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"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now." me for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Given that H*****d also tried to get me to sign an NDA (& waive rights to file a formal complaint or sue the university for any reason for the rest of my life), this type of action by Columbia isn’t as surprising as it should be. www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

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Fascism: “Columbia University recently set up an office that is secretly investigating its students for political statements about Israel, Drop Site News reported this week, and is requiring students to sign non-disclosure agreements to view the evidence being brought against them.”

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“Aligned” gets you disappeared is where we are

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Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

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Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.

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UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

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There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

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"We don't like to point fingers, but the History Department's drop in enrollment is totally the faculty's fault."

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They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Trump's DHS is detaining green card holders under the pretense of revoking student visas.

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Breaking: DHS detains Palestinian student from Columbia.

submitted 22 hours ago • 58 comments

Multiple reports of ICE/DHS agents in Columbia undergraduate dormitories, right now.

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Some of these schools have actively union busted, sometimes for decades. Probably hard to rally your community to defend your shared interests when you wouldn't bargain with them for theirs.

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The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

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Here's the full #AncientBlackness thread in blog format opietasanimi.com/2025/03/08/a...

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CFP reminder: submit a paper to present with SAMR at AAR/SBL 2025! We have two calls: one on religion in the high Roman Empire in honor of Frederick Brenk, and the other on emotional dimensions of religious violence. Proposals are due March 25th! www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Con...

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CFP reminder: submit a paper to present with SAMR at SCS/AIA 2026! Our open call is for papers about religion in the late Republic and early Roman Empire (esp. Plutarch/Second Sophistic) in honor of Frederick Brenk. Submissions are due on Mar 20th! www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

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CFP reminder: Leah Neiman and Sandy Blakely invite abstracts for the session “Ancient Aliens in Modern Times: The Politics and Ethics of Pseudoarchaeology” at the 2025 ASOR Annual Meeting. Submissions due on March 15th! www.asor.org/am/2025/appr...

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This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.

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They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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In 1943 the US government made an antifascist film called "Don't Be a Sucker" in which we see a college professor in Germany removed from his classroom by government officials who do not approve of what he's teaching about race. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

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Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s response to interim US Attorney Ed Martin’s letter calling the school’s curriculum “unacceptable.” Bravo.

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Later. Later when we can breathe again, I will ask quietly why my colleagues in STEM never marched for devastating cuts to arts and humanities, disciplines that did not need the same recruitment of diverse populations already here. Now, I will march. Later, I will ask.

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"History is not kind to those who remain silent in the face of injustice or complicit in its perpetuation. It will not forgive those who blindly follow without questioning or those who trade humanity for convenience. It will remember the inaction, the indifference, and the apathy."

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WSJ confirms draft of EO I reviewed earlier:

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There are, in fact, authors in early Christian literature

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Send in a paper! It’s going to be a great conference!

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In an unexpected turn of events, students clapped after today’s class session on classics and white supremacy

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I’m so excited to reveal the cover of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have spent the last few months reaching out to the people we ourselves turn to for clarity and hope. This anthology of twenty-six writers is a community in book form.

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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.

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Only at Harvard could you be standing outside a dining hall and @bbnomula.bsky.social walks by

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At Women Also Know History, we know that women make history every day of the year. This Women's History Month, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women whose scholarship enriches the historical profession and expands our knowledge of the past. womenalsoknowhistory.com

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Great news - the Art Institute of Chicago today announced it will return this gorgeous 11/12th century sculpture of the Buddha in meditation, sheltered by the serpent king Muchalinda, to Nepal! Bad news - well... everything else? Let me take you on a lil' journey.

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It is, in fact, dangerous to wish me a blessed Eid al-Fitr so early

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Bible folks: got any thoughts on the contextless and captionless citation of Mark 5:36 on the GOP’s insta?

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"minaret" (from Arabic منارة manārat-, via Turkish) is exactly cognate with "menorah" (from Hebrew מנורה mənôrâ). they come from Proto-Semitic manārat- < manwar-, which is the root n-w-r "light, fire" over the pattern maCCVC meaning "place of". i.e., place where the fire/lamp/light is

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CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

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Stumbled onto the first teddy bear today

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Finally 🥹

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Academics, boost this initiative that gives university students a FREE, safe place to connect to their university classes remotely! These are not only overseas degrees but degrees STILL BEING RUN by Palestinian university committees from Gaza & WB—despite the physical loss of universities in Gaza!

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Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!

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