The Trump Regime has declared a war on higher ed, trampling on the rights of students and faculty.
Wesleyan’s President Michael S. Roth on standing up in the face of intimidation & how the bi-partisan Democracy Summer will teach our youth how to protect democracy.
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"Imagine America pulling out of NATO in 1950 and inviting the Soviet Union to form its own alliance system and figure out Europe on its own. That’s the scale of this insanity."
"In a normal world, the FBI would undertake the kind of detailed forensic investigation against DHS agents that it did against January 6th insurrectionists and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law." In our world...
I am deeply concerned about Liam and every child at the Dilley Detention Center.
No parent should have to worry about whether their child is eating, getting medical care, or deteriorating in detention.
What I saw was alarming — and unacceptable. Liam must be released immediately.
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "The fact that Trump, Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller came out and lied about both the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, especially the shooting of Alex Pretti, that has broken through…That smearing of him is something voters took note of."
To my colleagues in the Senate: Hold the line.
Nancy Mace gets wrecked by a community note
I don’t really care what this place is or isn’t. Alls I know is it’s been great for the business of The Onion and that both Zuck and Musk have experience cooking and/or hiding the books on their own traffic. Doesn’t really matter if there are more page views if they’re not real people.
Okay, well if you can sue judges, who wants to file a lawsuit against Aileen Cannon with me?
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
PALLONE: With regard to vaccines, are you just afraid to receive public comments on proposals? There's been no public process
RFK JR: We have a public process for regulating vaccines. It's called the ACIP committee.
PALLONE: You fired the committee!
It’s deeply disturbing that FAA Administrator nominee Bryan Bedford refuses to commit to upholding the 1,500-hour pilot training standard.
After the DCA crash and surge in near-misses, now is NOT the time to weaken flight training requirements for pilots.
I’ll be voting no.
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
If you’re not outraged by this, you really should be.
“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social
Breaking:
BOSTON (AP) - Judge halts Trump administration effort to block Harvard University from hosting international students.
"Wearing their Illinois National Guard uniforms, Axel and Andres Reyes arrived with their mother at the immigration office Tuesday morning.
"The men, 19 and 24, watched their mother, who has been in the U.S. for more than 24 years, enter the office..."
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I am glad that Mahmoud Khalil will be released and finally meet his son, but he never should have been taken in the first place.
Our Constitution guarantees the right to due process to everyone. We will continue fighting to defend that right.
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Ouch. #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.
honestly one of the most encouraging recent developments is the naked opportunism of Governor Gavin Newsom, and I pray that there are copycats
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A powerful message to opposition leaders, dissidents, cooperators, operatives and allies in Iran, Russia, and around the globe. After you are done risking your life to help us, we will sell you out and screw you over. Because the current govt will use you and discard you.
Most people define this behavior as .......CULT.....
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and others were tackled by security, then dragged out of today’s HHS budget hearing. RFK Jr’s response was to snicker.
But investigating auto-pen.
Pete Hegseth, constantly paranoid about someone in the Pentagon talking to the press about the crazy shit he’s doing on a daily basis, issues a new set of rules for the media restricting access to the building. Why are they constantly trying to hide everything from the public?
“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…
In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.
I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵
