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Toni Albertson
@tonialbertson.bsky.social
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Journalism/PR professor, writer, hopeful romantic.
Left X because I. Just. Can't.
https://www.tonialbertson.com/
https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/toni-albertson
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“The tensions stem from the question of what universities should prioritize. Should battling incursions into academic freedom take precedence? Or protecting students and cherished values like diversity? Or should retaining federal research funds come first?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
tonialbertson.bsky.social
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Action Alert: Protect Our Healthcare Now!
Congress is moving forward on a bill that would end Medicaid coverage of our healthcare. It takes two minutes to send an email to your senator!
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May 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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“What if we were able to minimize mental distress even before these years, with proper gender-diverse education for primary and secondary school educators, in partnership with parents who seek it?
www.oprahdaily.com/life/relatio...
He Doesn't Know It, But My Trans Kid Is My Greatest Teacher
On the path to understanding, writer Angela Day realized just how much she had to learn.
www.oprahdaily.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
tonialbertson.bsky.social
An important read. Calms the nerves a bit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"The GOP’s war on trans people has declared that every LGBTQ+ person is now an activist. Even if all you do is survive the next four years, your continued existence is resistance against an order to disappear."

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

“Shock and Awe”: President Trump Officially Orders the Broadest Attack on LGBTQ+ Existence in American History. Here’s How You Fight Back
Donald Trump is prioritizing a massive assault of LGBTQ+ rights during his first days. How do we triage our response? Plus, photos of protestors who took to the streets today in DC.
www.madycast.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
tonialbertson.bsky.social
When I saw this headline on Politico, my first reaction was WTF?
owillis.bsky.social Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Jan 21
this piece was written by john f. harris, one of the founders of politico and currently an editor there. it isnt an opinion piece by a maga head. its a piece by one of the most influential mainstream journalists in america.

this is the shit we are facing.
owillis.bsky.social Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Jan 21
"what liberal media?"
January 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“The president-elect has already vowed to use accreditation as his “secret weapon” to reclaim colleges from the “radical Left.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
Endowments, research funding and DEI initiatives expected to be among many possible targets of the incoming Trump administration
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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What. The. Actual. Fuck.

newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
Zrinka Stahuljak’s comparative literature course next quarter will cover much of the same subject matter she has taught in years past: a sweeping survey of writing from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. But, thanks to AI, the course format and materials will take on a totally new look for 2025. Comp Lit 2BW will be the first course in the UCLA College Division of Humanities to be built around the Kudu artificial intelligence platform. The textbook: AI-generated. Class assignments: AI-generated. Teaching assistants’ resources: AI-generated.
December 9, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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What will this mean for colleges like USC?
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Nov 24
College education is moving toward a UBI-like model.

MIT will waive tuition for families earning under $200K, while the University of Texas system offers free tuition for families below $100K.

With declining freshman enrollment and rising acceptance rates, supply-demand dynamics are also at play.
University of Texas, MIT and others announce free tuition for some undergraduates
Nearly half a dozen institutions of higher education announced plans this week to make tuition free for undergraduates whose families make below a certain income threshold, starting in fall 2025.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Rocker chick, 1980s, with Ronnie James Dio.
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Not just democracy dies in darkness. So do medicine and science. Theirs is the new dark age, the anti-Enlightenment.
Trump indicates he is open to RFK Jr’s proposal to ban vaccines if elected
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump indicates he is open to RFK Jr’s proposal to ban vaccines if elected
RFK Jr, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, says Trump promised him control over public health policy if he wins
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Great piece by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social " Our information system has split into an endless number of micro communities, from group chats to online fandoms, all learning about news and major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats." shorturl.at/kf8Tu
The Pop Craveification of Breaking News
We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
taylorlorenz.substack.com
July 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM