Picking up seizure medication at CVS.

1. call your congresspeople - www.5calls.org 2. donate mutual aid - www.standwithminnesota.org 3. boycott companies that support ice - www.lawfirm4immigrants.com/companies-th... 4. organize locally - support neighbors in hiding, protest, become a legal observer this is all hands on deck 💔🇺🇸

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

We are citizens of a country in which someone might be expected to survive two school shootings thousands of miles apart before they have finished their education

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Amazing work from former colleagues at Annenberg!

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

I would never presume to lecture a computer scientist on how to teach their material, as I am unqualified. This computer scientist should not pontificate about teaching subjects where he is unqualified. Teaching about race is political. Full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

Harvard’s decision to stand up against Trump was its smartest and most effective fundraising move ever. MESSAGE TO COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICIANS: IT IS BOTH THE RIGHT THING AND THE SMART THING TO DEFEND YOUR CORE VALUES.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

I really want to stress that it is not possible to teach about antisemitism without also teaching about, say, racism and xenophobia.

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he isTren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

They're not just going to stop collecting data; they want researchers to stop accessing the data that already exists. Despicable.

In this clip, Vance explicitly says that, *more* than being about national security, this is about "who do *we,* as an American public, decide gets to join our national community." Not to be Influence of Soros on this but this is antithetical to an open society www.foxnews.com/video/636998...

tl;dr (but actually go read it anyway); Born 1957-1967? You might have gotten a weak shot. Born 1967-1989? You might have gotten one shot, not enough. In either case, the options are 1) look up your vaccination records, 2) get a measles titer measurement; or... 3) just get a booster! (I did that.)

"Loomer... accused Furman and his wife Ariela Dubler of being “leftist Jews” who are as dangerous as “Jihadists.”... Trump himself has frequently accused liberal Jewish figures of being disloyal." Tell me again about how this is about fighting antisemitism.

As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools. I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

My colleague @merkolodner.bsky.social just wrote an article about how difficult it is for students with disabilities to connect with post-school transition support: hechingerreport.org/hundreds-of-...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

let's see what DOGE has been cancelling at the department of education. @stuartbuck.bsky.social went through the list. will link to his post at the end of the thread. i will start with his 4th example: foundational research to understand how american kids are doing at school

Rallies to SAVE OUR CFPB in DC, NYC, ATL, Chicago, and SF today at noon local (resharing flyer with alt text)

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

My doctoral education was also funded by an IES fellowship, which allowed me to train across disciplines and learn how to do collaborative research. A disaster for kids, for schools, for teachers, and for scholars.

Musk shutting down IES isn’t just another headline. It’s a direct hit to the heart of education research and school innovation. $900M cut. The ripple effects? Catastrophic. 🧵

Gender is such an immutable, natural binary that we have to enforce it with the full power of the state.

🚨 WATCH, SHARE: “I did vote for Trump. We are possibly going to lose our farm.” Farmers all across 🇺🇸 face bankruptcy because of what Trump and Musk are doing to the federal government, defunding Biden programs they count on to survive.

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi