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Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take?

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 7 days ago • 1580 comments

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

South Carolina Republican Members of Congress voted in favor of Trump's Billionaire Budget. This budget will gut heath care and make it harder for people to put food on the table, while giving tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. #Trump #SCPol #ElonMusk #billionaires

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Plugging this article to all 125 of my students after discussing the dynamism and animation in James Baldwin’s Pin Drop speech. I’m trying my best to do my part to fight against fascism.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 days ago • 867 comments

I’ll follow you wherever you report, @joyannreid.bsky.social because you’re one of the best in the biz. I literally use your clips as exemplary reporting in my classroom. This decision doesn’t make sense.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 20 days ago • 2589 comments

for sale: checks & balances, never used

submitted 36 days ago • 53 comments

The White House contended that The Post “lied” by writing that the NIH funding change would cut biomedical research funding. Susan Collins, after hearing from her constituents: “these cuts … would be devastating, stopping vital biomedical research and leading to the loss of jobs.”

submitted 30 days ago • 76 comments

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that President Trump's repeated statements about annexing Canada and making it the 51st state is something to be treated as a serious threat.

submitted 33 days ago • 155 comments

Higher ed needs a national strike. Cutting NIH to a 15% indirect cost rate will devastate American universities and medical programs in absurd ways. It’s not even legal what’s happening and NIH is issuing guidance anyway. Trump has within the same hour appointed himself head of the Kennedy Ctr.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 174 comments

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

submitted 34 days ago • 119 comments

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Trump just said with Netanyahu that he expects the United States to “own and develop Gaza.” Speechless.

submitted 36 days ago • 127 comments

#BREAKING: President Donald Trump said "the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip" during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

submitted 36 days ago • 138 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 37 days ago • 77 comments

Fascist oligarchs seemingly control the entirety of the federal government, and the Lakers have a young generational talent. Dark days ahead.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

submitted 43 days ago • 543 comments

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

submitted 44 days ago • 647 comments

FEF GO BIRDS 🦅 🦅 🦅!!!

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished my first book since graduation. I missed reading so much. Also a lot of the discourse surrounding the 76ers relocating to Chinatown is incredibly relevant to Rafi Kohan’s The Arena. It’s a great cautionary read into sport stadium construction and fandom Sport Comm scholars should ✅

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments

Thankful to get a code because Twitter has been really, really awful for the hottest minute.

submitted 434 days ago • 0 comments