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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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In the beforetimes a lot of this was just media spectacle, and the strategy of not becoming the lightning rod for the right was at least somewhat viable. That's not what's going on anymore, and institutions have not adjusted.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Remake of a Dells song that Dru Hill did in the late 90s. (Entire album is 🔥. I wish Miss Brenda Lee had been a bigger star, because THAT VOICE.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpIs...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Sigh. If a job advertisement explicitly says "We are not going to hire someone in your specific field", PLEASE don't apply. See also "you have to have a PhD" and you haven't got one. You're wasting your time and mine.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Rescind TEN of the seventeen acceptances?? Pretty disheartening stuff. Especially when the time used for evaluating/planning with students could’ve been used elsewhere. Hard times for scientific training clearly only getting harder.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

This is resistance.

submitted 6 hours ago • 137 comments

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Is this that masculine energy he was talking about.

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“The coroner also criticised NHS 111 for “misleading” the public by calling its call handlers “health advisers”. This title, she said, “implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm”.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 205 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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If you would like to learn how to do this kind of writing, I will teach you. I will, if you have no money, do it for free. I will, if you have some money, invite you to my "writing coach" patreon. I will, if you have an institutional budget, charge a fair workshop rate. Lollardfish @ gmail.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

The federal government has now removed the entire LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study from the National Park Service website. Be a rebel - read banned history. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat #skystorians

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

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Trump literally telling the crowd at his Black History Month event that African Americans voting for him in November was the latest milestone in the freedom struggle

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Search for an Associate / Full Professor at UC Davis in Native American Studies: Indigenous Hemispheric Perspectives

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Streisand effect these weird dicks.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Geologist here: the reason you have to warn people to stay away from lava is because of situations where the top of the molten rock cools faster than the underneath. Therefore, people might see "cooled" lava and think it's safe to walk on it, only for the crust to break beneath their weight

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Just look at these stories—this is the agency that stops credit card companies from charging wrong late fees, debt collectors from hounding people for bills they don’t owe, and mortgage companies from denying refunds. I will keep fighting to protect it.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

What still hasn't yet gotten sufficient attention is that the federal workforce - not just VA - is disproportionately made up of veterans. That are many reasons. One is that there are many logical paths from uniformed services into fed workforce. There are also employment preferences for ...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Stealing the infrastructure we paid for. They're treating blue states and cities like we're conquered territory to be plundered.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

the Mississippi Free Press rules. they report on stuff in Mississippi that's important and tell the stories that deserve to be told. 10/10 account to follow

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THIS.

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

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Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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"the US is not a startup. The federal gov. exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the US cannot afford to do.)" www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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OPINION | The ripple effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE firing squad have just begun, as one "critical" Idaho ecologist shares her story.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

my hope is that kathy hochul gets so mad about trump fucking with congestion pricing that she retaliates by firing adams

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

It IS a dictatorship

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@washingtonpost.com Why am I not surprised that you did not cover DC President’s Day protests, instead relying on a Boston AP story?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled that we have a Spanish language version of this guide to protecting yourself and your community from ICE, in the hopes it can reach as many people who need it as possible. 51st.news/es/los-opera...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

YES. The press should unite in boycotting his press conferences. As far as the press is concerned, if they don’t hang together, they may all hang separately.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments