IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

Brett, thank you so much for being such a mensch, first-class human being, and extraordinary steward of NEH's Digital Humanities portfolio. You will be profoundly missed. @brettbobley.bsky.social #ThanksBrett

I honestly don’t know how journalists should respond in an accelerated turn toward authoritarianism when their own institution is being attacked by the government and when the government aches and salivates to use the machinery of the state against its own people +

The UMD Senate just voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Big 10 Mutual Defense Compact. Ohio State was 15 minutes before us. The makes half of the Big 10 that have signed on.

NATO. But for US universities. @univofmaryland.bsky.social statenews.com/article/2025...

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social What do you make of this?

@marcelias.bsky.social Can you directly address this new Trump memorandum or EO or whatever it is? Right now the courts are our only way to fight back. This will have a chilling effect.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @harrylitman.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social Can we fight back? Can we (paradoxically) use the courts to reverse this?

Just as so many of us now rely on Bluesky lawyers & legal experts to do explainers on the lawsuits against the Trump admin, we are going to need health professionals, doctors, scientists, & disease experts to fact check & debunk RFK Jr. +

@mcuban.bsky.social Still going to argue in favor of Trump admin extortion? New details suggest Musk is involved too. They’ve threatened to cut off Ukraine’s internet service.

Mark Cuban called it yesterday!

@joshtpm.bsky.social TPM subscriber here--I appreciate all the work you do. I don't know if TPM could have a role in this or not, but my understanding--and I'm not a lawyer--is that one of the few avenues available to us in terms of stopping Musk is civil litigation by individuals +

New — @indivisible.org is holding a protest at the Treasury Building 5pm this Tuesday to take action against Elon Musk's hostile takeover

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Begging Bluesky lawyers & journalists to cover this story: Trump admin appears to be in violation of judge’s orders: @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @ericlipton.nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @harrylitman.bsky.social @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @markzaidesq.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social I thought a judge was issuing a new block of the federal freeze that took into account the press sec’s tweet claiming WH was rescinding the memo, not the freeze. But see below—NSF post docs have had their paychecks suspended; is Trump admin in violation of judge’s orders?

@ericlipton.nytimes.com @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social No hyperbole in saying that Smith's report is one of the most important documents in US history. Trump's DOJ will destroy it if Garland doesn't release it. +