Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

This UVA rally — which is sponsored by student, faculty, & staff groups — will protest the Trump regime's efforts to take over American universities & demand that UVA not cooperate, as it did this summer.
Friday, noon, at the Rotunda. C-ville community members are encouraged to attend.

I feel bad for the ordinary person who looks to purportedly respectable scientific figures for insight into the wonders of the universe, only to be met by absurd speculations that an interstellar comet is alien technology. (It is not.)

No better than anti-vax nonsense.

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CDC Cuts Threaten Public Health Nationwide, Fired Employees Say www.scientificamerican.com/article/cdc-...

Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education.

Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

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Along with fast-tracking FEMA funds for the Naples pier, Noem flew to the Florida city on a government plane to tour the site, then stayed for the weekend and had dinner with the donor, according to emails and an interview with the Naples mayor.

(Published September)

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Holy shit the AG ordered an arrest of a mayor independent of his actions

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

"The 13-year-old’s mother said her son has called her crying from the Virginia facility, where he’s sleeping on concrete with an aluminum sheet as a blanket."

The family is here on a pending asylum claim.

Who put all these corner reflectors in the abyss, that’s what I want to know.

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

The biggest concern I have about Students These Days is that America just canceled the grants that pay for their research training, made their student loans more expensive, sent ICE to threaten them, and is trying to make the universities into anti-intellectual deserts.