Shana E. DeVlieger
@shanaedev.bsky.social
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As Congress remains gridlocked, a federal court ruled Friday that the USDA must release contingency funds — but it is unclear how quickly the SNAP funds will get to recipients.
How SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans could be saved during the shutdown
The USDA has refused to release contingency funds, and Congress remains gridlocked — but there are still paths to keeping the nutrition assistance program alive.
19thnews.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As Congress remains gridlocked, a federal court ruled Friday that the USDA must release contingency funds — but it is unclear how quickly the SNAP funds will get to recipients.
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
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"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."
#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom
#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."
#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom
#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom
Thank you @aacte.bsky.social aacte.org/advocacy/act... "...these cuts threaten decades of progress in protecting and educating students with disabilities and imperil vital programs that support low-income students and teachers across the country.
Please help us advocate..."
Please help us advocate..."
Action Alerts - American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
aacte.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thank you @aacte.bsky.social aacte.org/advocacy/act... "...these cuts threaten decades of progress in protecting and educating students with disabilities and imperil vital programs that support low-income students and teachers across the country.
Please help us advocate..."
Please help us advocate..."
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This article just reminded me of this old tweet
August 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive
― James Baldwin
Night 💚📖
― James Baldwin
Night 💚📖
July 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive
― James Baldwin
Night 💚📖
― James Baldwin
Night 💚📖
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Workers at 3 of the most important US science agencies — NIH, EPA, and NASA — have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership.
July 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Workers at 3 of the most important US science agencies — NIH, EPA, and NASA — have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership.
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✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️
NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️
NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout
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Legal experts argue that Harvard is ultimately likely to prevail in its challenges to the Trump administration’s latest attacks, but how and when remains unclear
https://go.nature.com/4k9qGu6
https://go.nature.com/4k9qGu6
Harvard vs Trump: what this epic battle means for science
Research across science and medicine will probably shrink at one of the world’s most elite universities amid a new political reality.
go.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Legal experts argue that Harvard is ultimately likely to prevail in its challenges to the Trump administration’s latest attacks, but how and when remains unclear
https://go.nature.com/4k9qGu6
https://go.nature.com/4k9qGu6
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Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson has made it clear that she is deeply alarmed at the direction the Supreme Court and the country are heading—and that she’s willing to go it alone in expressing that distress.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Declaration of Independence
The newest Justice is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her liberal colleagues.
www.newyorker.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson has made it clear that she is deeply alarmed at the direction the Supreme Court and the country are heading—and that she’s willing to go it alone in expressing that distress.
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It’s been 600 days since the war in #Gaza began.
More than 50,000 children have been reportedly killed or injured, according to @unicef.org .
The collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians continues as Israeli military offensive intensifies.
A permanent #ceasefire is needed NOW.
More than 50,000 children have been reportedly killed or injured, according to @unicef.org .
The collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians continues as Israeli military offensive intensifies.
A permanent #ceasefire is needed NOW.
May 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s been 600 days since the war in #Gaza began.
More than 50,000 children have been reportedly killed or injured, according to @unicef.org .
The collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians continues as Israeli military offensive intensifies.
A permanent #ceasefire is needed NOW.
More than 50,000 children have been reportedly killed or injured, according to @unicef.org .
The collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians continues as Israeli military offensive intensifies.
A permanent #ceasefire is needed NOW.
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Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son.
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nyer.cm/b7u1tIk
May 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son.
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nyer.cm/b7u1tIk
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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“Researchers, their books and equipment are being packed up and removed so that the US taxpayer can fund an empty building in New York City’s moneyed Upper West Side.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’
Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Researchers, their books and equipment are being packed up and removed so that the US taxpayer can fund an empty building in New York City’s moneyed Upper West Side.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New article: A critical case study of white teacher candidates’ motivation and resistance during race-related transformative activities - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A critical case study of white teacher candidates’ motivation and resistance during race-related transformative activities
Resistance among white teacher candidates participating in transformative activities that challenge their beliefs about race and racism is well documented in teacher education literature. However, ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New article: A critical case study of white teacher candidates’ motivation and resistance during race-related transformative activities - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... “…we will explore how we face a metacrisis: a set of profound, escalating and interconnected crises - social polarization, ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and a meaning crisis - whose source lie in core views and values at the roots of our civilization”
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Online Conference: April 29th 7-8pm: "What's the role of Education at a time of Metacrisis?" . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Online Conference: April 29th 7-8pm: "What's the role of Education at a time of Metacrisis?" . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...
us02web.zoom.us
April 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... “…we will explore how we face a metacrisis: a set of profound, escalating and interconnected crises - social polarization, ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and a meaning crisis - whose source lie in core views and values at the roots of our civilization”
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Did you miss last week’s Meeting the Moment webinar from the Saul Zaentz Foundation?
I spoke with Dr. Jack Shonkoff of Harvard, Erin Patterson and Sarah Vrabic of SchoolHouse Connection and Theresa Calderon of Glide about the impact of homelessness on young children.
Watch below 👇
I spoke with Dr. Jack Shonkoff of Harvard, Erin Patterson and Sarah Vrabic of SchoolHouse Connection and Theresa Calderon of Glide about the impact of homelessness on young children.
Watch below 👇
April 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Did you miss last week’s Meeting the Moment webinar from the Saul Zaentz Foundation?
I spoke with Dr. Jack Shonkoff of Harvard, Erin Patterson and Sarah Vrabic of SchoolHouse Connection and Theresa Calderon of Glide about the impact of homelessness on young children.
Watch below 👇
I spoke with Dr. Jack Shonkoff of Harvard, Erin Patterson and Sarah Vrabic of SchoolHouse Connection and Theresa Calderon of Glide about the impact of homelessness on young children.
Watch below 👇
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We all need to be doing this.
I don’t know what the future of academia will look like in America after all this.
But I also know we don’t have to wait for permission and institutional approval to share knowledge with each other and create community.
But I also know we don’t have to wait for permission and institutional approval to share knowledge with each other and create community.
April 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We all need to be doing this.
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I'm glad they did this and better late than never. But it would have been nice is this spine evolved when a racist mob came for the university's first Black woman president.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm glad they did this and better late than never. But it would have been nice is this spine evolved when a racist mob came for the university's first Black woman president.
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I never thought that fear of detention or deportation would have been on the list of reasons for making conferences hybrid, but this seems compelling
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I never thought that fear of detention or deportation would have been on the list of reasons for making conferences hybrid, but this seems compelling
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Essential journalism, by @hannahallam.bsky.social. Outrageous and heartbreaking.
“It was like a relay race, and she was the baton,” Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.
“It was like a relay race, and she was the baton,” Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Essential journalism, by @hannahallam.bsky.social. Outrageous and heartbreaking.
“It was like a relay race, and she was the baton,” Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.
“It was like a relay race, and she was the baton,” Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.
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Why are so many world leaders silent on Gaza? | Fiona Katauskas
Why are so many world leaders silent on Gaza? | Fiona Katauskas
Do they think it’s just too hard to speak out?
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Why are so many world leaders silent on Gaza? | Fiona Katauskas