“The [Trump] compact ‘is the greatest single incursion into the freedom and autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country,’ said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors”

"Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy. Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess." www.citationneeded.news/trump-binanc...

"A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.…YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos…by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with…archives."

The Bruce Lee stamps are pretty wonderful www.stampsforever.com/stamps/bruce...

Zohran! Ghazala! Aftab! Ravi! americankahani.com/politics/cau...

"the Australian government announced that, beginning next year in much of the country and spreading to the rest by 2027, all residents will get three free hours of electricity every afternoon…This 'Solar Sharer' plan…is possible precisely because Australia has built so much solar power."

With quotes from @aldebaran14.bsky.social and others

“the secretary-general of the United Nations…acknowledged that it was now inevitable that the world will miss the target of limiting global heating to 1.5C…He urged delegates to ‘change course’ to prevent the Amazon rainforest from becoming a savannah.”

I’m hopescrolling tonight

"The possibility that UC will agree to Trump’s proposals or any version of them has made them afraid that they or their students will be retaliated against for doing research or teaching within these broad areas of study…they expect the consequences to be spread across the UC system."

"It was the sense of panic she felt in 2017, upon hearing about Trump’s first ban on travelers from some majority-Muslim countries, that prompted her to make a run for office. Trump’s actions, Hashmi said at the time, made her doubt whether she still had a place in the country"

That's the second Trump agency using face scanning — and this one is being pushed out to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

"Two judges have blocked the deportation of Subramanyam Vedam, the Pennsylvania man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a murder conviction that was recently overturned."

"Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the [FBI]. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask…"

Join Savera today for the first of our two-part webinar series on how the diverse communities within our diaspora can take a unified stand against surging racism and xenophobia! Join us at 7 pm ET tonight by registering at the link below: bit.ly/iastandup

As an end user, this has been a welcome change www.wired.com/story/bizarr...

Just everyday foreign policy things: “The intimidation included approaching country officials during coffee breaks to warn them they might not be able to transit via the US, or that they and their families could face restrictions on entering the country if they acted against American interests”

“By closing comments, we’re following in the footsteps of other news outlets across the country, many of which made the call after finding they give outsize power to a tiny, non-representative portion of their overall readership.” www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/03/b...

"Last week, the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr voted to indefinitely suspend efforts to impose new, lower price caps on predatory U.S. prison monopolies…The reforms, which literally took decades of activism and work to pass, were quickly sidelined via a 2-1 vote by the Republican FCC majority."

Just got my hands on one of the new BART sweaters, and they’re really nice www.bart.gov/news/article...

From the article: “And there’s an irony to it: All these people are basically bullying me, or bullying my baby through me, and then they’re like, ‘Well, I’m only doing it because he’s gonna get bullied someday.’ When, actually, they’re the ones bullying him.”

.at a time when global backlash against transgender rights is surging, the Supreme Court of India is charting a totally different path, moving towards the ‘full realisation’ of equality for transgender people under the law.” globalvoices.org/2025/11/02/h...

“The move protects the ICC from further targeted sanctions by the US government for ‘transgressions against the United States and Israel’ - in which judges and prosecutors for the court have been threatened with travel bans and asset freezes.” www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...

“When pressed on the fact that no known Bhutanese refugees were deported under previous administrations, Subedi hesitated. ‘Deporting Bhutanese refugees is wrong,’ he finally said. ‘I don’t like it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is surprisingly helpful. I appreciate that they focus on good use cases (e.g. summarizing, brainstorming) instead of just listing the bad ones. stopcitingai.com

The most important insight into the interconnections of birth-based apartheid in the US and India. Interview with Thenmozhi Soundararajan, winner of the Vaikom Award. article-14.com/post/-aligni...

"If those conservative lawmakers want to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding Islamic schools, there’s an obvious solution: End the voucher program entirely." www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-re...

"The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“the people running it aren’t confused about this trade-off. They’ve actively chosen engagement metrics over governing because governing is for suckers, and engagement is how you maintain power while you loot the rest of the government.” www.techdirt.com/2025/10/30/t...

these National Guard resisters are refusing to to go to war against Americans www.techdirt.com/2025/10/30/y...

"Aaron Reichlin-Melnick…wrote: 'Since the US Refugee Program was created in 1980, it has admitted over two million people fleeing ethnic cleansing and other horrors. Now it will be used as a pathway for white immigration.'"

I love that Berkeleyside is publishing this in partnership with the BHS student newspaper

Thanks, Donald: “A new survey by the reputable Canadian pollster Angus Reid finds that only 27 percent of Canadians regard the United States as a ‘friend’ or ‘ally.’”

“Grokipedia isn’t really a competitor at all, because it is everything that Wikipedia is not: It is not an encyclopedia, it is not transparent, it is not human, it is not a nonprofit, it is not collaborative or crowdsourced, in fact, it is not really edited at all.”

Thank you Python Software Foundation: “Ultimately, however, the value of the work and the size of the grant were not more important than practicing our values and retaining the freedom to support every part of our community.” pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

“…Kinslow began to reconsider all those gifts when the school said the application for his diversity scholarship needed to be modified to comply with anti-DEI laws.” www.friendlyatheist.com/p/donor-pull...

I didn’t expect Dhillon to ever say anything about Sikh issues after joining the administration. I have nothing nice to say about her, but she’s not the least self-respecting Desi in the administration. asamnews.com/2025/10/29/t...

“The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online.”

“Eventually, the risk of being primaried by Trump becomes less scary than the risk of being associated with a deeply unpopular president doing deeply unpopular things…So, no, this isn’t a big shift. But it’s a little one. An important crack in the wall, which hopefully starts to turn into more.”

Attacks on non-citizens through a thousand little cuts: “According to the DHS, applicants who will file to renew their EAD on or after Oct. 30, 2025, will no longer receive an automatic extension of their EAD.” indicanews.com/dhs-abruptly...

“At the demonstration, a federal agent was ‘forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed,’ the indictment said” theintercept.com/2025/10/29/k...

“To preserve human rights and community safety, all people in the United States are advised to turn off and cover their Amazon Ring cameras this Halloween to avoid complicity with ICE operations and the deportation of immigrant families who are trick-or-treating.”

“If enacted, California would join New York and Vermont, which both passed similar ‘polluters pay’ climate superfund laws in the last two years.” cal.streetsblog.org/2025/10/29/c...

“The rewriting of the Taranto filing is part of a larger pattern inside the Trump-run DOJ. Since the president’s return to office, dozens of prosecutors and staff who handled January 6 cases have been dismissed, demoted, or reassigned.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“How much is the complete destruction of the federal regulatory state worth over the next few decades? Probably significantly more than the millions Comcast is throwing at the ballroom.” www.techdirt.com/2025/10/29/c...

"It’s this weird, privileged, out-of-touch statement that if ICE or CBP stop you for being brown, they’ll let you go as soon as you show them that you’re an American citizen. Of course, we knew at the time that wasn’t true."

The good news in a terrible story: Reduced coal burning has saved about 400 lives a day in the last decade www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Since that 2015 global deal, the world’s richest 1% have burned through more than twice as much of the remaining carbon budget as the poorest half of humanity combined” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Some vulnerable employees of Lucky 7 bolted for a supply closet. They made it, locking themselves in. They were OK. One man, a 55-year-old employee, ran. He was not OK. ICE arrested him, threw him in one of the cars, and screeched out, onto the freeway, gone.” slate.com/business/202...

The level of everyday corruption is unspeakable. Any one of these would be impeachment-worthy. popular.info/p/3-scandals...