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Caroline Levine
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Cornell Professor, climate activist
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Cornell alums!
Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding.
Please consider signing this petition!
Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!
Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom
Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
carolinelevine.bsky.social
Very very smart analysis of what's happening at U of Chicago.
Reorg 101: The Past and Future of the Race to the Bottom
As the reorganization of the University’s Division of the Arts & Humanities commences, Clifford Ando warns that the fate of the humanities is up for grabs.
chicagomaroon.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
carolinelevine.bsky.social
I couldn't possibly love this more. Thanks, Anna Kornbluh!
The Point of Politics Is to Convince People, Not Grandstand
Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, sometimes we leftists seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s j...
jacobin.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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kateross.bsky.social
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Scooby I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time 1d RookaTX This is the way Scooby • RookaTX Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures. 1d
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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mzjacobson.bsky.social
Trump (and his entire administration) is shockingly dumb about (electric) power

@billmckibben.bsky.social

billmckibben.substack.com/p/trump-is-s...
Trump is shockingly dumb about (electric) power
It's not too soon to start working the politics of people's power bills
billmckibben.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
carolinelevine.bsky.social
Cornell letter with 500 signatories is up!
Letter to Trustees (public).docx
April 17, 2025 Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on American universities threaten bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, asso...
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April 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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daniellaurison.bsky.social
PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION.

Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.

bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
1. Condemn the attacks on higher education, even if your own institution has not yet been singled out. 2. Legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands from the federal government. 3. Work with other universities to mount a coordinated opposition of administrators, faculty, and alumni to combat these anti-democratic attacks. Harvard University - link to sign - 840 signatures so far Stanford University - link to sign 1096 signatures so far Yale University - link to sign - 970 signatures so far Cornell University - link to sign - 505 signatures so far Boston University - link to sign - 502 signatures so far Northwestern University - link to sign - 329 signatures so far Emory - link to sign - 276 signatures so far Tufts - link to sign - 179 signatures so far Brandeis - link to sign - 110 signatures so far Suffolk University - link to sign - 91 signatures so far UW Madison - link to sign - 84 signatures so far University of North Carolina - link to sign - 70 signatures so far Washington University in Saint Louis - link to sign - 33 signatures so far SUNY Albany - link to sign - just started collecting
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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tiaadivest.bsky.social
TIAA-Divest! members at #HandsOff this weekend across the country. The same systems that criminalize protest and target communities are driving environmental destruction. Our fights are connected—across campuses, borders, and movements. Where did you support from?
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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wearehighered.bsky.social
Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org
March 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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tracynovick.bsky.social
I know higher ed has a lot going on right now, but can I alert you to what Wellesley College is doing to students as a result of their non-tenured faculty strike?

thewellesleynews.com/21038/opinio...
Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes
The college has willingly decided to threaten students with losing their financial aid or visa status if they do not attend scab lectures or replace their current lectures with completely unrelated co...
thewellesleynews.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Mar 27
JUST IN: Kari Lake has withdrawn the cancelation of Radio Free Europe’s grant, seeking to end a legal standoff.
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Let’s be clear:

If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free.

That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Unbearable
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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1/ He wasn’t kidding when he told people 2024 was the last election they’d ever have to vote in if he won www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
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 and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
good morning
nikobowie.bsky.social Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Mar 25
Today, the AAUP–AFT is filing the lawsuits Columbia administrators were afraid to: one against Trump’s illegal funding cuts, the other his arrests of political opponents.

AAUP is also showing why faculty need to collectively organize to defend higher ed.

protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
This action challenges the Trump administration's unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university's academic autonomy and control the thought, association, scholarship, and expression of its faculty and students. The Trump administration is coercing Columbia University to do its bidding and regulate speech and expression on campus by holding hostage billions of dollars in congressionally authorized federal funding-funding that is responsible for positioning the American university system as a global leader in scientific, medical, and technological research and is crucial to ensuring it remains so. The Trump administration claims it is enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, but neither Title VI nor any other law authorizes the Trump administration's coercive tactics, which are in plain violation of statutory requirements.
March 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Call your rep, call your senators. No matter the party.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 24
Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one.

This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.

AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
March 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.

Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night at 12:52 AM, the Department of Justice contacted the undersigned via email. Under the subject line “Momodou Taal et al v. Trump, 25-cv-335 (NDNY),” the government informed the undersigned for the first time that the government intended to serve Mr. Taal with a Notice to Appear (NTA), and that they intended to take Mr. Taal into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that this information confirms the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ request for an emergency temporary restraining order, ECF No. 23, and the increased urgency with which the Court’s intervention is needed, we respectfully request the Court construe this letter as any procedurally appropriate vehicle to obtain the same. Plaintiffs’ counsel is immediately available to follow up with any submissions the Court deems appropriate in this extraordinary situation. Attached to this letter is an affidavit from Counsel Eric Lee (Exhibit 4), the government’s 12:52 AM email (Exhibit 5), and Plaintiffs’ counsel’s reply (Exhibit 6). The email reads: My colleagues and I represent the United States in this matter. The applications for admission of Messrs. Stone, Moss, and myself to the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York are pending, so we have not noticed our appearances yet. But we wanted to reach out to establish a line of communication, and relate some information concerning your client. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked us to convey to you the following. ICE invites Mr. Taal and his counsel to appear in-person at the HSI Office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the NTA and for Mr. Taal to surrender to ICE custody. Accordingly, if you are interested in proposing such a date and time, we will promptly forward it to ICE for consideration
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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justinmikulka.bsky.social
Reality of the economics of power generation is tough to ignore. The media and politicians are doing a great job of trying but reality is pretty relentless.
Two search result headlines from energy CEO that warn of "power crisis" if trump delays renewables and that renewables are "cheaper and faster" than methane (natural gas).
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM