I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about protest, why large “awareness-raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

And if you can’t get anyone on the phone, send an email to your senators. 👇

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

How is the Trump administration impacting higher ed, and how can academics best respond? This Thursday the Future Trends Forum proudly hosts Ted Mitchell, ACE president, to discuss: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

I want to salute the Governor of Maine Janet Mills who, in that room with a raging Trump and silent complicitors, stood her ground and said, “see you in court!” Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague. * preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... * opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?” www.science.org/content/arti...

DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi This should be repeated in articles, regularly

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

2 upcoming virtual book talks. I have a lot on my mind right now (as we all do) and I have some things to share. Please spread the word and sign up. Mon 2/24, 4 p.m. PST lnkd.in/gBRpyGRP Thur 3/13, 6 p.m. EST www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-amer...

survey to help Higher Education Labor United get information and mobilize public statements, press conferences, and other public actions to fight current funding freezes and support of biomedical research

THIS MORNING: The Senate is voting on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence. Trump’s Putin apologist has no real experience to oversee our intelligence community. Contact your senators now! Call: indivisible.org/resource/urg... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/oppose-...

hell yeah middle schoolers www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

Important read.

We agree

It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)

“The elimination of DEI programs & initiatives at public academic institutions are a threat to the democratic purposes of higher education as a public good.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.highereddive.com/news/aaup-NA...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Listening to the Indivisible mass action call right now... www.youtube.com/live/55yf3As...

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

Leonard Peltier is finally going home.

The Center for Higher and Adult Education is planning a new series of online symposia and white papers exploring the rapidly changing socio-political environment in which research universities are now operating. Please register for our first event here: msu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Fund a Kitchen in Gaza Project "is a free tool to locate food kitchens across Gaza that are providing and distributing urgently needed meals to hundreds of thousands of people." www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/

#BLACKandSTEM 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobe...

The Atlantic has 12 writers whose entire beat recycles the same 5 anecdotes to say “woke is bad” while they tell the rest of us to get outside of our bubbles.

Higher-ed colleagues, our task now becomes to keep our fucking institutions from complying in advance. Do you know what this involves? Service work. Committee work. Being on Faculty Senate. All the shit that many of us turned our nose up at because "that wasn't what we were hired to do."

As of this morning, @nytguildtech.bsky.social, which represents NYT tech workers, is on strike. Unless it's resolved while today's Wordle is still live, this streak is gone. Here's a 🧵 with info on the picket line and how you can help. PLEASE READ — the rules may not be what you think!

Oh, bro is going back to get that Sasse money left on the table. Also imagine being provost... For one month. tucson.com/news/local/e...

So much of early survey research was done by women