Friday at noon, Thompson statue, the Oval. Please read through the petition to see the demands. if you are local and want to speak, you can submit your name also. Remember to wear red. #redfored This is part of a national day of action on 11/7.

Comic #4. Enjoy, share, reflect.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America’s largest city, after winning NYC’s mayoral race aje.io/vrh1g8

I’ve reposted my Op-ed for the Columbus Dispatch onto my blog for access. Please read and share! pranavjani.medium.com/maga-christi...

My great colleague on the ways in which MAGA Christian nationalism means bashing even the 2nd lady and so many others @redguju.bsky.social in the Dispatch, there’s history here too www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Great column by @redguju.bsky.social: “We need to always be vigilant, regardless of who is targeted. But let’s make it about antiracist politics and principles…We can call out the hate without empathizing with those, like Patel and Ramaswamy, who are actively harming communities of color…”

Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.

On this day in 1983, the United States military invaded Grenada, marking the end of the Caribbean nation’s Marxist experiment.

A comic, a petition, and a teach-in. Stop all restrictions on land acknowledgements!

#3. Enjoy the comic, then scroll for action items.

New blog essay. Leftist perspective on attending No King, and future liberal-led mobilizations. pranavjani.medium.com/why-i-suppor...

The attack on our colleagues’ academic freedom, and anything to do with race and diversity, is in full force at OSU. Obeying in advance once again, OSU is now withdrawing support for scholars studying topics and attending relevant conferences that the federal government doesn't like.

The Dept of Education’s $3m grant to the Chase Center (link attached) makes it plain. Don’t buy the rhetoric about the Center's political neutrality.

www.chronicle.com/article/view... I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.

Loving the new cartoon series.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

“When someone asked me what communism was…i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon… Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is…always decide…for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you." Assata Shakur, Autobiography

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy." —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Thanks to @andydowning33.bsky.social for the interview with me and my colleague, and for taking on a topic of the Professor Watchlist that is not being fully discussed in the media today.

“The messages could get incredibly violent, saying, ‘I hope what happened to this person happens to you and your family.’” matternews.org/community/ta...

Important piece. Here’s @redguju.bsky.social: “what these watchlists do is they say that if you’re a professor who has certain opinions, you’re automatically indoctrinating students…implying that I’m not a good teacher, when the reality is they don’t have a clue as to what I do in my classroom.”

I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"

Send the national guard into Utah now.

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

Please write letters to defend our research!

I spoke to 10TV yesterday about SB1. Keep the pressure on. Let ppl know about the ongoing repression. No time to stay quiet.

AAUP-OSU board member Richard Finlay Fletcher spoke to “Inside Higher Ed” about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements - and its chilling effect on academic freedom. Link below.

frustrated by some of the responses I was getting, I asked Google whether it thinks its AI has a bias. In the same way that we have robots confirming that we are human, google AI confirmed that it cannot be trusted…. while blaming humans for the bias

Kent State University students, wearing all black, marched across campus Wednesday, holding a “funeral” for the now-shuttered LGBTQ+ Center, Women's Center and Multicultural Center that they say state legislators killed with Senate Bill 1. by Conor Morris www.ideastream.org/education/20...

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First day of class and I’m ready to go!! Taught some excellent students. Commemorated the ongoing genocide & scholasticide in Gaza. And wore black following the call from the Ohio Student Association to protest SB1. Faculty: Join @osuaaup.bsky.social & let’s get organized! #SB1Blackout

“Abroad, it depicts Israelis as carefree and liberal — a fantasy Western audiences can enjoy guilt-free. Israelis are introduced as ‘one of us’; Palestinians as those who spoil the party”. — #AJOpinion by Benjamin Ashraf ⤵️ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Palestinian families are choosing between braving Israel’s fierce bombardment at home or being forcibly displaced again.

We encourage faculty at OSU and around the state to follow the lead of the Ohio Student Association (at OSU and across the state) and wear black on Wednesday, August 27. Let’s show our opposition to Senate Bill 1, the Destruction of Ohio Higher Ed Act.

OSU has a banned words list for multimedia postings: Diversity DEI/DEIJ (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice) Equity Implicit bias Inclusion Inclusive Excellence Racial justice Social justice Underrepresented/underprivileged/underserved Antiracism #censorship

I learned today that Ohio State faculty can’t put a land acknowledgement statement in their syllabus and that we can’t ask students to voluntarily disclose their pronouns. #firstamendment #ohiostate

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Who's ready to go chalk the Oval with me? #OhioState is embarrassing every one of us with this garbage. open.substack.com/pub/rachelco... #Ohio