UofA rejects Trump higher ed plan as ASU invited to join compact The University of Arizona rejected a Trump proposal linking funding to political priorities.

And now there are SEVEN.

UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact.

“Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved."

Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀

#DefendHigherEd

Tampa No Kings

Trump on a toilet a giant phone with the words “Nobel prize was rigged just like everything under Crook Joe and the radical left lunatics! I won in a landslide. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Lady wearing a shirt that reads “I AM AUNT TIFA”

Tampa No Kings

Scenes from Tampa, Florida today.

#nokings
@utaaup.bsky.social

JOIN OR DIE cartoon snake now featuring segments for MIT, PENN, UVA, Brown, Dartmouth and USC. Not colored in because they have not said no to Trump‘s loyalty oath (yet): AZ, Texas, Vanderbilt.

The snake is growing.

✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.

The world is watching.

The resistance is here.

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd

An update to the classic Ben Franklin political cartoon ‘Join or Die’ with the original colonies replaced by universities that were targeted by Trump‘s loyalty oath compact. The image has been updated to show that MIT, Penn, Brown & USC have rejected Trump’s offer.

UPDATE:

4 Down
5 to Go

Who’s Next?

When students, faculty, & our communities are united, nothing can stop us.

Join us for our national teach in on the growing resistance movement to Trump’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Compact today at 2PM ET:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024 • PRESS RELEASE 15 October 2025 Carbon dioxide (COz) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

This is why "all of the above" energy is not a climate solution.

Record amounts of clean energy were built in 2024, but since we're still building out fossil fuels—indeed, since we're still just *using* fossil fuels—the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still going up, cooking us.

1/n

Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024

End fossil fuels now or destroy the world.

That's the choice.

Report here:

wmo.int/news/media-c...

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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”

#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org

The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931) «I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …

On the subject of university loyalty oaths being currently sought by the Trump administration:

blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

Mussolini also demanded loyalty oaths from his universities and faculty. It is time to WAKE UP!

www.clickondetroit.com/news/politic...

Grandpa Trump watches too much Fox News | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, Hegseth covers up U.S. war crimes... from 1890.

What happens when Grandpa Trump stays up too late and watches the incendiary and misleading news on Fox? In this case, it's troops in a major U.S. city, and a constitutional crisis

The 79-year-old man with reality issues...and the nuclear football. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Generals, the reason I called you here OOF

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

“Common decency, then, stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association, as Russell exemplified. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.”

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Trump, 79, Deletes Weird AI Video Shilling Magic Beds The “medbed” that Trump promoted is a far-right conspiracy theory.

For a second there I thought Trump posted & deleted a WEIRD AL video!!!

But, in fact, the truth is even WEIRDER!!!

Speak truth to power And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US

Speak truth to power, and other thoughts about a difficult week in the US (from Friday, Sept. 19)
(Audio)
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Newsmax asked me why the “left” is saying ICE disappears people

This white Christian nationalist on white Christian nationalist crime is getting out of hand…

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

So good! 🤣

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social.

#DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Climate change indicators All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

Visualizations with the latest Earth monitoring data: 📈📉

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A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

HIST 493: History of Hip Hop in America - YouTube

Some of you asked if I would make a playlist for my Hip Hop history class. Here it is! It's pretty long because I basically condensed all of my Spotify playlists and added more notable tracks.

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BREAKING: September 2– This statement from Rep Stansbury after hearing from Epstein victims is one of the most important statements you will hear this year. Absolutely the voice of justice against a massive coverup.

Chicago keeping art alive: