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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My thoughts in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social on the Court’s new levels of low in BPJ. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/03/t...

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Call Pritzker’s office 3128142122 or the state’s attorney’s office. Their office doesn’t want any national attention suggesting that his office is working with ICE.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court. Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.

(ORDER LIST: 604 U.S.)
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025
24A1007
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
A.A.R.P., ET AL. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL.
There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently
pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The
Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative
class of detainees from the United States until further order of
this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a).
Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissent from the Court's
order.
Statement from Justice Alito to follow.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Check out the letters at www.wearehighered.org/campus-lette.... Add your voice!

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Campus Letters 2025 — We Are Higher Ed

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Almost two weeks ago, I found out I was one of 40 people getting laid off from NBC News. Those who know me know I’ve wanted to go independent for a long time. Later this month, I’m launching @spitfirenews.com. We need journalism that is louder than ever. spitfirenews.com/p/an-introdu...

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Spitfire News

A newsletter from Kat Tenbarge about internet culture, politics, and media.

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Joni Auden Land @joniaudenland.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’m on the Morrison Bridge in Portland where thousands of protesters are marching. The bridge is completely closed to traffic, as people protest President Trump’s administration

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/04/2025

I still think this is the reason Trump is tanking the economy.

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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Tomorrow, join a nationwide protest to tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Hands Off! #HandsOff #April5. Find your local event at handsoff2025.com Who's joining? Let's see your signs and posters (include alt text on images please!)!

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thanks Rick @chronicle.com for talking with @daniellaurison.bsky.social and I about We Are Higher Ed and the groundswell of faculty resistance to attacks on Higher Ed. Here’s what we talked about—which includes a link to our letter and website.

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Apr. 2: Can Trump’s opponents organize?

Feds freeze Princeton grants. Who loses in a world with federal graduate-loan limits? Michigan dean walks back his DEI proclamation. And more.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/04/2025

Sen. @booker.senate.gov's speech on the Senate floor, now live for almost 25 hours, has been liked on TikTok a staggering 350 million times www.tiktok.com/@senbooker/l...

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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Democrats in the northwest suburbs of Chicago are having themselves a good night so far. With over half of the vote in, they appear to: -Have flipped both the Wheeling & Elk Grove Township Boards of Trustees from 4-0 R to 4-0 D -Flipped several Township offices held by the GOP

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/04/2025

If you want to join this fight and show your own support for science and education and their essential role in democracy, you can join the 3700+ others who have already signed this open letter from @wearehighered.bsky.social. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign if you are having trouble signing at the above linked form you can ...

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 31/03/2025

A big win for voting rights in a long-running PA case for @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social & @adambonin.bsky.social

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

For the love of god, please stop using the antisemitism excuse. It has zero to do with that , and everything to do with asserting control over societal institutions that create independent knowledge and promote critical thinking.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

An administration filled with antisemites and misogynists loves to use Jews and women as props, pretending it is protecting them.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In California, UC Davis has suspended its Law Student Association and seized its funding in retaliation for the group’s vote backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel amid its war on Gaza. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...

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UC Davis Suspends Law Student Association over Its Vote to Divest from Israel

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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! Today and every day, we call on colleges and universities to be safe and inclusive spaces for trans students, staff, and faculty.

Trans pride flag with “transgender day of visibility” written across it

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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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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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We Are Higher Ed is tracking campus abductions. Because apparently that’s a thing we need to track in 2025. www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Higher Ed is standing up and fighting back. There are lots of ways to resist the attacks on our students and faculty. On our values and our integrity. Check out what’s happening at “we are higher ed.” If you want to post something just let us know. www.wearehighered.org

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We Are Higher Ed

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you have a stake in higher education - faculty, staff, admin, alum, etc - consider signing our public statement affirming the values of education and diversity, and calling on university leaders to step up. It's at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd. Or look for others at WeAreHigherEd.org

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...). Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign. There are other letters - thread

Google forms chart -
Are you interested in further action?
- connect me to others at my institution who have signed this letter 839 (43.5%)
- get in touch with me about helping organize further actions - 618 (32.1%)
- get in touch with me to let me know about further actions - 1501 (77.9%)
- please do not contact me - 245 (12.7%)

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Sign this and stand up for higher ed

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Sign this and stand up for higher ed

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed. You can do that here: bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher education in a democratic and free society, and to the values and practices that facilitate the production, advancement, and sharing of knowledge. Given the continuous and escalating attacks on higher education along with many other pillars of American democracy by the Trump administration and its allies, we call on colleges and universities to protect these values.

We affirm that:

The democratic ideals of free thought, free speech, free association, freedom of assembly and the right to dissent are worth fighting for. Democracy both honors our dignity as individuals and enables collective action on behalf of the common good.

2. Education is a fundamental pillar of a democratic society. People come from all over the world to take part in the free exchange of ideas and the depth of knowledge and expertise found in US colleges and universities. The capacity and tools these institutions provide to think carefully and deeply about politics, society, and the built and natural worlds produce scholars and world citizens whose contributions benefit us all. The value of American education has long been a consensus position across parties and ideologies; both Democratic and Republican administrations have supported our system of higher education.

3. Diversity is essential. Democracy requires that we invest fully in the rich array of our differences. We affirm the fundamental dignity and value of each person of every race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, legal status, religion, identity, ideology and viewpoint. Bringing together people with different experiences, talents, and perspectives is critical to a successful learning environment and ultimately benefits society as a whole.

4. Education, knowledge, and science are intrinsically worthwhile. They improve both individual lives and the collective well-being of a democratic society. Cutting funding risks inflicting lasting damage on scholarly inquiry, from work in the arts to social policy to life-saving medical research and care.

5. Academic freedom is necessary to the pursuit of knowledge. Research must be conducted free from political threat if it is to identify and develop ideas serving the human race. These ideas, turned into action, are critical elements of any functioning society, including the rule of law, medical care, and scientific advancement.

6. No amount of accommodation or compliance will protect us. The current attacks on higher education amount to an assault on the foundational principles of democracy. If we abandon our commitments to equality, pluralism, and free scholarly inquiry we turn our backs on the most essential ingredients to our democracy: reflecting on our past, pooling our present talents, and investing in our future.

As scholars, educators, and people who care about our students and our democracy, we believe it is our duty to speak out against the attacks on diversity and pluralism, on scholarship and learning, on academic freedom, and on democracy itself. We are doing so through this statement, and will continue to do so on our campuses and beyond.

We urge the leaders of America’s colleges and universities, and every American who believes in democracy and education, to stand up for the values we share.

We call on college and university leadership to refuse to comply with the unethical, irresponsible and frequently illegal demands of the Trump administration; to join together to speak out in defense of the values of academic freedom, scholarship and research; to protect their students and faculty from government reprisals; and to fight attacks on our institutions in the public sphere and the legal arena.

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Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

For those going to MPSA please attend and spread the word.

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Tricia Bee @triciabee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ATTENTION There are two very important users that you need to follow for updates regarding health now that the CDC, FDA, and the NIH are compromised. @rubinallergy.bsky.social & @lilscience.bsky.social They are providing important updates about illness, recalls, outbreaks, etc.

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