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Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.
Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities
Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.
www.texastribune.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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"Hundreds gathered outside the Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday to protest the recent wave of arrests..."
if you'd told kid me that Butler County Ohio would get in the news for this I would not have believed you. beautiful to see
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/p...
if you'd told kid me that Butler County Ohio would get in the news for this I would not have believed you. beautiful to see
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/p...
[PHOTOS] Hundreds Protest ICE Arrests at Butler County Jail, One Protester Arrested
Hundreds gathered outside the Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday to protest the recent wave of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One protester ended up in handcuffs after Ham...
www.citybeat.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Hundreds gathered outside the Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday to protest the recent wave of arrests..."
if you'd told kid me that Butler County Ohio would get in the news for this I would not have believed you. beautiful to see
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/p...
if you'd told kid me that Butler County Ohio would get in the news for this I would not have believed you. beautiful to see
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/p...
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“We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired.”
We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired.”
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ICYMI tonight's conversation about the importance of centering challenging & interrupting criminalization in our resistance to fascism & authoritarianism is up at the link below & our brand new Block & Build - But Make it Abolitionist! tool is here www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
April 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
ICYMI tonight's conversation about the importance of centering challenging & interrupting criminalization in our resistance to fascism & authoritarianism is up at the link below & our brand new Block & Build - But Make it Abolitionist! tool is here www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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“Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable among us: the elderly, the immunocompromised, the uninsured, the people who can’t isolate or work remotely.”
Personal choice has been weaponized to undermine public health
“Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable among us,” writes MeiLan Han.
www.statnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable among us: the elderly, the immunocompromised, the uninsured, the people who can’t isolate or work remotely.”
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As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
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BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed SB1, overhauling the higher education system — banning DEI, limiting how "controversial topics" can be taught, & ending tenure. It will go into effect in 90 days.
@news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
@news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs controversial college overhaul bill banning DEI
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a controversial bill overhauling the higher education system — banning diversity initiatives, limiting how "controversial topics" can be taught, and eliminating tenure.
www.news5cleveland.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed SB1, overhauling the higher education system — banning DEI, limiting how "controversial topics" can be taught, & ending tenure. It will go into effect in 90 days.
@news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
@news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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The uneven distribution of these actions and policies is both by design and what allows there to be less alarm than there should be.
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The uneven distribution of these actions and policies is both by design and what allows there to be less alarm than there should be.
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Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Badar Khan Suri is one of the many pro-Palestine scholars being targeted by the Trump administration. Suri, originally from India, is a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar on reli...
www.democracynow.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
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This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
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columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
www.boston25news.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
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They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
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🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
March 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
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“the bill would also require faculty to post their syllabi online, which opponents note would make them searchable for anyone online trying to ferret out DEI in coursework—or, more broadly, would allow would-be trolls to target individual professors.”
newrepublic.com/article/1924...
newrepublic.com/article/1924...
Ohio Republicans Are Ready to Wreck the Economy Over DEI
Conservative lawmakers in the Buckeye State are pushing a bill that could create a devastating statewide brain drain.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“the bill would also require faculty to post their syllabi online, which opponents note would make them searchable for anyone online trying to ferret out DEI in coursework—or, more broadly, would allow would-be trolls to target individual professors.”
newrepublic.com/article/1924...
newrepublic.com/article/1924...
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Kicking off this thread to document contemporary high school student activism. Like in the '60s and '70s, most teen political dissent stays a local news story. But now more than ever, it's crucial to highlight what's happening nationwide and abroad. #HighSchoolActivism
www.kget.com/news/local-n...
www.kget.com/news/local-n...
Bakersfield high school students stage walkouts over immigration enforcement
Students from multiple high schools are walking out of class Wednesday morning in protest of immigration enforcement and the Trump administration’s DOGE actions.
www.kget.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Kicking off this thread to document contemporary high school student activism. Like in the '60s and '70s, most teen political dissent stays a local news story. But now more than ever, it's crucial to highlight what's happening nationwide and abroad. #HighSchoolActivism
www.kget.com/news/local-n...
www.kget.com/news/local-n...
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New org established to defend Department of Education
coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education
www.protectpubliced.org
coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education
www.protectpubliced.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New org established to defend Department of Education
coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education
www.protectpubliced.org
coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education
www.protectpubliced.org
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Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today.
Check out our interview with her.
thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...
Check out our interview with her.
thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...
Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students • The TRiiBE
Chicago author Eve Ewing invites readers to critically think about the origins of the American education system in her newest book.
thetriibe.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today.
Check out our interview with her.
thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...
Check out our interview with her.
thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...