1/ The cult of personality around an abusive professor didn’t just survive a harassment finding—it intensified.

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1/ When I reported harassment, the school's Title IX Coordinator advised me to transfer.

In the first meeting.

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1/ My advisor said I was "impregnated" by a former prof while I was TA'ing 60 students. Later he kept saying "I need to get him out of you."
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1/ Q: How many students have left the Eastman School of Music with an NDA?

A: Too many.

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“But I never thought the patriarchy would eat MY face,” sobs woman who became AG for the Patriarchy Eating Women’s Faces Administration.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

ICE detained a Cincinnati Children's hospital chaplain, Imam Ayman Soliman.

“His supporters, including local clergy, politicians and representatives from Ignite Peace, said he was fleeing persecution in Egypt and feared his life would be in danger if ICE sent him home.”

Let me introduce you to Col Pam Stevenson, who is running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate in Kentucky. She is a firecracker and a fighter. She’s also a quilter with some absolutely gorgeous pieces under her belt — wouldn’t it be nice to have an artist on the hill?
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A gentle reminder that the VA getting rid of 30,000 people instead of 80,000 people isn’t a win.

Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.

Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.

After FIRE announced their advocacy for my case — university-verified faculty harassment followed by MY expulsion — Eastman students flooded Reddit with the exact “misogyny slop” @kattenbarge.bsky.social describes here.

Pro-tip: Being a snooty music school doesn’t mean your [slop] don’t stink.

In Washington protesters fighting to save their #Medicaid were arrested today.

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I watched this happen to a friend 20 years ago. I've watched it happen to PhD students in various sciences. And THIS case - in 2025! - is worse than anything I saw in the 1990s-2000s.

I was expelled during an open harassment and retaliation investigation—by the administrators being investigated. No warning, process, or appeal.

It gets worse:

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800 miles from NYC, but knowing that there exists a place in this country where voting down a harasser was NOT a close call pretty much makes my night.

He screamed. He cursed. He harassed.

I reported him.

The result?

He stayed at the Eastman School of Music. I got expelled.

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