This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Yes, yes and yes! “When we counter disinformation, we need facts and feelings. When we mobilize voters, we need data and joy. When we build resistance, we need strategy and beauty.” open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

The irony. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Hey Chicago, city of my birth - headed your way soon w/Dr. Irby & Dr. Swinney! Pls register & spread the word! #DoingtheWork #ChiTown #ChicagoBeyond @tcpress.bsky.social

Q&A with Decoteau J. Irby and Ann M. Ishimaru about their new book, DOING THE WORK OF EQUITY LEADERSHIP FOR JUSTICE AND SYSTEMS CHANGE. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2s426rhw

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Come workshop your academic writing into public pedagogy with Decoteau Irby & me on Sat at 9:20! #WriteforthePeople #DoingtheWork #ResearchMatters

Honored to be invited to such a probing & engaging conversation! #DoingtheWork

Happy Democracy Day! Looking forward to seeing you the day after to keep #DoingtheWork!

Join Dr. Decoteau Irby and Dr. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social for critical conversations on sustaining justice-focused educational change in the face of subtle resistance and the current anti-DEI backlash. #DoingTheWork #EquityLeadership (1/5)

Tell me you’re a Portlander without telling me. #froglove

Looking forward to being in conversation about the book w/peeps near and far!

Happy publication day to Professors Decoteau Irby and @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social! Their book, "Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change," by @tcpress.bsky.social, is now available. #AnnIshimaru #DecoteauIrby #DoingTheWorkOfEquityLeadershipForSystemsChangeAndJustice (1/5)

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My kid: What’s peach cobbler? Me: (gasp in Georgia-childhood-mom-failure-horror, frantically make some) Biscuits aren’t as good as I’ve had or remember in GA but the WA peaches are outstanding! #WAPeach

What’s keeping me going today: MS principal: No backpacks btwn classes - leave them in locker & carry stuff to class. Kids: Ok we’ll use totes instead. Principal: No totes either. Kids: Fine, we’ll use: garbage bags, Xbox boxes, Home Depot buckets, garbage cans, IKEA bags! 😂🤣😜

UPDATE: Organizers created a letter for education scholars, practitioners, and students to sign to stand up to Harvard Ed Publishing about their censorship of Palestine. Here's the article about it and next is a link to read, sign & share the letter: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942. The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng

“The most powerful, well-heeled institutions of higher education in this country are cutting deals with the Trump administration that undermine the future of higher education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd

This thoughtful review by @shannapeeples.bsky.social provides a vital reminder of the hope we must recapture -- hope we felt while learning about these wonderful Schools of Opportunity. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social @katesomerville.bsky.social @michellevalladares.bsky.social @wileyke.bsky.social ‪‪

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

Shocked & proud that my parents are out protesting #NoKings today too! Hard to convey how surprising that is - they have never even been close to a protest - it’s a sign of what we’ve come to that they are out on the streets as well!

Hundreds of thousands already have showed up what may be shaping up the biggest ever protest in the history of our United States. Couldn’t be more perfect and timely for our democracy. Starting a new thread wheee I share photos and videos bc they are giving me life. #NoKings

Mochi the Dog (our friends’) signed his own sign! #NoKings #DogKnowsBest

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Today, more than 12,000 Harvard alumni asked a federal judge to accept an amicus brief urging the court to shield their alma mater from what they described as an “existential threat” posed by the Trump administration’s freeze of nearly $3 billion in federal research funding.

Let’s go! New book with long-time collaborator Decoteau Irby coming out soon - #DoingTheWork feels more pressing than ever.

"Universities are bureaucratic messes sometimes and struggle to provide equitable access. But they were our messes—governed by scholars, accountable to professional standards, not political agendas. It was what made the university worth defending." @nelsonlflores.bsky.social www.bit.ly/4kg9yU3

“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous." Whew #AndorSeason2 delivers right on time

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a…

A new series of reports commissioned by the National Academy of Education proposes ways to address educational inequities associated with the pandemic. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social bit.ly/3E9ZSLF

This makes so much sense - youth should have a say in the folks calling the shots in their education!

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I don’t always feel proud to be an alum but this makes me so today!

Needed a break from US news - how lovely is it that a cherry blossom tree blooming makes national news in Japan? www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.” “Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A few people hanging out in Seattle… #HandsOff @teslatakedown.com @troublemakers.bsky.social @indivisible.org

#HandsOff #Seattle THOUSANDS turn out at Seattle Center for Hands Off protest...

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Trump's "biggest crowds ever" have finally materialized.

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

Really apparent something massive is going to give in this country and I do not think anyone is ready for it.