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Walkaway from a group C. Peter Wagner dubbed one of the main paradigms of the New Apostolic Reformation. Been warning of the takeover since 2004. Also a veteran US higher ed alt ac. Old stuff still on ex-twitter. Psudonym due to years behind enemy lines.
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ulyankee @ulyankee.bsky.social · Mar 12
🧵If you haven't read A Comprehensive Guide to Overhauling [my note: destroying] Higher Education, you need to. h/t the Chronicle's interview of Columbia's former president. I saw this when it first came out but looking at it again now is terrifying. www.aei.org/op-eds/a-com... 1/
www.aei.org
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arbiteriapetus.bsky.social
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R, LA) is a Christian Nationalist. This thread highlights the work of people like @kkdumez.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social @brucewilson.bsky.social and @jeffsharlet.bsky.social who tried to warn us.

bsky.app/profile/arbi...
arbiteriapetus.bsky.social Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · Feb 16
There's a school of thought which suggests that the only way to disable the fascist movement is to stop shielding MAGA voters from the consequences of their actions.

Well, now that the GOP administration is disabling disease surveillance, response, and even basic research, there's no shield. 1/ 🧵
nohaaboelatamd.bsky.social Noha Aboelata, MD @nohaaboelatamd.bsky.social · Feb 15
We appear to be seeing an uptick of devastating flu-associated Acute Necrotizing Encephalitis in children this season. We've had reports here in No. Cal. Others out of Boston. We're piecemealing things together because there's no active surveillance for ANE, and CDC can't communicate with partners.
July 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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profgagne.bsky.social
Welcome to all new followers! Hope my scholarship can be useful to you somehow. Interested in knowing more about the NAR or Global Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in general? Check out my Substack and YouTube channel. You'll find resources such as an important series on NAR Apostolic Centers.
July 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
Must read 🧵about Christian Nationalism & the NAR with many resources.
arbiteriapetus.bsky.social Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · Feb 16
There's a school of thought which suggests that the only way to disable the fascist movement is to stop shielding MAGA voters from the consequences of their actions.

Well, now that the GOP administration is disabling disease surveillance, response, and even basic research, there's no shield. 1/ 🧵
nohaaboelatamd.bsky.social Noha Aboelata, MD @nohaaboelatamd.bsky.social · Feb 15
We appear to be seeing an uptick of devastating flu-associated Acute Necrotizing Encephalitis in children this season. We've had reports here in No. Cal. Others out of Boston. We're piecemealing things together because there's no active surveillance for ANE, and CDC can't communicate with partners.
July 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
1/Three words in the regime's latest salvo against Harvard reveal that their supposed investigation has NOTHING to do with anti-semitism or civil rights, but is cover for rolling back civil rights under the guise of merit.

"Offering remedial math."

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Harvard’s inaction in the face of these civil rights violations is a clear example of the demographic hierarchy that has taken hold of the University. Equal defense of the law demands that all groups, regardless of race or national origin, are protected. Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies—where individuals are sorted and judged according to their membership in an oppressed group identity and not individual merit—has enabled anti-Semitism to fester on Harvard’s campus and has led a once great institution to humiliation, offering remedial math and forcing Jewish students to hide their identities and ancestral stories.
June 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
1/ A short thread on the IHE piece about the regime's call to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) to take action on Columbia.

Essentially, USED is asking MSCHE to do something different than they already did.

Article (soft paywall): www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
ED Pressures Accreditor to Act on Columbia
The Trump administration called on Middle States to take action against Columbia for alleged civil rights violations, arguing it is out of compliance with accreditation standards.
www.insidehighered.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Princeton has frozen most staff hiring and called on all departments and units to plan for 5% to 10% budget cuts as it prepares for the possibility of “very large, permanent cuts to federal research funding as well as substantial increases to the endowment tax” paw.princeton.edu/article/prin...
paw.princeton.edu
May 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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katherinestewart.bsky.social
My latest on Trump’s misnamed “anti-Christian bias” task force for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
How Trump Will Use “Anti-Christian Bias” to Entrench His Power
The administration plans to boost the political agenda of Christian nationalists while rolling back the civil liberties of everyone else.
newrepublic.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
ChatGPT, write a letter to Harvard that sounds like my boss wrote it.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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bellmora.bsky.social
“When famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eye”
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · May 3
Our latest: Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it. Janet Mills wouldn’t bend the knee. Instead, she kicked the ass. The orange ass, to be specific.
Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it
Remember the Governor of Maine.
www.thealtmedia.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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gretchentg.bsky.social
The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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rogueresistknitter.bsky.social
Ok, I did a deep dive into this EO and here's what I came up with. This EO, if it's upheld by the courts, will allow employers to discriminate, legally, against anyone who isn't an able bodied straight white Christian male.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Hey news people, do you think you could offer maybe some headlines about TRUMP TRYING TO REPEAL THE CORE OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT?
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
ulyankee.bsky.social
No accreditation=no Title IV funding (Pell, etc).

Harvard might be able to survive this but most of higher ed, including the schools that educate the vast majority of Americans, would shut down.

Thus it’s no accident that yesterday’s other EO imagines a future w/o colleges. #academicsky
(b) The Attorney General and the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall jointly formulate and issue guidance or technical assistance to employers regarding appropriate methods to promote equal access to employment regardless of whether an applicant has a college education, where appropriate.
April 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ulyankee.bsky.social
The regime’s war against US higher education is predicated against their bizarro interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, particularly Titles VI and VII. Oh, and IX if you include the war on trans ppl.

They’re trying to have it both ways. #academicsky
pamspaulding.bsky.social Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · Apr 24
Felon47's audacious attempt to erode decades of civil rights gains should be front page news everywhere, with analysis deconstructing this offensively-titled EO, point by point.
is.gd/CYy1Fk

DKos: Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Civil Rights Act of 1964
is.gd/eHh4I9

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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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brucewilson.bsky.social
When he says "we had more money than anybody", he means the tiny minority who were vastly wealthy.

Most Americans were poor and lived miserable, work & disease ridden lives -- which ended at the average age of 52.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 23
Trump: "In 1913 they traded to the income tax system. We used to be all tariff. And we had no income tax and we had the wealthiest country we ever had proportionately from about 1870 to 1913. We had more money than anybody."
April 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
ulyankee.bsky.social
Oh, and this because we don’t need colleges anymore. We’re going past segregation to, if not everyone can get in college then let’s just shut them all down and not require a college education.
(b) The Attorney General and the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall jointly formulate and issue guidance or technical assistance to employers regarding appropriate methods to promote equal access to employment regardless of whether an applicant has a college education, where appropriate.
April 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
🚨 Trump is trying to revoke aspects of the Civil Rights Act by executive order.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
ulyankee.bsky.social
Nothing like getting higher ed breaking news at night because of some stupid after hours EO targeting “accreditors” including scare quotes and everything.

I just can’t. I’ll analyze the best I can in the morning. 😢
#academicsky
April 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
ulyankee.bsky.social
Sadly,
most.of.us.can't.go.anywhere.
katherinestiles.org Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Apr 22
Researchers in the US are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data.
#AcademicSky #US #Science #Trump #BrainDrain
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
www.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
1/I categorized the institutions whose leaders signed the AAC&U Public Statement that was published yesterday, speaking out "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." I looked at state, public vs private etc. #academicsky
April 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
This is what weaponizing rhetoric looks like. It means that accusing the regime of #NoDueProcess is gaining traction and hurting the regime. They can't call due process bad so the next tactic is, "I know you are but what am I?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfeL...

Keep going!
April 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
ulyankee.bsky.social
I said this last week, that the regime’s threat to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status had precedent in Bob Jones U.

This current moment is revenge for the Civil Rights movement where the regime is (ab)using Civil Rights era statutes to undo it all.

#academicsky
rickpidcock.bsky.social Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · Apr 21
The Trump administration threatening to take away Harvard's tax exempt status is the resurrection of a previous kind of discrimination, reminding me of when the government took away Bob Jones University's tax exempt status. Here's my piece for today. baptistnews.com/article/trum...
Trump, Harvard and Bob Jones University
Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University may be novel, but it is not new.
baptistnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM