UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

Smart and endearing video about what politics actually is

Just think about the effect of having this many people in a country feel like their lives are under the hammer, either because of their migration status or their ethnicity or both; what effect that has on community, belonging, collective mental health. In this way, the damage is already being done.

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

More of the abject collapse of corporate America before Trump. The head of the FCC threatens ABC with (illegal) license pulling, ABC owner Disney's CEO Bob Iger cancels Kimmel. Iger suspends the First Amendment: Boycott Disney!

new post at the Remaking blog, called The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act. It's about what we've learned about UC sending in names to Trump's Office of Civil Rights. It's about betrayal, dumb strategy, fighting back utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

Hinson "has been remarkably unpopular at town halls across [Iowa] as she ardently defends Trump’s agenda. She faced even more heat in May when she told a crowd...she was 'proud to vote for [the OBB], eliciting so much contempt from the crowd that they yelled at her until she stopped speaking."

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

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Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable from corruption.

what I get from this @jaweedkaleem @latimes coverage is that UCalif officials desperately want to capitulate to Trump. They would were Gov Newsom not actually fighting him. Faculty are up for fighting. Administators are not. www.latimes.com/california/s...

what I get from this @jaweedkaleem @latimes coverage is that UCalif officials desperately want to capitulate to Trump. They would were Gov Newsom not actually fighting him. Faculty are up for fighting. Administators are not. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is what a post-university sounds like.These could be corporate lab employees. One standout: “From my background as a German, I [saw] what is happening from Day 1, and I was much more concerned than other people around me. There has been too much complacency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

Trump cuts STEM funding and universisties cut non-STEM. The ugly bank shot analyzed in my new post - the case of UChicago. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/line...

"The Technofeudal Text, a piece of writing which exists as digital information stored in a networked cloud architecture and therefore has a kind of magnetic, even parasitical relationship to its readers, where information about them is affixed to it, accruing value."

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

CANCEL THE CUTS RELEASE THE FILES

Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.

Trump’s true legacy will be climate DESTRUCTION for CORRUPTION

Plus: Google wants billions of Chrome users to install an emergency fix, Kristi Noem is on the move, and North Korean IT workers are everywhere. www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

WON’T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE ENSLAVERS!?

absurd: "Miss. Gov said he’d send 200 Miss. Guards to D.C. b/c “Americans deserve a safe capital city that we can all be proud of.” In 2024, his own state capital, Jackson, had the highest murder rate of any US city: 77 per 100,000, more than 4x D.C.'s" americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

I wrote about the military concept of "strategic depth" and how it is the proper analog for thinking about the critical role of state governments in resisting the lawless rule of Donald Trump while for the forces of opposition mobilize and grow. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-...

oh please!

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

great Todd Wolfson interview on the multiple strategies for fighting Trump tooth and nail. "we can't do this alone" -- meaning linking workers from all the sectors under attack. very inspiring! www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Check out the great Chapo House version of @ositanwanevu.com And do buy the book

We need to make good use of Bluesky's features and ensure that the likes of this genocider spreading #TigrayGenocide denial are in widely circulated blocklists of genociders to ensure that this platform doesn't amplify their vile voices. This is exactly what our research is about.

New from me (on submission): PATRONAGE PARDONS. This is the full-length academic treatment of the phenomenon I've written about in the popular press, whereby the Trump administration is using pardon power to induce loyalist crime. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Finally, for god’s sake. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.

Good summary of the dead end of the UK higher ed funding model, with various modes of damage bound together by political denial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is it. Freeze it in amber. Hang it in a museum. The ultimate expression of the NYT and the elite class behind it. The utter moral failure of ceding power to Trump? Acceptable ... if it is done in a clever, savvy way!

I wrote a new post at Remaking on the Brown U agreement--much worse than announced--and what it would take for faculty to block defeatist policy. I discuss 5 statements--Paxson at Brown, @adam_tooze vs. @lionel_trolling, Paul Campos, Rachid Khalili. The final 2 really help. An Athens sunset. /1

full frontal assault on the freedom to learn

the highest single award ever granted by NEH. $10 million to a single project. Surely, there were other projects that could have benefited from part of this grant that fit their mold. Humanities is messy and complex. This is no exception to that statement. (4/4) www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

The Trump admin has enacted massive contract terminations for consulting giants and contractors like Accenture and Booz Allen. Now Palantir is partnering with those companies—giving them a lifeline while consolidating its own power with the federal gov't. From @makenakelly.bsky.social

It's actually not a joke at all.

ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via @missionlocal.org

Is anybody (or any group of people) organizing a well-crafted review of the proposed rule change to reverse the EPA endangerment finding? Were such a review available, it would greatly help individuals seeking to make public comments on the proposed rule change. www.epa.gov/regulations-...

I've a post at Remaking that reads the Agreement between Columbia & the government. It's much worse than they say. The idea that Harvard is about to cave in too is truly horrifying. The post also outlines the framing that universities should be setting up utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/07/line...

I missed the part where Labour cut the Office for Students by £100 million, targeting courses like nursing, while also cutting visas for NHS nurses www.timeshighereducation.com/news/some-un...

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Surreal undemocracy: “The Metropolitan police said 55 people had been arrested in Parliament Square under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for displaying placards in support of Palestine Action.” protests-uk-london-arrests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other