The brain drain will devestate humanities education in Texas. Students "are the ones who are going to bear the thrust of this. It’s not going to fall on anyone making this decision. It’s going to fall on 18-year-olds who are not getting the same education they were able to get this time last year.”

A group of A&M alums have formed Aggies Forward, a new alumni group advocating for academic freedom and institutional independence. Please sign and share this with alumni and allies -- and anyone you know who wants to protect free speech and academic freedom in Texas and across the country:

1.) Social movements have several elements that help build momentum against the status quo. Arguably the most important is SIZE. Demonstrating the massive size of opposition helps attract people to dissent because the risk is distributed. Protests demonstrate SIZE most clearly.

Minimizing the impact of consistent episodic community-centered protests only serves the interests of the ruling elite and undermines efforts to build political pressure (even and maybe esp. on elected Democrats) AND political cover.

Farm workers are proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers. Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks. #NoContractNoCoffee

Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.

Centrist politics has always been about compromise with the racists. Check the comments for a little dose of foundational US history some may have missed:

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Feed the poor? No Look after the sick? No Welcome strangers? No But put the 10 commandments in every classroom (in TX), force 12 year olds to birth their rapists' babies, and kill lgbtq+ folks? Yes. The right's Christianity: built on power and control, not love and acceptance.

A society built on empire, greed, and gain was always already authoritarian. Was always already controlled from the top down. There has never been "We the People" in the US--because "the people" have never had a voice.

Yes Trump's discourse has ushered in unabashed racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and a hard shift towards explicit authoritarianism, outright fascism. But focusing our protests on one person misses the point. He wasn't the mastermind behind everything that's happening--there is no one mastermind.

When AI generates our vonnegutian foma, we'll truly be living out the history of human stupidity.

If you're rich, drug use gets you more money and more power. If you're poor it gets you stigmatization, ostracization, and incarceration.

They used chatgpt. Hallucinated sources.

Are you self or other oriented?

"Facts and rational inquiry are inimical to dictatorial power. So this administration is engaged in a ceaseless war on the truth." On the pod, @katherinestewart.bsky.social is so good on the deeper authoritarian impulses driving Trump's lawless assault on Harvard: newrepublic.com/article/1958...

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Did you like breathing? Oh, maybe you should have voted.

10/10 recommend

Horrifying.

It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

"You’re not here to win arguments. You’re here to win people — or walk away knowing you kept your soul intact. The revolution needs empathy and armor. Bring both."

And there you have it.

Trump's ICE is attacking birthright citizenship.

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I can't even cross state lines with my child without her father's consent. But Trump can deport a US citizen with their mother without their father's consent? This is a clear attack against birthright citizenship.

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19

Ignoring due process for immigrants means they could ignore due process for anyone. Without due process, citizens wouldn't be able to prove they're citizens. Protect immigrants now, save everyone later.

yes, they haven't even had to offer proof that anyone has committed any crime.

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled."

Creepy as hell. 🤡

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

Is "improper ideology" the same as WrongThink? Because I don't see the difference. 😬 apnews.com/article/trum...

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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

The "mandate" he campaigned on NOT following. I wish his voters would see this as a broken campaign promise.

"Witches have been enjoying something of a revival" Wellp my diss just wrote its own justification.

capitalism is economic ✨maleficium✨ @jenmercieca.bsky.social will appreciate this insight

a fever-addled original

They’re gonna destroy every public service possible so that an entire generation has no idea how they used to work or that they even existed.

Do your thinking for yourself.

The old "sarcasm" defense from Trump, which he uses to explain away his failures & make it impossible to hold him accountable: "Trump says he was being a ‘bit sarcastic’ when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours" apnews.com/article/trum...

Found on @radicaltherapist.bsky.social Instagram account