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(I wish I was exaggerating on this last point, but I can lay out the policies, direct quotes, and budget figures to substantiate it. )

Most shocking of all, the current government is willing to tear down the edifice of public funding for higher education in their attempt to stop such dangerous ideas.

But for the elites of both parties such a vision is dangerous, and they can only imagine its spread not as a result of collective conversation, but as a kind of dangerous brainwashing.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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And might go further and see generations of labor movements as vital for providing the material basis for equality.

And to be honest, that America already exists in the hearts and minds of most human beings who share this land.

Another America might see the refusal of kings in 1776 and of slavery in 1861 as the cornerstones of who we are. And might see the mid-20th century liberation movements as foundational to our individual freedom.

Usually this angst is expressed over controversial situations like Israel/Palestine, but make no mistake, it extends to the very right of slaves to rebel against slavery.

And they are joined by establishment liberals like the New York Times in handwringing over whether the adult children of the elite should be exposed to such unsettling ideas, values, and feelings. Whether a college-educated 34-year-old should know how to celebrate the Haitian revolution.

What is the point of the opening anecdote, especially the focus on Mamdani's "near-perfect Creole elocution" of Haiti? And why was his pronunciation more important than the substance of what he said? Would Peters have made such comments about a student of the history of other parts of the world?/2

Again, I encourage you to talk to your local officials (mayor, city council, state reps and senators) about working immediately to limit the use of public and private area facilities for detention. If immigration enforcement doesn't yet have a big presence in your community, do it preemptively.

We aren't at all helpless! (I try to say this regularly.) And desperation is part of why they're doing this. But it's likely things will get worse in the immediate future.

as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,

The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But...