

There are no words for this cruelty.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Trump Admin. Cuts Some Teacher-Training Grants for English Learners The Trump administration has cut funding for some English learner PD grants, sparking confusion and prompting appeals.

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#TitleIII #OELA #EnglishLearners
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

If you work at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and have been RIF'd, I'd love to speak to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I will need to verify your identity, but will conceal and protect your identity.

When you forgot your password and you need to set a new password, but you are told that your new password matches your old password and cannot be used:

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs: In March 2025 they already lost half their workforce. Civil rights enforcement, IDEA oversight both gutted. The ED Secretary didn't even know what IDEA was. This is catastrophic for equity. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

When you realize how much of academia is led by people who benefitted from nepotism:

When your professor doesn't give you an extension on the poli sci midterm:

We as a nation need to come to terms with the fact that violent arrests under supposed #immigration enforcement are a form of unsanctioned punishment without due process, that will permanently inflict disability and trauma on the children who witness and endure it. Cruel and unusual by definition.

California joins the nation in recognizing Disability Employment Awareness Month — a celebration of the 7M+ adults with disabilities who call California home and enrich our state.

Together, we can keep growing an inclusive workforce for the fourth-largest economy in the world.

I've never understood the whole volatile toxicity contrarian persona that some people choose on social media, but I'm guessing they learned it from the darkest corners of the Star Wars fanbase. I'm sorry you have to listen to that stuff so often.

A reminder: fascism may be considered "not quite here yet" by some of us who are privileged, but there is inevitably a subset of minoritized and vulnerable people who are absolutely experiencing it already.
They have some idea what "fascism" really means.

Compromising state money to comply with a much smaller pot of federal money, notwithstanding federal instability, is clearly a nonstarter for public universities in CA. This was a smart guardrail to put in place.

Of course, in any budget disturbance, our most vulnerable students are hurt the most.

Correct. In California, because Gov Newsom posted this, CSU gets about 60% of its core operating funds from the state, UC gets 40-45%, and Community Colleges about 40%. Fed dollars mostly support research and financial aid: CSU 5-10%; UC 10-15%, CCC 10-15% (CA Legislative Analyst’s Office '23-'25)

2.4% stock dip? Normal Tuesday for a tech stock. Media piling on to amplify a tech billionaire's political message of violence toward the LGBTQ community? That's really telling, and really sad.

By "compliance history" they don't mean the coin. They mean the foreign policy that benefits them.

When for the first time in nearly a decade, you're being pushed to increase class sizes, and ask "whose idea was this?!?"

When my Concur report is returned to me a second time because I need to go to manage receipts => manage attachments => add, and upload the same document I already uploaded with my request.

After spending excessive amounts of time using Concur software to document and justify a nominal expense during which the university has now paid me more based on my hourly rate than the expense itself:

Explaining andragogy to new grad students:

When the IRB won't let you ask about feelings in your survey without a page-and-a-half of disclaimers while they're building human-killing satellites across campus:

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

A photo of a New York Times headline that states Trump Administration asks colleges to sign compact to get funding preference; the White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding. Governor Newsom of CA comments: If any CA University signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in State Funding- including Cal Grants, instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom.

Maybe it won't happen? A compelling argument from Gov. Newsom.

When your journal article was rejected, and you had written it in such a way that submitting to a different journal is going to be a heavy lift:

When your university system decides to turn over lists of names to the Federal Government:

When I'm asked why higher education can be such a toxic environment