Lisa Schiff

AAUP's Wolfson and AFT's Weingarten on the NIH’s Decision to Strip Fellows of their Right to Collective Bargaining AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the decision by the National Institutes of Health to strip research fellows of their right ...

Believing in science means believing scientists should have a voice on the job. NIH is trying to strip collective bargaining rights from their fellows, yet another attack on lifesaving research www.aaup.org/news/aaups-w...

Trump order prompts Redwood National and State Parks to flag 9 books for banning The books all highlight the cultures and histories of Native American tribes.

More books flagged for removal from nat'l parks because of Trump's EO requiring elimination of info by/about people who aren't white or any complex #history. Contact elected officials & demand an end to this #censorship and #racism! www.defendresearch.org/take-action www.sfgate.com/national-par...

The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

Powerful piece by @bakerdphd.bsky.social about the need for #HigherEd folks to resist #censorship and attacks on #knowledge & #scholars by speaking up & being in solidarity! Please consider signing the "Declaration" and see our other actions! defendresearch.org www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Friends & Foundations Network March Meeting — For The People FTP’s Friends & Foundations Network helps folks strengthen and protect their libraries by getting involved with a Friends of the Library or Foundation group! Join us at our next meeting, March 18...

Hey #LibraryDefenders! Come to the March 18 @librariesftp.bsky.social Friends & Foundations Network mtg to learn about #library governance and how being part of a #FriendsOfTheLibrary or #LibraryFoundation group can help strengthen libraries! www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/frien...

Black rain: the health and environmental risks from Tehran’s oil fires - CEOBS Attacks on Tehran's oil facilities have exposed millions to harm, we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental risks.

Our tax dollars are paying for this horror.

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Dear media,
When you ask Mike Johnson about Andy Ogles' hateful tweet against Muslims and Johnson says he knows nothing about it, hand him a printout of the tweet and ask him to read it. "It's just 10 words, Mr. Speaker. Please read it. Now, what do you think?"

#AbolishICE

🙏 It's critical to follow DHS plans for building #DetentionCenters which can serve as #ConcentrationCamps not just for immigrants but for those democrats who are resisting autocracy--labeled "terrorists" by Noem et al.

Stop the construction of these camp!

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We needed to redesign scholarly communication (procedures, units of output, incentives, publication models) before this happens - and it's already too late. These people are crushing the system and blaming the victims for not being prepared to handle the weight of their output.
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FREE UKSG webinar: Why we all need to #DefendResearch - UKSG This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar - Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and ...

Trump keeps attacking knowledge & scholars, so institutions should stop being quiet & speak out! Join @alicemeadows.bsky.social, @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social, @tteleen.bsky.social, & myself at a 5/5 @uksg.bsky.social webinar: "Why we all need to #DefendResearch" www.uksg.org/events/free-...

A map of the United States depicting multi-colored circles, which represent various sites targeted for concentration camp development by the U.S. government.

To stay on top of the warehouse conversions underway, we have added a new color-code to the map. Facilities marked in 🟠 are UNDER CONVERSION from a shipping warehouse to a concentration camp.

We can't celebrate International Women's Day without talking about the women of Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and other places who have been killed by US and Israeli bombs, or the ones who are currently experiencing the oppression that genocide, apartheid, and US imperialism inevitably bring.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

Just ordered my copy!

What are the odds that the administration blames this "target misidentification" on AI?

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Black Zine Fair returns to BK on May 9 - www.instagram.com/p/DVj7XGvEfdC/ - Stay tuned for details.

Home Sign the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. Join over 5000+ signatories and share with your networks....

Thank you for sharing this! Infuriating! Many of us are organizing to surface and fight back against Trump's #censorship. See our work here, including testimonials, the Declaration to #DefendResearch, resources for taking action, and a new webinar series we've started: www.defendresearch.org/home

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Send these fuckers to The Hague.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙

Please preorder it! 🧵

Stand Up for Science: March 7th, 2026 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

I'm ready to #StandUpForScience tomorrow in San Francisco! Hope everywhere we gather across the country will overflow with folks speaking out! www.standupforscience.net/march7 And don't forget to add your name to the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov. #Censorship! defendresearch.org

Why Target is the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

"Members of Trump's Board [of Peace] are ... among the worst human rights violators on the planet."

I mean that to me the article isn't the analog of the album, but of the song, i.e. issue=album and article=song.

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.

Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.

Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social