So we had a teach-in at Yale yesterday with over 300 students, faculty, and alums. The Chronicle of Higher Education covered it here. www.chronicle.com/article/yale... 1/

What’s Behind the Rule-Defying Campus Resistance Against a Yale Trump Deal

Students, faculty members, and alumni joined in an unauthorized demonstration.

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like gregg said, there's something really rotten happening with yale's leadership. why do all this just to make a bad deal with the most reviled double-crossers on the planet?

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d ago

@franciediep.bsky.social : “two people identifying themselves as staffers from the Office of Public Affairs told reporters that they could not be on Yale’s grounds. Instead, journalists had to stand on a public sidewalk, about 250 feet away from the protest.” www.chronicle.com/article/yale...

Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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“The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”

After second ICE threat, UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations

The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”

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Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

Four people have died at Adelanto in less than a year. Yet the govt's plan repeats “the same policies and practices that failed to prevent years of suffering,” said ImmDef Attorney Alison. Without real change, people will continue to die in detention. https://tinyurl.com/muk4shcu

What is — and is not — in ICE’s plan to improve conditions at privately run Adelanto

The federal government said the facility already meets many standards and asked the court to hold off on enforcing a July order. Advocates for detainees disagree.

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The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

When I've been in psych wards, because they're carceral, every attempt I made to assert my autonomy or stand up for myself was seen as further proof of my madness & met punitively. The psych ward is run by all these stringent codes that staff enforce with sadistic cruelty.

You can't fight for yourself in a psych ward because your every attempt to do it is met so harshly it further entraps you in the psych ward, because you're not seen as having the human right to stand up for yourself. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @katherinewolf.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · last mo.

When I've been in psych wards, because they're carceral, every attempt I made to assert my autonomy or stand up for myself was seen as further proof of my madness & met punitively. The psych ward is run by all these stringent codes that staff enforce with sadistic cruelty.

The youngest person held at the ICE center in Texas called Dilley is two months old according to Julian Castro as I’m wrapping my radio stories up for deadline. Get your head around the fact that you live in a country that abducts, incarcerates, & tortures actual babies. That should revolt you.

If you really think that something is "impossible," why then spend your precious time trying to "convince" others of this?Shouldn't you just relax since the thing won't happen?

RFK Jr. and Oz attacked California for its Medicaid home care, citing growth as proof of fraud. For @motherjones.com, I reported on how the growth isn't proof of fraud, and growth of participants is proof the program is more accessible than in other states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California does Medicaid home care well. They're being punished for it.

Republicans are deferring $850 million from the state because of unfounded fraud claims.

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Wednesday next week, I'll be speaking at a @sfdcc.bsky.social panel on disability reporting! Come in person or online to hear about my disability reporting experience as a disabled journalist at @motherjones.com. disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/disabi...

I know it's out of style in the U.S. in 2026 but racism has explanatory power.

Rich people get to make "mistakes." Meanwhile, a disabled person makes one mistake that results in them losing their most basic legal rights.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Hong Wong today became the third woman to win a Fields Medal. She started out as an earth science major. Her geophysics prof affirmed importance of math to science for her, ex. for explaining how seismic waves are used to map Earth’s interior ... math related to the Kakeya problem.

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2mo ago

Last year, Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl presented a 127-page inductive argument proving the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture. For Wang, there was no celebration. Only more questions. Now Wang has won the Fields Medal. www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

alternate hed: UC faculty demonstrate superior fulfillment of fiduciary obligations vs board of regents

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

MAID has in effect worked as a "pressure release valve" on an underfunded, overburdened disability support system; whether that was the intention or not, that is how it operates, and that is how it is experienced by way too many disabled people.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve had a huge health setback following my move. My level of function is half what it was before. The hospital said they would connect me with “resources” to assist with activities of daily living. There’s a 1.5 year wait list. MAiD was offered in under a month.

Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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Fuck the Trump admin and its little enablers and fuck Congress for not reining this man in BUT REMEMBER that a shitty memo is not a law nor is it legally enforceable and we should NOT treat it as such.

You do not, in fact, get to decide that decades of settled case law, regulations, and legislation don’t apply because daddy and his eugenicist friends hate disabled people.

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?

A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box

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One of the very insidious expressions of sexism in academia is when men tell women their scholarship is ‘emotional’ or frame their anger or emotions as the first framing perception of our work, and at this point in 2026, I refuse to give people who do this any benefit of the doubt

Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book@drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

God forbid you should have FEELINGS when you’ve spent 6 years labouring over a book that documents the vile history of racism in psychiatry. God forbid I should be ANGRY about it, or expect my reader to be.

NYC parents say Mount Sinai plans to share trans children's records with Trump administration gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

NYC parents say Mount Sinai plans to share trans children's records with Trump administration

“ I was blindsided by this because we're not even receiving care there anymore,” said Dawn Gabriel, one of the parents.

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Here's a great training from @peerresearch.bsky.social explaining how researchers can provide the most effective public comments! static1.squarespace.com/static/68c72...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.