RIP Free speech. Death by a thousand cuts

So right on point.

True story.

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is. Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

This week, I joined my colleagues in the House to introduce the Raise the Wage Act. It’s long overdue that we increase the federal minimum wage. No full-time worker should struggle to make ends meet. Everyone deserves to earn a living wage for their hard work.

“Experts in government, consumer rights and immigration law said the administration’s action is illegal. Labeling people dead strips them of the privacy protections granted to living individuals — and knowingly classifying living people as dead counts as falsifying government records…” Truly vile.

More of this, please! academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

Coming soon to public universities everywhere. And heck there's plenty of fascists in power in our privates as well. Night falls quickly

When teachers are expected to die protecting children from school shootings, it’s not shocking when those same educators won’t allow their students to be snatched.

The degree to which right-wing operatives are gifted an unobstructed path to prestige journalism outlets is rather underdiscussed. I never tire of pointing out that CBS News once hired a Politics News Director whose entire pre-CBS professional background consisted of being a GOP political staffer

Shipping immigrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador is "the natural consequence and evolution of what we've seen throughout the last 20 years," J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detainees, said.

Proud that my synagogue signed onto this excellent amicus brief in support of Rümeysa Öztürk. The intro is especially worth your time. www.templemicah.org/wp-content/u... #NotInOurName

Absolutely. And if you want to understand the types of attacks that you will likely be seeing across the country in the future, check out our #HigherEd bill tracker which lists bills of concern currently working their way through the #Txlege. aaup-texas.org/blog/f/highe...

The return of Erik Prince of Darkness to political power

I regret to inform you that we may need to uncancel Giorgio Agamben.

“If the administration’s lawless & unconstitutional attempts to control speech & governance at Harvard are allowed to proceed, then any one of our institutions could be next. The impact would be catastrophic – crushing freedom of speech and academic freedom as hallowed ideals in our democracy.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Who better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?

Victory for Colorado immigrant families and communities! Yesterday, SB25-276 passed its senate committee with a vote of 3-2. We’re working to make sure this bill becomes law, and that Coloradans can feel safe, no matter where they are from.

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

In its statement on student visa revocations, the University of California can’t even be bothered to perform concern for the well-being of students but is quick to note it will absolutely collaborate with “federal laws.” www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u...

Ah yes - the New York Times. What can one still say after all these years...

More cops, more guns, more pretrial detentions will make DC 'beautiful' again.

Washington, DC, with the props!

Statement from detained student Rümeysa Öztürk dictated to her attorneys while jailed at the South Louisiana ICE facility: “Efforts to target me because of my op-ed in the Tufts Daily calling for the equal dignity and humanity of all people will not deter me” @theintercept.com

“Neutrality in defense of higher education’s mission and the principles of collective bargaining is not an option. We must reject appeasement. We must reject capitulation to the enemies of higher education and collective negotiations.” #StopTheCoup www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

This is the admin's goal: Taking "gender identity" out of government language, so that the private sector feels pressure to take it out, too, and a future court will rule that actually it's not protected. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

Good piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social . How Trump is turbo-charging corruption with tariffs. He will impose them and then selectively ease them if companies and CEOs bend their knee. He will destroy the economy for personal political power. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Okay. Based on today's stock news, i.e. what Trump has done to crash the economy, I can never retire. So higher ed will just have to deal with me being around for a while longer. There's work to do my friends. Let's have at it.

Okay Columbia, U of Alabama, U of Minnesota and other universities where students were illegally snatched by ICE, it's time to stand up. Thank you Tufts.

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

“Most of the women of Operation Life have now passed on. But they would be happy to see this new era of activism…They insisted that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty.” — @anneliseorleck1.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth www.beacon.org/Storming-Cae...

And beyond the Big 10 let's go. Mutual defense pact in state schools? Mutual defense pact in the Ivies? (bwahaha) We need this

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

Shame, shame, Google Calendar! Look at all this women’s history you’re missing out on with these books by @cherylneely.bsky.social, @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, @anneliseorleck1.bsky.social, @scottwstern.bsky.social, and others. Sucks to be you! #WomensHistoryMonth @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social

Honored to be in this company, thankful to Beacon for the great idea of forging ahead to celebrate and read all the wonderful histories they don't want our students to know. Fight erasure. Teach the truth.

It’s amazing that the country is actively engaging in self-destruction every day all because a segment of the population wanted to feel better about themselves at the expense of everyone else. It’s like public swimming pools being emptied and closed after the end of segregation but with everything.

Has it occurred to anyone that this isn’t a strategy or a tactic, but that he is untalented, knowledgeable, and struggling with age-related dementia? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

I mean, we couldn’t be more unbothered that Google Calendar doesn’t “recognize” #BlackHistoryMonth anymore. Black history is still happening. We'll be chilling with these books by @anneliseorleck1.bsky.social and others. ✌🏽 @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Ouch. This is exactly where we're at. Don't look away. At least not all the time.