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Tiffany Jones

@tifffawnj.bsky.social
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African History Prof, CFA Union Chapter President, Circus Mom, and Juggler

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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Kudos to President Morales from my campus (one of the only CSU presidents) for signing on to this!
reuters.com
US academic leaders unite against Trump's higher education policies
Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement on Tuesday opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions, coming together to speak out after Harvard University said the administration was threatening its independence.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Opening Show is May 2nd. Don't miss it!
communityforwardredlands.com
Great Y Circus ‘Fantasy’ kicks off 83rd season, May 2
Dragons, goblins, and trapeze artists take center stage as the Great Y Circus returns with Fantasy and a cast of nearly 300.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
WTH? Who wants massive ants? And who would pay for them? People are stupid - and the environmental damage alone makes this even more infuriating.
apnews.com
Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficki...
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Come join us tomorrow at noon!
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My husband is an elementary teacher being admitted to hospital for a punctured lung. He’s worried about his sub plans 🙄. Teaching is an underappreciated profession. #teachers
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Who would have ever thought that the person who has had four bankruptcies could tank the US in just four months?
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
aljazeera.com
African workers are taking on Meta and the world should pay attention
A landmark case could see Meta forced to take responsibility for workers’ rights abuses not just in Kenya but globally.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
He's still going! And not reading the phone book - all coherent, important points. His staff that helped him on this are awesome. www.foxnews.com/video/637086...
foxnews.com
WATCH LIVE: Sen Cory Booker speaks through the night on Senate floor in protest of Trump | Fox News Video
The New Jersey Democrat has been speaking since 7pm EST on Monday.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Senator Cory Booker is still on the Senate floor for his filibuster. 13 hours and counting! “I urge you to fight every one of his proposals and appointments, slow the legislative process as much as you can. Please. I hope Trump will lose his majority.” 🔥
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wait is Cory Booker still speaking???
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great article about the importance of disability rights.
theguardian.com
The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone
Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I'm not a treasure hunter, but those of you who are, Gold & Greed is worth watching on Netflix 😉
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I think I should suggest to Elon and his friends to take my History of Apartheid course this summer to understand history and history. 🙄. At the very least, he should watch the film Amanda! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony. Just showed parts of it to my students on Thursday, then this cropped up.
apnews.com
An apartheid-era song Elon Musk has decried as anti-white is headline news again in South Africa
An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites is back in the headlines ...
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It’s just BS
reuters.com
Trump officials target dozens of colleges for antisemitism - even those cleared by probes
When Muhlenberg College learned in January 2024 - as pro-Palestinian protests were sweeping campuses across the United States - that it was under investigation for discriminating against Jewish students, the small liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania took action.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thanks Ahlam for representing!
calmatters.org
Cal State San Bernardino draws federal scrutiny for programs
US Education Department is investigating dozens of colleges for programs its says may be discriminatory. The programs target disadvantaged students.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Still sitting with the depths of the show Adolescence. So many levels of emotion.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Happy Human Rights Day (March 21)
iol.co.za
65 Years Later | Sharpeville Massacre shapes South Africa's Human Rights legacy
As South Africa marks the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 peaceful protesters lost their lives fighting against apartheid's pass laws, the nation reflects on its journey from op...
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just a way to attack education and keep everyone distracted from the power and tax cuts to billionaires:
apnews.com
Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over transgender swimmer
The Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m still waiting 4 weeks on for my ICCU to be fixed on my Hyundai Ionic 5 with less than 18,000 miles. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis is not admitting the extent of the problems with their EV cars. I loved the car but having to do the lemon law buyback program now. I’m so frustrated with this.
insideevs.com
Hyundai’s ICCU Problem: Here’s What We Know
Forums and subreddits are full of angry messages from EV owners who were stranded because their ICCU went bust. But how bad is it?
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The message is clear, they want to defund anyone with knowledge or potential to hold them accountable, and just want full power to keep exploiting the masses.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So no support for education, research, libraries, museums, science, environment, arts, national parks, farmers, elderly, labor class, disabled, disenfranchised, or poor any more. But lots of money for billionaires and businesses that destroy the environment and our social fabric.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We need a new free speech movement. And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-…
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
CSUSB is one of them - over a small project promoting more diversity and different role models in the PhD pool for business faculty. WTF?!
nytimes.com
45 Schools Under Federal Investigation Over a Small Diversity Project
The Ph.D. Project works with universities to increase the racial diversity of professors in business schools. Schools like Yale and Ohio State were named in the investigation.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This makes me so happy
apnews.com
Woman reunited with cat presumed lost in Palisades Fire
It appears the tall tale that all cats have nine lives may be true for a California Maine coon named Aggie.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When you don't know anything, maybe it's best to not say anything at all- it's an effective way to cut down on HIV/AIDS transmission rates in case you didn't know...sigh.
npr.org
Trump says 'male circumcision in Mozambique' is a 'scam.' What's the program about?
In his Tuesday address to Congress, President Trump listed U.S.-funded programs that he considers an "appalling waste" — including "$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique."
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh boy…
aljazeera.com
Which US states could be hit hardest by Trump’s Canada and Mexico tariffs?
Montana imports 93 percent of its goods from Canada and Mexico, the most of any state.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Heartbreaking 💔 www.wsaz.com/2025/03/01/s...
wsaz.com
‘She was a baby’: Mother shares tearful interview after missing daughter found dismembered
A mother in Arizona is mourning the loss of her teen daughter, who was found dead last month after going missing.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Wow. 💔💔💔
apnews.com
USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
And so the coup continues..
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.votervoice.net/mobile/CALFA.... We need to fight the mismanagement of funds by administrators.
votervoice.net
Petition to Stop Layoffs and Cuts at CSUCI
PETITION TO STOP LAYOFFS AND CUTS AT CSUCI To: CSUCI Administration, California State University Leadership, and State Legislators We, the undersigned faculty, staff, students, and community...
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And so the anti-education policies continue despite everyone knowing that an educated population spurs economic growth, helps civic engagement, helps social well being, decreases crime etc. they want us to live in chaos so they can easily rule us.
thehill.com
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
They can’t even tabulate basic numbers. 🤦🏽‍♀️
politico.com
DOGE shared its receipts — and some of them don’t match
“Everyone is very well-aware they’re repeating the wrong numbers,” said one manager at a company on DOGE’s list of cuts.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
CSUSB History Department's Dr. Daisy Ocampo Diaz's inspiring exhibit made it on NPR 🔥🔥
npr.org
An LA art exhibition challenges visitors to rethink their perceptions of fire
Indigenous fire stewardship practices have existed for millennia in California. A new art exhibition in Los Angeles challenges visitors to rethink their own relationships with fire.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 22/02/2025
From California to Cleveland, from Montana to Iowa, from Alaska to Atlanta, America’s unions were out in force this week to fight back against unaccountable billionaires. ✊
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Trump administration = affirmative action for white men…the irony.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
hamiltonnolan.com
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yay, it's happening! www.csusb.edu/inside/artic...
csusb.edu
CSUSB to launch disability studies minor in fall 2025 | CSUSB News | CSUSBCSUSB HomeWe Define the FutureSearch CSUSBInside CSUSB homeCSUSB
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/02/2025
Federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among those who have been accidentally fired in President Trump's rush to lay off thousands of workers reut.rs/438ofU4
reut.rs
Fired and rehired: the dizzying confusion of Trump's government overhaul
Federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight a worsening outbreak of bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among those who have been accidentally fired.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Top 6 in California out of around 230 four year universities and top 3 in the US by the Wall Street Journal for social mobility. This is why we do what we do.
csusb.edu
College Futures Foundation ranks CSUSB among state’s top universities for economic mobility | CSUSB News | CSUSBCSUSB HomeWe Define the FutureSearch CSUSBInside CSUSB homeCSUSB
social mobility, economic mobility, higher education,
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Privatization isn’t the answer to everything.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Yes, we’re exhausted. Higher education teaches critical analysis skills, preparation for future jobs, decision making abilities based on facts, writing and research skills, and so much more. These are all things needed for a better future for all. I do t understand the attacks against it.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Getting up and going with a cold after a long night of picking up a family member at the airport. Moms and profs don’t ever get to just rest.
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
There seems to be some funding of each other back and forth, with Trump getting $10 million in settlement and Musk getting a $400 million contract. electrek.co/2025/02/12/u... and www.wsj.com/tech/musks-x...
electrek.co
US State Department has budget line for 'Armored Teslas' worth $400 million
The US State Department’s procurement forecast for the 2025 budget includes an item called “Armored Teslas” worth $400 million. But...
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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
CSU Administrators Impose Greater Use of A.I.- The announcement – and its lack of detail – is so disturbing. www.calfac.org/csu-administ...
calfac.org
CSU Administrators Impose Greater Use of A.I. - California Faculty Association
The Chancellor’s Office recently announced a public-private initiative to make the CSU the first A.I.-powered university. In a time of severe budget cuts,
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Dear universe. Can you please stop breaking sh*t for a little bit. Thanks!
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Tiffany Jones @tifffawnj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
And privatize student loans and aid, and put 40% of all educational budget into business education that promotes US interests. What will happen is segregated schools, higher crime rates, and an uneducated population that they can control better. Don’t fall for the school voucher program.
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