Emily Handsman
@ehandsman.bsky.social
assistant prof at Rutgers Sociology, Sociologist of education studying orgs, politics, and culture in schools
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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.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!
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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
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
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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...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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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...
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...
Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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...
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...
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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.
MESSAGE TO COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICIANS:
IT IS BOTH THE RIGHT THING AND THE SMART THING TO DEFEND YOUR CORE VALUES.
April 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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.
MESSAGE TO COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICIANS:
IT IS BOTH THE RIGHT THING AND THE SMART THING TO DEFEND YOUR CORE VALUES.
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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.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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.
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@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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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.
RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer.
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
March 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
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I really want to stress that it is not possible to teach about antisemitism without also teaching about, say, racism and xenophobia.
SCOOP: The ADL quietly sunsetted its flagship anti-bias program and is shifting its educational material to an emphasis on antisemitism only amid broad right-wing attacks on DEI. Senior Reporter Alex Kane spoke to multiple former ADL education employees: jewishcurrents.org/adl-shutters...
ADL Shutters Flagship Anti-Bias Program
Former employees say the organization is shifting away from educational content on racism and the LGBTQ experience and focusing more exclusively on…
jewishcurrents.org
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I really want to stress that it is not possible to teach about antisemitism without also teaching about, say, racism and xenophobia.
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Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...
March 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
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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.
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.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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.
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.
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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.
March 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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.
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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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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...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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They're not just going to stop collecting data; they want researchers to stop accessing the data that already exists. Despicable.
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
They're not just going to stop collecting data; they want researchers to stop accessing the data that already exists. Despicable.
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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...
www.foxnews.com/video/636998...
JD Vance reveals whether more deportations of green card holders are coming | Fox News Video
Sneak peek: Vice President JD Vance discusses the rights of green card holders in an 'Ingraham Angle' exclusive.
www.foxnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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...
www.foxnews.com/video/636998...
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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.)
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.)
This is a clear and useful explanation of who might need a measles vaccine booster & why. A must-read for people born in the U.S. between 1957 and 1989 🧪 slate.com/technology/2... on @slate.bsky.social
Uh … Am I Protected Against Measles? It Might Depend On When You Were Born.
But really, don’t get too worried.
slate.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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.)
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.)
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"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.
Tell me again about how this is about fighting antisemitism.
Judge Jesse Furman, a Jewish federal judge who blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, is now facing a wave of online attacks from far-right figures like Laura Loomer and Charlie Kirk.
Trump allies target Jewish judge — and his wife — after ruling on Palestinian activist
Laura Loomer, Charlie Kirk and others attacked Judge Jesse Furman and his wife, Ariela Dubler, head of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School.
forward.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"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.
Tell me again about how this is about fighting antisemitism.
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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.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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.
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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.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
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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.
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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.
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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
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
enddei.ed.gov
February 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov