This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Do you know how bad things have to be for me to approvingly share a Lee Bollinger quote

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

The anti-trans side constantly used this exact and talking point about a 4000% increase in trans youth. Similarly, there was a change in diagnostic criteria along with increased access to care. It's the same exact playbook.

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

Republicans legislatures across the South have passed laws preventing communities from legally removing statues. Now they are passing laws ordering that new statues be raised. It was never about protecting history. 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Department of Education is rolling out the America 250 Civics Education Coalition with 40+ conservative and state groups — including Heritage Foundation, PragerU, Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA — focused on “renewing patriotism” www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Let’s do something about this, together www.falloffreedom.com

lol new clown car just rolled up

Featuring my favorite person, @miniamenni.bsky.social ✊✊ ncnewsline.com/2025/09/15/n...

On behalf of the AAUP, I am so honored to share that today we joined our sister UC unions in a wall-to-wall lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the use of Title VI as a cudgel to bend the University of California in its ideological vision. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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The overwhelming message right now from US academia, mainstream media, government and the military is “DISSENT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.” That’s it. That’s the overwhelming message in the United States, land of the free, home of the brave.

A short First Amendment 🧵: First, the professor was fired b/c he urged "revolutionary socialists" to organize: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?”

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I'm so sorry, for a second I thought you said your law firm was named "McKool Smith"

We will not yield.

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...

“I did it. I threw the sandwich,” the detective quoted him as saying. 📣📣📣

It's really important for Americans to understand right now that dismantling democracy isn't a thing that you wave a magic wand and make happen. It's a process. It's a fight. It's a fight you choose when you're worried about losing, and it's a fight you're not guaranteed to win.

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Will Trump and Rubio side with the Americans exercising their First Amendment rights in NYC or with Sisi’s thugs who pulled them into the Egyptian Mission and beat them with sticks and chains? Stay tuned. theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...

Sometimes I think about how with today’s surveillance apparatus, much of the civil rights movement would not have been possible.

The line to get a @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social scavenger hunt punch card goes entirely around union square and there’s another line weaving down 17th street. I’ve never been so happy to see people queuing in the sun

Harvard Is Making Changes Trump Officials Want, Even Without a Deal www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...

‼️DOJ Investigation at George Mason an attack on Academic Freedom‼️ “If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university’s own strategic plan…then no campus is safe. Today it’s Mason. Tomorrow it could be yours.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.

This Evangelical Pastor Wants to Replace Women’s Right to Vote www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o... 😐😐

Plot twist in the regular secular shenanigans nymag.com/intelligence...

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives." --Mamdani, in this interview:

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

There’s lots wrong with the Columbia settlement but the provisions relating to foreign students are among the most disturbing—because of the degree of intrusion into the university’s autonomy and the far-reaching effect they may have. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

The most dangerous of these folks are not the ones making Instagram videos of themselves weeping or yelling or whatever. They’re the ones scrupulously keeping their names out of the press (while trying to ban masks at protests).

Really the only good thing to come out of the last 2 years at CU is bonding with other faculty members who have clear moral compasses. Hirsch (and others) leaving would be a huge loss.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...