"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

From the 2024 study that was just removed from DOJ’s website: “Militant, nationalistic, violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.

Turns out there IS money to forgive student loans BUT ONLY if you join the Trump Secret Police

This incentivizes a perverse affirmative action for white people since the only way to prove the institution isn't selecting against a group is to select for them. It's akin to anti-BDS legislation that effectively requires companies to set a preference for working with Israeli companies.

Wesleyan University's sociology dept is searching for an assistant professor this fall - especially interested in scholars of space with an interest in questions of method. Non-sociology PhDs are encouraged to apply! Feel free to share and reach out with questions!

READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields. No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...

Not seeing any news in the west yet about Saif Al-Din Muslat, a 23-year old U.S. citizen, being beaten to death in occupied Palestine yesterday by settlers. I think if an Israeli-American were beaten to death by Palestinians, the NYT would be on it www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Breaking: Trump's birthright citizenship order is blocked nationwide again, after a judge in New Hampshire said he would certify a nationwide class of children who would be deprived of citizenship if the policy took effect.

Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty. Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!

This bill was never only about eviscerating social services or enriching oligarchs, bad as that is. It’s also about using state power to build a private police force for the fascists—and spreading fear and destroying solidarity. Being brave and building solidarity is a big part of how we fight back.

The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

During the Red Scare this country denaturalized and deported radicals, especially those advocating racial justice, socialism, and communism. There is a long history behind these repressive tactics. Just look at the case of Claudia Jones, for example.

"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor" hot damn

Others have said this, but I think it bears repeating: the Trump Administration is tearing up our democracy, our health system, our alliances... And our still free press, our still viable opposition party are focused on *imagined quotations* of a newly nominated mayoral candidate.

It would be tempting to find the “antisemitism panic” re Mamdani laughably absurd, & yet I’m reminded of the “DEI” & “trans panics.” The fact that ppl w power are able to say absurd things in public shld be understood instrumentally: as anti-democratic calls for state violence

This is so dangerous.

This is a shockingly racist call by a House Republican for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported. But instead of being viewed as unserious, it's now being promoted and circulated by LibsOfTikTok, Benny Johnson and MAGA regulars. Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.

Everything @mayasen.bsky.social says here. It doesn't matter if you, say, want Harvard to promote viewpoint diversity more. These threats are unlawful. And giving in to them sets an unacceptable precedent for academic freedom and democracy itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

Start your workweek with @astra.bsky.social being spot-on in @newrepublic.com. The imagined future polity that orients this bill - Christian Fascist patriarchy that somehow remains the world leader in STEM - is a patent absurdity. That doesn’t mean its futile pursuit won’t be catastrophic.

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

"He is doing ok physically, but I know what really impacted him the most was the emotional trauma of watching parents and kids being separated," Bass said. "He's going into ICE custody and we hope to get him out very soon."

The thing about this is that the Trump administration doesn't even really need to win in court in the end, because the mere fact of the status of international students being so uncertain is going to have a chilling effect on international students wanting to come to the US in the first place.

This whole issue looks great!

* US JUDGE SAYS SHE PLANS TO ISSUE INJUNCTION BLOCKING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM IMMEDIATELY REVOKING HARVARD'S ABILITY TO ENROLL FOREIGN STUDENTS @reuters.com

REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa? TRUMP: On what? REPORTER: Foreign student visas TRUMP: For the French? REPORTER: All the foreign students TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?

Indian Students Brace as USCIS Nominee Targets OPT Program migrantinsider.com/p/indian-stu...

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

like I dunno maybe if you are going to state something weird and racial about half the population of a country of 1.4 billion people you should have… a (?) source ? ??

NEW: Judge Burroughs GRANTS Harvard's requested TRO against the Trump administration, blocking it from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students during early court proceedings.

Noem's statement. Not sure the law in question but also not sure it matters: “They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

Noem: “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments,” she said. Current students are being told to transfer or lose status. Disgusting and so very dangerous.

This is an even more serious attack on Harvard—and potentially US universities more broadly—than earlier announced federal grant cutbacks. Hard to see a legal obstacle, too—unless they handle it in a flagrantly discriminatory way (which of course Noem etc might be just dumb enough to try…)

Retracting the ability to host students has long been the threat wielded by the federal government over colleges and universities. It has never been exercised against an accredited non-profit institution that I know of. I study HE through the politics of noncitizen students: this is THE concern.

Went and I checked this, and Edwin's correct: On the left is text from the reconciliation bill "PROHIBITING FEDERAL MEDICAID AND CHIP FUNDING FOR GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES FOR MINORS" On the right is from the Manager's amendment that strikes the word "FOR MINORS."

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

Did Trump dictate this letter ? Or are his people falling in line to adopt his illogical, hyperbolic manner of speaking?? "Where do many of these 'students' come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even our country--and why is there so much HATE?" Laugh or cry?

"...it’s always been a struggle I see as the last kind of stronghold of 500 years of European colonialism. As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example." - Momodou Taal hammerandhope.org/article/momo...

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month. The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

BREAKING: ICE didn't even have an arrest warrant at the time they "arrested" Mahmoud Khalil. They literally just kidnapped him, then moved him around to evade judicial accountability. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...

Wow—15 international students at the University of Central Florida have had their visas revoked as a result of the school's signed partnership with ICE. One was detained. Literally handed over to immigration cops by their own university. Despicable.

#1 on the Project2025 higher-ed wishlist:

With the recent news story about the White House considering ways to encourage women to have more babies, I thank Chloe Anygal for reminding me that I already covered this. None of this is about us. “The haranguing of women will continue until white women are brought to heel.”