NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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So this is very bad.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Scholars who aren’t actually at risk of bearing the repercussions of the current sociopolitical landscape are so terrified of the mere specter of censorship that they will end up censoring marginalized scholars more efficiently than the president ever could.

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This is very specific but I really hate when I sort of know something and vaguely remember reading it but can’t remember where and can’t find a source so I am incapable of defending my perspective 😩

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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New: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to continue terminating NIH grants relating to DEI, gender identity, and COVID. It's a 5–4 decision, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent. From Justice Jackson's dissent👇 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“According to an analysis of federal data by The New York Times, as of mid-June the N.I.H. had terminated at least 616 projects focused on closing the health divide between Black and white, and rich and poor, Americans.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h...

Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities

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🎶Why are we as therapists so resistant to routine outcome monitoring of our treatment? 🎶

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20 years of passport photos

Vote vote vote plzzz NYC

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

I am tired. Tired tired tired tired tired.

After a decade of insincere trolling about “isn’t college about being exposed to challenging ideas?” conservatives have gotten universities to install an anonymous and unaccountable Instantly Kill Your Professor button. Brown University… you are my Chump Of The Week

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · last yr.

From the Brown settlement. Everyone who signed off on this is a coward and an idiot and should have it follow them the rest of their lives. They are complicit in a censorship regime that has been and will be compared to the Red Scares.

Got to speak to the Ohio Capital Journal about the psychological impacts of Native mascots last week - read their story here: ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/30/m...

More than 80 Ohio high schools have Native-themed names and mascots • Ohio Capital Journal

Four years after the Cleveland Indians announced they would change its name to the Guardians, many Ohio high schools have retained their Native-themed names and mascots.

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New research led by Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Anna Fetter sheds light on how ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is experienced by Native American and Alaska Native students, with implications for use of a common ERI measure in research with these communities. ow.ly/ui3q50WuTP6 @annakawennison.bsky.social

Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Some GOOD news: The Supreme Court of the Muscogee Creek Nation has just ruled that Freedmen are tribal citizens!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed Trump to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The commission helps protect consumers from dangerous products. Trump fired the three Dems on the five-member commission in the middle of 7 year terms.

GlobalX is a charter airline that operates more than half the ICE deportation flights. At the same time the company flies Duke and UConn basketball, other NCAA teams, and pro clubs like Inter Miami and Lionel Messi. Corporate greed is enabling ICE. www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...

ICE's go-to charter airline for deportations also flew NCAA teams, Inter Miami and more

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If you’re still subscribing to the New York Times I really don’t know what to say. See below for exhibit #3884829 of why you should not.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last yr.

The New York Times headline writers now call groups like the AMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons "pro-vaccine groups." They get more preposterous with each passing day.

They’re going to replace undocumented immigrant labor with poor children

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants. Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds. (Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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The Indian Health Service was established to fulfill the fed gov’s treaty responsibilities to provide health care to Native communities. It is already funded at HALF of its actual need, & Trump’s budget would cut IHS by $900 million. Call your rep now & spread the word: 5calls.org/issue/medica...

Protect Native American Healthcare ⭑ 5 Calls

For generations, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have grappled with chronic underfunding of federal healthcare programs. Broadly …

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IMO now is the time to ramp up pressure on your reps, union leaders, professional agencies, etc. getting in bed with hate is a losing strategy and this moment is an opportunity

Spoiler: yes. Let’s be honest though, it’s not just the future, it’s the reality and the history of academia for marginalized scholars. This isn’t new, but it is ramping up. And we need to fight to protect a semblance of free scholarship now.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last yr.

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You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable. It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.

As if it’s not enough that Thom Tillis wants to strip health care from over half a million North Carolinians on Medicaid, now he’s coming after seniors by gutting Medicare. All to pay for billionaire tax breaks. We need a Senator who fights for us.

This is big yallllllllllll

Lucas Brown Eyes@lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · last yr.

I am happy to inform everyone that twitter is now screen capping Bluesky.

We cannot build bananas in America.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

The President's proposed FY26 budget would end funding for TRIO. This is the first signal of programs getting cut this year, and the question now is how widespread it will become.

Federal Cancellations of Upward Bound Grants Signal Broader Threat to College Access Programs - Council for Opportunity in Education

According to the Department of Education, the cancelled grants were deemed to “violate the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law; conflict with the Department's policy of prioritizing merit, f...

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