Where are the student protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.

Seems applicable to the myth of "the leftist university" as well. See Vance's speech on the idea that "professors are the enemy," for example.

Got to see a prescreen of I Love Boosters last night - so good! Will be seeing it again after its May 22nd release!

Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

It's hard not to just scream, over and over again, that the US power elite being ok-to-enthusiastic about Israel's decades of illegal and genocidal violence against Palestinians is why Trump can openly brag about doing war crimes against Iran and it's just normal and unremarkable

Black abolitionists saw their project as a rejection of the idea of Black transportability, insisting that freedom of movement is a human inheritance that belongs to all. Ending anti-Black policing necessitates the abolition of border regimes www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

A federal judge has ruled that Columbia students' lawsuit against the university and federal agencies, alleging that the two have colluded to restrict speech critical of Israel and supportive of Palestinian rights, can go forward. hellgatenyc.com/students-can...

Today, we're calling on the Trump administration to implement a one-year pause on federal student loan debt payment and collection services for all federal student debtors after the Trump admin announced plans to shift the student loan portfolio from Education to Treasury.

1. The scientists behind the infamous ROGD/Social Contagion myth have released a new study called AYAGDOS, and are recruiting unsuspecting trans youth. They're operating under Northwestern. Community leaders need help spreading the word to avoid the study. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They want this at every university, and they want this to supplant extant courses at every university Don’t think it can’t happen to you because you’re not in West Virginia If they can do it at The New School in Mandami’s NYC, it‘s coming for you

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

Leqaa Kordia is out of detention after more than a year

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

“What are we pretending not to know today?” —Toni Cade Bambara

In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence www.patreon.com/posts/152164...

"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people." Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

Amazing how pro-war ideology filters down even to the mundane bullet points stations like @wxpnfm.bsky.social reads out on the air.

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The reason you stand firm about sports participation and bathrooms is because it never stops with sports participation and bathrooms. And it never stops with trans people. As we've been saying the whole goddamn time!

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Somehow, the inclusion of markers for accessibility and play courts makes this even more gruesome. People asking what happens after there are no more immigrants have not been listening to the plans for queers and women.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

An absurd quote from a Texas university administrator: "Nobody could have envisioned what was going to be happening in international student enrollments."

"But the Constitution would also provide the national government with the power to govern others, 'Indians,' in spaces of liberal constitutional exception. In these spaces, the national government built a constitution of empire" (10).

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:

Huge fan of Bray’s work. And the political retaliation he is facing should remind us: either you’re fascist or you’re anti-fascist….🤔

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Fighting fascism requires a realistic analysis of power and force. The right-wing shouldn't feel they can reward their killers and motivate others to kill for them without any consequences. I wrote about the importance of unrelenting actions for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

Public comment against the planned ICE warehouse in Surprise, Arizona.

I'm so perplexed by this move, especially given the importance of oil industry training in and for Texas.

A useful explainer of - Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing. Thanks to Critical Resistance!

Been thinking about this comparison and my students at UC Davis in 2011 a lot over the last several months.

Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

If America -- any America -- survives this, I want an entirely new discourse about how racism ruins EVERYTHING for EVERYONE

Abolish. ice. 💔

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

The violence workers murdered a care worker. ICE must be abolished.