Does the TA have a support network? Is it even possible to contact her in a caring way when she is undergoing mass harassment and institutional betrayal? It feels like very few academics give a shit about that, and perhaps that’s why you’re doomed.

Here’s a novel idea: what if we discussed how to support the TA while she’s going through this. How do we help an academic worker who is being institutionally thrown under the bus and actively harassed for doing her job because of who she is?

The academic discourse today is like “would the trans TA not have been institutionally murdered if she had given 5 points out of 25 instead of 0 points out of 25”

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew

“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?” Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...

Luckily he didn’t show. The last time I was set to go to Aspen, someone slipped to me that a man who sexually harassed me was going to have overlapping time with me, so I cancelled — only after my friends had an intervention and sat me down and told me I shouldn't do this to myself anymore.

Among the Aspen Center’s quirks is that they won’t tell you who will be there before you go — and visits are 3 weeks long or more. Once I went and saw my rapist’s name on the door across from my assigned office. But I had to stay because of the importance of seeing and being seen there.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

"How can we make people we have power over feel better without addressing any of their complaints about us?"

FASCISM.

I really hope this project crashes and burns (metaphorically of course lol 🥲)

You're also not a sucker for believing in people. I get the sense that this needs to be stated from time to time.

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

There are like a dozen videos this bad or worse per week now. This stuff is insane.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

If I was currently associated with one of these institutions, I would be so embarrassed to realize these people see me as an ally. (Both my alma maters are here, hooray.)

"The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test, and quell grade inflation." Lol now why do you think they want the SAT required?

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Not a single person who learned about 4chan because of the harm it's caused them would think it's "not politics."

The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

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From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

TPUSA was a transparent astroturfed far right op that egged on conservative students to become stasi narks on their professors and “controversial” invited speakers for the sole purpose of stirring shit

Charlie Kirk was a bad faith, incendiary, anti-democracy white supremacist, wtf is going on!?

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

It’s weird how these summaries leave out the context about trans people specifically being blamed for mass shootings

I've been finding it morbidly funny how little the MSM and pundits are pointing out that racism is rampant across the U.S. Like absolutely virulent in the regime, yes but also at large.

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

The connection is that the Deltas are Black women and the judge is a Black woman

My first expository paper, building on lecture notes from the minicourse I gave at the 2023 Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory.

Another short little note. This one might seem completely out of left field but I promise we had a reason for thinking about it lol

Jes\'us Hern\'andez Hern\'andez, Christopher J. Leininger, Ferr\'an Valdez: Fibrations on Handlebodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02897 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.02897

Tarik Aougab, Jonah Gaster: From arcs to curves: quadratic growth of 1-systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05555 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.05555