Suzanne Pritzker
@suzannepritzker.bsky.social
Professor of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh. Civic engagement, voting rights, political social work. Twin mom. Views expressed are my own. Author:https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319685878
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As a proud Virginia alumna, this is a disgrace.
the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
June 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As a proud Virginia alumna, this is a disgrace.
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"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."
Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert
We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."
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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
www.dailycal.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Also… when you start firing the ~volunteers~ surely you can drop the pretense that this is about efficiency. 🙄
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Also… when you start firing the ~volunteers~ surely you can drop the pretense that this is about efficiency. 🙄
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Rubio says he is deporting students for antisemitism, but its a cover for hime to pursue attacks on higher education and immigrant students. The fact that he launders his views with actual antisemites gives the game away. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
April 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Rubio says he is deporting students for antisemitism, but its a cover for hime to pursue attacks on higher education and immigrant students. The fact that he launders his views with actual antisemites gives the game away. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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There we go.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There we go.
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“Research & teaching has been chilled by Trump's attempts to coerce. If he can threaten to withhold billions unless we stop teaching about DEI, he can make the same threat on teaching science or anything else. Higher ed cannot freely exist w/threats like this.”
- Kirsten Weld, president AAUP-Harvard
- Kirsten Weld, president AAUP-Harvard
April 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“Research & teaching has been chilled by Trump's attempts to coerce. If he can threaten to withhold billions unless we stop teaching about DEI, he can make the same threat on teaching science or anything else. Higher ed cannot freely exist w/threats like this.”
- Kirsten Weld, president AAUP-Harvard
- Kirsten Weld, president AAUP-Harvard
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Also taught American politics for years and can't believe we're at the place where we're imploring Congress to care about Article I of the Constitution. Yet here we are.
April 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Also taught American politics for years and can't believe we're at the place where we're imploring Congress to care about Article I of the Constitution. Yet here we are.
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If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.
thegriffinlist.com
thegriffinlist.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.
thegriffinlist.com
thegriffinlist.com
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Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Friendly reminder:
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Endless shakedowns and ransom notes. Universities will hang together or hang separately.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are "pro-Hamas," senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges
The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Endless shakedowns and ransom notes. Universities will hang together or hang separately.
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@crampell.bsky.social: It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim to be combating antisemitism while coddling avowed antisemites. Multiple senior Trump aides have embraced the antisemitic “great replacement theory” and delivered Nazi salutes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | How (not) to keep Jews safe
President Donald Trump’s anti-antisemitism crusade should make everyone nervous.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
@crampell.bsky.social: It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim to be combating antisemitism while coddling avowed antisemites. Multiple senior Trump aides have embraced the antisemitic “great replacement theory” and delivered Nazi salutes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Will this make waves? Will this be addressed? Will the media, politicians, movement leaders seize on this?
Because during the Trump and Biden administrations, very little energy was focused on the *mechanics* of democracy. Which is how we got here. Nothing worked an no one tried to fix it.
Because during the Trump and Biden administrations, very little energy was focused on the *mechanics* of democracy. Which is how we got here. Nothing worked an no one tried to fix it.
Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges.
There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.
There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.
March 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Will this make waves? Will this be addressed? Will the media, politicians, movement leaders seize on this?
Because during the Trump and Biden administrations, very little energy was focused on the *mechanics* of democracy. Which is how we got here. Nothing worked an no one tried to fix it.
Because during the Trump and Biden administrations, very little energy was focused on the *mechanics* of democracy. Which is how we got here. Nothing worked an no one tried to fix it.
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Why a few hundred university presidents haven’t been jointly making similar points for the past month (and of course they should have for years) is beyond me. If not now, when?
Former Columbia provost Jonathan Cole-"Columbia’s leaders have weakened...our leadership among the greatest educational institutions in the world...If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means...we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Why a few hundred university presidents haven’t been jointly making similar points for the past month (and of course they should have for years) is beyond me. If not now, when?
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The fascists don’t just want people to be afraid of dissenting. They also want you to feel hopeless and cynical, convinced change can’t happen.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
March 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The fascists don’t just want people to be afraid of dissenting. They also want you to feel hopeless and cynical, convinced change can’t happen.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
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All of higher education is in the crosshairs www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
March 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
All of higher education is in the crosshairs www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
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Why elite institutions MUST speak out.
March 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Why elite institutions MUST speak out.
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I don't take a back seat to anyone on the subject of anti-semitism. Jews are being used here as a fig leaf to advance a broader attack on universities and higher learning. Trump wants to bring Universities to heel and obedience. Jews are just a convenient cudgel here and just as disposable.
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 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I don't take a back seat to anyone on the subject of anti-semitism. Jews are being used here as a fig leaf to advance a broader attack on universities and higher learning. Trump wants to bring Universities to heel and obedience. Jews are just a convenient cudgel here and just as disposable.
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the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
March 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
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Accusations of antisemitism are going to be the tip of the spear for much of the fascist takeover of the United States.
Those who care about antisemitism must vociferously push back. They want us to be complicit so they have a justification for their actions as well as have a group to blame it on.
Those who care about antisemitism must vociferously push back. They want us to be complicit so they have a justification for their actions as well as have a group to blame it on.
March 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Accusations of antisemitism are going to be the tip of the spear for much of the fascist takeover of the United States.
Those who care about antisemitism must vociferously push back. They want us to be complicit so they have a justification for their actions as well as have a group to blame it on.
Those who care about antisemitism must vociferously push back. They want us to be complicit so they have a justification for their actions as well as have a group to blame it on.
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Colorado last year *required* jails to set up voting stations so people behind bars could vote — a first for any state ever.
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups - Bolts
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but Colorado's first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Colorado last year *required* jails to set up voting stations so people behind bars could vote — a first for any state ever.
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
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This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.