@laurahehrisman.bsky.social
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With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies
October 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies
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💔💔A powerful + heartbreaking summary of the attacks on student services, shared governance, teaching, learning + more from Prof. Lisa Moore who has taught @UTAustin more than three decades. It is not too late to reverse these changes and #SaveUT!
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion
What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.
www.statesman.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
💔💔A powerful + heartbreaking summary of the attacks on student services, shared governance, teaching, learning + more from Prof. Lisa Moore who has taught @UTAustin more than three decades. It is not too late to reverse these changes and #SaveUT!
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
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🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
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I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.
This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
September 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.
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So is Jane.
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
So is Jane.
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Waj is right about everything tonight.
The right-wing have already declared war on America.
What do you call the National Guard and military joining ICE to occupy blue cities?
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
What do you call the National Guard and military joining ICE to occupy blue cities?
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Waj is right about everything tonight.
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Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
August 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this?
DOJ: Yes.
DOJ: Yes.
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this?
DOJ: Yes.
DOJ: Yes.
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Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
August 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
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If Republicans in red states redraw their congressional maps to rig the midterm elections, Democrats in blue states must even the playing field by responding in kind. Use our toolkit to contact your Democratic governor and legislators in your state: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If Republicans in red states redraw their congressional maps to rig the midterm elections, Democrats in blue states must even the playing field by responding in kind. Use our toolkit to contact your Democratic governor and legislators in your state: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
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As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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From @ocasio-cortez.house.gov:
"Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.
Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:
"Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.
Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:
July 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
From @ocasio-cortez.house.gov:
"Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.
Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:
"Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.
Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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Sotomayor: "Given its conduct in these proceedings, the Government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."
June 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sotomayor: "Given its conduct in these proceedings, the Government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."
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ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06... via @TimesofSanDiego
ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.
timesofsandiego.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06... via @TimesofSanDiego
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i’ve never resonated with a video as much as this one
June 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i’ve never resonated with a video as much as this one
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“The study estimated the cuts could cause nearly 2 million people to lose their primary doctor, 1.3 million people to not fill medications they need and 380,270 women to skip a mammogram. More than 16,600 people could die as a result of losing access to or forgoing care, the researchers estimated.“
Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths, study finds
Several provisions in the bill passed by House Republicans last month, including Medicaid work requirements, would lead to the loss of coverage for millions of people.
www.nbcnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“The study estimated the cuts could cause nearly 2 million people to lose their primary doctor, 1.3 million people to not fill medications they need and 380,270 women to skip a mammogram. More than 16,600 people could die as a result of losing access to or forgoing care, the researchers estimated.“