New story from my brother in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

ME TIME TRAVELING BACK TO 1864: so you see he was a groyper, an even farther right wing conspiracy theorist steeped in fascism and video game culture ABRAHAM LINCOLN: *slowly starts to back out of the room* I see

Your PA-AAUP Conference Board is pleased to announce a new round of applications from Pennsylvania chapters for “Strategic Initiatives Fund Grants” to support proposals for up to $10,000! paaaup.org/introducing-...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

OMG it is so much worse than I thought. Grotesque

🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist. Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!

Frankly, I have seen enough. Secretary Kennedy should be fired immediately. He's destroying the agency responsible for keeping diseases (like measles and Ebola) under control. This is deadly serious.

Shame on Emory University. 😠 www.emorywheel.com/article/2025...

Calling all AAUP members in Pennsylvania! Mark your calendar for our annual Conference on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at Lincoln University. This is an excellent opportunity to network with AAUP members and to discuss strategies for defending academic freedom, building chapters, and more.

I am more concerned that so many prominent scientists - Nobel laureates, Academy Members and others with platforms - have said nothing or almost nothing. If not them then who??!!

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

let me say it plainly: RFK, Jr is a clear & present danger. He must be removed from office. His guile has made America weaker, sicker, & less prepared to defend itself. This is a dereliction of a solemn duty. HHS is the nation's DOD when it comes to health. Going AWOL should earn a court-martial.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

This is why public transit across Pennsylvania will start collapsing tomorrow. Unclear what can be done—Dems already passed bills with all of GOP's demands—other than for Dems to retaliate against rural funding and services until the GOP stops attacking urban areas. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

Game on.

Tomorrow in the New York Times: Was Ghislaine Maxwell Credible When She Said That Donald Trump Never Did Anything Wrong? We Asked Woody Allen

"I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot" sounds like a line Sufjan Stevens would write for his Ohio album before deciding to abandon the project

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

This is a really important read.

Looks like one of our ‘imprinting’ papers was cited in the HHS data package, despite our conclusion that people receiving an ancestral mRNA vaccine were better at producing antibodies against variants compared to unvaccinated people.

NEW: Sources tell Rolling Stone that Trump has repeatedly critiqued the string of media appearances by Epstein accusers and their families, arguing that some of them are just trying to make him look bad. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Corporate America has been waging a war against the trade union movement for a simple reason: They know that union workers earn higher wages and better benefits than non-union workers.

"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding" Meanwhile, private foundations:

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

AT2 cell–derived GM-CSF is essential for establishing a terminally differentiated CD301b+ lung cDC2 compartment and type 2 immunity @sciimmunology.bsky.social @chschneider.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

i make a smooth $37k a year dawg

This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.

Um, we didn't give Japanese-Americans due process, and it's widely recognized now as a terrible injustice.

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

Lincoln Nebraska shows up to their Republican town hall and twice calls a fascist spade a god damn fascist spade! Bravo, brave constituents. Speaking truth to cowardly power. Demanding your tax dollars not be spent on concentration camps. Also, check out that shirt "Go Fact Yourself!" Love it!! ✌🏻

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Look I don't like John Fetterman either but he has a name

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.