Sara Goldrick-Rab
@saragoldrickrab.bsky.social
AUTHOR of Paying the Price 📚 FOUNDER of the #RealCollege movement to support students’ basic needs + Believe in Students (nonprofit) + Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice 💡 TEACHER at Community College of Philadelphia ✏️✏️ MOM of teens 🌱🐶🐈🐈⬛
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoBrian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
nbcnews.com
"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 11mo agowrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury. You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi is en route to Moscow to meet with Putin.
The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.
‘Man with rifle’ — Photos capture the frightening scene of the shooting at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest
The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.
sltrib.com
It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.
Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.
Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers & their spouses were shot in their homes by someone impersonating law enforcement. Former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman & her husband have since died from their wounds. Days ago, a sitting U.S. Senator was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference;…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination.
apnews.com
Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center. Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them. We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.
Nightmare in Minnesota: A gunman shot State Senator John Hoffman & State Rep. Melissa Hortman. Political violence is a lethal threat to our freedom & democracy. Let’s keep the nonviolent movements of American history close in our hearts today & pray for these public servants.
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incidents, in grave condition; manhunt underway
Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said.
abcnews.go.com
The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People.
NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“
Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?
The main cause of rising student debt is RENT. Andrew Gillen is out of touch, to put it mildly.
Today’s Senate hearing is clearly about making higher ed private, Christian, and white again.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.
Sesame Street is a PUBLIC GOOD- it shouldn’t need “saving” by Netflix.
