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Madeline Trimble

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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Was honored to speak at this rally on learning from Renee Good's legacy of kindness and care for her community. Next step: demand specific guardrails & accountability measures from the Senate. There is power in collective action. Call script with specific asks here: indivisible.org/actions/ice-...
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Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible
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Alexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
@ithakasr.bsky.social has developed & can provide support with frameworks that help IHEs "measure the extent to which institutions deliver liberal arts education [& the extent] to which students experience a liberal arts education." buff.ly/ItQlyqP #AcademicSky #highered @madjoyish.bsky.social
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Can You Measure It? - Ithaka S+R
The debate over the value of the liberal arts rages on. State policymakers and institutions face increasing pressure to demonstrate “value” to taxpayers and prospective students, which often means…
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Jo French @gothinkdexign.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I have never pursued an ADHD evaluation but I feel a little personally attacked that this thread goes on to describe EXACTLY the system I use for socks 😅
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Took my son to the #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally tonight. ✊
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/06/2025
Breaking news: The Trump administration announced a ban on travelers to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban takes effect June 9.
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Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban
The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My husband's mom died within a month of his birth. Social Security kept him out of poverty.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash
Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. 

Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.

We will have more to share soon. Excellent work 
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/04/2025
Opinion | America’s Veterans Deserve Better Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0
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Higher Ed Can Do More for Veterans (opinion)
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Trump's Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Harvard threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students' disciplinary records and protest participation.
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Come to our rally in Teaneck tomorrow! Because our federal government is worth standing up for.
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Alexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This excellent article by Diane Cheng of the Institute for Higher Education Policy explains why college data collected by the US Department of Education are essential tools in evaluating colleges, including by prospective college-going students: buff.ly/eFZPR2l #AcademicSky
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The Case for IES Postsecondary Studies: How IPEDS Provides Key Consumer Information About College Costs, Outcomes, and More
The future of education tools that provide students, researchers, and policymakers with critical information about college costs, financial aid, and outcomes is now at serious risk. That’s because…
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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education: www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit... AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My heart breaks reading these accounts of the important research contracts that have been cancelled by the Trump administration (including research from CCRC <3 ). These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Trump claimed during the 2024 election that “we have to do something about the Dreamers.” Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere
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DACA Updates: Trump Seeks to Strip Dreamers of ACA Eligibility; Fifth Circuit Ruling Goes Into Effect
Two recent developments related to the DACA program stand to affect thousands of young immigrants who call the US their home.
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ACLU of New Jersey @aclu-nj.org · 18/03/2025
It’s #NationalPublicDefenderDay! Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
💯 This op-ed by ed research leaders made that essential point quite forcefully: "Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."
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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“DIGITAL BOOK BURNING”: This phrase captures the import of what is going on across numerous agencies. Yes, there are real, specific consequences of degraded or manipulated data in each case- but even those costly losses pale alongside the big picture consequence: rapid descent into authoritarianism.
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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
All IES program officers are gone How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed? Spend it fast if you can
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2025
Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt that a memo like this is sufficient to actually declare any of these things illegal. And it seems ripe for a challenge in the courts. But there's always the risk that schools will preemptively comply.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025
Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions. They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion www.ed.gov/media/docume...
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."
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Easy, DOGE. IES matters.
The federal role in education dates to 1867 when President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first “Department of Education” for the purpose of:
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My very first job out of college was working as an RA at MDRC on the Career Academies evaluation, funded by Dept of Ed. I got to meet the first IES director when my boss let me tag along for a presentation in DC. Here’s a blurb on the program, the study and its impact www.mdrc.org/work/project...
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Career Academies: Exploring College and Career Options (ECCO) | MDRC
Career Academies were first developed some 35 years ago with the aim of restructuring large high schools into small learning communities and creating better pathways from high school to further educat...
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
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AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Understanding “what works” in education is HARD and is what many of us have dedicated our professional lives to figuring out. Having some wanna-be tech bros come in and decide they know better than researchers & experts is beyond infuriating and insulting to the ed research community.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Existing grants have not (yet) been hit It is CONTRACTS that are axed - eg Mathematica does WWC And they have not closed IES but just stopped much of what it does
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Some reporting from EdWeek h/t @weilanch.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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Trump Admin. Suddenly Cancels Dozens of Education Department Contracts
The Trump administration abruptly terminated dozens of contracts financed by the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Screenshot of the article that reads: The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, appears to be the latest agency in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency office.

Dozens of researchers and contractors received notices Feb. 10, directing them to immediately stop work on research projects and program evaluations financed by IES, a federal agency with a roughly $800 million budget, sources say.

It was not immediately clear which—or how many—of IES’ hundreds of contracts are affected, though one source estimated roughly 170.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Every Child Left Behind
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Speechless. It's my career, so maybe I'm biased, but rigorous research on how we can improve education and maximize student access and success is vital. Not to mention the essential standardized, clean data that IES makes publicly available.
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I am hearing that the Department of Education has started issuing stop work orders. Much like USAID did a few weeks ago 😤 Our federal government agencies, capacity, knowledge, & staff are under attack (from within)! 🤬 This is an ♾️🚨 fire, we are experiencing a ‘soft’ coup. 🙏🏼 share & ☎️ your reps!!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And the DOJ memo is shockingly explicit about it, too, saying the prosecution has "'unduly restricted' Adams’ ability to 'devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration'" apnews.com/article/eric...
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Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
A top official at the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams and halt the ongoing investigation.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/02/2025
“Elon Musk has got to go!” Thank you to all of the Indivisibles from across New Jersey who visited Sen. @corybooker.com’s office earlier today.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The Trump admin has revoked Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States. As I have been saying for months: Trump is not only going after undocumented people. He's also "de-documenting" people who are here and working *legally* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.
The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Really fascinating discussion here that brings in theory from a wide ranging set of disciplines, getting at some of the roots of doom scrolling and why the modern world can feel so alienating and why it feels harder these days to devote attention to things we DO care about. Worth a read or listen!
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Indivisible NJ-5 @indivisiblenj5.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Tonight at 7pm in Hackensack, there is a vigil urging members of Congress (including Gottheimer) to vote NO on S5/HR29 tomorrow. Please try to make it if you can!
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Steven Fulop @stevenfulop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Gov Murphy… this is out of touch. You have potential ICE Raids as the Governor of the most diverse state in the country, you have potential attacks on the LGBtQ community, you have a president that doesn’t prioritize the environment…. And you prioritize congestion pricing which is cont..
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Very disappointing to see. I don't believe we should ever win elections by punching down. It won't work, and even if it did, that wouldn't make it right.
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Dax and Sisko were LOUDLY playing hide and seek. Sisko was surprisingly good at hiding 👀
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Important research -> (and I want to highlight that the researchers' efforts to clean and construct an accurate data set of college closures is a major accomplishment in its own right!)
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I may be on parental leave from work until May-ish, but because I have no chill, I'm helping to re-launch our Indivisible NJ-5 group anyway - and this time, we're banding together several former local groups under one umbrella to maximize our impact. Come join us on Wednesday! Let's gooooooo
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Update: I really enjoyed the fancy vegan cheeses on the charcuterie board 😋 Rebel brand was today's winner - both the "honee pistachio chevere" and the "tomato herb fromage" were creamy, tangy, flavorful and excellent
Vegan charcuterie board with crackers, 4 types of vegan cheeses, vegan salami, fennel jam, and Concord grape butter
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Madeline Trimble @madjoyish.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We ordered very delicious-looking catering but are having people over today (Saturday) for a festive meal instead of on Thursday It has been sitting in the fridge, tempting me Cornbread stuffing, sour cream mash, pecan pie, & more... 😋 I feel I deserve to be congratulated on my restraint 👏
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am thrilled to hear reports that the streamlined, new FAFSA is easy to use I am heartbroken that deportation fears have advocacy groups cautioning students with undocumented family members that completing the FAFSA could put them in danger
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Indivisible NJ-5 @indivisiblenj5.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Absolutely yes! Let's do that? Here in NJ, where we just voted to replace the ethically compromised Senator Bob Menendez with the mensch Senator-Elect Andy Kim, we know it's a good thing when ethical violations come to light regardless of party.
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