I'm so disappointed with the Daily News right now

NYC’s rich and powerful flock to Cuomo with cash — and job offers to lure Adams out of the race Some of New York’s most powerful billionaires are again lining up behind Andrew Cuomo’s bid to become mayor, with pledges to pump more cash into his campaign and engage in efforts to he…

NYC's rich and powerful flock to Cuomo with cash -- and job offers to lure Adams out of the race www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/09/n... #Cuomo #Adams #Mamdani #NYC #race for #mayor

The Attack on UCLA Will Have Devastating Consequences on Americans August 15, 2025

It's been a while since I've last checked in and so much has happened. Sharing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's wonderful piece on the #UCLA #Trump showdown #highered kareem.substack.com/i/168780238/...

Colleges, Accreditors and States Embrace 3-Year Degrees Colleges from Utah to Indiana and Maine are on track to offer three-year degrees in the near future. But the hesitations that have long plagued the movement haven’t disappeared.

In the near future, the 3-year #college #degree www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Voting age, disengaged: NYC’s youth and the mayoral ballot NYC youth: Are you ready for the 2025 mayoral election? Tune in to the season finale of P.S. Weekly for unfiltered candidate takes, key issues, and how to make your voice heard.

Listen to #NYC #teens on #public #education issues, especially at the end. #kids needing to #teach themselves is a REAL PROBLEM I've met #college #students who needed to teach themselves algebra to pass the regents because their #HS could not keep a math teacher www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Calif. Community Colleges Ramp Up Battle Against the Bots The California Community College system is considering new steps to beat back an influx of fraudsters applying to access student aid money.

Bots fighting bots to save access to #highered #education #financialaid #ghost #students

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

Ack! What the hell?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Family of three sitting around a table under a picture of Abraham Lincoln

Last weeks to see #American #painter Harry Willson Watrous #painting The Drop Sinister at the #MorganLibrary in #NYC before it returns to the Portland #Museum #race #racism

No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

As we leave you tonight, we are energized to see pushback working. We will remain vigilant.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

Our cover this week.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.

Worse than #McCarthyism, #universities under #Trump
www.thenation.com/article/soci... Great article by Ellen Schrecker, a McCarthy scholar

Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Carlo #Maratta #frescoes rediscovered In the #Villa #Farnese #arthistory #earlymodernart #art #Rome www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/s...

BU professor starts hunger strike to support free speech, detained students Boston University professor goes on a hunger strike after the administration removed political signs from his office window.

#BU #professor begins #hungerstrike to #protest #illegal #student #arrests #Boston #stop Student #deportations over #freespeech Protect #academicfreedom www.boston.com?post_type=po...

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Trump Administration cancels dozens of student visas at NYU, CUNY, other NY schools New York colleges are reporting student visas have been abruptly revoked by the Trump administration — with at least some 50 international students affected statewide as part of a nationwide crackd…

Trump Administration cancels dozens of student visas at NYU, #CUNY, other NY schools www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/09/t... #Education NOT #deportation

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state…

"History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state may be you."

A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...

www.propublica.org/article/regi... #HigherEd in #Rural Areas #education #college

Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.

1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban!

It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!

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Where Is The Line? Democratic Budget Capitulation Foreshadows LGBTQ+ Fights To Come Yesterday, several Democrats excused a vote that will allow the Trump administration to gut Medicaid and empower Musk and Trump to consolidate power.

1. Yesterday, ten Democrats capitulated on an Republican budget, empowering the worst of Musk and Trump, and gutting medicaid.

It is a foreshadowing of LGBTQ+ and trans fights to come.

I ask: Where is the line which Dems will NOT vote for one of these bills?

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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Arlington Cemetery website removes links to information on minority, female veterans The Arlington National Cemetery website has removed links to information on prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members as part of Trump’s anti-DEI efforts.

#Trump has never respected #Veterans

#Arlington #Cemetery website removes links to information on #minority, #female veterans www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/14/a...

Drawing by Salvator Rosa of a Witches Sabbath

Join me in Portland OR for Halloween! Please check out the CFP Crafters of Laughter: Innovation in Early Modern Comic Imagery, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Portland, OR, Oct 30-Nov 1 2025

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Salvator Rosa's drawing of a Witches Sabbath to inspire you

Trump Is Cracking Down on the Colleges That Cave to Him Columbia University complied with the demand to aid in Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest. It didn’t save it from the president’s wrath.

Wondering why #Columbia? #Trump Is Cracking Down on the #Colleges That Cave to Him newrepublic.com/article/1925... via @newrepublic.com #illegal #detention

The ADL goes quiet on some hatreds This week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is hosting its annual Never Is Now summit in New York City. But behind the polished speeches and corporate sponsorships, the truth is harder to stomach: …

The ADL goes quiet on some hatreds www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/04/t... #ADL #selective #protection #antidefamation #league ADL is NO LONGER NEUTRAL

Gov. Hochul orders CUNY to remove Palestine scholar job post System leaders took down a job posting for a Palestinian studies professor at Governor Hochul’s insistence. Faculty say it’s an unprecedented breach of academic autonomy.

What happens with the #governor aka #BigBrother peeks into the #classroom? You get the lost of #academicfreedom www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #Hochul interferes with #HigherEd #CUNY

NYC Public Schools revive LGBTQ history videos that were deleted from PBS website LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders

Impact of #censorship in #education #LGBTQ #history moved to another site after deletion from #PBS Protect #public Education #NYC

Google Swastika

I made Google Maps a new icon. I’m calling it the Google Swastika.

(Use it however you want.)

#googleswastika