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cepaea.bsky.social
Did you go to a U.S. college or university? If so, your alma mater needs you!

Trump is now threatening *all* of U.S. higher ed with his authoritarian "compact." Please sign ✍🏼 this petition to let your school know that YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO SIGN THE COMPACT.

& pls share!!! 🤲🏼

#AcademicSky
SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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utaustinaaup.bsky.social
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Click to call your rep now! Oppose SB 37, We Don't Want a State Takeover of Higher Ed!
Click to call your rep now! Oppose SB 37, We Don't Want a State Takeover of Higher Ed!
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April 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
anneliseorleck1.bsky.social
RIP Free speech. Death by a thousand cuts
alt-dol.altgov.info Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · Apr 21
DOL staff just received a threatening email from Chief of Staff Jihun Han on "unauthorized communications" - calling it our "only warning."

So they can trash us but we can't trash them (i.e., tell the truth)
... got it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈😈😈
I would like to remind all DOL employees of the vital duties and responsibilities you uphold in your work on behalf of the American people. As part of those duties and responsibilities, you are exposed to confidential and deliberative process information. This may encompass DOL policy development, enforcement strategy, and other confidential information. There are several government-wide and DOL statutory authorities related to the proper handling of confidential government information and usage of nonpublic information, including the Privacy Act of 1974; the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552; Disclosure of Confidential information, 18 U.S.C. § 1905; the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act, 44 U.S.C. § 3561; the Use of Nonpublic Information, 5 C.F.R. § 2635.703; Basic Obligations of Public Service, 5 C.F.R. § 2635.101. See also: DOL’s guide on How to Keep Out of Trouble - 2022. Compliance with these requirements is essential to furthering the mission of the Department of Labor. We are aware of reports that current employees have engaged in unauthorized communications with members of the press/media, former DOL employees, and other third parties. Agency employees are not permitted to discuss DOL non-public, pre-decisional, or confidential information with anyone outside the Agency. This applies to all forms of communication, including informal conversations, emails, texts, and social media. Individuals who disclose confidential information or engage in unauthorized communications with the media may face serious legal consequences—including potential criminal penalties, depending on the nature of the information and the applicable laws—and may face immediate disciplinary actions, up to and including termination from the DOL. This message will serve as your only warning. Unless explicitly authorized, no employee is permitted to speak to the press on the Agency’s behalf. All media inquiries must be directed to the Office of Pu…
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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lippoenen.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
anneliseorleck1.bsky.social
So right on point.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Apr 13
It’s weird that so many centrists imagine they can soothe fascism by bringing more “conservative” profs to campuses. (The current right isn’t conservative.) The entire fascist leadership apparatus is the product of elite schools. Is the problem that colleges need to produce *more* for that class?
April 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
True story.
April 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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davidoatkins.bsky.social
If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is.

Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.
April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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replsimon.bsky.social
This week, I joined my colleagues in the House to introduce the Raise the Wage Act.

It’s long overdue that we increase the federal minimum wage.

No full-time worker should struggle to make ends meet. Everyone deserves to earn a living wage for their hard work.
April 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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karrieurbanist.bsky.social
“Experts in government, consumer rights and immigration law said the administration’s action is illegal. Labeling people dead strips them of the privacy protections granted to living individuals — and knowingly classifying living people as dead counts as falsifying government records…”

Truly vile.
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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hankreichman.bsky.social
More of this, please! academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...
Two Calls to Defend Our Universities
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following resolutions from the Academic Council of the University of California Academic Senate and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Academic Senate were pub…
academeblog.org
April 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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kelseyhightower.com
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson
April 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
anneliseorleck1.bsky.social
Coming soon to public universities everywhere. And heck there's plenty of fascists in power in our privates as well. Night falls quickly
April 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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schrodingerscat25.bsky.social
When teachers are expected to die protecting children from school shootings, it’s not shocking when those same educators won’t allow their students to be snatched.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 10
It appears that plainclothes ICE agents tried to question Los Angeles school children based on the false premise they had parental permission (they didn’t).

School administrators prohibited their entry into the building.

MORE OF THIS.
BREAKING: LAUSD confirms plainclothes federal agents tried to question kids at two elementary schools in Los Angeles Monday but were denied entry by administrators. Superintendent Carvahlo said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true Carvahlo said the agents were seeking to talk to five children who came to this country as unaccompanied minors and are in the care of legal guardians. LAUSD's legal team is responding - the agents did not have warrants to access the campuses.
April 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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grantlorrell.bsky.social
The degree to which right-wing operatives are gifted an unobstructed path to prestige journalism outlets is rather underdiscussed.

I never tire of pointing out that CBS News once hired a Politics News Director whose entire pre-CBS professional background consisted of being a GOP political staffer
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Apr 12
Written by a goddamned editorial assistant (for three years?) plucked straight out of Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller
April 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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huffpost.com
Shipping immigrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador is "the natural consequence and evolution of what we've seen throughout the last 20 years," J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detainees, said.
Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ Helped Create Trump’s Terrifying War On Immigrants
Shipping immigrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador is "the natural consequence and evolution of what we've seen throughout the last 20 years," J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detainees, said.
www.huffpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Proud that my synagogue signed onto this excellent amicus brief in support of Rümeysa Öztürk. The intro is especially worth your time.

www.templemicah.org/wp-content/u...

#NotInOurName
II. INTRODUCTION AND INTEREST OF AMICI Amici are American Jewish congregations and organizations who revere the Constitution and cherish its guarantee of freedom of speech. Without presuming to speak for all of Jewish 2:25-cv-00374-wks | Document 85-1 Filed 04/10/25 Page 3 of 18 America a diverse community that holds a multitude of viewpoints— amici are compelled to file this brief because the arrest, detention and potential deportation of Rümeysa Öztürk for her protected speech violate the most basic constitutional rights. Öztürk, a Turkish national PhD student at Tufts University, co-authored a March 2024 op- ed in her school newspaper, The Tufts Daily, criticizing the University's response to the Tufts undergraduate student senate's resolutions calling for divestment from Israel and characterizing Israel's military actions in Gaza as a genocide. While many amici may disagree with these sentiments, nothing in the op-ed violates any law. In short, it peacefully expressed dissent and called for action. On March 25, 2025, six masked plain-clothes officers apprehended Öztürk on the street as she was going to an iftar dinner to break her Ramadan fast. They surrounded her, handcuffed her, placed her in a vehicle, and eventually transported her to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana. The video of the arrest was alarming. It was later revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had revoked Oztürk's student visa without notice to her, solely because she had co-authored the op-ed. As set forth in a letter addressed to Öztürk, the government appears to justify these extraordinary measures under a rarely-invoked statute that expressly prohibits the Secretary of State from detaining and removing a noncitizen because of their "past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations," when lawful within the United States. But the same statute includes an unconstitutionally vague exception allowing deportation if an individual's presence is deeme… 2:25-cv-00374-wks Document 85-1 Filed 04/10/25 Page 4 of 18 antisemitism a goal that, on its face, is laudable. Antisemitism is a persistent scourge that has threatened the Jewish people for centuries, and about which amici, like Jews everywhere, remain ever-vigilant. But arresting, detaining, and potentially deporting Öztürk does not assist in eradicating antisemitism. Nor was that the government's apparent purpose. The government instead appears to be exploiting Jewish Americans' legitimate concerns about antisemitism as pretext for undermining core pillars of American democracy, the rule of law, and the fundamental rights of free speech and academic debate on which this nation was built. Jewish people came to America to escape generations of similar predations. Yet the images of Öztürk's arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics employed by the authoritarian regimes that many ancestors of amici's members left behind in Odessa, Kishinev, and Warsaw, among a great many others. To watch state authorities undermine the same fundamental rights that empowered so many Jewish Americans is chilling; to know it is being done in the name of the Jewish people is profoundly disturbing. And if anything, amici believe such unjust treatment of lawful residents like Öztürk will aggravate risks to American Jews, not ease them. Our Constitution secures to all students and scholars, including noncitizens, the right to peacefully express political beliefs without fear of government reprisal. Öztürk's constitutionally protected expression does not, and cannot, cause her continued presence in the U.S. to compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest as the Secretary of State claims. Our foreign policy is not so fragile that an op-ed in a student newspaper could so easily compromise it, and our constitutional guarantees are not so feeble that they may be so easily discarded. The Court should grant the Petition and the Motion for Release. 4
April 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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texasaaup.bsky.social
Absolutely. And if you want to understand the types of attacks that you will likely be seeing across the country in the future, check out our #HigherEd bill tracker which lists bills of concern currently working their way through the #Txlege.

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/highe...
April 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
anneliseorleck1.bsky.social
The return of Erik Prince of Darkness to political power
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 12
i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I regret to inform you that we may need to uncancel Giorgio Agamben.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 12
DOGE and DHS are collaborating to quite literally declare living people with legal social security numbers "dead" so as to cancel their SSNs and force them to "self-deport."

What could possibly go wrong when that effort is led by some of the most incompetent and mendacious people imaginable?
Their first mission: implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”
April 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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veenadubal.bsky.social
“If the administration’s lawless & unconstitutional attempts to control speech & governance at Harvard are allowed to proceed, then any one of our institutions could be next. The impact would be catastrophic – crushing freedom of speech and academic freedom as hallowed ideals in our democracy.
aaup.org AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 12
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
April 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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mims.bsky.social
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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motherjones.com
Who better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?
Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group
Joe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists.
www.motherjones.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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acluofcolorado.bsky.social
Victory for Colorado immigrant families and communities!

Yesterday, SB25-276 passed its senate committee with a vote of 3-2. We’re working to make sure this bill becomes law, and that Coloradans can feel safe, no matter where they are from.
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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jamellebouie.net
roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 7
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM