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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · 11d

I’m pretty sure he’s just neurodivergent

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20d

So this is very bad.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · 21d

Scholars who aren’t actually at risk of bearing the repercussions of the current sociopolitical landscape are so terrified of the mere specter of censorship that they will end up censoring marginalized scholars more efficiently than the president ever could.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is very specific but I really hate when I sort of know something and vaguely remember reading it but can’t remember where and can’t find a source so I am incapable of defending my perspective 😩

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

New: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to continue terminating NIH grants relating to DEI, gender identity, and COVID. It's a 5–4 decision, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent. From Justice Jackson's dissent👇 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

For a cautionary tale about lawmaking on the emergency
docket, look no further than this newest iteration. By
today’s order, an evenly divided Court neuters judicial
review of grant terminations by sending plaintiffs on a
likely futile, multivenue quest for complete relief. Neither
party to the case suggested this convoluted procedural
outcome, and no prior court has held that the law requires
it. But, in the view of the deciding vote, California compels
this conclusion. “So only another under-reasoned
emergency order undergirds today’s.” Trump v. Boyle, 606
U. S. ___, ___ (2025) (KAGAN, J., dissenting from grant of
application for stay) (slip op., at 2).
The Court also lobs this grenade without evaluating
Congress’s intent or the profound legal and practical
consequences of this ruling. Stated simply: With
potentially life-saving scientific advancements on the line,
the Court turns a nearly century-old statute aimed at
remedying unreasoned agency decisionmaking into a
gauntlet rather than a refuge. But we have no business
erecting a novel jurisdictional barrier to judicial review—
especially when it appears nowhere in the relevant statutes
and makes little sense. Because the Government’s
application should have been denied in full, I respectfully
dissent in part.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Aug 14

“According to an analysis of federal data by The New York Times, as of mid-June the N.I.H. had terminated at least 616 projects focused on closing the health divide between Black and white, and rich and poor, Americans.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h...

Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎶Why are we as therapists so resistant to routine outcome monitoring of our treatment? 🎶

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations, Dr. Pugach!!

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 7

20 years of passport photos

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 5

Vote vote vote plzzz NYC

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 5

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays

A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 1

It worries me just HOW MUCH people would benefit from listening to Maintenance phase.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Aug 1

I am tired. Tired tired tired tired tired.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 31

After a decade of insincere trolling about “isn’t college about being exposed to challenging ideas?” conservatives have gotten universities to install an anonymous and unaccountable Instantly Kill Your Professor button. Brown University… you are my Chump Of The Week

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jul 31

From the Brown settlement. Everyone who signed off on this is a coward and an idiot and should have it follow them the rest of their lives. They are complicit in a censorship regime that has been and will be compared to the Red Scares.

Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be
promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Jul 30

Got to speak to the Ohio Capital Journal about the psychological impacts of Native mascots last week - read their story here: ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/30/m...

More than 80 Ohio high schools have Native-themed names and mascots • Ohio Capital Journal

Four years after the Cleveland Indians announced they would change its name to the Guardians, many Ohio high schools have retained their Native-themed names and mascots.

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Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social · Jul 28

New research led by Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Anna Fetter sheds light on how ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is experienced by Native American and Alaska Native students, with implications for use of a common ERI measure in research with these communities. ow.ly/ui3q50WuTP6
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New Research from Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences & colleagues. Illustration of publication overlaid with magnifying lens with light bulb inside.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wasn’t he already there?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 24

Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community.

There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women.

Absolute cowards.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard College Closes Diversity Offices, Reassigns Staff to New ‘Harvard Foundation’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College will close its offices for minority students, LGBTQ students, and women and fold their staff under a new Office of Culture and Community, according to a Wednesday message from College ...

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · Jul 23

Some GOOD news: The Supreme Court of the Muscogee Creek Nation has just ruled that Freedmen are tribal citizens!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Jul 23

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed Trump to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The commission helps protect consumers from dangerous products.

Trump fired the three Dems on the five-member commission in the middle of 7 year terms.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Jun 13

GlobalX is a charter airline that operates more than half the ICE deportation flights.

At the same time the company flies Duke and UConn basketball, other NCAA teams, and pro clubs like Inter Miami and Lionel Messi.

Corporate greed is enabling ICE.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...

ICE's go-to charter airline for deportations also flew NCAA teams, Inter Miami and more

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you’re still subscribing to the New York Times I really don’t know what to say.

See below for exhibit #3884829 of why you should not.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jun 11

The New York Times headline writers now call groups like the AMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons "pro-vaccine groups." They get more preposterous with each passing day.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 12

They’re going to replace undocumented immigrant labor with poor children

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Mar 25

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants.
Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds.
(Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

New York (CNN) — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."

Thousands of scientists disagreed.

We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

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