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Dr. Miye Nadya Tom
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Educator. Censored author. Uncensored woman. Decoloniality nerd. Still debating being professor, but forever a guerilla academic and feminist to my core...
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Shared, with permission, from a federal employee:

“This has left many federal workers fearful that their personal data or sensitive agency information could be mishandled or weaponized against them…The only reason it appears they want access is for nefarious or personal reasons.”
What's happening right now within the federal government is nothing short of an earthquake that has left countless federal employees, especially minorities, women, and those with disabilities, reeling. The abrupt dismantling of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and offices isn't just a bureaucratic reshuffle, it's an assault on the very systems that, for decades, provided marginalized groups with a level playing field and a sense of belonging in federal employment. They have fired people who worked on reasonable accommodations and accessibility needs. They have canceled all diversity initiatives and celebrations of diversity. But it seems like this is just a beginning. As if things weren't bad enough, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has started prying into confidential data and operational systems under the guise of rooting out inefficiency. They sent people to the HQ offices. I am on the but I saw them go into executive offices on ordering people around and asking for access to things. This has left many federal workers fearful that their personal data or sensitive agency information could be mishandled or weaponized against them. For those who fought to build careers based on merit, this invasion feels like a violation, undermining years of dedication. It is also crazy that they have access to sensitive programs, systems, and taxpayer info. Why would they need to see all of this? The Inspector General Office and already review on an as needed basis to look for fraud and waste and abuse. If there was any, we would report it to Congress. The only reason it appears they want access is for nefarious or personal reasons. Their claims do not have any merit. case perhaps if I can. In particular the access to sensitive systems worries me. There was an injunction issued by a federal court against DOGE access to Treasury systems but its unclear if that includes Also its kind of too late, they already were able to see all the systems and go through senstive taxpayer info and sensitive programming and confidential things. It is unclear what damage all of this could cause in the wrong hands. It is all unprecedented. I think the heart of it that bothers me is the psychological conflict between what we control and what we can't. We put our faith in routines, deadlines, hard work, and long-term career trajectories, assuming they'll create stability and add to the greater good. But that faith is being tested now. There's an invisible loss that comes when the public service environment you once found meaning in starts feeling like a source of disorder or authoritarianism. It starts being pointless. It's not just about job security. It's about the erosion of identity, of where you fit within the larger narrative of public service and what value your work has or lacks.
February 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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rvbdrm.com
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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atrupar.com
Murray: "It is unlawful for a president to say 'I am going to decide where the money goes that Congress appropriated' ... you can't pass a law and then say, 'it doesn't apply to me.' That's what they are doing here."
February 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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dell.bsky.social
Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit.

By me at @wired.com:
Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server
Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
ICE may show up at your day care. This is how your teachers are preparing
How Maryland day cares are preparing for a potential ICE crackdown
Child care is no longer a sanctuary from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But day care owners and teachers say they're ready to protect their students and families.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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opendemocracy.net
‘I feared I would die’: Inside Uganda’s cervical cancer crisis
‘I feared I would die’: Inside Uganda’s cervical cancer crisis
Women in rural Uganda are dying as patriarchal violence and misinformation drive cervical cancer cases
bit.ly
February 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
miyentom.bsky.social
Who's just tired? We need to mobilize at the same time, this of overwhelming. Shock and awe is what is expected. I'm amazed at the journalists on this platform. Overwhelm enters, and it's shocking and real. But we seriously have to act.
February 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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karnythia.bsky.social
I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving
February 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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apoorvanyt.bsky.social
SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...
‘Gender Ideology’ Ban is Already Harming Health, Experts Say (Gift Article)
Documents purged from government websites include guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
In a period as short as 90 days, 136,000 babies could acquire HIV due to the US withholding humanitarian aid. I don’t know if we’re fully grasping the scale of destruction here.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Trump administration pauses all federal grants in the name of fighting "Marxist equity," a move that puts academics and other knowledge workers even more under fire.
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
an extremely long tweet from the President of Colombia roasting the United States and the Trump administration. "the US sucks except for Black people, Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, and Noam Chomsky" is just the beginning of what we in the business call a rich text
screenshot of the first 1/3rd of the tweet. the text reads: "Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, que me pareció una pendejada, porque deberían unirse. Confieso que me gusta Walt Withman y Paul Simon y Noam Chomsky y Miller Confieso que Sacco y Vanzetti, que tienen mi sangre, en la historia de los EEUU, son memorables y les sigo. Los asesinaron por lideres obreros con la silla eléctrica, los fascistas qué están dentro de EEUU como dentro de mi país No me gusta su petroleo, Trump, va a acabar con la especie humana por la codicia. Quizás algún día, junto a un trago de Whisky qué acepto, a pesar de mi gastritis, podamos hablar francamente de esto, pero es difícil porque usted me considera una raza inferior y no lo soy, ni ningún colombiano. Así que si conoce alguien terco, ese soy yo, punto. Puede con su fuerza económica y su soberbia intentar dar un golpe de estado como hicieron con Allende. Pero yo muero en mi ley, resistí la tortura y lo resisto a usted. No quiero esclavistas al lado de Colombia, ya tuvimos muchos y nos liberamos. Lo que quiero al lado de Colombia, son amantes de la libertad. Si usted no puede acompañarme yo voy a otros lados." full tweet available here: https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/1883624818811236502
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social
The labeler feature is the first TRULY AMAZING thing that Bluesky has brought.

Here are the corporations who give Chuck Schumer money.

The labeler can be found here:
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
A pro AI post by Chuck Schumer but the labeler feature shows all the corporations that fun Chuck Schumer.
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs 'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve. This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025). Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20. 2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20. ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated conducting merit review panels No later than Febrar - 10. 2025, agencies shail submit to OMB detailed information on any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant has reviewed provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information act recordin grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis. To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A very smart colleague just pointed out the grim truth that the U.S. leaving the WHO may ultimately be a win for the rest of the world. Why? Because without a vote, “the US can't block WHO actions like vaccine programs, disease surveillance, contraception, etc”. Man, that is daaaark, but accurate.
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie
January 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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tristansnell.bsky.social
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left."

on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
www.thenation.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
miyentom.bsky.social
I think it's time to go back to the era of zines, passing and pasting flyers, and teach-ins with phones off. Seriously.
January 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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adrierising.bsky.social
in 2025, the most trustworthy media outlets of record are rolling stone, the onion, and approximately 42 worker owned cooperative digital papers cobbled together with freelancer blood, sweat, and tears
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos has stepped down from his position, following accusations by more than a dozen women of sexual assault, harassment, and intellectual theft.
November 26, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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annabull.bsky.social
If you're interested in regulation to address gender-based violence in higher education, I'm quoted in this article about the gap in regulation between England and Wales.

The Welsh HE regulator, Medr, haven't mentioned GBV in their new strategic plan...

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uks-une...
UK’s ‘uneven’ sexual harassment policies ‘put students at risk’
Welsh regulator’s perceived failure to follow English sector lead on preventing misconduct seen as contributing to ‘patchy’ protections
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 AM