Stop the Cuts in SAS Dear President Tate, We are writing regarding your mandate to impose "stand-still" budgets. The resulting cuts will undermine our educational mission and damage Rutgers faculty and students. We str...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the Cuts in SAS . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Yes, Charles Yang, you were certainly born by the River.
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Our neo conservative pundits should defend the US empire

A photo of District of Columbia National Guard members arriving at Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day" and the DEK, "An analysis conducted for The Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions."

“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than four times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population.” interc.pt/45PvcJf

Dozens taken into custody in Edison warehouse ICE raid, advocates say The raid happened at the Smart Logistics and Freight Solutions warehouse on Wednesday morning.

Thugs run amok in my neighborhood
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Katherine Clark backs off Gaza ‘genocide’ comments Her statement comes after saying the “genocide and destruction” in Gaza needs to end.

Another Democrat profile in courage www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The Trump admin made it official: they are coming after the University of California. What is at stake is not just research grant funding for UCLA, but the future of federal funding for the UC system, California’s political autonomy, and public higher education across the U.S.

@ucaft.bsky.social

🚨THE AAUP HAS PLACED MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ON ITS LIST OF CENSURED INSTITUTIONS🚨

Read the full announcement here: www.aaup.org/news/muhlenb...

#HigherEd #MauraFinkelstein #AcademicFreedom #MuhlenbergCollege

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Staggering that they aren't. Staggering they aren't also aligned as one against a war on Iran. Staggering that dozens of people in Gaza are getting massacred by the IDF at food sites and it doesn't even register a shrug. Trump will cancel elections and pundits will wonder why not more of an uproar.

Together with our partners, we urge all #EU Member States & the @ec.europa.eu to:

❌halt arms transfers
❌sanction those responsible for ongoing atrocity crimes
❌suspend the trade agreement with Israel

Under the Genocide Convention, EU states are bound to act.
Learn more: bit.ly/4eapcyB

Repetition compulsion: “You’ve got to go to war with the president you have,” said William Kristol, a Never Trumper and editor at large of The Bulwark who was a prominent advocate of war with Iraq. “If you really think that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, we have a chance to try to finish the job.”

The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.

$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service.

$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year.

About 1 in 5 veterans go to bed hungry each day. The money used for Trump’s birthday parade could provide SNAP food assistance for nearly 18,000 veterans for an entire year.

The foreign delegation in Jenin, West Bank, included officials from the UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Italy and Canada. Essentially Israel opened fire on UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Italy and Canada.

Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War The administration is using immigration enforcement as a guise to mask its plans to decimate vital research and academic freedom.

"The consequences will ripple for years. Universities may lose access to global talent. Scientific research will suffer. Political expression will be chilled. At stake is not just the fate of thousands of foreign students—it is the soul of the university & its role in a democratic society."

Or is this a case of NYT editing an otherwise powerful piece?

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Yes, but astounded that Baker accepts the premise that anti Israel=antisemitism. E.g., where are the quote marks around fight antisemitism: "Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as 'effectively a terrorist support network,'"?

Opinion | They Were Waiting for Trump All Along

There is no “Trumpified” conservative movement. There never was. There is only the conservative movement that was, we can see now, waiting for its Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

This is who they are, this is what they’ve been and, whenever the age of Trump passes, this is who they’ll be.What it should signal to observers of American politics is that there won’t be a time when either the conservative movement or the Republican Party truly changes.

...whether you think this moment is continuous with our past, or a break from it, one thing we can say for sure is that conservative support for this type of governance is not an aberration. It belongs to a consistent pattern of enthusiastic support for tyrants and would-be tyrants.

Judge sides with Rutgers international students who sued over revoked status • New Jersey Monitor The students sued after the federal government terminated their records in an immigration database, jeopardizing their legal status and academic careers.

Judge sides with Rutgers international students who sued over revoked status newjerseymonitor.com/2025/05/09/j...

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