Fantastic thread breaking down the Trump admin’s proposed compact for U.S. universities.

Here's how you tell. If you wanted to help students afford college, you'd pair a tuition freeze with an expansion of Pell grants, federal financial aid, loan repayment help, & other efforts by the Dept of Ed to help students afford college—all of which this gov't is cutting or capping.

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one. This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

These are the people in the room, just to emphasize the point here.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

A few words on survey weights, why I'm embarrassed to have forgotten to take them into account in the past, and how I got lucky because I personally didn't get burned. Not a mistake I intend to repeat in the future blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Delighted to contribute to an effort led by @omfishient.bsky.social, @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, @danielbolnick.bsky.social, @jbyoder.org, Susan Brennen, + Gisele Muller-Parker. Petition link here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

The whole outrageous story: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

"Bystanders and passersby started following the officers, chanting: 'ICE, go home!' The agents stopped at the intersection with Oak Street. Several got in vans that drove away. For another 15 minutes, the crowd of protesters around them grew bigger, yelling 'shame,'" reports @chicagotribune.com

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The Israeli army is deploying trucks with loudspeakers in Gaza to broadcast Netanyahu’s UN speech, while Unit 8200 will send it directly to Gazans’ phones. Israel is forcing Palestinians to listen to Netanyahu’s speech. Insanity.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

“I have advocated, and I still advocate revolutionary change. I advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism, and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.” - Assata Shakur

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr. We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Palestinian politician, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), Dr. Mustafa Barghouti commended President Abbas’s UNGA speech for exposing Israeli crimes in Gaza and settler terror in the West Bank — but said it missed key points: 1. The U.S. blocked the Palestinian…

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Happening tomorrow!!

I didn't buy the idea that Van Hollen was seriously considering a presidential bid in 2028 until I read this profile of him just released in WaPo

It is an increasingly crummy and unstable job. Rather than worry about pay you should be concerned about the fact that faculty and students have less and less of a voice in their selection, turning college presidents into political appointees

Just a reminder that armed, masked men snatching people up in unmarked vans on the orders of the president, the very top of the Republican Party, is political violence.

This is terrible.

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

This is the masculine energy that Zuckerberg promised

🔦 Yale Donated $1M to Friends of the IDF, Funding Soldiers Behind Gaza Atrocities The Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) has revealed Yale University donated $1,000,000 to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in its 2024 tax filings – the largest such donation by any U.S. university…

This piece in the Chronicle a) questions the internal consistency of the events identified in the Fire database - what is in, what is out, is it recorded accurately and b) argues that it misses more profound changes, like university policy constraints on protests. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

A reminder.

The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv

Forced displacement inflicts a staggering emotional toll on families in Gaza. It also brings steep economic costs.

Breaking News: Eleven Democratic elected officials were arrested in New York City after demanding access to ICE’s migrant detention cells.

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist. Boycott them. Destroy their bottom line. See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership. Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is. Do. Not. Support. Them.

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

College students disagree a hell of a lot on every political or policy question you could throw at them. This is abundantly clear in Israel/Palestine debates. And it’s the very uni admins calling for “viewpoint diversity” and “debate” who have spent the last 2 years ensuring none of that can exist.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

They never complete the sentence, ie "...educators and students must face ideas we find offensive, such as the claim that Black women lack the brain processing power to fly planes or serve on the Supreme Court or that gay people should be stoned to death." Pretty telling that they don't!

Complete madness. The deadly violence that has been loudly demanded by some of the most powerful, petulant people on earth is underway.

⚡️Drop Site Daily | September 16, 2025 Israel invades Gaza City, Free speech crackdown on Charlie Kirk critics, Italian dockworkers threaten strike over Gaza blockade www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

They used tear gas on him, and wouldn't let him shower. For three days. That stuff gets in every pore. Your skin burns for days, even after a shower. This is torture.

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.