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Emily Swafford @elswafford.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

As a proud Virginia alumna, this is a disgrace.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025

"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."

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Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert

We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel

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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal

At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Also… when you start firing the ~volunteers~ surely you can drop the pretense that this is about efficiency. 🙄

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Rubio says he is deporting students for antisemitism, but its a cover for hime to pursue attacks on higher education and immigrant students. The fact that he launders his views with actual antisemites gives the game away. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

A letter from Jewish Georgetown students, staff and faculty called for release of their colleague, Badar Khan Suri, noting how Trump was also putting them at risk:

President Trump is weaponizing Jewish identity, faith, and fears of antisemitism as a smokescreen for his authoritarian agenda, further damaging the campus climate for everyone. Making Jews the face of this autocratic initiative feeds antisemitic conspiracy theories and is dangerous for Jews, on campuses and beyond.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

There we go.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/04/2025

“Research & teaching has been chilled by Trump's attempts to coerce. If he can threaten to withhold billions unless we stop teaching about DEI, he can make the same threat on teaching science or anything else. Higher ed cannot freely exist w/threats like this.” - Kirsten Weld, president AAUP-Harvard

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Also taught American politics for years and can't believe we're at the place where we're imploring Congress to care about Article I of the Constitution. Yet here we are.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Endless shakedowns and ransom notes. Universities will hang together or hang separately.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

@crampell.bsky.social: It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim to be combating antisemitism while coddling avowed antisemites. Multiple senior Trump aides have embraced the antisemitic “great replacement theory” and delivered Nazi salutes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | How (not) to keep Jews safe

President Donald Trump’s anti-antisemitism crusade should make everyone nervous.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Will this make waves? Will this be addressed? Will the media, politicians, movement leaders seize on this? Because during the Trump and Biden administrations, very little energy was focused on the *mechanics* of democracy. Which is how we got here. Nothing worked an no one tried to fix it.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Why a few hundred university presidents haven’t been jointly making similar points for the past month (and of course they should have for years) is beyond me. If not now, when?

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The fascists don’t just want people to be afraid of dissenting. They also want you to feel hopeless and cynical, convinced change can’t happen. They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much. They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

All of higher education is in the crosshairs www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/03/2025

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

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“You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings.
When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Why elite institutions MUST speak out.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I don't take a back seat to anyone on the subject of anti-semitism. Jews are being used here as a fig leaf to advance a broader attack on universities and higher learning. Trump wants to bring Universities to heel and obedience. Jews are just a convenient cudgel here and just as disposable.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Accusations of antisemitism are going to be the tip of the spear for much of the fascist takeover of the United States. Those who care about antisemitism must vociferously push back. They want us to be complicit so they have a justification for their actions as well as have a group to blame it on.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2025

This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.

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Suzanne Pritzker @suzannepritzker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is open to advocates of all backgrounds, not only lawyers.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

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Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

What's at stake as Washington yanks research grant funding? Check out some Pitt-based projects in medicine, science and social work that may be in limbo www.publicsource.org/research-fun...

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Trump NIH funding cuts, policies threaten Pitt research

A Trump administration decision to cap indirect cost rates in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, has Pitt researchers wondering if they can continue.

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Suzanne Pritzker @suzannepritzker.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Where are our social work organizations??

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/02/2025

Rufo laid it all out there. They essentially want to return to the days where Harvard and other elite schools were limited to wealthy white elites and everyone one else was locked out.

"A screenshot of a Twitter (X) thread by Christopher F. Rufo, posted on November 9, 2023, outlining his proposals on how to reform academia. The thread consists of multiple tweets, each listing different recommendations.

The first tweet suggests:

Reducing federal funding to universities

Privatizing the student loan market and making colleges partially responsible for student defaults

Abolishing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) bureaucracies

Winding down activist pseudo-disciplines

Reforming faculty hiring to restore ideological balance

Subsequent tweets include additional points such as:

Breaking the accreditation system

Transforming some state universities into classical liberal arts academies

Creating recruitment pipelines for traditionally-minded scholars

Establishing new academic journals outside left-wing circles

Removing the master's in education requirement for K-12 teaching

Requiring state universities to sign the Kalven Statement, avoiding political positions as corporate entities

Enforcing civil discourse standards to prevent intimidation, vandalism, or heckler’s vetoes

Legalizing intelligence tests for admissions and hiring

Offering test-out options to demonstrate domain knowledge without earning a degree

Encouraging employers to screen based on capacity rather than degrees

Reducing four-year university placements to the top 10% of academically gifted students while shifting resources to trade programs, community colleges, and vocational training

Each tweet has varying levels of engagement, with likes, comments, and shares visible in the screenshot."

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our report “Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The Racial Justice Landscape after the SFFA Cases” lays out the law as determined by the Supreme Court—not the misguidance of the Trump Administration. naacpldf.org/wp-content/upl…

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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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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A reminder that "Dear Colleague" letters do not carry the force of law. These are fundamental test cases for universities and other institutions to refuse to comply with the unjust demands of the current administration.

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here's @penamerica.bsky.social's statement condemning last night's "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education, threatening to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that engage in DEI programming, training, or other activities. pen.org/press-releas...

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PEN America Condemns Education Department's Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs - PEN America

PEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“Not only are our narratives about Holocaust suffering narratives of Christian redemptive suffering, but our Holocaust memorial sites have become Christian sites of instant redemption.” @jh_swanson wrote a great piece on Vance-Musk in Dachau-Auschwitz, & the koshering function of Holocaust sites:

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed. You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off. You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off. You want to cut our research funding? Hands off. Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.

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Suzanne Pritzker @suzannepritzker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Section 504 has been essential for my kid - and so many of our kids’ friends - to receive accommodations that enable them to thrive in their school environments. It’s already hard enough to access these supports - what we need is MORE enforcement, not elimination, of these protections

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Anyone who has studied the fascism, violence and pogroms of the post-reconstruction era of America would know that white humiliation / Black progress has long been this country’s ticking time bomb. The historical parallels are 1920s Oklahoma, not 1930s Germany. But this history is often buried.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'll note again that it would have been pretty good if universities stood up for themselves and the value of education and research when they were under attack the last several years by these same forces, rather than folding like cheap tables.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

All this futzing with NIH research funding sure would be lousy for a region where the largest employer ranks third in NIH funding nationally. Say, what’s this?

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Johns Hopkins University
$839,852,301

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University of California, San Francisco
$823,760,533

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University of Pittsburgh
$675,447,236

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Duke University
$672,506,294

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University of Pennsylvania
$668,378,172

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Stanford University
$651,714,427

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
$644,315,349

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Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
$625,102,662

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Washington University, St. Louis
$620,587,925

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Columbia University Health Sciences
$616,772,648

University of Pittsburgh ranks third in NIH funding, placing it within a cohort of very prestigious institutions. The ranking list is compiled and announced by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. This ranking is based on the NIH funding report made available through the NIH RePORTER. The latest ranking available corresponds to Federal Fiscal Year 2022.
Source: Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR)

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