Whistleblower complaint confirming that the Trump Administration weaponized anti-semitism claims to attack and pressure universities #academicsky #highered

“We have found, to our consternation, considerable groupthink within the professoriate on matters that are otherwise widely debated. This academic monoculture stifles heterodox viewpoints on disputed questions such as the safety of vaccines, the square root of four, and the earth’s topology.” 👌🏽

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"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Honored and excited to work more closely with wonderful colleagues to explore new things the intersection of health/medicine and comics can offer and to amplify the incredible work done by artists, practitioners, patients, caregivers, and scholars in the field of graphic medicine.

Graphic Medicine International Collective (#GraphMed2026)@graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

GMIC Board Welcomes Soha Bayoumi and Jen Leach www.graphicmedicine.org/gmic-board-w...

With all the hubbub around the Strait, you'd think *some* English speakers in politics or the media would know how to pronounce Hormuz...

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What a shame! Therapy is NOT speech. The only dissenting voice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote in her summary, "The Constitution does not pose a barrier to reasonable regulation of harmful medical treatments just because substandard care comes via speech instead of scalpel."

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

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According to B’Tselem: Between 2023 and 2025, Israel killed 1,221 Palestinians in the West Bank. The vast majority by the military, with 31 killed by settler militias. Since the beginning of 2026, 24 Palestinians have been killed, including 18 by the military and 6 by settler militias.

She was never charged with anything, and the people involved in her detention at any step should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their abuses. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/u...

Palestinian protester held in immigration detention for over a year is released | CNN

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman detained by immigration authorities for over a year after she was arrested at a protest at Columbia University amid Israel’s war in Gaza in 2024, has been released fr...

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33 year old Leqaa Kordia has FINALLY been released after one year in ICE custody. (📷: @gazamom) Leqaa came to the US ten years ago on a student visa. She was detained for her participation in a Palestine protest, held 1,500 miles away from home, and kept in harrowing conditions.

Finally, Leqaa Kordia is free!

Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.

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I’m OK with the Oscars snubbing Brigitte Bardot in their in memoriam segment #justsaying 🤷🏽‍♀️

Yesss, Javier ♥️♥️♥️

We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.

Not sure if this means where the plastic is coming from or where it’s going

PhD students: Use an agenda for meetings. Keeps meetings on track and deals with your questions. Download free template www.ithinkwell.com.au/resources #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #AcademicChatter

Iran has notified UNESCO that U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged two historical sites: Tehran’s grand bazaar and Golestan Palace, a complex in the Iranian capital known as the “Versailles of Persia." Follow live updates: https://wapo.st/40r8B3D

A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

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Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

My latest: New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

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A moment worth recording: my first time getting 11/11 on the @nytimes.com news quiz. The sports questions usually get me, but since this time, they were all Olympics-related, I managed to get them all right! I guess I'm that competitive 😅 🏆 #newsolympics

I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky

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I love this so much.

MAHA report written by AI and includes hallucinations. So. On. Brand.

White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

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Join us this Thursday at 6 pm ET for the next Center for Progressive Research webinar on US Empire & Global Justice, featuring Profs. Sa'ed Atshan and Sebastian Gil-Riano who discuss the place and future of the US Empire & the possibilities of solidarity www.progressiveresearch.org/events/event...

#AcademicSky: consider adding your name to this letter of joined resistance for faculty from the 60 universities targeted by the Trump Administration--with around 5K signatures already. Faculty from other universities are also welcome to add their names as allies

The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies is recruiting for the 2025-2026 fellowship supported by the Mellon Foundation. It’s a great opportunity for BIPOC/Queer scholars to connect, seek mentorship, and work in a space of solidarity and community. Spread the word!

Apply to the Fellowship — The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies

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Please consider signing this petition to university administrators urging them not to comply with or abet lawless violations of human rights by the federal government.

Please Sign This Petition on Behalf of Constitutional Rights

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