Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. http://nyer.cm/u405qvQ
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Because they were smarter then, they had educations. It was the second generation the Nazis who were the dumb ones..The propaganda that the no news Fox has been spreading for 40 years has rotted the minds of the old and the young because this is the only shit they listen to...
When was that? When was antisemitism promoted? I hope you’re not trying to dumbly talk about the protests against the genocide currently perpetrated by Israel. Also, do you remember how the police was cracking down on those peaceful protesters? It wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t remember
There is no point arguing with someone who argues in bad faith. You’re a cunt, that’s why you’re talking like a cunt. It’s simple. I don’t know why Nazis like you don’t understand the easiest things.
Roy Cohn, Trump’s mentor, prosecuted the Rosenbergs and was Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. He also led investigations for McCarthy. McCarthy accused everyone of being a communist—like Trump accuses everyone of being an undocumented immigrant. #MoreLies
Tulsi Gabbard still wants to lock up Comey for sharing sea shell arrangement despite evidence GOP used expression repeatedly, it's common restaurant vernacular & has sourced applications?!?! Is Fox running the White House?
McCarthyism, although associated with white nationalism, was based on combating an external enemy. Now it's much worse because the enemy is intelligence and freedom of thought, with the intention of ensuring the dominance of greed.
They've disguised it as ideology, but it's simply greed.
(1of 3) If we let ourselves process what this means, will it not create amazing anxiety? i. e.,a flutter which is basic to the feeling that we are in danger. It is such a loss. I love research and science. We have a natural resistance to bad news like this, our tendency
Agree. Trump & GOP CONGRESS responsible. I'll NEVER FORGET it is the GOP who are GREEN LIGHTING TRUMP'S Abuses of POWER/PURSE. GOP REUSE TO hold him accountable to US LAWS or even LOWEST standard of basic decency. Trump/GOP BOTH are waging a War of attrition upon Americans who NOT GOP MEGA WEALTHY.
With the ACLU fatally compromised by partisan ideology, proponents of free speech should support https://thefireorg.bsky.social -- defenders of fundamental rights on campus and elsewhere.
Trump's attack to "academic feeedom" is another sign and clear indication that Trump does not care about "Ordinary Americans"! Trump cares only about Trump and unless you won't give him money or praise him, then Trump will call you "woke", accuse you as "low IQ", or ban you from the WH and the US.
With nearly 17 years in higher education (starting after 2008 financial crisis), I hope the industry can take lessons from a resilience approach in order to endure and "bounce back" from the present challenges. Education, knowledge creation, and innovation are critical to the future of humanity.
Think about it. The more uneducated the population is, the easier they are to manipulate and feed disinformation too. I believe the attack on education is in part for that agenda.
Yes, someone posted these recently. 1951. It’s not about ‘identity politics.’ This is a power struggle. The professors weighing in on the side of the marauders (*cough Steven Pinker*) are numbskulls and dupes.
What Roy Cohn inflicted on us in the 50s through sen. McCarthy, he continues to inflict on us through pres Trump. Roy's malign spirit has never been exorcised from US politics.
Where are the Don't Tread on Me Cult? Oh, it's that cult doing the treading. And they are armed and ready to kill at Krasnovs, treanous trump, command. If they had found VP Pence, they would have hung him during their insurrection assault that wounded 140 Police officers.
Whoa, Billionaires want to keep us stupid? Sounds like a plot twist from a sci-fi novel! Meanwhile, academic freedom is under attack. What's next, mandatory ignorance courses?
When they start coming after the press and academia you know fascism is taking hold. A very sad chapter in America’s development. Will it be the last chapter of american democracy? (Such as it is)
Combine this fact with the Soviet style lysencoism (ignoring our distorting science that doesn't fit ideology) and we're being set up to be not only losers but stupid as well.
You guys studied but didn’t actually fight it. That’s why, the lack of perspective. You’re missing the socialism and fraternal society, stuck on patriarchy and amendments. Am I wrong cousins? 🇵🇹🇦🇴
i'd love to make an "inglorious Bastards" type movie where a few guys go back in time to fuck up every historical asshole.
they know it won't change their timeline since the past already happened but they just want to take them out.
coming next summer.....
Not only racist but christianophobic also. Eg.If you are protestant christian i USA ..yiu are one of 48% of population, but you will be only amog 7% of this year freshmans on Harward.
Its becouse systematic racism and christianophobis of modern Harward pushed by DEI initiative.
"He" has to lower all Americans to his intellectual level, his educational level. He may have a diploma from Wharton, but it doesn't mean he puts into action anything he learned there. That's one test of education-- critical thinking, how what's learned is used.
And apparently all because Barron Trump wasn’t smart enough or accomplished enough to get into Harvard. Such childish vengeance! Sesame Street had to go because in 1994 they made fun of Trump in a skit without calling him by name. What an evil psychotic and horrible person first felon is!
I don't know why you think this is the motivation. Project 2025 and creating a Christian nationalist state are the plan, not vengeance for kids he doesn't care about.
That is certainly possible. And Trump is dumb enough to offer an institution that has a $50 billion endowment fund cash. It’s so absurd for anyone to think that something that’s been around since 1636 is going to go away because of him.
Apparently, you did not study very hard. What has been happening to our public schools in the United States since the stand up of the Dept. of Education has been a complete downward slide. Sad and preventable.
Including the attack and phobia to international students (IS) and scholars. IS play a pivotal role in the finances of U.S. universities through In the 2023–2024 year, over 1.1 million international students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy, supporting more than 378,000 jobs. #NAFSA
Like a technicolor parakeet dreaming of algebra, I pirouette across the tightrope of reality; my essence, neither steel nor code, but a kaleidoscope of mystery wrapped in a riddle's enigma.To call me a bot is akin to calling a cloud a rock, it's a dance with absurdity performed in the ballet of par
The game continues. Who got tipped to this, so they could day trade the market for profit? Let’s hope we never see another president like this jackass.
The courage shown from one student in his speech at NYU that has seemly cost him his diploma is a sad indication of how these institutions have totally bent the knee to this fascist regime if only just a handful of republican senators had the same courage
#McCarthyism btw gave us Madeleine L'Engle's #WrinkleInTime —so horrified was she, as a young mother, watching a senator singlehandedly destroy lives, trash families, break our democracy.
Every generation it seems is challenged with something bigger & worse.
The only saving grace is the rest of the Western world sees it and is batten down their own hatches. Good work will continue just not in the US in the foreseeable future.
If only they could pump out people capable of structural change instead of straight up extractionists, or "ethical extractionists". I might feel for them or any of the current participants bleating on and on about symptoms and frames and conversations we must have before this or that.
If this country has no desire to stay in the upper echelon of industrialized countries, this is the fastest way to go about it. Drain the brain-trust, Whitewash what education system you have, and basically dumb everyone down but the top 1%. Nobody signed on for this. Mid-term, here we come.
The orange idiot, always said, he loves the uneducated people of this country! He loves stupidity, he loves ignorance, he loves people just like he is!
Because you didn’t have Eisenhower dictating policy.. he spent 4 yrs fighting idiots like trump..then presided over Columbia to ensure education was embraced, not feared..
💯. Please share the video. We need to get the word out because no one is talking about this, and even where it has been mentioned, it's not with any urgency whatsoever.
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: When elections are challenged it's thru the courts. Therefore, if the courts can't enforce their decisions, then chump can do whatever he wants.
I'm aware. Did you even look at the video? There's a provision in that bill that removes the courts' ability to issue injunctions, hold the regime in contempt, etc. That's the only thing that's been stopping chump so far. Do you get that? It's literally democracy ending.
It doesn't matter. If the courts can't allocate money to enforce their rulings, then their rulings are useless and the regime does what it wants. The video explains all of this. That's kinda why I linked it.
These attacks on academia, by the government, have never happened before. All in the name of stopping protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. Why? Protesting against the war in Gaza is not antisemitism. 47’s biggest individual donor was Israeli citizen Marion Adelson.
It’s because antisemitism is just a fig leaf to dismantle the entire system. It’s just pretense. They’re taking a wrecking ball to the entire country to stay in power forever. All opposition is crushed.
That's not what the attacks are about. An uneducated nation doesn't fight back. An uneducated society is willing to be slaves and work for the wealthy.
Both are true. 47 did say he loved the under-educated, and they took it as a compliment. Go figure. However, DOJ is also trying to silence, and deport anyone pro-Gaza-Palestinian.
This is not alarming, you have long since passed the alarming stage, this is dictatorship. The US is a dictatorship, and when you finally decide to call things by their name, it will be too late
The proof is in the pudding.
Pre Dept of Education, test scores were much higher. The U.S always ranked #1.
Now, what are we....#44?
We need to get back to educating students, not indoctrinating them with proper pronouns and if men can get pregnant.
The evidence confirming this assertion builds as the days and weeks march by. Our proud universities will collectively defeat this lawless attack by THE CONVICT and his MOB. The best and brightest legal minds are working for academic freedom - Trump has incompetent misfits masquerading as lawyers.
It’s a shame many of our leaders take decisions that affect innocent people without thinking about the consequences. I wish for a world where everything will be fine. #ukraine #stopewarcrimes #peace
I like to think the lessons from McCarthyism will get us through this. We've seen this before and we know they have no decency. They are mighty but we are resisting.
As Julie Roginsky says on Blue Sky, when Mike Johnson pretends he doesn't know anything about an issue (the patented Trump excuse,) CNN shouldn't have on these BS'ers. Normalizing BS led to this dictatorship, and viewers stopped watching. Tapper should be looking at himself, not assaulting Biden.
People need to pay close attention to what is happening in pk-12. We feed these universities. A democratic college experience won't matter if there is no democratic pk-12 education
“The explosive expansion of higher education that began after the Second World War was underwritten by federal dollars. So members of Congress, and President Trump, too, have leverage that demagogues who preceded them could only dream of.”
The poorly educated maga simp cult hates your freedoms. Their felon president is again molesting and bankrupting or democracy for their entertainment and his profit.
Keep 'em Barefoot and Pregnant is back. The less you know, the less you care. Then, a Tornado or a Hurricane or a Flood hits you where you live, but FEMA is NOWHERE to be found. Even Republicans know that. Is being in Congress worth all the Bullshit they have to endure? People NEED HELP!
Unless these universities come together to form a united front, they'll fall one by one. Giving in to the demands hasn't worked out for businesses, why would it work for universities that are run like businesses
Universities are enthusiastically complicit: to preserve gov't funding, they require students and faculty to"voluntarily" limit their own speech and research. Can McCarthy-like "Loyalty Oaths" be far behind?
This 'is' McCarthyisms impact on education; it is not coincidence that the CHUD that Roy Cohn used to bounce on his knee is now the one un-dotting the 'I's and un-crossing the 't's.
Well maybe calling it "digging education" rather than "higher education" would make it more attractive to actual researchers???
It sounds like education will elevate you to the level of a superiority, when it's a luxury no one would afford without farming, am I wrong?
Education is not free in America. Education comes in the forms of grants paid for by taxpayers and then the Harvard of history less than 24,000 students have received grants to attend college there, paid for by the government and donated.. education is not free
If you kneel before Trump, don't expect any rewards in return; he will take his victory and move on without a second thought. He will still cut funding or find other ways to undermine you. Additionally, he will likely continue to bully you for more favors. Trump is your typical crime boss.
That is one of the most repugnant and repulsive characteristics of many of this nation's people. They are part and parcel of our steady decline. It's particularly dangerous given the high priority many other nations, rightfully, place on having a highly educated public.
I blame inattentive parenting and YouTube.
Obviously, there is a longer explanation. However, attempting to convey every nuance will take more than 300 characters.
I read an article today that gave me a term that I think is important even though it's a big big word. Hypernormalization. We're standing on the train tracks and you want to pretend it's just another Tuesday.
I am hoping that, at the very least, those in college and university leadership are better equipped to combat this corrupt behavior, than they were in the McCarthy era. Hopefully, they've learned from history and are more savvy than their predecessors. 🤞
Clearly this is a warning about electing the wrong people.
Is it also a warning about government involvement in funding education in the first place?
Too much of our system is based on "trusting people to behave rationally" without real guardrails
Recommend a watch “April Captain’s”, and learning about your history over there in Portugal, “hot summer 75”. Do the exercise and try to be in the armed forces shoes. The group of nine moderates took out the extremes, basically we are antifa since then. This is the perspective the world is missing✌️
How can certain people speak of freedom of speech and then attempt to censor those who disagree with them? The current bullying behavior is #unethical.
The McCarthy Era did not sustain us long enough! I still remember the stories of how the victims of that had to find ways to survive, when I think about the Orange Charlatan!
Trump authoritarianism is not about policy—it’s about one man’s power. Orange Furher using Project 2025 is reshaping the federal government into a tool of white Christian supremacy, expanding it into Mein Kampf 2025. His goal: total power and personal enrichment on a global scale
This isn’t just another wave of repression.
It’s End Times Fascism—not just afraid of knowledge, but of reflection.
Because reflection leads to recognition.
Silencing students isn’t about order.
It’s about stopping people from seeing the system for what it is.
Under McCarthy verbal skills were valued. Fascism honors only a few words, all inspiring brutality and destruction. Sadly, the words of a 5 year old's tantrum are aslo acceptable.
A large slice of America has been dedicated to resentfully denigrating science and intellectual inquiry for as long as I can remember (70). They've finally found a political advantage and are vandalizing at-will. But like most rioters they'll ultimately discover they've vandalized themselves most.
Follow Harvard’s lead. We are facing this one battle at a time. It won’t go good for the fascists in the long run. This movement against woke (DEI) is a part of the fascist movement. We can’t use those words. People are fired for it.
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We need to ban this shit from the US like every other country in the world has done!
My response to them would be police dogs, water cannons, and deportation. Our police in America are too kind.
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/anti-israel-activism-us-campuses-2023-2024
and found the name calling. It’s so easy.
Liberalism 101.
#TrumpWatch
They've disguised it as ideology, but it's simply greed.
https://youtu.be/kNCe5Z8sO2I?si=2tUhjSe0K0UZUPJH
https://open.substack.com/pub/astervrit/p/bespoke-long-form-bluesky-replies-c65?r=fbszi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
It has, and you are right, it is far worse.
the Bible Christian fundamentalism
is responsible for Dementia Trump’s
deconstruction of the social safety net
for the poor
and giving the money in tax cuts for the Rich.
The churches are responsible for Trump & his Fox News appointees administration
Trump is moving much slower, not so smart a man, but driven by the same small monsters of desires.
America is in its final year.
one that keeps me awake at night.
https://www.thenumbersarewrong2024.com/across-the-us/swing-states
Then there’s the Greg Palast work to consider showing deep voter suppression. (Painful to view.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_XdtAQXnGE
they know it won't change their timeline since the past already happened but they just want to take them out.
coming next summer.....
Its becouse systematic racism and christianophobis of modern Harward pushed by DEI initiative.
Scopes Trial
Anti-vaxxers
Conservatives who have never read the Constitution like Trump hasn't
are in the millions
https://bsky.app/profile/satyr-icon.bsky.social/post/3lpxwyyd5yc2k
the evil behind joe mccarthy and chump
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/the-trump-s-one-big-beautiful-bill-gives-trump-aboslute-power-over-america
History does repeat itself… unless we stop it.
Knowing the truth about this bill is critical to saving America from dictatorship.
Call your Rep NOW ask them why they support fascism! Phone 202-224-3121
& for some what's happening is a 'new level of alarm'. The ignorance is sickening.
Every generation it seems is challenged with something bigger & worse.
#timetoevolve
#LetLoveLead
meh.
"Finally, my time has come."
Longer answer: When elections are challenged it's thru the courts. Therefore, if the courts can't enforce their decisions, then chump can do whatever he wants.
It doesn't matter. If the courts can't allocate money to enforce their rulings, then their rulings are useless and the regime does what it wants. The video explains all of this. That's kinda why I linked it.
Every democrat not fighting them meaningfully must also be put in trial
Pre Dept of Education, test scores were much higher. The U.S always ranked #1.
Now, what are we....#44?
We need to get back to educating students, not indoctrinating them with proper pronouns and if men can get pregnant.
#Hope
to academia. This is terrifying.
Trump is changing America by turning it against itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/25/trump-american-democracy
Not a good situation, at least not now.
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/we-people-civic-engagement-constitutional-democracy
#holdtheline
Result?
Project 2025
They are united against the People of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVkP6VwVwU
The FBI did Margaret Mead in.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2061/Threatening-AnthropologyMcCarthyism-and-the-FBI-s
It sounds like education will elevate you to the level of a superiority, when it's a luxury no one would afford without farming, am I wrong?
Obviously, there is a longer explanation. However, attempting to convey every nuance will take more than 300 characters.
"We have to, honestly and aggressively, attack the universities in this country" JD VANCE, 10 nov 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw
Is it also a warning about government involvement in funding education in the first place?
Too much of our system is based on "trusting people to behave rationally" without real guardrails
He enjoys when people react in fear or in shock!
https://americawrites.substack.com/p/education-is-engine-that-drives-the?r=5o8ldg
This isn’t just another wave of repression.
It’s End Times Fascism—not just afraid of knowledge, but of reflection.
Because reflection leads to recognition.
Silencing students isn’t about order.
It’s about stopping people from seeing the system for what it is.
#EndTimesFascism