Ellen Licking
@ellenlicking.bsky.social
Hell. No.
NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
April 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hell. No.
Reposted by Ellen Licking
NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEW: The Trump administration wants federal supervision of Columbia University—a consent decree—which could last for years and subject the university to contempt penalties if it doesn't conform to Trump admin demands. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Truth. This is why they are dismantling the universities.
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
March 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Truth. This is why they are dismantling the universities.
Thank you Governor Pritzker.
March 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thank you Governor Pritzker.
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If you still harbored any doubt that President Trump’s ongoing attack on Columbia University – a private institution – is drawn straight from the authoritarian playbook, then the latest development should be clarifying.
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-targ...
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump Targets Higher Ed In Pure Authoritarian Move
INSIDE: Elon Musk ... Ed Martin ... Pete Hegseth
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you still harbored any doubt that President Trump’s ongoing attack on Columbia University – a private institution – is drawn straight from the authoritarian playbook, then the latest development should be clarifying.
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-targ...
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-targ...
Truth.
March 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Truth.
Reposted by Ellen Licking
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January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
January 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No. The Medicaid portals were shut down because the OMB demanded they be. They’re only back up because of the outcry. I’d tell you to stop lying but we know that’s a feature of this administration.
A very real concern and not limited to the sciences. We should all be very worried about the fate of history and political science departments outside select Ivies. Will professors/students be able to study important issue that put today’s geopolitical events in context?
At the end of interviews, I ask researchers if they're working on anything else that should be on my radar. Keep thinking about all the future work that won't make my radar bc it won't get pursued. How will a climate of fear, real or imagined, shift priorities? What knowledge do we lose out on?
January 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A very real concern and not limited to the sciences. We should all be very worried about the fate of history and political science departments outside select Ivies. Will professors/students be able to study important issue that put today’s geopolitical events in context?
I am still struggling with why it requires two people. I mean, geez, you want efficiency, ask a working mom.
We keep saying this and it really seems no one is listening.
I am gonna repeat this here as often as needed.
The "Department of Government Efficiency" is not a department. To make a whole new cabinet level department requires an act of Congress.
The "Department of Government Efficiency" is not a department. To make a whole new cabinet level department requires an act of Congress.
November 23, 2024 at 7:21 PM
I am still struggling with why it requires two people. I mean, geez, you want efficiency, ask a working mom.
Oh! So worthy
This was Austrian Airlines' final post on Twitter, and it's brilliant. x.com/_austrian
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Oh! So worthy
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More true now than ever
November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
More true now than ever
Feel like I will be saying this a lot in the coming months. Sigh.
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Feel like I will be saying this a lot in the coming months. Sigh.
This. Story.
Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, commemorated Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 address. The Lincoln scholar who recited the 16th president's words said the speech felt “not like a relic from the past, but a prayer for the future.”
On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land
Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:33 PM
This. Story.
Ayup
November 23, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Ayup
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This is what I’ve been talking about, trying to be thoughtful about when to be outraged. It’s going to be a very long and very dark four years. Sometimes letting republicans fight with each other is going to be the only way.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 PM
This is what I’ve been talking about, trying to be thoughtful about when to be outraged. It’s going to be a very long and very dark four years. Sometimes letting republicans fight with each other is going to be the only way.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
I.Can’t.Even.
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. cnn.it/3CB8lpY
November 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I.Can’t.Even.