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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 8 days ago • 1030 comments

Wrote a thing because I want to yell at writers and anyone who works sitting down to take care of themselves. Thanks for reading! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/basic-fitn...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

So excited about this book! I just heard @kashana.bsky.social describe student loans as a way to punish the working class for trying to better themselves. Which is, obviously, why we need to do heists to get rid of student debt!

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

submitted 17 days ago • 242 comments

"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 40 days ago • 42 comments

Education is under attack. All who stand for the freedom and flourishing of the US postsecondary education system can sign on to a statement affirming and committing to core values that shape education. Read: bit.ly/DemocracyAnd... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #DisabilityStudies #DisabledInAcademia

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Schumer a few weeks down the road, probably: “Okay, so he defied the Supreme Court. Big deal.”

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

submitted 57 days ago • 127 comments

Which is why they want to destroy it.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Good time to remember that an executive order is not a law and that multiple other EOs of this corrupt regime have already been blocked by the courts.

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

submitted 63 days ago • 18 comments

“Because what we are witnessing is not just an attack on academia or a set of fiscal reforms or a painful political rebalancing. It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist. We may not yet know its full cost, but we will feel its consequences for decades.”

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

After I literally just said I wasn’t giving a dime to the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future, this text arrives. The nerve to ask for money after 10 Dem senators voted yes on cloture today.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

We want Democrats to play hardball and use their leverage to stop the Trump-Musk coup.

submitted 65 days ago • 95 comments

The Department of Education is (was?) responsible for: ✅Distributing & monitoring spending for special-ed & low-income students; ✅Facilitating postsecondary financial aid; & ✅Civil rights enforcement Impossible to see how dismantling it will do anything but hurt kids & students.

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

submitted 68 days ago • 167 comments

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

submitted 69 days ago • 605 comments

“Unusual governing arrangement” is an interesting way to characterize illegal pillaging of the federal government and the American people.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The Regime just cut off $400 million worth of federal funding for Columbia University in NYC because of the Gaza protests that took place there in 2023. This is an incredibly sinister attack on first amendment rights. MAGA despises universities as much as anything else. This is an egregious attack.

submitted 72 days ago • 33 comments

It's good to see some institutions standing up.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:

submitted 74 days ago • 46 comments

I'm glad to see that the National Council of Teachers of English has signed onto a letter urging that Congress immediately reverse the DOE's cancellation of teacher preparation and development grants. ncte.org/blog/2025/03... #4C25 Read the letter here: aacte.org/.../02/Grant...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

submitted 75 days ago • 37 comments

Cowards

submitted 75 days ago • 97 comments

A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Such a great cover.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

One of my most reliable heuristics is that anyone who mentions IQ on the internet in anything but an ironic context is almost certainly a creep.

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

This has been my sense for the past couple of days as well, and I'm glad to see someone who literally wrote the book on this agrees with what I thought might just be my own tiny little hope.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Last night, my wife and I went to see MJ: The Musical. Spending a couple of hours with Michael Jackson’s music was a lot of fun. The dancing and the stagecraft were both especially impressive.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 86 days ago • 81 comments

Yes this is exactly the correct way to behave in bookstores

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submitted 88 days ago • 59 comments

Helpful explainer about why university endowments aren’t a substitute for indirect costs ⬇️☀️

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Join us in welcoming our new FEN Blog co-editors, Emily Brier and Daniel Libertz!🎉 And with this new leadership comes a fresh #CFP! Any proposals about #composition, from #PublicRhetoric, #CollaborativeWriting, #Assessment, and more, are encouraged. Read more at bit.ly/3QleGcv. Please share widely❣️

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

submitted 90 days ago • 167 comments

With college / no college the biggest D / R predictor even for stem or biz students, yes I think the Rs intend to smash universities across the board until they either turn off the 'indoctrinate' switch GOP imagines they have, or until kids just stop going to college

submitted 92 days ago • 58 comments