For historical background on 50+ years of flogging the poor with work requirements and related measures to punish economic vulnerability, see Kornbluh & Mink, Ensuring Poverty @PennPress (2018) For the current iteration of a reactionary hobby horse, see: wapo.st/4krkrD4

Advancing cynical distortions to enforce exclusion and inequality, DOE casts Title IX as “protective legislation” (a concept historically premised on women’s presumed frailty and inferiority) thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Calling out the hypocrisy of deploying Title IX to discriminate on the basis of sex www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-...

Equality in Flames report: the Lahaina fire & response increased vulnerability to sex trafficking/exploitation by exacerbating known risk factors including domestic violence, substance abuse disorders, financial precarity and unstable living situations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Call your rep 202 224 3121. Tell them to kill this bill. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Monday's lesson: Don't mess with librarians. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

The legislation would create a national college cost estimate by degree program, put individualized caps on federal loans and limit Pell eligibility for part-time students (which could eliminate Pell grants for 61% of recipients) www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

*Enraging* apnews.com/article/dona... Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

Also, restore & fully fund the Women’s Health Initiative!

Devastating and Enraging. I remember the arduous work of women in Congress during the 1990s (including my mom) to secure for the first time federal $ for women’s health research NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Harvard sues Trump Admin to enjoin/vacate the recent funds-freeze order and attendant unconstitutional conditions www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Florida campus police to assume ICE authority to detain and question students, prepare charges

“the real reason is that endowments have become the single biggest signifier of excellence in higher education leadership, and college leaders can’t imagine making them smaller, even in the face of existential threat.” www.vox.com/education/40...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u... The plan is to repurpose the SocSec “death master file.” “The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.”

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

📚The application period is underway for Patsy Mink Foundation Education Support Awards! Awards will be offered to 5 low-income mothers who are working toward post-secondary degrees. Visit our applications web page for awards criteria & a link to the online application form.📚

Trump, Musk and Republicans in Congress are gutting services, raising prices, and racing towards slashing Medicaid, Social Security, and other life-saving programs. It’s time to fight back. app.sosha.ai/s/YkzItoaF

Stupeur dans les entreprises françaises après une lettre anti-diversité de l’ambassade américaine à Paris

❗️despicable www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/denb...

Over 50 universities are under investigation as part of Trump's anti-DEI crackdown www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g...

The Trump administration intends to eliminate EPA offices responsible for addressing pollution in poor communities, an internal memo said.

There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports. There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state. Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/main...

pro-equality/anti-trump protestors in honolulu offered lei to my mom’s statue on saturday. (my mom was an indefatigable congressional champion of equality)

USDOE launched a site for people to snitch on K-12 educators who commit DEI www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Trump to sign order Friday designating English as the official language of the US. The order will end required language assistance & multilingual options currently applicable to government agencies and orgs that receive federal $ apnews.com/article/trum...

College accreditors relax DEI enforcement, while some, eg the STEM accreditor ABET, have dropped DEI standards entirely. The American Bar Association suspended enforcement of its DEI standards through August while it weighs revisions to such requirements.

Donald Trump has choked federal research funding and banned race-consciousness and gender equity in a barrage of executive orders and other actions aimed at schools & universities. Few college presidents have publicly criticized the president’s actions. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Sweeping DOE instructions to ed institutions issued over the weekend ban all race-conscious educational activities, resources and financial aid. Also forbidden are any race-neutral university policies that could conceivably respond to race-based inequities.

Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations initiated by student complaints, while launching “directed investigations” (anti-trans, anti-DEI) ordered by Trump www.propublica.org/article/depa...

Conforming to Trump’s EO banning “gender ideology” and rescinding recognition of gender identity as a demographic characteristic, the U.S. Census Bureau cut access to certain key statistics related to lgbtq+ people. www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

Trump’s new Title IX executive order requires schools to discriminate against trans girls/women in athletics as a condition of receiving federal funds. By fiat, Title IX, a law that bars sex-discrimination, is now required to deprive some girls/women of equal educational opportunity.

On Day 1 Trump slashed initiatives to support Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges, and predominantly Black and historically Black colleges. That same week, federal webpages with information about HSIs and tribal colleges went dark. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

For Japanese Americans displaced by war and now wildfire, roots remain elusive

can't make it up

NEW lawsuit brought by University of California Student Association against Dept. of Education for the “unlawful ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of sensitive personal and financial information to the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’”… www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

talk about fraud and waste federal govt launches transphobic assault on schools/colleges that promote equal opportunity

my mother is turning in her grave

They should go with "No lives matter"

Title IX was meant to root out all forms of discrimination/inequity in education tied to sex/gender. The Trump Title IX decision perverts the law and defies its heritage to strip away protections from students who face discrimination, harassment, and violence on campus. edtrust.org/press-room/t...

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...