In Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences, enjoying the NASEM meeting on the Status of the Field of Discipline Based Education Research. @drtrmorton.bsky.social

BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚 Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown! November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom Register via QR code in graphic @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore in Adelita Grijalva, who swiftly became the crucial 218th signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing files related to deceased sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

UT alumni, sign: Longhorns for Liberty: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...

“The project will not interfere with the existing structure.” (📸 ABC News)

Florida’s Suspected Unauthorized Alien Encounters Dashboard recorded arrests of 21 U.S. citizens and another nine encounters with law enforcement.After the outlet reached out, the figure vanished. The Times reported the dashboard now shows U.S. citizens have had two encounters and only one arrest.

Thomas Jefferson’s views about Black intellect governing his beloved university

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.

Texas Strong! ⭐️⭐️⭐️✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Not only that. they NEED your attention. Deprive them of it and keep it moving.

People power democracy, and it’s the people, united, that will resist the chaos, corruption, & cruelty that threaten our democracy. We proudly sponsor No Kings and join in solidarity with all peacefully marching in resistance to autocracy. Together, we will make clear: the American bow to no king.

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

This may be helpful: bsky.app/profile/eva....

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.

As Victor & others have said: They are Segregationists. They want Jim Crow back. Whiteness is a force that's only function is domination. We wrote this in February & it's more true today. Society-not just higher ed-must stand up again to the New Segregationists www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The tension between "these daily atrocities are the new normal and you have to go on living anyway" and "these atrocities should never be normalized/the world should stop"

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Oof

The inverse version of Susan Collins’s “concern.”

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for." #noloyaltyoaths #academicfreedom

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Unapologetically repugnant.

"We cannot prevent all of the harm that ICE will do in our communities, but we can make their work harder, and we can make our values, our presence, and our solidarity known. We can make our neighborhoods and our relationships stronger, as we forge bonds in opposition to this violence."

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

We are excited to receive manuscripts for the Science Education Journal’s special theme on Critical Feminist Science Education starting November 1!! Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

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Time to focus our rage on getting this tiny, angry, Nazi prick out of government and into prison!

“I joined the AAUP because I wanted to connect w/ people who shared the values I hold dear — values that are under attack & need defending. I saw the opportunity to participate in the trial because of that connection. & because of that connection, I felt able to take a risk worth taking.”

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

Another bad day at the CDC.

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress. Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

“The world we’re fighting for… sounds like classrooms where students’ languages are celebrated, not corrected. It sounds like neighborhoods where translation is an act of care, not suspicion. It sounds like laughter across accents, like a nation finally unafraid of the richness of its own voice.”💕

"American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve. And it requires leadership, which has been in painfully short supply." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

DC has almost as many White as Black residents and they are all "part of" the city. But in the Trump/MAGA worldview, cities are definitionally for Black people, whatever the data may say

This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No one would have any confusion about what is happening if they saw it in another country.