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“These procedures exist because Congress recognized that allowing federal agencies to hold funding hostage, or to cancel it cavalierly, would give them dangerously broad power in a system in which institutions depend so heavily upon federal funding.” — AAUP/Harvard AAUP lawsuit

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Star Wars: Early Learning Activity Center (PC / Lucas Learning / 2000)p

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It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

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Ryan speaks so well to this moment - how we the faculty have held our universities to a higher standard, how we can move them to right action by speaking loudly and together, and how universities will only continue to on the right side of history through our effort.

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Harvard Against the Authoritarian: My Remarks on the Hands Off Higher Education Rally "Many people suddenly admire Harvard. Let’s stand together, stand tall, protect our most vulnerable, and prove worthy of their admiration." open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

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>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end

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1. Every Dem Senator should be doing this, at minimum, for their constituents. 2. Why won't my Senators in New York do this for my fellow Columbia students incarcerated in Louisiana? It's a quicker flight.

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Mahmoud has graced us with another missive from prison. “What does my detention by ICE say about America?” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

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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.

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PEOPLE ARE PRACTICAL.They want change but feel powerless, alone, do not want to be the blade of grass that sticks up above the others and is cut down.They wait for a sign from someone else who will make the first move, or the second. And at certain times in history, there are certain intrepid+

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"What Jewish university presidents say: Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting it" forward.com/opinion/7127...

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Late last year, @Harpers sent me to the West Bank to report on the state of the nonviolent resistance movement. Nothing I had seen over more than a decade of reporting there prepared me for the levels of fear and devastation I encountered. harpers.org/archive/2025...

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This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

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This week at Pasts Imperfect, we focus solely on the work and workers behind the NEH & ODH. First, ACLS president Joy Connolly defends the NEH & its roll in the humanities. Then, a list of defunded ancient world digital projects, testaments about the impact of the NEH, & new ancient world journals.

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Please read this moving essay by a Columbia student about her friend Mahmoud Khalil. May liberation come soon www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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It’s worth keeping in mind that nowhere in the record has Garcia Abrego ever been accused of a discrete criminal act. The double hearsay allegation made by an informant to a corrupt cop is of gang “membership”, a kind of ontological state of criminality that is assigned by the state to men of color.

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NEW — The Trump State Department is using the same language Columbia used to smear & punish the school's Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace groups (for a protest Mohsen Mahdawi condemned an antisemitic disruptor at) to now justify deporting him. Read on —>

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Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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I still have a twitter account which I use to boost things like this, and the annoying thing about that website used to be trolling by zionists and racists, but now it's definitely people with red triangles in their names saying "faculty should strike or the university should be in ashes" like jeez

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There is no excuse for this. Governor Shapiro is an American Jewish elected official who is not an Israeli citizen and who has no influence over US foreign policy. This is just blatant antisemitism, and everyone should call it out. www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/0...

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Columbia University's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has issued a statement. philosophy.columbia.edu

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Harvard's bare minimum in defiance of authoritarianism shames institutions that are looking to capitulate and collude. But Harvard is not the hero we need in this moment.

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"Harvard’s shameful track record on Palestine is only the most glaring proof that in many cases, the University’s agenda converges with that of the government they ostensibly reject." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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Wow grad students have such sway over the peace process I had no idea

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Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu

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Rewatching Andor S1 and it’s even better second time round. I forgot the Aldanhi sequence isn’t just filmed in the Highlands but straight up nods to the Clearances like, here’s the deep roots of fascism in colonial imperialism, motherfucker, no that Scottish soldier cunt was no happenstance casting

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Imagine the fragile ego require to claim that a student could undermine the Middle East peace process oh wait right this is Marco Rubio we’re talking about.

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I'd go so far as to say the inability or refusal to see or name the cynicism last year because kids were saying the word "Palestine" turns out to have been a major failing with disastrous consequences

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not going to say the timeline would have turned out way differently if elite universities had just told Elise Stefanik to fuck off a year ago, but it probably wouldn't have hurt

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Been thinking so much about this and all the people now outraged who accepted the just as cynical premise last year

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As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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