I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky

I love this so much.

MAHA report written by AI and includes hallucinations. So. On. Brand.

Join us this Thursday at 6 pm ET for the next Center for Progressive Research webinar on US Empire & Global Justice, featuring Profs. Sa'ed Atshan and Sebastian Gil-Riano who discuss the place and future of the US Empire & the possibilities of solidarity www.progressiveresearch.org/events/event...

#AcademicSky: consider adding your name to this letter of joined resistance for faculty from the 60 universities targeted by the Trump Administration--with around 5K signatures already. Faculty from other universities are also welcome to add their names as allies

The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies is recruiting for the 2025-2026 fellowship supported by the Mellon Foundation. It’s a great opportunity for BIPOC/Queer scholars to connect, seek mentorship, and work in a space of solidarity and community. Spread the word!

Please consider signing this petition to university administrators urging them not to comply with or abet lawless violations of human rights by the federal government.

DOGE is terminating NEH staff and cutting grant funding. Please contact your representative to urge them to stop this. This link makes it very easy for you to do that. #Savethehumanities

Thank you, MESA and AAUP!

Good news for Yunseo Chung!

Horrific

The horror resumes

How can a country that does this host the World Cup next year? No person traveling to the US is safe. bsky.app/profile/news...

MESA Board Statement on the repression of academic freedom in the United States

Well, there it is folks. The official ADL position is support for Trump secret police to illegally detain and deport green card holders if they are part of pro-Palestine protests. If and when DHS starts doing this to citizens, count on the ADL to continue its support. This is who they are.

Donald Trump on eggs and other high-priced groceries: August 2024: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One." March 2025: "Shut up about egg prices."

“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.” Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here: www.aaup.org/news/governo...

And this is how the @nytimes.com chooses to cover this scandal. Shameful!

What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

“If anyone should ‘not forget nor forgive’ one day, it will be the Palestinians, after 100 years of torment, including the prisoners who were released on Saturday,” writes Gideon Levy.

I'm baffled by his confidence about the feasibility of this illegal ethnic cleansing plan. Egypt and Jordan have been adamant in refusing this, and so has Saudi Arabia. Is this now just for local consumption by his base (which I don't think cares that much about this), or is something else going on?

What corporate media aren’t showing you.

Let's remember that Trump is still the least popular US president in modern history. Just as in his first term, he is the only president with an initial approval rating below 50%. There are more of us who disapprove of him than approve (and the good news is that there are almost no "undecideds" now)

Good piece by Peter Beinart

Since the ceasefire deal was announced yesterday, Israel has killed at least 83 Palestinians (including 23 children) in bombings, and the cabinet has delayed the vote on the ceasefire deal for bogus pretexts… www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Thank you, Andy Borowitz. Shame on you, @washingtonpost.com!

Shame on you, @washingtonpost.com! Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, quits the the Post following the decision to kill a cartoon of hers depicting Jeff Bezos, among other billionaires, genuflecting in front of a statue of Donald Trump. “Democracy Dies in Darkness”???

Looking ahead, many resources are entering the Public Domain in 2025, like our sailor friend Popeye, The Sound and the Fury and more. The Internet Archive is ready to provide access to these items for free use and enjoyment. Help us maintain access: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

1908 advertisement for Moslem Cigarettes, a brand of Problem Cigarettes, founded in 1889 in Berlin by Szlama Rochmann, a Jewish businessman (seen at the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin) #berlin #berlinhistory

Delighted to have been part of this roundtable with Ian Williams (@brocktoon.bsky.social), Juliet McMullin, and Eugenia Garcia Amor about the potentials of #graphicmedicine for public history. Shout-out to Matthew Noe (@noethematt.bsky.social) for moderating the roundtable and editing this paper!

Tendon Magazine (@tendonmag.bsky.social) is open to submissions for a few more days! You've got until Friday to submit work in critical perspectives, creative non-fiction, and fiction on the theme of rest ✨ #medicalhumanities

For the @newyorker.com, @raniaab.bsky.social reports on the very latest developments in Syria. “I feel like I’ve been born again. We, the Syrians, have all been born again today. I prayed to live long enough to see this day.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Gross! Also Israel just annexed Syrian territory…

The scenes of liberation of Syrian prisoners, some languishing in prisons for decades and presumed dead by their families… 😭😭😭

The fall of the brutal Assad regime is a historic day for Syria and the region. May the future be kind to Syrians.

Live and learn…? 🙄

Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.

This is exactly the kind of horror everyone has been warning against for weeks. Now it is a “tragic accident”

Lest this Administration's recent theatrics fool you...

BREAKING NEWS: DEI is apparently responsible for Key Bridge collapse

Grateful for the opportunity to contribute this short reflection on the place of emotions in the history of science and medicine classroom to this special section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences on pedagogy.

Honored to be part of this collective effort led by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culng. #AcademicSky

In addition to the devastating death toll, human dispossession and suffering, and unprecedented refugee crisis, the Israeli onslaught on Gaza amounts to cultural genocide: more than 200 historic, archeological, and religious sites in Gaza have been destroyed or severely damaged by Israel's military.

If you're a graduate student working on gender in the Middle East, consider submitting a manuscript for the JMEWS Graduate Student Paper Prize. #AcademicSky

US-based scholars, please consider signing this letter to President Biden about the genocide in Gaza: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AcademicSky

How horrific!

This letter was sent to the leadership of Johns Hopkins Medicine to push back on their choice to retract, in the face of racist backlash, the definition of "privilege" offered by their Chief Diversity Officer. The fight is on to make sure that DEI efforts are not skin-deep cosmetics. #AcademicSky

I know the prospects for these upcoming elections are abysmal, but should we be glad that DeSantis dropped out? Asking for a friend.