Texas A&M president resigns amid uproar over professor’s gender identity lesson www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

it's officially broken

the hand is way too big, but otherwise? brilliant.

This is staggering. Dismantling the right wing propaganda machine is imo one of the biggest and most vital obstacles to the future of this country.

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Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.

The story is not what Kimmel said but what others won’t say now for fear of state retribution. Authoritarian countries thrive on self censorship.

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

80% of workers said they view corporate CEOs as overpaid, and nearly 70% said they do not believe their own company’s CEO could do the job they do for even one week, writes @sarahanderson.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/low-...

The "president" is out of his mind.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”

Transl, Rule of Law: Fuck you, Donnie. You're not a king.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Given the overt attempts to erase certain histories from public spaces...well, I hope people are taking steps to preserve their local knowledge. You can write books that are not for public consumption, that chronicle your specific family or village history. You can keep your own archives.

Trump has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present. trib.al/6bfjkJM

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned. But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

ICE agents chased a family into their home, tried to kick the door in, and forced them to barricade inside. Then, one agent dangled their house keys in front of their Ring camera. Incredibly disturbing to watch these agents’ unhinged behavior and the psychological terror they’re inflicting.

Are you a public school teacher? Would you like one of these planners? I'll give them away to the first two teachers who message me!

Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy. In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.

There’s an anti-data pattern from the Trump administration. No other president has been so destructive. This will make it hard for future ones to reconstruct and build expert teams and equipment, in this case a very expensive satellite and instruments.

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

Columbia and Brown, by settling, have encouraged this tactic. Authoritarians are emboldened by capitulation, and they won't stop until the cost outweighs the benefits.

He is a town councilman. And he was set on fire.

This is not sustainable. www.tiktok.com/@brutamerica...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this guy was rejected from jobs because his online persona is "rage filled racist asshole" and a simple google search would have compelled even the most jaded anti-woke faculty member to admit they didn't want him as a colleague for 20 years.

And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs. One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.

Allan Bakke applied to eleven different medical schools and was rejected by all eleven, but one of those eleven schools (UC Davis) had racial quotas so he sued them, insisting that racial quotas were the only thing that prevented him from getting a spot there.

We can’t even get everyone to read the syllabus 😭

Narrator: Congress was only serious about authoritarianism.

So…not antisemitism.

But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”

Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.

These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE

BREAKING: Trump's Supreme Court just greenlit his plans to gut the Department of Education. Every kid in America deserves access to a good public education.

“The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacán, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fauja Singh, the popular runner who gained notoriety for taking up marathoning well into his advanced years, died on Monday in a road accident in Beyas village in the Punjab state in India.

Assault on the entire concept of expert advice continues.

"We don’t make enough money to put up with this." Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states. newrepublic.com/article/1967...

And how much are teachers making? The median pay nationally for pre-K-12 teachers is ~$63K/yr--well below the ~$80K/yr median for college educated workers as a whole. And the situation is even more dire in some states, especially red states, where median salaries are as low as $50K/yr.

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At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

danez smith IM GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

BREAKING: Senator Alex Padilla is calling for ICE agents to be unmasked. Who agrees?