"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

🧵Trump's masked thugs shot a 24-year-old US citizen last Thurs in Ontario, Calif. He had just left his home and saw a bunch of ICE agents surrounding a car. He stopped and simply told them, "Hey, there's a bunch of kids about to be across the street because they're going to school."

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

In housing markets, new construction soaks up high end demand, thereby keeping existing more affordable homes available at those more affordable prices.

Thank you @katrinacallsen.com and @creighdeeds.bsky.social for demanding UVA Interim President Mahoney reverse this decision. Virginians, if you haven't voted in the state-wide election already, do it!!! Then we can replace this BOV, which has irretrievably lost the UVA community's confidence.

We have a super exciting half-day planned for the Emotion Preconference at #SPSP2026. We'd love to see you there!!

This is shameful. It’s not the US president’s role to oversee our state public universities. Appeasement is a road to nowhere. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

UVA's president and board were engaging in secret negotiations with Trump's DOJ even as they publicly rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence. We'll be reporting to them quarterly. I'm not sure what this means for us but I can imagine it's all that good. federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federa...

WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact. This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.” <shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade> Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

#NoKings Charlottesville, VA

This week: -Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact -Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video -30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

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It worked!!! UVA rejects the compact, joining the other 4 universities that stood for academic freedom in the face of coercion!!!

Hundreds of UVA faculty, staff, and students showed up to fight for academic freedom and demand that UVA rejects Trump's Compact!

And USC rejects the compact! Four down, UVA to go… www.president.usc.edu/2025/10/16/u...

Student leaders from UVA, MIT, other colleges speak out against education compact

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR. When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Faculty, students, and staff everywhere should be proactively demanding that their universities reject Trump's Compact, which has now been offered to ALL universities. Make it clear to your administration what the costs of this compact will be. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

📣 Colleagues at UVA and the 8 other universities targeted by the Compact for Academic Excellence: the AAUP is organizing a No Compact protest at most of our campuses this FRIDAY. Find out if one is happening at your university and SPREAD THE WORD! cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

It's like I tell my grad students: "do the studies to make the proof!"

Hellllll yes 👏👏👏

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This student journalist for the Cav Daily nails it. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

dear university presidents and boards: it won’t

They are not, you know, actually sincerely against showing contempt for America or its values or its peoples. That’s the essence of their movement. What does MAGA mean other than America is no longer great? No, the demand for obeisance is only directed at certain people.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

🚨 Some highlights from the "Compact for Academic in Higher Education" UVA is being pressured to sign. This is coming for everyone eventually. Some of it is so vague that it will be easy for them to fabricate violations and punish institutions accordingly. Screenshots below 🧵

UVA is on the list

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

Just in case you’re wondering, I have a view of Portland’s “war-ravaged” ICE office from my bedroom window (see large tan building in the middle of first picture; second picture is of the area to the east of ICE). This is both absolutely absurd and terrifying escalation from the administration.

Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895