Picking up seizure medication at CVS.

1. call your congresspeople - www.5calls.org
2. donate mutual aid - www.standwithminnesota.org
3. boycott companies that support ice - www.lawfirm4immigrants.com/companies-th...
4. organize locally - support neighbors in hiding, protest, become a legal observer

this is all hands on deck 💔🇺🇸

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

We are citizens of a country in which someone might be expected to survive two school shootings thousands of miles apart before they have finished their education

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Amazing work from former colleagues at Annenberg!

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
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Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.

I would never presume to lecture a computer scientist on how to teach their material, as I am unqualified.

This computer scientist should not pontificate about teaching subjects where he is unqualified.

Teaching about race is political. Full stop.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

I'd be curious to see if there are differences in understandings of tariffs in swing states vs states like NY that are blue/don't get as many targeted ads. That analysis would say more about the utility of messaging, etc.

Harvard’s decision to stand up against Trump was its smartest and most effective fundraising move ever.

MESSAGE TO COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICIANS:

IT IS BOTH THE RIGHT THING AND THE SMART THING TO DEFEND YOUR CORE VALUES.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

I really want to stress that it is not possible to teach about antisemitism without also teaching about, say, racism and xenophobia.

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he isTren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained 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.

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

They're not just going to stop collecting data; they want researchers to stop accessing the data that already exists. Despicable.

JD Vance reveals whether more deportations of green card holders are coming | Fox News Video Sneak peek: Vice President JD Vance discusses the rights of green card holders in an 'Ingraham Angle' exclusive.

In this clip, Vance explicitly says that, *more* than being about national security, this is about "who do *we,* as an American public, decide gets to join our national community." Not to be Influence of Soros on this but this is antithetical to an open society
www.foxnews.com/video/636998...

tl;dr (but actually go read it anyway);

Born 1957-1967? You might have gotten a weak shot.
Born 1967-1989? You might have gotten one shot, not enough.

In either case, the options are
1) look up your vaccination records,
2) get a measles titer measurement; or...
3) just get a booster! (I did that.)

"Loomer... accused Furman and his wife Ariela Dubler of being “leftist Jews” who are as dangerous as “Jihadists.”... Trump himself has frequently accused liberal Jewish figures of being disloyal."

Tell me again about how this is about fighting antisemitism.