"“Don’t take Tylenol! ... Don’t take it! You’ll be uncomfortable. It won’t be easy, maybe. But don’t take it!”

What you gonna do when they come for you? www.cbsnews.com/news/hyundai...

This is the major statement? Launching TACO’s at Putin while Putin pummels Ukraine for two more months? #tacotrade abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

What you gonna do when they come for you? #bigotry www.them.us/story/stonew...

Are we there yet? Apparently. Secretly Recorded by Anti-DEI Group, Now No Longer Employed #DEI www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

“Some of the terminated grants exceeded $1 million, funding entire research operations, including salaries for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and lab technicians.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What you gonna do before they come for you? www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

The 4 factions of Trump 2.0 www.natesilver.net/p/the-4-fact... Requires paid subscription to read the whole article, but you can get a sense of where Nate's going from the part that's not paywalled.

“Did it work?” “Anyone? Anyone?” "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn aport our once-beautiful American Dream," Trump warned. "But it is not going to happen anymore." #tarriffs youtu.be/uhiCFdWeQfA?...

If America’s CEO thinks he bought off this guy, he’s sadly mistaken. #UnionsMatter youtube.com/watch?v=qC8u...

“OK, we’re the police, relax.” What you gonna do when they come for you? www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

“Freedom of inquiry does not seem to be under threat in Canada,” he said, and moving there will allow him to be engaged in “an international fight against fascism.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The gang that couldn’t shoot straight, led by DEI [Didn’t Earn It] hire Pete Hegseth #DEI

Saving history for future generations. How long before the administration moves to remove the organization’s nonprofit status, label them a threat to national security, or worse? www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

The attack on universities is affecting healthcare nationwide. Here's what's happening in California. www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/univ...

And it’s a good thing. Some recommendations for improving opportunities are offered, but would health care organizations face loss of Federal funding or worse by following them? #DEI www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-phy...

Who’s in the driver’s seat? Tesla sends dire warning about escalating the trade war www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

No, not The Onion www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

The question isn't whether they're using a hatchet or a scalpel to achieve their stated goal, it's what their goal really is.

Elon’s secret plan for reducing wealth inequality

Will he blame this on DEI too? Nearly 750 rural U.S. hospitals are at risk of closure due to financial problems, with nearly half of those hospitals at immediate risk of closure. www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/705-...

…an estimated 4 million people will become uninsured, creating a ripple effect across the healthcare industry and wider economy. Overall employment would decline by a total of 286,000 jobs nationwide in 2026, including 130,000 jobs lost in healthcare… www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and...

A women’s place is _____? “It’s rare to uncover a finding that applies so consistently across so many people working under so many different conditions,” ... “It didn’t matter how we sliced the data.” #DEI www.hrdive.com/news/remote-...

You won’t find anything like this on the opinion pages of The Wahington Post “Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty white guy, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.” - by Joanne Lipman #DEI www.wsj.com/politics/can...

Your new Deputy Director of the FBI, its chief operating officer. No Senate confirmation necessary. Why you gonna do when they come for you? #whoseFBI www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Starter” homes in the neighborhood where I grew up ($150/sq ft) and where I spent much of my adult life ($1200/sq ft) #inequality #zipcodesmatter

How long before the regime’s DOJ, EEOC, or FCC go after CBS for this? “A partnership between CBS Studios, the NAACP and Procter & Gamble Studios, ‘Beyond the Gates,’ is the latest example of why representation is so important.” #DEI variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

2nd in command at FBI - “merit” redefined #DEI “Bongino lost three congressional race…, but has been highly successful as a media personality. A vocal supporter of conservative candidates, Bongino once declared, ‘my entire life right now is about owning the libs.’” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The General spoke truth to power. The Commander in Chief couldn’t handle thr truth #diversityequityinclusion #dei www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

“...the Department of Justice has determined that certain for-cause removal provisions that apply to members of multi-member regulatory commissions are unconstitutional and the Department will no longer defend their constitutionality.” The coup, continued. #DEI www.hrdive.com/news/doj-dec...

Earlier this week, a national nature assessment was blocked by Trump, stopping research on biodiversity and the climate justice. Scientists say they plan to publish findings anyway. Learn more on environmental injustice and society from our archive by Hollie Brehm & David Pellow: 📄 bit.ly/3QnK0HS 📄

This is a great thread highlighting what this administration’s actions are doing to higher ed. And remember that this is what they want, to break universities in the US.

"In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal." Just wondering. Will HBCUs be declared illegal? #DEI www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

The timeline is confusing, because DEI is "a shameful echo of a darker period in this country’s history," but that darker period is also all of history before DEI. What year are we supposed to set the time machine to?

“Russia, in other words, will gain power from American diplomacy that it could not conceivably have gained on the battlefield.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your (tire) chains. Ted says 20% of NSF budget goes to “left-wing ideological crusades masked as ‘academic research.’” Including EV study. #NSF jalopnik.com/ted-cruz-cla...

“A sense of foreboding had been building. The day before Donald Trump got on the phone with Vladimir Putin, the US leader observed matter of factly that ‘Ukraine may be Russian some day.’” #Ukraine www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, said on Tuesday: “If they recognised the [USAid] organisation as an enemy, let them give us the lists. Congress will send us the lists — we will give them to the FSB [Russian security service].” apple.news/AsVlWWPorTgG...

"There are moments in the world’s history where people look back and ask, 'Where were the lawyers? Where were the judges?' In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable," said the judge. Applause broke out in his courtroom. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-p...

Look what snuck out the door at EEOC this morning. At least some folks at EEOC anticipate that they will still be in business by April. #DEI content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USE...

Seminar announced by EEOC overnight. Won’t happen? “Participants will explore strategies to promote civility, navigate federal EEO regulations, and build an inclusive environment that enhances employee engagement and fosters harmonious, productive workplaces” eeotraining.eeoc.gov/profile/web/...

EEOC likely to stop requiring large firms to report race and sex composition by occupational categories. It’s the only source of data for analyzing firm-level occupational race and sex segregation by industry, trends over time, etc. #DEI www.npr.org/2025/02/09/n...

Some diversity programs are effective at reducing workplace bias, others do hardly anything at all, and some make matters worse. Those that work best, without using preferences or quotas, are the ones most likely to be banned under the DEI EO’s. Is that the intent? #DEI hbr.org/2016/07/why-...

Those millions of white men who lost out to a “DEI hire” in pursuing high-level jobs? It didn’t happen. #DEI www.wsj.com/business/dei...

Who’s in your wallet? www.blackenterprise.com/elon-musk-do...

How USAID is connected to each state and the support they give by US State #USAID www.usaidstopwork.com/usaid-state-...

Tariff concerns appear to be driving up consumers’ inflation expectations www.sca.isr.umich.edu

"Forces." Executive Orders tell the Executive Branch what to do, not state agencies

"At a time of intense geopolitical competition, the United States kneecapped itself, removing thousands of valuable employees and forcing those who remained into unhappy conformity. It is hard not to see the same mistake being repeated today" www.politico.com/news/magazin...

MICHAEL BURAWOY The ISA invites the global community of sociologists, scholars and social actors to an online celebrate of his life & legacy on Saturday, February 8, at 9 am in Berkeley, 12 noon in New York, 5 pm in Manchester, 6 pm in Paris, 7 pm in Zambia, 10:30 pm in India. tinyurl.com/BurawoyCOL