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I have confirmed twice that these materials were on a 10 year loan and were scheduled to be returned now. This has nothing to do with Trump. I’m sorry that Rev. Brown perceived it that way. We need to stay on alert, but not prematurely sound the alarm.

submitted 11 hours ago • 49 comments

SO proud of the outcome in this case we @nipnlg.bsky.social litigated on behalf of the most wonderful human beings and the amazing outcome we were able to achieve.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

The Trump administration is ignoring Supreme Court orders and arresting judges who defy them. Seems sorta bad?

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

They are actually doing it. Beyond shameful.

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We won!! A nationwide preliminary injunction against McMahon's February Dear Colleague letter which tried to stop public schools & higher Ed from teaching honest history or enforcing student civil rights. It’s a win for students, families & educators. democracyforward.org/updates/harm...

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

submitted 4 days ago • 373 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 4 days ago • 831 comments

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 5 days ago • 144 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 600 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 4 days ago • 2131 comments

This is a great article from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social that he should not have needed to write. I long for the day when race scholars don’t have to respond to people who have no clue what they are talking about, but nonetheless feel free to pontificate. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The Trump admin’s cuts to federal jobs are hitting Black workers hard. Agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs—where Black employees make up 25% of the workforce—face massive layoffs, with an expected 80,000 jobs on the line.

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The Trump White House's position on "DEI" is that anything that helps Black people is actually illegal

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

submitted 7 days ago • 468 comments

His student visa was suddenly revoked but he wasn’t notified—“they don’t want ICE to lose the advantage of surprise” (!!!)—and four days later he was arrested at the hospital where he works.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

Update: 96-year-old’s bank account was cleaned out by Social Security on the grounds that he had been dead for a while and they were reclaiming benefits SS had paid to the allegedly but not actually dead man. He now has no money. DOGE strikes again. Anybody know a lawyer for this?

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments

URGENT: Our client at Bluebonnet Facility in the Northern District of Texas, represented by the @ACLU, was told he’ll be removed under the Alien Enemies Act TONIGHT/MORNING

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Confirmed that there is in fact a current TRO barring enforcement of this law, which makes this potentially double-illegal. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

submitted 10 days ago • 593 comments

Head Start, the preschool program that the US Administration prepares to terminate, has a negative cost to taxpayers Yes: Public funds saved from reduced welfare+incarceration costs, & higher taxed incomes, far exceed costs Terminating Head Start is ideological waste—the opposite of efficiency.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

submitted 10 days ago • 162 comments

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

The Bezos #BrokenPost drives out its good & principled columnists & hires the bilious Mitch Daniels to attack education. Should we file this under personal liberties or free markets? Universities lament Trump’s attacks. How about doing some atoning, too? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

I started excerpting this harrowing ProPublica article, but I couldn’t do it justice. It deserves to be read from start to finish. Please take the time. This is a national scandal. www.propublica.org/article/rume...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

This cruelty is heartbreaking.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 15 days ago • 620 comments

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 15 days ago • 164 comments

An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

Therapists at Kaiser went on a hunger strike in Los Angeles to protest "factory" like working conditions and the automation of healthcare. I went down to the picket line on the last day to talk to the workers, some of whom hadn't eaten for 100 hours. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

“Maya Angelou is out but Mein Kampf stays at the Naval Academy Library”

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NEW: @nytimes.com reports that the Trump admin is moving to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of Social Security Numbers they got when they were granted work authorization, repurposing a "death master file" to try to erase their previous legal presence in the United States.

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

“Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.”

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 194 comments

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments