👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to... <taps mic> <John Facenda voice> ...Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. Do.

100-Plus Head Start Programs Will Go Without Federal Funds If Shutdown Drags On: The programs were due to receive their federal funding allocations Nov. 1.

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

So glad to see this book out! Check out the multi-faceted perspectives included in this edited book on queer youth and bullying, including a conceptual chapter on administrative bullying written by Dr. Cris Mayo and yours truly!

Between falling salaries and rising scrutiny, it's no wonder so many districts are facing teacher shortages. And of course, that's all by design.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Host: On the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the man who helped organize that march tweeted this. 'Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protest being replaced by immigrants... now it is official White House policy. Never give up.'

Firing someone for reporting factual data is unacceptable. You can’t bury the truth — we just had the worst 3 months of job growth since we lost 1.3m jobs during the pandemic. We support our economy by investing in working families, not just the 1%.

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

This month marks 100 years since the Scopes Trial, when a teacher was accused of breaking Tennessee law by teaching evolution. “The great thing about the past is it’s not dusty. And it’s not irrelevant,” says Brenda Wineapple, author of “Keeping the Faith," a book about the history of the trial.

Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.

Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.

What this narrative conveniently ignores is that this regression on trans rights is the result of a decade long political strategy by the far right funded to the tune of over billion dollars. I'm not making this up, they literally wrote this exact strategy down in 2015. Every aspect of it.

New pub with @joecimpian.bsky.social in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social We discuss how new population-based YRBS results helps bolster our ability to examine transgender adolescents’ health. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

71 years after #BrownvBoard, US #k12 #schools are still divided along racial, ethnic, and economic lines. Our 2022 research shows that more than 1/3 of students (18.5 million) attended a school where 75% or more students are a single race/ethnicity. #EduSky Read more 👉 bit.ly/3RU4Uz6

So pleased to share this early career support from the W.T. Grant Scholars program that will further my work on improving the use of evidence concerning LGBTQ+ youth in schools. Looking forward to engaging with my mentors, the other Scholars, and the entire network.

Something you might not know: school meal programs are often linked to Medicaid. So when Medicaid gets slashed, students lose healthcare AND miss meals. Congress is considering deep cuts to Medicaid—and the consequences could be huge. buff.ly/rHQ5sH2

As we point out in Science, the Trump proposal to convert NIH program officer jobs into political appointments (Schedule F) will mean, that instead of actual scientific experts, people like "Big Balls" will choose how to direct NIH funds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

This is the day every young voter should remember. For several years running, young people said they needed mental health counselors more than anything—while legislators fawned over vouchers. Washington finally listened in 2022. Trump just cut the program.

It’s been such a gift to learn from Dr. Gill, who presented a marvelous dissertation earlier this month. Congratulations, @erinkgill.bsky.social on another accomplishment!

The State Department has deleted information for travelers about safety concerns based on race, gender, and sexual identity. That could hamstring colleges that rely on the federal risk assessments for advising students who study abroad. chroni.cl/44ttpuh

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Terrific reporting from @axios.com on Trump calling trans care “child abuse,” rightfully declaring AS FACT that this is pure stigma in opposition to scientific and medical consensus www.axios.com/2025/04/04/t...

Today, Trump’s 10% tariffs go into effect which serve only to raise costs for the American people. Here’s a statement the White House released today: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”

Trump has disappeared $9 trillion dollars. Just so you know, it would take approximately 24,658 years to spend $9 trillion at $1 million per day. Glad I could clear that up

Trump wiped 2.5 trillion dollars out from the stock market today. Let's check in on America's most watched cable news network!

hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵

👭CDE affiliate @drmcquillan.bsky.social describes in @edgemedianetwork.com the importance of maintaining and expanding resources to support LGBQ youth “Coming Out is Not Enough: Queer Teen Girls Need Support, Acceptance” ➡️Read more here: www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/338278

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do. There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...

As a share of total employees, however, the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences took the biggest hits. Again, how can this not mean that services won't be compromised?

So proud of all the service Ben does for our professional associations! Thanks for highlighting some of it! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @divisionagsc.bsky.social @ucea-leadership.bsky.social @uceagsc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social @balebo.bsky.social

This is a campaign of eradication. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

Now every day is trans day of visibility

Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New study with @drmcquillan.bsky.social - suicidal ideation in HS girls rose, from 23% in 2015 to 29% in 2021 - Girls' LGBQ identification rose 15% -> 34% To address suicidality, reduce stressors on LGBQ youth, now over 1/3 of HS girls @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

@drmcquillan.bsky.social McQuillan and Cimpian call attention to the toll the toxic patriarchy and regressive education policies are having on our kids. #EduSky #AcademicSky #EducationPolicy

So proud of my latest publication w the brilliant Mollie McQuillan and Lydia Gandy-Fastovich. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🍎 #EduSky #AcademiaSky

📄New #publication in JAMA Pediatrics from CDE affiliate Mollie McQuillan & colleagues ➡️"Transgender Adolescent School Climate, Mental Health, and Adult Social Support" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New research by @joecimpian.bsky.social and IDS affiliate @drmcquillan.bsky.social suggests that stress around sexual identity might contribute to increased risks of suicide among teen girls. theconversation.com/teen-girls-a...

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Thanks @aeraedresearch.bsky.social for highlighting @joecimpian.bsky.social and my research. This paper calls attention to the need for MORE not less support for LGBTQ youth.

To put the OMB grant freeze in context, roughly 17.5% of Wisconsin’s revenue comes from federal grants in aid last I checked. Overall, federal grants account for roughly 36% of all state government budgets in US. In a number of states the federal share is even higher.

LRTs: this essay 1) provides a brief history of how gender-affirming care for trans adults & youth came to be 2) debunks the most common anti-trans talking points & tactics 3) provides a list of over 100 studies & reviews showing how established this field is: juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...