They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

It went "too far" in the sense of getting "too close" to the nexus linking depraved patriarchs globally. What the Epstein files show is that across social domains--business, science, politics, education--men at the tops of their fields bond and compete for status through violent misogyny.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

look at this fucking creep. there are children in this home.

Are fireworks after snow/ice events a thing? Have heard them a couple of times since the storm ended, and it's a first. If it was you, my dog and I wanna have a word

If you can watch this without smiling, you might not have a soul. 😁 #uswnt

it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

If we want to take on the harms of social media, we need to start with much stricter social media regulation to change how the platforms are designed, how their algorithms surface content, and the threat they face when they don’t comply. disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Hell yeah! Go Mustangs 💪 (a treat to see my alma mater in my feed)

hot take on the self-checkout-ification of everything: if healthcare providers want their voluminous forms filled out before I show up for an appointment, they need to do more to assure me I’m not clicking on a phishing link

If we are going to treat this as a sort of civil war, then one thing I would like everyone to keep in mind is the victors of the last one were nowhere near harsh enough in their dealings with the lead traitors.

Thank you CNN for pointing out that everyone opposed to this regime has normal, pro-social links to the organizations that make up a liveable society where you can do normal shit. Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors

a queer woman lightly mocked an ICE officer so they shot her wife right in front of her. now they’re trying to justify it by making it a capital crime to mock them in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you

🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Stop, drop and roll for this debut column.

"The culture of fear created by Senator McCarthy and others served to silence ideas and beliefs that they disagreed with. The future is yet unwritten, but by understanding what political repression looked like then, we can recognize it and figure out how to fight it now."

I'm over the moon that @bakerdphd.bsky.social has come on board as an @insidehighered.com's columnist. Her smart, informed and considered voice is a welcome addition to the Opinions side of the house

There is going to be an after him time. It's crazy how many folks are completely burning down their reps and credibility. They have a $50+ billion endowment. What is the point of having F U money, if you're too scared to tell somebody F U?

a kind of reverse colonization 🤮

As an abuse survivor, I periodically remind aloud into the void that it's important to *never* believe the words the abuser is saying, per se ... Many politicians and the press have still never figured this out, all these years into this abusive administration ...

Twice

Feels like a new year blessing that the one rare time I've watched football in years was tonight, catching the very end of the GA game 😆

I *need* the clip of them pushing the stage back off the field 😂

Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

I'll write a blog post on this at some point over the next few days, but a much larger share of programs at for-profit colleges are estimated to fail the new federal earnings test using newly released data. The level of program also matters, with undergraduate certificates being the main culprit.

Me when checking out of an Airbnb these days:

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

Love to see the chronicle and propublica come together (hate the topic)

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

This is a massive expansion of questionable surveillance efforts by the federal government.

Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically

I get many pitches that say some version of "Gen Z is doing this quirky thing at work!" and when you dig into it, the quirky thing is like, wanting healthcare or not working lots of unpaid hours.

"Immigrant childcare workers & preschool teachers, the majority of whom work & live in the US legally, say they are wracked by anxiety over possible encounters w ICE. Some left the field, others have been forced out by changes to immigration policy." apnews.com/article/immi...

time i see to post my favorite meme I ever created

I'm a bit fed up with media marveling that ICE isn't grabbing "the worst of the worst" as promised. the big picture is that maga influencers and their predecessors have lied for years about immigrant crime. their whole mission is based on these lies, but they can't find millions of phantom criminals

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

One of the programs, btw, is a video series that will supposedly help senior people “champion administration priorities.” Which I’m sure isn’t weird and sinister at all.

NEW: The Dept of Commerce sent out an email to senior level people a bit ago (GS-14 and 15) about a couple of development programs from OPM for leadership… only they did not bcc everyone, so there is just a list of like 500+ email addresses at that level available to all who got it. Well done.

fellas is it gay to see women as whole ass human beings

It’s like a man telling you you didn’t smile enough but via a machine and a college application

If something is developed, advanced, or maintained via public funds and resources, does that make it a public good? This sounds hyperbolic but it's a shame for humanity that [under capitalism] everything eventually becomes advertising space

This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost? This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom. I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.

New Texas Tech slogan: "Education, on a strictly need-to-know basis"

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.