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This Independence Day weekend, remember to fight the tyranny of subsidizing tax cuts for the super rich!

bsky.app/profile/adam... He’s really trying to impoverish the poor and working class.

2025 things I did not sign up for: “Styling” my houseplants. When did keeping them alive and healthy stop being enough? Cashew cream on everything. It’s good, but it’s not cheese, and you can’t make me think it is. The attack on “meno-belly.” Get away with your fake wellness body shaming!

Union strong this May Day! #aaup #academicksky

I still don’t understand why there’s not more outrage at the blatant falsehoods: “we have no control at all over these people we threw in a prison on El Salvador.” You’re paying El Salvador to keep them there! Stop paying. Pretty sure that gives you some control.

You know what’s fun? Antihistamine-included heart arrhythmia right before an intense meeting. 0 out of 10.

If I hear one more NPR host ask a guest “Is this kind of thing normal?” I’m going to scream. No. It’s not normal. It’s authoritarian, it’s inept, and it’s a freaking Constitutional crisis.

bsky.app/profile/mran... Excellent point

bsky.app/profile/darr... Total violation of the constitution and current law.

Great turnout at UConn today for the Hands off Higher Ed rally. #academicsky

bsky.app/profile/thet... What the absolute…When we will stand up and say these policies are based in Islamophobia?

bsky.app/profile/thet... The worst part is, no matter what happens they’ll just say “that was our plan all along!”

UConn AAUP is holding a demonstration on April 17 against the federal attacks on higher education. UConn would not give us a permit, citing the new policy on noise during daytime hours, which was hastily created after the pro-Palestine demonstrations in spring.

Save Social Security! #stopthecuts

Just sitting here, enjoying my Saturday night by liking posts of protest pictures!

bsky.app/profile/linc... But could he wear his pants higher? Is it even possible?

Where are y’all’s protest photos? I want to see them!

bsky.app/profile/bali... Some disenfranchising nonsense.

bsky.app/profile/immu... 😢

bsky.app/profile/muel... Appreciating the theatrics of Booker’s effort!

Make America a democracy again. #mada

bsky.app/profile/theg... He’s doing this now to build a sense of normalcy around it, paving the way for it. Do not let it happen.

When you’re VP of conference for a U.S.-based academic org and have to send out the “we know the U.S. is scary right now, so if you expect to have international scholars in your group we’re allowing you to convert your in person panel to virtual” email. #academicsky

When I’m super overwhelmed, I often start working on my syllabi for next semester. It’s procrastination that makes me feel like I’m actually solving problems for future me. #academicsky

bsky.app/profile/jame... This. RFK policies are based on eugenics.

I’d read Tea Orbeht’s first novel. I liked it, but found the distanced, dreamy style not quite to my taste. But it works perfectly for this tale of myth, youthful superstitions, climate change, trauma, loss, the power of the mind, and the power of a story. One to remember. #booksky

bsky.app/profile/fpwe... One of the departed men was an asylum seeker. Most have no criminal records.

Anyone else out there find themselves cleaning the toilet in the middle of the mount of food poisoning because your family is disgusting and never cleans, and the stink is making you even sicker? Anyone say “yes” who isn’t a mom?

bsky.app/profile/jonr... There will be thousands of stories like this.

bsky.app/profile/bria... Hahahahahahaha. I mean, I should not take so much joy in people possibly getting hurt, but I’ve hated this man since way before it was the cool thing to do.

It’s beyond time for the nepo baby backlash to turn to politics.

bsky.app/profile/npr.... Seems like another illegal order.

bsky.app/profile/thet... Fascism. Authoritarianism. We’re not on the way there. We’re there.

bsky.app/profile/barb... Do not accept it. Do not comply.

bsky.app/profile/joyc... Glad to see faculty standing up for student speech.

I was not expending energy worrying about losing my job due to the financial crisis in higher education or the DEI-based attacks on higher ed. The world is crazy and you can’t control crazy. But I am truly worrying about what it would take to find a new job in a recession/depression. #AcademicSky

I’m a type A mom functioning like a type B mom due to stress, burnout, and coping with my family’s neurodivergence.

thehill.com/homenews/adm... “Lowe, a Navajo Nation member, was the first Native American to lead the NEH, a federal agency that was founded in 1965 and is focused on funding the humanities.”

Here’s what I don’t understand: the Republican Party seems to have one goal of killing people (anti vax, kill anti-pollution laws, etc) while simultaneously trying to increase the birth rate. Make up your minds.

bsky.app/profile/thet... This is what institutionalized,state-sanctioned racism looks like.

bsky.app/profile/madd... Yeah, really have to agree that cutting the IRS is a giveaway to tax delinquents.

Trump calls arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil ‘first of many to come’ No law broken. Has a green card. So much for freedom of speech. His wife and lawyer still can’t even get a straight answer about where he is being held.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n... For the people who thought it was just about stronger policies on immigration, not rampant racism, the chickens come home to roost.

apnews.com/article/trum... Federal workers make up a small fraction of the federal budget. Targeting them is theatre, but theatre that impacts real lives and livelihoods.

bsky.app/profile/anna... More great choices by the little shits.