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Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

I cannot stress strongly enough how much they don’t care if we die. Gift link: wapo.st/3QFLOvZ

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

I need to rant about math and space colonization... Earth is the only habitable planet. But even if you measure carrying capacity by sunlight hitting the surface it's the only real game in town.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

It’ll take time to quantify the deaths caused by the end of US aid but early internal sector figures go from 250,000 in the next few months, to 3 million+ this year

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

Poverty exists because the greed of the wealthy is insatiable.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is not an effort to roll back "DEI" It's an effort to roll back civil rights "Agencies across the federal government are dismantling offices that enforce civil rights and antidiscrimination laws...weakening the government’s ability to deliver on legal obligations to protect workers’ rights"

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

Trump did this last time: wield confusing language about maybe turning away from military belligerence while actually pursuing huge military budgets, escalation in Yemen, brinkmanship toward Iran, etc. @stephensemler.bsky.social and I look at what his admin is doing now to expand military spending.

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“We are really trying very, very hard ... to move our world forward" through "foundational, sometimes groundbreaking research, and then you get flagged and blacklisted because there is a word like ‘female’ in your project.” My latest, w/the brilliant Agnel Philip www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

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Of all the DOGE cuts so far, this broad-spectrum assault on global public health will kill the most of our fellow humans. Take the time to read the list of programs involved. U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

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More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

The trial of an oil company SLAPP suit to literally destroy Greenpeace begins today in N. Dakota. Make no mistake this is the iron fist of petrofascism trying to crush our movements to defend water, climate & Native rights. We must all fight back. Action Link in post below. #ClimateSky

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments

Hey students: if you are angry at how your higher ed institution is handling things, let me tell you: You have far more power than you know. (1/x)

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ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 10 days ago • 236 comments

re-upping this today: attacking the federal workforce is attacking one of the largest and most secure employer of Black people in the US

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

submitted 14 days ago • 96 comments

www.axios.com/2025/02/21/d.... Naturally.

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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out USAID told me it can’t release documents via #FOIA due to “recent developments” Meanwhile, a memo I obtained sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing FOIA requests www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Now more the even, please Wear a mask to the doctors office. This is an economic justice issue.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Zoom into a discussion of #Ukraine, featuring former prime minister & past/present parliament members FOR FREE. justdropin.io/calendar_cus... Find this & other buried gems of university events on DropIn @justdropin.bsky.social , the only searchable calendar of live-streamed academic events anywhere.

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No doubt left that this is an assault on public service itself.

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None of these things need be permanent, but… the collapse in post-WWII consensus against fascism, post 1960s consensus against open sexism and racism—all represented by Trump—are not separate from the collapse of refusal of open genocide and war crimes —shown in Gaza.

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Meanwhile the US Dept of Education's Civil Rights office (OCR) is abandoning interventions to protect trans students and opening new cases at a record-low pace. https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations

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US Department of Education issues "Dear Colleague letter" in attempt to redefine any pro-diversity efforts as violations of civil rights law, gives 14 days before accepting complaints: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-directs-schools-end-racial-preferences

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On the January 29 Executive Order targeting students for pro-Palestine protests: https://palestinelegal.org/news/trump-eo-january-2025 EO text: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/

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Share widely: CFP is open for the 2025 Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium. For more information: helenehuet.org/academia/cfp...

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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments