"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

History repeats.

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Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Animal agriculture is wrecking the planet and the media is helping by saying nothing. Silence is complicity.

The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

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This. I have seven part-time/consultant positions at the moment. Any writing or peer review I do beyond those contracts--including work on my own book and public-facing project--is unpaid time. Having to say I'm an Independent Scholar feels untrue. I'm just dependent on more than one institution.

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Sadly, entirely true. We’ve got people who have put themselves above the law, and alleged law enforcers who can’t be trusted with the law. This is how you lose the rule of law. And thereby how you lose democracy.

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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

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There was no outrage from MAGA three months ago about this:

Reality making a comeback? We can only hope.

Not good enough.

This is where I land.

It is time for media to cover the community of tens of thousands of active and open neo-Nazis on Twitter, who publicly talk about adoring Hitler and killing Jews and minorities, who are frequently retweeted by Elon Musk, and who are currently working hard to incite mass violence.

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now. You're taking a class, not buying a product.

Since this is all about revenge, maybe Tom Hanks should run for president.

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

In a country where bankruptcy due to medical care costs exists, America has decided to end all preventative disease infrastructure

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

wow. blam. truth. #TruthWarriors

It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace. Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.

RIP Graham Greene🕊 (1952-2025)

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

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All The Demands Trump Is Making Of The Smithsonian https://theonion.com/all-the-demands-trump-is-making-of-the-smithsonian/

“Papers, please”

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Imagine if this headline read: "...schools reject trump's demand for 'whites only' bathrooms" Reject all demands from the segregationist GOP. Reject discrimination of any kind.

Some of the unidentified federal "police" this evening. The ones who sped off in cars with New York plates.

Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.

I’m sorry? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Moore: We were able to see historic drops in violent crime, and never once did I activate the National Guard to do municipal policing. This is not about performance — this is performative. They are now using the military as pawns in this process to feed into this military fetish