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Now is the time. Let’s build a powerful nationwide movement that fights back against this assault on education and our democracy. www.aaup.org/membership/d...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape? Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

submitted 7 hours ago • 96 comments

Trump is Constitutionally required to take care that U.S. laws be faithfully executed. On what legal basis can he treat the people of Maine differently depending on if their governor apologizes to him? None.

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

🚨 IBM shareholders will vote on an anti-DEI proposal brought by the Heritage Foundation on April 29. The proposal calls for review of IBM's 'DEI practices' and risk of 'discrimination.' IBM Board recommends a vote AGAINST the proposal: 'review of its DE&I programs and policies is unnecessary.'

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 67 comments

you know, as a jew in academe, I'm not feeling real protected by all these nazis trying to take over american higher education in the name of fighting antisemitism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

submitted 22 hours ago • 95 comments

Decades before President Trump canceled $400 million in funding for Columbia University, he tried to sell property to the school — for $400 million.

submitted 23 hours ago • 122 comments

i would drink a marxarita

submitted 1 day ago • 545 comments

“Making change requires rejecting a sense of powerlessness and recognizing our collective power and possibility. While we may be horrified by what’s happening…we also need to remember what Trump can’t do.” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

So no fmr Presidents, fmr Chairs of the Senate Armed Services Cmtee, former Chairs of Joint Chiefs, would like to step forward and explain why this is unconscionable?

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Re the Dep’t of Education : I don’t think people who want it to go away know what it does. Here’s one thing. When we moved from NY to Utah we told the new principal that we wanted to have a 504 meeting for our kid who is a Type-1 diabetic. She said “Why? It’s not like she’s in a wheel chair.” 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Sharing this with permission. I have gotten similar messages from several Canadian followers as well. Meta has blocked Canadians from seeing news articles we post. They get a “This content is not available in Canada.” Anyone know what is behind this censorship?

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 2 days ago • 1671 comments

The President does not have the power to dismantle a cabinet agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Trump closing Social Security field offices in: Alabama Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Montana N. Carolina N. Dakota Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Texas West Virginia Wyoming Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here: apnews.com/article/soci...

submitted 2 days ago • 656 comments

How #democracy transforms to #autocracy: lessons from the #NurembergTrials. The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich. Below is a thread with selected excerpts. 1/n

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Today is the day postal workers stand up together with our allies all across the nation to say: the US Mail is NOT for Sale! We need you in our fight! Find events near you (and ways you can take action from your phone) at apwu.org/action

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is incredible.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The Defese Department pulled an article on the first Black soldier to earn the Medal of Honor and added "DEI" to the URL. William Carney is one of several non white service members who has had that recent treatment. By @pjmatt.bsky.social & I @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/soldier...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

wake up babe a new physics-based gender dropped

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sure hope the Jewish organizations that got behind the position "DEI defines Jews as privileged white people and is antisemitic to the core, therefore it needs to be abolished whole cloth" are feeling proud of themselves right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Showing up means a lot - cookies or no! Find all the ways to support postal workers in this important fight here: apwu.org/action

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Holy wow, >6,600 folks are signed up to join. We kick off in just over 30 minutes y'all. Are you hyped? We're hyped. Still plenty of time to join the #teslatakedown mass mobilizing call! actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists... Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

These lawyers have picked the wrong judge to try to intimidate by claiming they “might” invoke the state secrets act. Judge Boasberg was the presiding judge of the FISA court, appointed by Chief Justice Roberts. He has strong national security chops.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

ALSO, if you have a library card, you can read paywall articles for free with the Libby app.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

submitted 3 days ago • 2712 comments

The president of El Salvador doesn’t want our judiciary cutting off his newfound supply of slaves.

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

“When you. .analyze the real condition of the Black man in America instead of the American White man eliminating the causes that create that condition, he tries to cover it up by accusing his accusers of teaching hate.” —Malcolm on what we call Trumpism #MalcolmLives us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

In continuing deportation flights against court orders, the Trump administration has begun its defiance of the courts in earnest. The constitutional crisis is here. New from @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social:

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: Judge Furman transfers Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas case to New Jersey, where he was when the petition was filed, rejecting government requests to dismiss the petition or transfer it to Louisiana, where he is now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments