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Caroline Levine

@carolinelevine.bsky.social
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Cornell Professor, climate activist

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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Cornell alums! Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding. Please consider signing this petition! Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!
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Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom
Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Very very smart analysis of what's happening at U of Chicago.
chicagomaroon.com
Reorg 101: The Past and Future of the Race to the Bottom
As the reorganization of the University’s Division of the Arts & Humanities commences, Clifford Ando warns that the fate of the humanities is up for grabs.
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I couldn't possibly love this more. Thanks, Anna Kornbluh!
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The Point of Politics Is to Convince People, Not Grandstand
Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, sometimes we leftists seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s j...
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Trump (and his entire administration) is shockingly dumb about (electric) power @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/trump-is-s...
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Trump is shockingly dumb about (electric) power
It's not too soon to start working the politics of people's power bills
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
meditationsinanemergency.com
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cornell letter with 500 signatories is up!
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Letter to Trustees (public).docx
April 17, 2025 Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on American universities threaten bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, asso...
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
1. Condemn the attacks on higher education, even if your own institution has not yet been singled out.
2. Legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands from the federal government.
3. Work with other universities to mount a coordinated opposition of administrators, faculty, and alumni to combat these anti-democratic attacks.
Harvard University - link to sign - 840 signatures so far
Stanford University - link to sign  1096 signatures so far
Yale University - link to sign - 970 signatures so far
Cornell University - link to sign -  505 signatures so far
Boston University - link to sign - 502 signatures so far
Northwestern University - link to sign - 329 signatures so far
Emory - link to sign - 276 signatures so far
Tufts - link to sign - 179 signatures so far
Brandeis - link to sign - 110 signatures so far
Suffolk University - link to sign - 91 signatures so far
UW Madison - link to sign - 84 signatures so far
University of North Carolina - link to sign - 70 signatures so far
Washington University in Saint Louis - link to sign - 33 signatures so far
SUNY Albany - link to sign - just started collecting
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
TIAA-Divest! members at #HandsOff this weekend across the country. The same systems that criminalize protest and target communities are driving environmental destruction. Our fights are connected—across campuses, borders, and movements. Where did you support from?
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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
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We Are Higher Ed
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I know higher ed has a lot going on right now, but can I alert you to what Wellesley College is doing to students as a result of their non-tenured faculty strike? thewellesleynews.com/21038/opinio...
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Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes
The college has willingly decided to threaten students with losing their financial aid or visa status if they do not attend scab lectures or replace their current lectures with completely unrelated co...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Let’s be clear: If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free. That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unbearable
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
1/ He wasn’t kidding when he told people 2024 was the last election they’d ever have to vote in if he won www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
good morning
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Admins are trying too hard to keep inside and outside messages separate. It's not like the inside pain is secret and it's never going to stay that way. Just be open about the fact that the campuses are in pain and that the external message will be one that works. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia’s President Faces Angry Faculty in Closed-Door Meetings
The school leadership is warned of risk of funding cuts in Trump talks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Call your rep, call your senators. No matter the party.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night at 12:52 AM, the Department of Justice contacted the undersigned via email. Under the subject line “Momodou Taal et al v. Trump, 25-cv-335 (NDNY),” the government informed the undersigned for the first time that the government intended to serve Mr. Taal with a Notice to Appear (NTA), and that they intended to take Mr. Taal into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that this information confirms the factual basis for Plaintiffs’ request for an emergency temporary restraining order, ECF No. 23, and the increased urgency with which the Court’s intervention is needed, we respectfully request the Court construe this letter as any procedurally appropriate vehicle to obtain the same. Plaintiffs’ counsel is immediately available to follow up with any submissions the Court deems appropriate in this extraordinary situation. Attached to this letter is an affidavit from Counsel Eric Lee (Exhibit 4), the government’s 12:52 AM email (Exhibit 5), and Plaintiffs’ counsel’s reply (Exhibit 6). The email reads: My colleagues and I represent the United States in this matter. The applications for admission of Messrs. Stone, Moss, and myself to the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York are pending, so we have not noticed our appearances yet. But we wanted to reach out to establish a line of communication, and relate some information concerning your client. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked us to convey to you the following. ICE invites Mr. Taal and his counsel to appear in-person at the HSI Office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the NTA and for Mr. Taal to surrender to ICE custody. Accordingly, if you are interested in proposing such a date and time, we will promptly forward it to ICE for consideration
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Reality of the economics of power generation is tough to ignore. The media and politicians are doing a great job of trying but reality is pretty relentless.
Two search result headlines from energy CEO that warn of "power crisis" if trump delays renewables and that renewables are "cheaper and faster" than methane (natural gas).
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2025
The Sudzha gas pipeline, a key route for gas from Russia into Europe, was just attacked. Pretty major sabotage, akin to the Nordstream attack
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
TIAA IS DELETING COMMENTS Clients calling out TIAA for funding the climate crisis are being silenced. TIAA pours billions into fossil fuels, destroys ecosystems, & exploits communities—then erases the truth. This is GREENWASHING. Can you help repost? People deserve to know where their money goes.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Okay, this is a big deal. We hadn't seen any new Nos from Senators who were on the likely Yes list.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Democrats asked Republicans to set guardrails to guarantee that money in the appropriations bill would actually be used as intended, blocking Elon Musk from stripping out the copper wire. Republicans said no. Chuck Schumer's decision to make the story about himself is political malpractice.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
He's a weak man and a fool. This was one of the big arguments by the vote Yes Team: The moment will be more ripe in September. There's a good chance that's right, politically. But by September the federal government will be unrecognizable.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Too much is at stake not to keep up the pressure on the Senate Democrats up to the very moment of the vote.
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
TIAA markets itself as a responsible investor, yet has over $78 billion in fossil fuels — funding the very crisis that threatens its members' futures. There’s nothing “secure” about retirement on a planet in crisis. It’s time for TIAA to divest and invest in a sustainable future.
TIAA DIVEST spelt out in various photos of TIAA-Divest! actions, coal, deforestation, and fossil fuels
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Last year, TIAA-Divest! didn’t just sit back—they showed up outside the Big10 game with an LED truck to make one thing crystal clear: TIAA must divest from fossil fuels and stop exploiting Black and Indigenous communities. It’s about time TIAA listens. #tiaadivest #droptiaa
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/03/2025
The FBI is now moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I think about this 2 minute speech a lot. Ella Baker with no time for applause and agreement, only time to remind everyone about what organizing and solidarity require
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Ella Baker speaking in Puerto Rico at a Solidarity Rally (1974)
YouTube video by Heber Brown, III
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
“We don’t have to report that because laws don’t matter under Trump” is actually ironically just fascist enabling
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
TIAA hosting the Big10 is pure sportswashing. While we cheer on our favorite teams, we can’t let TIAA score points with false advertising. They invest billions in fossil fuels & land grabs that harm Indigenous communities, Black farmers, & the planet. It’s time for TIAA to make a change.
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TIAA-Divest! @tiaadivest.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We hear it time and again: "I didn’t know TIAA was so invested in coal, oil, and gas." TIAA’s reputation doesn’t match their actions. Head to the Forbes article and leave a comment urging them to #divest. Here are some powerful examples to inspire you. www.forbes.com/sites/marian...
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
From Tina Lu: Today’s call to Dems: "I'm a constituent and I'm urging Senator X to vote NO on the continuing resolution. No helping the Republicans until the lawbreaking stops." Some Dems are wavering, so please call! Calls work. 5 calls.org
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
They’re saying out loud the reason that no democrat can possibly support this. Let the democrats load up the bill with whatever spending they want and Trump just won’t spend it so don’t worry.
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The 51st @51st.news · 10/03/2025
Now a column criticizing Bezos's decision has been "spiked" without discussion, according to the author. Columnist and editor Ruth Marcus had been with the Post for 40+ years and resigned. We repeat, D.C. deserves billionaire-free local news: 51st.news/dc-deserves-...
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D.C. deserves billionaire-free local news
If 5% of the people who have canceled their Washington Post subscriptions joined the 51st, we’d be fully funded.
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The GOP needs 7 dems to pass their budget bill. Michigan friends, Elissa Slotkin hasn't yet committed to voting against. This is the moment to CALL HER: 202-224-4822 Calls work. Please call all your Dem Senators!
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I walked out of a faculty senate town hall on the administration's attempt to blow up higher education this evening, looked up in the sky to see the debris from Musk's spaceship blowing up over the Bahamas and South Florida.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This does seem true. Look at Trump — his positions didn’t seem popular until he *changed* public opinion. Dems for whatever reason (“popularism”?) don’t seem to think they can do this.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In the midst of the madness, there are some promising developments in the energy world. Last year China's gasoline use dropped by 9%. "Booming electric vehicle sales, meanwhile, mean that gasoline consumption probably peaked in 2023... down 9% from 2023 levels" Down 9%!!!
bloomberg.com
China’s Fuel Production Cuts Could Undermine Global Oil Demand
China’s pushing its oil refiners to reduce fuel output, raising new questions about demand in the largest importing nation just as the world’s drillers need buyers for the extra barrels they’re adding...
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Spoiler alert! Forbes takes TIAA-Divest's side! #TIAA-Divest
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Fossil Fuels And Prudent Fiduciaries: TIAA Invest Vs TIAA-Divest
TIAA pushed back, citing fiduciary duties.
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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alito: "Does a single district-court judge...have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 bill taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this Court...thinks otherwise. I am stunned."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
related www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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It’s Official: Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500
Trump’s fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn’t come roaring back.
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