Pranav Jani

LOL it’s just part of the OSU iconography.

Loving the new cartoon series.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

“When someone asked me what communism was…i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon… Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is…always decide…for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you." Assata Shakur, Autobiography

Hi, just a note—

The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So. Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy."

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

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

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

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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

Thanks to @andydowning33.bsky.social for the interview with me and my colleague, and for taking on a topic of the Professor Watchlist that is not being fully discussed in the media today.

Targeted Ohio State professors on the damaging impact of Turning Point's ‘professor watchlist’ – Matter News TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, who in the days since his assassination has been lauded in conservative circles as a staunch defender of free speech, spent much of his career working to reshape higher edu...

“The messages could get incredibly violent, saying, ‘I hope what happened to this person happens to you and your family.’”

matternews.org/community/ta...

Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏽

Important piece. Here’s @redguju.bsky.social: “what these watchlists do is they say that if you’re a professor who has certain opinions, you’re automatically indoctrinating students…implying that I’m not a good teacher, when the reality is they don’t have a clue as to what I do in my classroom.”

I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"

Send the national guard into Utah now.

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances A land acknowledgement is a verbal or written statement that recognizes that land was taken from Indigenous people. Ohio State's policy says they are considered statements "on behalf of an issue or ca...

www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Please write letters to defend our research!

I spoke to 10TV yesterday about SB1. Keep the pressure on. Let ppl know about the ongoing repression. No time to stay quiet.

AAUP-OSU board member Richard Finlay Fletcher spoke to “Inside Higher Ed” about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements - and its chilling effect on academic freedom. Link below.

Cool. I was gonna do that today, but we ran out of time. Let me know what they say.

frustrated by some of the responses I was getting, I asked Google whether it thinks its AI has a bias.

In the same way that we have robots confirming that we are human, google AI confirmed that it cannot be trusted…. while blaming humans for the bias

Kent State students march to mourn loss of identity centers on campus The students demanded the university not "over comply" with Senate Bill 1, which the university cited in June when it moved to close its LGBTQ+, multicultural and women's centers on campus.

Kent State University students, wearing all black, marched across campus Wednesday, holding a “funeral” for the now-shuttered LGBTQ+ Center, Women's Center and Multicultural Center that they say state legislators killed with Senate Bill 1.
by Conor Morris
www.ideastream.org/education/20...

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