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Journalists should be able to point out that Russia is a rabidly antisemitic regime whose tactics against Ukraine include the illegal forced relocation of 1000s of Ukrainian children. Let’s hope at least some are prepared to highlight what political support for Russia fully entails.

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions

submitted 15 hours ago • 69 comments

This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.

submitted 16 hours ago • 66 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

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The inadvertently revealed truth here is that Trump’s shameful conduct now genuinely is entangled with the scandals of his first term— not primarily through his grudges, as he seems to imply, but because siding with Russia against Ukraine has been a central fact of his decade in politics.

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 399 comments

This is also why I think it is a mistake for universities and corporations to simply re-brand DEI policies. They need to defend the underlying principles (integration is good, diversity makes us better) rather than trying to outrun a fascist assault that will be trained on the re-brand

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Trump and Musk are absolutely destroying Indian colleges, which are federally funded as part of the government's trust obligation to tribes. Haskell, which is here in Lawrence, is the oldest Indian college in the US. DOGE even fired the women's basketball coach, during the season!

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Don't need to repeal the civil rights act formally if you just (illegally) fire everyone who enforces anti-discrimination law www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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"Academic freedom is older than the Magna Carta, classical liberalism, and modern declarations of rights. Like those seminal ideas and documents, academic freedom is directly related to self-governance and individual liberty." Re-posting my recent explainer for these times. #EduSky shorturl.at/YS7uF

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I wrote about what's really behind the assault on the Department of Education. Hint: Americans have long placed their faith in the idea that schools can equalize us. Now that equality is a banned term, both the department & public education are on the chopping block thebaffler.com/latest/cruel...

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New, from me: Tulsi Gabbard purged trans intelligence officers after a Chris Rufo smear campaign. They were targeted because they were trans, their words were mischaracterized, and they were offered no due process. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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"Can universities, dependent on federal funding, hold out when the most powerful corporations, run by the world’s richest people, do not?," I ask in this piece.

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This Student Press Freedom Day, check out @jameeljaffer.bsky.social's interview with Isabella Ramírez (former editor-in-chief, Columbia Spectator) & @jelaniya.bsky.social (dean, @columbiajournalism.bsky.social) about the challenges of campus reporting last year. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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"Academic freedom is older than the Magna Carta, classical liberalism, and modern declarations of rights. Like those seminal ideas and documents, academic freedom is directly related to self-governance and individual liberty." Re-posting my recent explainer for these times. #EduSky shorturl.at/YS7uF

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1/2 ACE’s letter to the Department of Education rebutting the Dear Colleague letter is co-signed by a wide array of higher education associations. ACE is more on top of this than I think many assumed they would be, although I am not surprised and anticipated the prominence of associations here.

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This is evil. Pure evil.

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An op-ed section full of Megan McArdle columns, in other words. How novel and diverse.

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From college campuses to national op-ed pages: the nebulous standard of pre-selected “viewpoints” is stifling mature and robust deliberation over fact and truth.

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Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

From college campuses to national op-ed pages: the nebulous standard of pre-selected “viewpoints” is stifling mature and robust deliberation over fact and truth.

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After a quick peek . . . people over on X long committed to the idea of "institutional neutrality" for universities are having a hard time processing the fact-based claim that it's actually an invented, a-historical, hyper-partisan conceit--not a prima facie new or deep intellectual doctrine.

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A reminder that this is just the House assembling a reconciliation box. The Senate's box looks completely different, and both chambers have to agree on what the box looks like before they can start the hard part: filling it with (Byrd/other Senate rule/precedent-compliant) stuff.

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The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

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Someone find every Harper's Letter signatory to see if they've said anything about this

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A historic disgrace. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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A historic disgrace. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“the Deconstruction era” is honestly appropriate coinage. bsky.app/profile/high...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

A little different than a handful of undergraduates temporarily disrupting a speech, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I look forward to discussing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments with my students tomorrow. The premise of this document, from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, is that no representative government should promote discriminatory, unequal sex and gender roles--and that doing so is tyranny.

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A little different than a handful of undergraduates temporarily disrupting a speech, right?

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 6 days ago • 305 comments

absolutely this --

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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As a Fellow with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, I'm proud to share the launch of our Executive Power Watch project, which provides analysis of executive orders attacking education, democracy, and free speech www.aaup.org/programs/aca... @aaup.bsky.social

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My book Fearless Speech celebrates those who risk harm to themselves to challenge power, fight injustice, & advocate for the truth, who practice what the ancient Greeks called parrhesia. I am gathering examples of fearless speech in this dark time- if you have some to share, please do so in replies!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 6 days ago • 636 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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“Among the multitude of depravities & war crimes committed by Putin’s army has been the abduction of some 20,000 Ukrainian children…Why hasn’t the US put their release at the top of the list of its negotiating demands?” nypost.com/2025/02/20/o...

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in an ideal world, comfortable, tenured professors would say aloud that this is not “college prep,” and apply for grants to work with teachers

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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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