I need Trinity Rodman to win The Allison Williams Cool Girl Award at the Las Culturistas Culture awards next year. #GoSpirit

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I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

Remember this guy has a say in Higher Education in Florida and likely at the Department of Education.....

Linda McMahon made a video today lying to the public about starting interest on SAVE 1. It's not legally required to start interest 2. SAVE is not officially illegal and no court has ruled that it is - the courts ruled that Biden could not forgive loans using the HEROES act only. That's it.

“Zohran is where he is now is because of a working-class-led coalition…in which Asian Americans were in the middle, not on the outside or in between, from the beginning.“ Interview feat. CAAAV Voice’s ED Sasha W by @zentronix.bsky.social zentronix.substack.com/p/how-workin...

Time to fire up lawsuits for existing borrowers, the MPN is a contract between borrowers and the Government. The Feds keep changing the terms on borrowers, lately by removing programs (Biden did with PAYE and SAVE). Borrowers have few rights but may as well try. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

So who is DC's Zohran?

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

So glad the free speech absolutists are in charge.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

For folks new to the issue, here's the Brief filed by leading Class Action & Habeas Professors explaining that DOJ's insistence that habeas cases can't get class action treatment is wrong. We scoured the earth, there's not a single appellate case supporting DOJ. drive.google.com/file/d/1lWId...

"Last Sunday, Moss came to the rescue of NMAAHC by announcing that Trinity “is placing the museum in our annual budget.” He then asked parishioners to join him by donating $25 to the museum, the price of a basic membership, to show their faith."

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

Higher ed leaders: Do Not Capitulate. They will not stop coming for you. We must fight to defend American higher education. We must resist.

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...

On one hand, I agree with this. On the other, the man is just a symptom of the system. He needs billionaire backers, congressional republicans, the justices, the ICE officers, the colluding and compliant leaders of civil society, Republican voters, and democratic do-nothings. The problem is big.

NEW: There's no reason to act like Trump is pursuing a trade policy or an industrial revitalization strategy. These are just sanctions, imposed to intimidate countries and companies into submission like they're universities or law firms. They're what a mob boss would do. prospect.org/economy/2025...

This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

if you have dental problems & don’t have disposable income you are so fucked in the USA. you can literally die from an infection in your mouth but root canals & crowns & bridges & all this stuff are thousands of dollars. thousands. even if you have “good” insurance. it’s so bad.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

Y'all, I confess. I wept watching AOC's stump speech just now. She marries the minoritarian charisma of Obama-era hope and change with the populist Bernie-era imperative to fight for universal public goods, against the billionaire class, for someone you do not know.

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

And today—in this time of lawless executive orders, funding cuts, firings, detentions, deportations, and disappearances—I am headed to a building six blocks from the White House for [stares directly into camera] jury duty.

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

In a faculty meeting yesterday I said "we might all lose our jobs." I was both serious, looking at the worst case scenario, and not. This WSJ article indicates that those of us in departments marked as "too left" or supportive of Palestine are right to be worried.

A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.” 🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's dangerously wrong, not to mention pathetically weak, for the *senate opposition leader* to imply that constitutional crises only reach actionable levels once SCOTUS's authority is violated. What if SCOTUS is in on the constitutional coup?! Congress is its own branch, not a dependent variable.

A guy falls off a 40 story building. As he passes by the 20th floor, a friend sticks his head out the window and goes "good news, so far you're all right"

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents. He is a traitor who needs to resign.

Lumping AMLO in with Erdogan and Orban is wild.