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Dr. Tati @drtati.bsky.social · Nov 15
👋 I'm Tati Russo-Tait, an Asst Prof in the Cell Bio Dept at the University of Georgia. I have a PhD in STEM Education from UT Austin🤘& run the ACCESS Lab. We study how systemic racism & sexism manifest in postsecondary science/biology education & how to support critically conscious reform efforts.
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Imagine this kind of desperation to be seen as valuable by the current administration
Screenshot of article which reads: TEMPE, Ariz.—In October, President Trump asked a handful of top universities to accept sweeping campus changes in exchange for federal-funding advantages. Most schools rejected the proposal, fearing Trump would undermine their independence. One college president, though, had a different response: Why wasn’t I invited? Screenshot of article which reads: Michael Crow, the outspoken longtime leader of Arizona State University, was miffed he hadn’t been approached. ASU’s sister school, the University of Arizona, had been invited. Crow, who had long championed higher-education reform and had signaled willingness to work with the administration, believed he should have been included. He and his advisers wondered if officials had mixed up the two schools, people familiar with the matter said. While schools like Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly refused to sign onto the proposal, Crow contacted the Trump administration and offered to provide input, the people said.
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Talked about this article somewhere else and someone wanted me to talk a bit more about it so here ya go! First, gift link. Second, my overwhelming takeaway is that, in a world where we rebuild in the coming decades, a good chunk of universities need new leadership.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side
ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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rawstory.com
President Donald Trump has hit an ominous new milestone in polling that he never sunk to when he was last in office, Newsweek reported on Wednesday.
Trump hits new negative milestone in polls that he never did in his first term: analysis
President Donald Trump has hit an ominous new milestone in polling that he never sunk to when he was last in office, Newsweek reported on Wednesday."As of Wednesday morning, Trump currently has an average disapproval rating of 55 percent, while 41 percent approve, according to The New York Times' po...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
drtati.bsky.social
In Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences, enjoying the NASEM meeting on the Status of the Field of Discipline Based Education Research.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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meidastouch.com
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
meidasnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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aaup.org
📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚

Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!

November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom

Register via QR code in graphic

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November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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commondreams.org
House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore in Adelita Grijalva, who swiftly became the crucial 218th signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing files related to deceased sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Grijalva Signs Discharge Petition to Force Epstein Files Vote Right After Being Sworn In
The congresswoman called House Speaker Mike Johnson's delay a politically motivated "abuse of power" and reiterated her support for releasing the documents, declaring that "justice cannot wait another day."
www.commondreams.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
drtati.bsky.social
UT alumni, sign: Longhorns for Liberty: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell Pr...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
“The project will not interfere with the existing structure.”

(📸 ABC News)
A satellite image showing the White House from above on Sept 26, 2025 contrasted with an image taken today below it showing the entire east section now demolished.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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rjow.bsky.social
Florida’s Suspected Unauthorized Alien Encounters Dashboard recorded arrests of 21 U.S. citizens and another nine encounters with law enforcement.After the outlet reached out, the figure vanished. The Times reported the dashboard now shows U.S. citizens have had two encounters and only one arrest.
October 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Thomas Jefferson’s views about Black intellect governing his beloved university
bluevirginia.bsky.social Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · Oct 22
UVA "agrees to be bound by [DoJ's] 'Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,' ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (“UVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice’s “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,” ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university’s admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA. “This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception.”
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.
News Alerts
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.
rochaa.bsky.social Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · Oct 19
Probably late to this story, but holy hell!

This is an administration ending story.

For the Secy-o-State to promise something like this is damning.

“He [Rubio] assured Bukele that Bondi would complete that process & Washington would hand over the [informants who are under US protection]
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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utaustinaaup.bsky.social
Texas Strong! ⭐️⭐️⭐️✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
October 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Not only that. they NEED your attention. Deprive them of it and keep it moving.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Oct 17
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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democracyforward.org
People power democracy, and it’s the people, united, that will resist the chaos, corruption, & cruelty that threaten our democracy.

We proudly sponsor No Kings and join in solidarity with all peacefully marching in resistance to autocracy.

Together, we will make clear: the American bow to no king.
October 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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kernighan.bsky.social
This may be helpful:

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eva.computer eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · Oct 17
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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aaup.org
BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd
We reject the compact. Large crowd gathered in protest Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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npr.org
The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
The test for U.S. citizenship is about to get harder
The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
As Victor & others have said: They are Segregationists. They want Jim Crow back. Whiteness is a force that's only function is domination. We wrote this in February & it's more true today. Society-not just higher ed-must stand up again to the New Segregationists
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
drtati.bsky.social
Computer screen showing the logos of Microsoft Word and Outlook next to each other.
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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ravengeary.bsky.social
The tension between "these daily atrocities are the new normal and you have to go on living anyway" and "these atrocities should never be normalized/the world should stop"
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah. It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” “D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM