Taps the sign: this is an elite phenomenon way more than a popular one and it's so gross to see this being imposed on a population by these demented freaks.
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Taps the sign: this is an elite phenomenon way more than a popular one and it's so gross to see this being imposed on a population by these demented freaks.
ushering in the new illiberal arts
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog). First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views. Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.
First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views. Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views. Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying.
The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
🚨🧵My latest:
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
my brain is really struggling to rectify what my DC friends (and, i guess, myself) are posting/sharing on social media vs people elsewhere sharing normal vacation and back to school pics
I've been wondering how long it would take for these cases to start falling apart www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
The Pentagon is reportedly planning to mobilize thousands of National Guard forces and deploy them in Chicago for the purpose of crime control. Trump is on even thinner legal ice with this plan than he is in Los Angeles and D.C. 1/12 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I could go on for days about first the demise of employee sponsored job training (and how it created the student loan debt bubble) and how it’s circled its way back to being a tool of labor control. A perfect little bon mot of this stage of capitalism.
Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...
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The New York Times CONTINUES to release piece after piece spreading disinformation on trans care and dancing on the graves of trans youth in the wake of the SCOTUS decision.
Just brought to my attention, from their morning newsletter. Disgusting.
This isn't even their big hit piece today.
This is like the third story put out by the New York Times since Skrmetti rubbing transgender people's faces in it.
The paper got the ruling it asked for.
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia.
The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??
It keeps us from knowing the truth about this...
www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
open chart, keep scrolling down
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process. @dandipiero.bsky.social, @holmesjessica.bsky.social, and @robinjames.bsky.social are gonna talk about bad feelings in pop music. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. I wanna ask them about goth. For more info:
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I started *looks directly at camera* in 2015/2016 because a certain editor-in-chief told the newsroom that we couldn’t call Trump a liar or racist on social media. He encouraged us to use emojis like 🧐 or 🙃 instead. I came up with *looks directly at camera* instead. And here we are.
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
BSU STATEMENT ON THE DISMANTLING OF DET AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN March 30th, 2025 On Thursday, March 27, 2025, University of Michigan President Santa Ono, Provost & Executive VP for Academic Affairs Laurie McCauley, Executive VP for Medical Affairs Marshall Runge and Executive VP & CFO Geoffrey Chatas sent an email to the university community stating that they were reneging on the university's nearly nine year commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This university, made up of the "Leaders and Best," should have the spine to fight for their students and staff until the very end. Our administrators should have stood up for us, should have advocated for us, and should have protected us - until they were literally forced to acquiesce. The university did not have to cut DEI - they wanted to. In recent years, DEI has become a weapon wielded by white supremacists in office to sow division amongst the American people. From Donald Trump, who referred to DEI as a form of "tyranny," to Regent Sarah Hubbard, who called UM's DEI programs "curtailment of speech," white conservatives in this country are no longer hiding their racism behind facades of valuing a "merit-based society," and "diversity of thought," and are openly speaking to the real problem of DEI - the advancement of Black people. We, as Black students, have often spoken to the limitations of the university's bureaucratic DEI system, in hopes of improvement. We have advocated for increased student involvement and control of DEI initiatives, and the prioritization of Black voices - both students and staff - as the way towards a truly more equitable university. We, the Black Student Union, have worked tirelessly to try to improve the existing structure and efficacy of the university's DEI work. Our More Than Four platform, housed under the now-defunct Office of DEI (ODEI, was aimed at increasing Black student enrollment at the university, a hope that is now even more far-fetched.
Current and former students have poured countless hours into advocating for themselves, and those who would come after them. To blatantly throw out all of the programs that they worked so hard for is to spit in the faces of generations of Black students, staff, and faculty on this campus. Furthermore, these attacks on DEI are coupled with attacks on student's rights - the right to protest, to dissent, and to use their voices - that were crucial to the advancement of Black students, and other students of color, on this campus. The Black Action Movements (BAM I, II, & III) of 1970, 1975, Jand 1987, along with #BeingBlackatUM in 2013, led to crucial wins for Black students and benefits for the entire university community. The student strikes of BAM I, in 1970, led to the creation of the Afro and African American Department here at UM, and #BBUM led to the creation of the Trotter Multicultural Center, the only building to be named after a Black person on UM's campus. These wins did not happen through quiet negotiations with the university, but through loud, disruptive, and angry protest. To crack down on student activism, especially in such violent and repressive ways as to sic the university police on students sleeping in the Diag, is to disregard the long history of student activism on this campus, and is deeply cowardly. The dismantling of DEI has real-life consequences. Staff who have worked their whole careers to support and protect students of color have suddenly had their lives upended. Jobs are not only people's passions, but their livelihoods - how they feed their children. Students who have chosen to pursue fields based in the advancement of and advocacy for marginalized communities are suddenly left scrambling.
We wholeheartedly condemn the university's disgusting and deplorable stance on DEI programs. The regents and Santa Ono are rolling over to the Trump Administration's blatant racism, and are ensuring that conditions on this campus get even worse for students of color, especially Black students. Violence against Black students is already present on campus. From intimidation tactics by hate groups such as "White Lives Matter," to the word "n*gger" being scrawled across the walls in East Quad, we can already see how life under Trump affects Black people. Santa Ono and the regents are perfectly comfortable subjecting Black students on this campus to the growing racism and anti-Blackness that runs rampant in this country, and don't have the backbone to even attempt to defend us against rising facism. To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you. To the regents: We see you for the racists you are. Truth! Action! Power! The Black Student Union #EyesOnBlack #BringBlackUmich
The University of Michigan Black Student Union has released a statement on the dismantling of DEI at the institution.
"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.
To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."
Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
in case you missed the outcome of the canceled military band concert with the young musicians from Equity Arc:
A lot people stepped up--including military band veterans and the Strathmore in MD--and they're going to be on CBS tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-D...
Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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