Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving

Does the TA have a support network? Is it even possible to contact her in a caring way when she is undergoing mass harassment and institutional betrayal? It feels like very few academics give a shit about that, and perhaps that’s why you’re doomed.

Here’s a novel idea: what if we discussed how to support the TA while she’s going through this. How do we help an academic worker who is being institutionally thrown under the bus and actively harassed for doing her job because of who she is?

The academic discourse today is like “would the trans TA not have been institutionally murdered if she had given 5 points out of 25 instead of 0 points out of 25”

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew

“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”

Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...

Luckily he didn’t show.

The last time I was set to go to Aspen, someone slipped to me that a man who sexually harassed me was going to have overlapping time with me, so I cancelled — only after my friends had an intervention and sat me down and told me I shouldn't do this to myself anymore.

Among the Aspen Center’s quirks is that they won’t tell you who will be there before you go — and visits are 3 weeks long or more. Once I went and saw my rapist’s name on the door across from my assigned office.

But I had to stay because of the importance of seeing and being seen there.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

"How can we make people we have power over feel better without addressing any of their complaints about us?"

FASCISM.

I really hope this project crashes and burns (metaphorically of course lol 🥲)

You're also not a sucker for believing in people. I get the sense that this needs to be stated from time to time.

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

There are like a dozen videos this bad or worse per week now. This stuff is insane.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

Screenshot of article that reads: Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

Screenshot of article that reads: The White House chose the schools because it believed they are, or could be, “good actors,” Mailman said. “They have a president who is a reformer or a board that has really indicated they are committed to a higher quality education,” she said.

If I was currently associated with one of these institutions, I would be so embarrassed to realize these people see me as an ally. (Both my alma maters are here, hooray.)

"The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test, and quell grade inflation."

Lol now why do you think they want the SAT required?

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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