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“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” Put it on a canvas, then put it in the Louvre

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At the start of the book 1984, Winston Smith is watching people celebrate the rise in chocolate rations and thinking, No, chocolate rations have been cut! Don’t these people remember? I’m thinking about this because the stock market is celebrating tariffs of 30%, which means prices going up.

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Jefferson Davis was captured by U.S. soldiers on May 10, 1865. Rumors circulated that Davis was disguised in women's clothing when he was caught, and the northern press gleefully ridiculed Davis for it. What a drag for the Confederacy! www.loc.gov/resource/pga...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights. Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.

submitted 16 days ago • 159 comments

Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

submitted 20 days ago • 837 comments

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

Here is our first preview for the opening of The Return of Benjamin Lay at Quintessence Theatre (@quintessencephl.bsky.social) in Philadelphia May 1 — a play “for the moment! www.phillyvoice.com/return-of-be...

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The 250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord, 1775 continues with a new episode of @bfworld.bsky.social! #History tells us who we are. In Lexington & Concord 250 years ago, it told the world Americans wouldn't back down. Join the #BFWorld podcast for a deep dive into 1775! 🔥

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that biology defines womanhood (or maleness) is quite literally the genus point, modus operandi, and logic of patriarchy. Whilst complexity reduction can be (strategically) useful within advocacy, pretending that it is an underlying reality is ultimately violent and destructive.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Enough said. Installation by Silence Dogood Photo by Aram Boghosian

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If they won't lift em up We will Corporal Terry Toyome Nakanishi. Japanese American. Terry acted against her mother’s wishes and joined the Women’s Army Corps WWII. She survived. “We were fighting two wars, one for democracy and the other against prejudice.”

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

" 'We would like to see the university be collaborating more closely with our peer educational institutions to resist the breach of due process by the federal government,' she said. ... 'The administration does not have a plan for if ICE shows up on campus ...'"

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

A glimpse of “The Painter’s Fire” in its proof form! Especially given this week’s news, never been more honored that Harvard University Press is publishing it.

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 38 days ago • 699 comments

A good piece, summarizing the status and stakes of the attacks on higher education w Harvard (Gersen is @ Harvard Law) as the case in point. BUT. Again the framing of loss of funding. I mean yes, but NO. It’s a loss to the public of the research and its benefits we have funded. This is critical.

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Meta: "we need to steal this to make eleventybillion dollars, but it's worthless, you see..."

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Friends, the time has come for us to crowdfund a book of poems written entirely by autistic people

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 41 days ago • 332 comments

Another reminder that fashion history is political history (even when it’s abhorrent)

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Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

submitted 44 days ago • 68 comments

“This is the Vichy moment. It’s a classic collaborationist dilemma. You can have preserved your school but you live in a sea of authoritarianism.” Wesleyan University President Michael Roth in @economist.com

submitted 43 days ago • 23 comments

There is something truly #magical about twilight in #Salem

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"They are targeting private institutions of education and attempting to police and control speech, political expression and thought. Columbia is the testing ground for this. It’s a canary in the coal mine, ” Orion Danjuma on the Trump admin's funding cuts and our lawsuit. Gift 🔗: wapo.st/43EUxWX

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

submitted 45 days ago • 16 comments

Universities. Maybe check how many courses you have that discuss the many successes of appeasement.

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

submitted 46 days ago • 55 comments

We fired a bunch of park rangers and cancer researchers to build concentration camps.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

The US, UK, and The Netherlands are all gutting their excellent and very international higher ed systems, through budget cuts and nativist language. Short-sighted impulse politics that will cost money and soft power. And a huge opportunity for other countries to increase theirs…

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Someone should build like 20 “little free libraries” and put them up around Annapolis just outside the naval academy and stock them solely with copies of all the books that were banned from the naval academy library.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

“To protect both themselves and the entire educational system, then, university leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance. Nothing in the antitrust laws prohibits this sort of coordination.” 👇👇

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"I think it’s also very important that I have been a teacher for 30 years. That impacts not just the way I write, but also... I am extraordinarily aware of power dynamics." Teachers just know! Is There Hope for America? Heather Cox Richardson Thinks So via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

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I am guaranteeing you all have relatives you can forward this to and who will benefit from it.

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 49 days ago • 286 comments

a friend sent me this one

submitted 50 days ago • 361 comments

So my phone started blowing up last night because guess who's on the banned book list at the naval academy? Yours truly. Go support an author today and buy a book off of this this list... Doesn't even have to be mine. Gift link coming

submitted 50 days ago • 72 comments

Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. The president of Wesleyan University discusses why he is speaking out when many others won’t. nyer.cm/22Z1hvP

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

submitted 52 days ago • 442 comments

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

submitted 52 days ago • 253 comments

The Economist, folks

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 53 days ago • 1377 comments

This fact alone makes it one of the great political achievements of our time 🙌

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

25 hours! And yet, despite that heroic amount of time, he still didn’t have enough time to read through all the critical facts he and his staff compiled about the current administration. Which has yet to reach its first 100 days. More than one magnitude to think on here.

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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 54 days ago • 10868 comments

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

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