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UPDATE: The Salt Lake City Council has now adopted the new flags that appear to circumvent a new state law banning "non-sanctioned" flags: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah #LGBTQ

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wtf... apart from anything else, how can this not be grounds for a HR lawsuit?

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Newark Airport is in chaos. Planes and helicopters are crashing. But instead of firing Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Trump has just fired Alvin Brown, the only Black member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the group that investigates those accidents. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Exactly as predicted, cis-gendered women who don't look enough like "real women" now being harassed in the name of "protecting women".

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

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"In Millan's dorm, he and some of the other Venezuelan men take turns sleeping so that they can alert family members if immigration officers come to deport them. ... they haven't been given much food, and he tries to sleep more so that he is not so hungry."

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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

As someone who spent the last few years studying how democracy works around the world, I now offer up @lynch.house.gov as an example of what happens when you've been in power so long you've forgotten the basic principals of electoral democracy.

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Give this a listen. Trump and Rubio are locking up people for engaging in speech, without any tangible evidence of wrongdoing or even hateful speech. So it's good to hear from the people they are demonizing.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

submitted 10 days ago • 328 comments

I'm fascinated reading all the ways people in Spain & Portugal are being impacted by the total blackout. Notes so far: always keep some cash handy, only having an electric keypad to get into your house is not a good idea.

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HEY SCIENTISTS!!! Looking for a way to get involved in advocating for science on a local level? ⬇️ We're asking scientists to publish an op-ed in their local newspaper on June 16th, the birthday of Nobel-prize winning scientist Barbara McClintock ☀️ See the link below for more details!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

FYI rabbis and cantors who are alums of Brown University are organizing, asking the university not to capitulate to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism on the path to destroying higher ed and the diversity and freedoms that should accompany it. Glad to be one of them.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

The thing I want to ask conservative supporters of these policies: If you were picked up off the streets or pulled out your car tomorrow, how would you prove you are a citizen? Do you always carry your birth certificate around in your wallet? Or are you just counting on your whiteness to save you.

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Also for (Illinois based) International Students, Faculty, and Researchers: I'll be running an online, confidential therapy support group from May 14. Sharing support and community in these frightening times. #mentalhealth #academics #research

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New mental health resource for academics! Many important intellectual/political resources are circulating about the attacks on higher ed. But less attention is being paid to the emotional toll paid by individual scholars and students. Take a moment for some self-compassion.

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Horrible -- and unlikely this is just happening in upstate New York: www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

submitted 20 days ago • 187 comments

NEH grant “terminated”? Fill out this report!!!

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I just finished reading Heinrich Böll's "Group Portrait of a Lady", a 1977 novel about a cast of characters living in Cologne, Germany, before and after WW2. Then I saw this phrase quoted from the ICE officers who kidnapped Rümeysa Öztürk this month.

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 25 days ago • 693 comments

NEW: “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

The US has voluntarily given up being a world super power. In two months the rest of the world's reaction has rapidly cycled through 1: shock & fear, 2: complete bemusement, 3: well actually maybe this is not such a bad thing after all.

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Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!! Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts: 1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country 2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts Read and spread widely!! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

In my latest, I talk with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the abduction and potential deportation of student activists, the capitulation of universities, and the atrocities Israel is committing in Gaza. "Above all, we have to take care of one another," Eman says.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

What I take from this is: If you ever feel bad about not writing that thing, remember that people have been struggling with procrastination since writing was invented.

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The Alien Enemies Act was used against US Citizens in 1941. Japanese internment included US-born citizens as well as people who had legal status to be here as immigrants. They were put in camps; lost their homes, businesses, all the possessions they couldn't carry in a bag. It happened here.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!! This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference. It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference. #50501movement

submitted 33 days ago • 766 comments

Aerial shot of today’s #HandsOff event at Fountain Square in #Evanston, just north of Chicago. Young and old, from every conceivable walk of life – all here, united against fascism. Truly inspiring. P.S. My eagle-eyed bride spotted our #Ukraine Flag in the photo, too (circled). #SlavaUkraini! 🇺🇦

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Numbers are coming in: +3 million protested today in all 50 states, in blue and red districts, all over the place. Something is happening here and I’m glad to see it finally! Meanwhile, the POtuS is golfing in a Saudi backed tournament making money and deals for himself. #HandsOff

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The people are awake. The people are angry. And the people are organized. 📍 Chicago, Illinois #HANDSOFF

submitted 33 days ago • 317 comments

When I came back from the Evanston, Ill., #handsoff protest, I visited the Skokie library. Across the street, sitting on church steps, were three older women with Hands Off! signs facing Oakton St. See, you can protest anywhere you are!

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