Newsom is an awful man without a single principled bone in his body but I am actually genuinely shocked by how terrible his political instincts are in this moment the base is screaming for someone to stand up to this fascist kleptocracy and he thinks they want him to pal around with the fascists

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last yr.

I love how Gavin Newsom, a man I've long suspected to be an opportunistic sleaze, has finally revealed himself to the folks whose political bullshit detectors may not be as finely tuned. He's making it easy for everyone!

Just taught about the MS St. Louis and the reasons we have asylum laws only to have my institution labeled anti-Semitic by an administration trying to end asylum. (Remember we said “Never Again”?)

Sac State at #5. Will be interesting to see what this actually means.

Adam Harris@adamhsays.com · last yr.

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

I’m not saying I’m depressed, but I am saying that my cat has a UTI and while I wait for her to get better I’ve given up trying to stop her from physically peeing on me

When I originally watched “Don’t Look Up” I found the dark humor deeply depressing. Lately I’ve been itching for a rewatch and thinking about the ending as uplifting and aspirational. Not sure what that says about my current mental health.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 2y ago

Florida Republicans are ramping up requirements that local officials cooperate with ICE, and giving Governor Ron DeSantis more cover to remove them from office if they don’t comply. NEW in Bolts: boltsmag.org/florida...

as we dismantle social science & humanities and promote career paths and STEM, will only privileged people get to be thinkers? I don’t have the words yet. Feels like we’re being tasked only with making workers not philosophers, leaders. Only the leisure class gets art and beauty and deep thoughts?

This week my institution announced massive private-public partnerships to become “AI-powered” across 23 campuses, hosted Dr. Cornel West to talk about love, free speech & the importance of education, and announced massive budget cuts including dept and college mergers. The whiplash I’m experiencing…

big day for my unified theory of why everything sucks bsky.app/profile/jool...

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah I mean, my general inclination is to blame everything on Reagan breaking the patco strike but I don’t really know how I arrived at that belief or if it’s valid

It is a good time to reflect on the challenges air traffic controllers face and the time Reagan fired 11,000 for striking for better conditions. As with Boeing’s plane issues, it seems like better labor relations and staffing could have prevented last night’s tragedy www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1...

Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers

Thursday marks 40 years since former President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers. That dealt a serious blow to the American labor movement.

npr.org

A reminder that immigrants, authorized and unauthorized, commit fewer violent crimes per capita than US-born people. www.cato.org/blog/new-cat....

New Cato Research Shows That Illegal Immigrants Are Less Likely to Be Convicted of Murder in Texas

The findings imply that more immigration enforcement will not bring down crime rates.

cato.org

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

BREAKING NEWS: The bill is named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man without legal status who had a criminal record.

While Gavin Newsom cuts the budget to the largest public university system in the country, CFA faculty and lecturers are meeting to discuss how we can protect our students from ICE raids across the state. The dems won’t save us. We keep us safe.

Both Georgia (D) senators we worked our asses off to elect…

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y ago

58 Democrats helped Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump's ICE to put migrants *accused* of shoplifting in detention, without due process. As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:

Staring down impending austerity measures across the CSU system starting with the attempt to absolutely gut Sonoma State and all I know is I LOVE MY UNION. solidarity is all we have.

Reskeet if you fucking love trans people

Union statemente by CFA (California Faculty Association) about cuts at Sonoma State University, please share: www.calfac.org/sonoma-state...

Sonoma State Administrators Announce Layoffs, Department Closures and Mergers - California Faculty Association

In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced this week deep cuts to faculty,

calfac.org

A 17 year old opened fire in a Nashville high school today. Hours before police shared his name, fringe extremist communities correctly identified him as one of their own. He left behind a manifesto expressing unadulterated neo-Nazi ideology that endorsed violent “accelerationst” tactics.

“THAT WAS CRUEL” The migrants at El Buen Samaritano shelter "did it the right way": they applied through a U.S. government app to enter the country and begin immigration proceedings. Under Trump, they’re stuck in Mexico @arelisrhdz.bsky.social reports from Ciudad Juárez wapo.st/3PKHhYr

‘This was cruel’: Inside a border shelter, migrants await Trump’s next move

The migrants at El Buen Samaritano shelter had waited months to enter the United States through the CBP One app. Now they are stuck in Mexico.

washingtonpost.com

Join us at the AAG preconference hosted by Geographers for Justice in Palestine in Detroit!

Great idea from my dear friend, Leanne Purdum, PhD: have a colleague read your student evaluations and give you a digest of what’s important instead of spiraling into a dark pit after reading them two days before the new semester starts.

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

Reading that one disgruntled student’s teaching evaluation.“Terrible” because students discussed for up to 30 minutes a class, 4 guest speakers offered their expertise, and because, apparently, “when she speaks it is clear she is not as educated as she should be.” NOT AS EDUCATED!!! Amazing.

New article!! "Energy Storage and Environmental Justice: A Critical Examination of a Proposed Pumped Hydropower Facility in Goldendale, Washington." First pub from our grant on water, energy, and environmental justice. doi.org/10.1111/anti...

increasingly frustrated by references to any criticism of Israel as "anti-Semitic" which distracts from confronting ACTUAL instances of anti-Semitism. shouldn't be this hard to articulate being anti-Zionist, anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian liberation & outraged at 1000s of years of Jewish persecution

CSU STRIKE WARNING! Let’s goooooooo!

I slept through feminist geography writing group. Call that "slow scholarship"

The Biden administration will expand Donald Trump’s wall on the Mexican border and begin deporting thousands of Venezuelans in an effort to cut down on the surge of migrants, it said on Thursday. Here's where Biden is proposing new barriers. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/u...