Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old)
We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/
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Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
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For all those meeting the moment, as best you can, thank you.
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"Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another’s harm; and whosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law...may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another." - John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, sec. 202
Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?
People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
“To notice the difficulty of reading Black literature is to acknowledge the difficulty of rendering Black lives. And to call Black life difficult is not simply to describe the hardship of being Black in an anti-Black world. Complexity, ingenuity, beauty—all are contained within Blackness…”
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
From a #higher GOAT: academic freedom during the #maga movement #academicSky #webinar #free
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Help us investigate book bans across the USA.
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
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🧵 Tomorrow, the ASU Center for American Institutions will host an event, “The Family Under Attack,” featuring a speaker who uses her interpretation of faith to further transphobia. Read about our response & desire to center trans people’s humanity in this article: www.statepress.com/article/2025...
NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan, nominated by Trump in 2019, absolutely is a disgrace
He’s simply stopped paying postdoc fellow salaries until the hypothetical time that their grants are “reviewed” for consistency w Trump’s edicts
He’s canceling climate projects
Obeying in advance to the max
Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
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Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.
Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly.
theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
Also NEWS -> Pell Grants & federal direct student loans, though not paused, are still among the programs OMB wants more info about by Feb. 7, according to agency instructions. Among other things, OMB is asking whether programs "promote gender ideology" or support "illegal aliens."
BREAKING: The Department of Education has confirmed that the federal spending pause does *not* affect Pell grants or student loans. You will get the money. Story coming shortly. 1/2
