Trump administration agrees to keep flying rainbow Pride flag at New York’s Stonewall monument The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, reversing course after removing the banner in February.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York.

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Check out @jqtsie's newest issue, "Queering Rural Education" at scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol3/...! FREE open access to ALL articles!

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'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed

More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

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National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead

Honored to have this chapter in our field’s handbook Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research! Thanks to Drs. Laura Perna and Nick Hillman for the invitation! Thank you as well to Shadman Islem and Austin Van Horn for their collaboration on this chapter! 👏

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Thrilled to announce that your piece "Rogue Jotería Platformization: co-constructing queer futurities in Latinx digital drag ecologies" is published and open-access!

Super proud of this collaboration with @drsmarturo.bsky.social and Mariel Reyes-Galvez.
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I am serving this year as Program Co-Chair for the AERA Division J - Section 2a: College Student Access, Trajectories, & Transitions. Even after inviting many folks, we are short this year on our # of reviewers. If you can review some proposals for our section, please comment below.

Isn’t this exactly the amount that Trump just extorted from Columbia? 🤔

Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...

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What a time to propose this policy:

"Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle"
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Pub alert! Towards a Critical Rural Education Line of Inquiry: Rural Spaces as Multi-Identity Contexts published in the Handbook on Rural and Remote Ed. Honored to have written this piece w/ Dr. Jenay Willis and @jrdavisroger.bsky.social! THANK YOU to the editors! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal It's the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.

Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal

@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!

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If you're a doctor & you're upset about how people in power have been talking about disabled folks (& you should be,) then what are you doing to make sure that your disabled patients feel safe & heard in your practice? Are you providing anti-ableist medical care?

Up to 795 students who have had their visa revoked due to political activism, previous crimes or unidentified reasons. Follow the latest updates here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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Verb tenses here are important. Article states these collections were already removed from this state-funded database! The order was made through a memo from March 31.

Please share with those who are interested in joining the conversation on #queerjoy

"As the Trump administration revokes hundreds of student visas each week, federal immigration officials also seem to be terminating students’ SEVIS status—paving the way for arrest and deportation. [...] affected students were almost all Middle Eastern [...] or from majority-Muslim countries."

This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.

Brown University Professor Deported Despite Valid Visa And Judge's Order A representative for Customs and Border Protection told HuffPost, "Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States."

The Trump administration violated *another* court order by deporting a professor despite her valid visa and a judge’s order halting her removal

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court. Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities. “It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized. Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.