Staying silent about trans people or walking back support for them won’t prevent candidates from losing elections. Instead, explicitly including trans people in a vision about everyone’s right to an affordable, safe, dignified life is how. we. win. ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

If the Supreme Court pulled something like this while FDR was president, he would have had them escorted out of the building and nailed the doors shut. When the Dems take power, they should consider that.

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The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.

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Absolutely. It’s also based on a cynical definition of the purpose of ed. The Integrated Schools podcast ep with Dr Eve L. Ewing and what “education” means for whites vs BIPOC really opened my eyes to how education is used to create docile workers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf0_GenxgBw

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Absolutely this. The idea that 20% of a student body couldn't be disabled is an expression of ableism (not understanding disability) but also an implicitly normative statement -- that 20% of students shouldn't be disabled.

The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.

In many ways this is the widest ban on trans healthcare yet. In some states Catholic Church-run healthcare systems are over 40% of all healthcare. This ban also applies to the many doctors, urgent cares and specialists in the church's sprawling networks. And they're buying up/taking over more.

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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

My experience has been with adults and young people alike, is that Americans want a history that tells the bad along with the good. They are smart enough to know that that is the nature of life.

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

Legal experts cut through the political rhetoric to remind business leaders about what the law actually requires and permits when it comes to DEI. @usfca-pr.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.

Faculty doing what the administration won't- defending the institution.

The Supreme Court once again butchers equity and the law of stays in the course of making the world a worse place. And Justice Jackson is once again there to call them out on it with an opinion that will be a must-teach in any Remedies class www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Interesting article in Mother Jones: Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech. In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Abominable.

Over 70 million Americans are set to lose SNAP benefits on November 1 if the shutdown continues. 86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability. If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.

Upon reading this: omfg

every university admin that is selling out trans people now—just like every one that sold out anti-genocide protestors before, with UCLA maybe more disgusting than any of them—is telling you what they will do to literally any other group of people in the way of their salaries & privilege

At long last, and after untold legal fees, UC has released the DoJ's proposed settlement terms to UCLA. Over $1B in fines, invasive monitoring, ideological vetting of international students, exclusion of trans athletes, etc. This would destroy the university as we know it. ucop.edu/communicatio...

Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Millions took to the streets yesterday to be heard and that matters. But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity. We got us.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

We have a choice: 👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day 👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day 👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

🚨: "allowing ICE to use to spyware 'threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech'”

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

A 🧵 for a wholly positive task, for a change @academic-chatter.bsky.social. For an awards nominations committee I've joined, what rubrics have worked well for your review committees? Here, #disability books, by junior +senior scholars. Global reach and a range of awards, so all welcome.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this? It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...