Reposted by Victor Silverman Global Refuge @globalrefuge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The White House has set the 2027 presidential determination, which establishes the U.S. refugee admissions ceiling at 17,500 and directs that those places go primarily to Afrikaners from South Africa. Join us! globalrefuge.org/action 011
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This report should be required reading for every university president and board member in the country. 063
Reposted by Victor Silverman The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BREAKING: Bipartisan federal commission has released a new report criticizing the Trump administration's campus antisemitism strategy.nexusproject.usNexus Welcomes U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ Call for a Balanced Response to Campus Antisemitism - Nexus ProjectThe Nexus Project welcomes the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ unanimous conclusion that combating campus antisemitism requires both protecting Jewish students from discrimination and safeguarding ci... 1118
Reposted by Victor Silverman Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...militarytimes.comHegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academiesMilitary academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.” 22569259
Reposted by Victor Silverman Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said. 57530
Reposted by Victor Silverman Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Finally, a British conservative who remembers their Defoe 0639
Reposted by Victor Silverman Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At one point in the video he actually reads the following portion of the Defoe poem. 945352
Reposted by Victor Silverman Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today, a jury found Jason Eaton guilty of attempted murder for shooting Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid during their a walk near the University of Vermont. They were speaking a mix of English and Arabic. Two were wearing kuffiyehs. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202... 14720
Reposted by Victor Silverman The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Asking Claude to write a book: To Serve Man 85810
Reposted by Victor Silverman Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Greenland and Denmark, backed by European nations in NATO, together with the fabled “markets”, warded off Trump’s 🇬🇱 bid. He gets basically what the US had since ‘51, with no infringement on 🇬🇱 and 🇩🇰 sovereignty. 🇪🇺 must learn that standing up to the bully is the way to go. 216150
Reposted by Victor Silverman Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 19/09/2026EU urges US to reconsider visa denial to Palestinian delegation for UN meetinglemonde.frEU urges US to reconsider visa denial to Palestinian delegation for UN meetingThe US State Department said this week it was refusing to grant visas to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and other members of his delegation ahead of next week's meeting in New York. 1820284
Reposted by Victor Silverman Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump does it again, yet another record-high diesel price gasprices.aaa.com $6.49 a gallongasprices.aaa.comAAA Fuel Prices 1257
Reposted by Victor Silverman David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So far as I can tell, despite the administration's claims there is very little that is both new and significant. Some slight expansion of rights we've had since 1951 and explicit ban of a few things already banned or implied. NOT 'us control' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comUS and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over GreenlandThe agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination 98820
Reposted by Victor Silverman Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Right-wingers understand one (1) piece of culture challenge: impossible 1339935
Reposted by Victor Silverman ACLU @aclu.org · 18/09/2026NEW: Professors shared details of the impact of Texas A&M's new censorship policy and urged a court to block it from being enforced. The policy means educators can't teach LGBTQ literature, the film Moonlight, Women's and Gender Studies courses, and more. 224682
Reposted by Victor Silverman Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026From the "Zionism is Racism" Green Party motion: "the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine" This runs directly counter to the entire body of international law in regarding to Palestine 139114
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026good thread on the broad nature of the US elite--it's not just the billionaires. Their support for the Trumpian right is crucial, it's not just working class whites. This has long been the case, eg: Joe McCarthy's support was from small-town Republican bankers and businessmen. 000
Reposted by Victor Silverman Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The archetypal rich American isn’t a founder-CEO with a stock ticker—he’s the guy with seventeen McDonald’s franchises and a seat on the hospital board. Zidar and Zwick counted him, traced how the tax code inflated him, and revealed a American gentry élite class collectively ten times richer... 1/braddelong.substack.comAmerica’s Gentry Élite: TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOILPolitics, Culture, & c.; Patrick Wyman saw America’s élite gentry in his Yakima hometown decades ago; now economists Zidar and Zwick show that he understated the case... 44311
Reposted by Victor Silverman Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.jessica.substack.comBREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & ContraceptionThe federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure 67614316
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"In 2020, Google promised to cut their pollution in half by 2030. It’s up 80 percent since then." 020
Reposted by Victor Silverman Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This summer, 35,000 heat deaths in Europe got one news cycle. Last week, a probability estimate about a hypothetical AI apocalypse got seven. The warnings may be sincere—but notice what they justify: fossil fuel plants. Climate change is existential now. electricnotes.news/p/pick-your-...electricnotes.newsPick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI DoomSome Thoughts On the *Other* Existential Threat 422596
Reposted by Victor Silverman Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 12/09/2026OpenAI Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech 'Mathathon'gizmodo.comOpenAI Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech 'Mathathon'OpenAI will no longer sponsor the event after mathematicians criticized the company's 'destructive impacts' on the discipline. 183
Reposted by Victor Silverman Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/09/2026Robbing Peter to pay Claude 0111
Reposted by Victor Silverman jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country 14073831184
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Similar percentage of Americans approve of Trump as believe aliens are behind UFOs. (But is he an alien? If he is, certainly an illegal alien!) news.gallup.com/poll/713765/...news.gallup.comAmericans Still Skeptical That UFOs Are AliensAmericans are more likely to attribute UFO sightings to human activity or natural phenomena than alien activity; 17% say they have seen a UFO. 110
Reposted by Victor Silverman Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings: 901865914
Reposted by Victor Silverman Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/08/2026Big Tech profits get $160bn boost from gains on stakes in other AI companies ft.trib.al/hnhu6whft.trib.alBig Tech profits get $160bn boost from gains on stakes in other AI companiesAnalysts say large paper windfalls on investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have muddied the tech sector’s earnings metrics 165317
Reposted by Victor Silverman Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Core question in this case is whether the administration acted with animus towards trans people when they implemented a Trump order claiming trans people are inherently lacking "integrity," not helped every time Hegseth calls us "trannies" to make himself giggle 511823
Reposted by Victor Silverman Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yale President McInnis has been telling people that Yale has no choice but to negotiate a settlement with the Trump administration. This is a willful misreading of the law and as such, a lie. A resolution process is voluntary and legal scholars have been pushing back. 1/ abcnews.com/US/yale-face...abcnews.comYale faces backlash for talks with the Justice Department regarding its admissionsLegal experts weigh in on Yale's decision to negotiate with the DOJ for a potential resolution over alleged race discrimination in their admissions processes. 12369158
Reposted by Victor Silverman Raw Story @rawstory.com · 29/08/2026ICE ordered to return torture victim dumped on African roadside: 'Shocks the conscience'bit.lyICE ordered to return torture victim dumped on African roadside: 'Shocks the conscience'A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Nigerian man it secretly deported despite a court order protecting him from return to Nigeria — after Immigration and Customs Enforcement lured him in with a fake appointment and shipped him through three countries via an unmarked bord... 44323
Reposted by Victor Silverman Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person in initial federal support beginning Oct. 1, nearly double the current amount, four people familiar with the change in policy said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comWhite South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugeesThe assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy. 48221158
Reposted by Victor Silverman Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The UN’s International Maritime Organization says around 6,000 seafarers aboard roughly 400 ships are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely exit through the Strait of Hormuz. This is Trump’s problem now, right, as America “owns” the Strait? 820864
Reposted by Victor Silverman Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099423826
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Congrats to those hired by Canadian universities but 48 faculty taking jobs up north is a meaningless. The @nytimes.com once again tries to make a trend out of a blip. There are more than 850,000 US tenure track profs who didn't take jobs there this year... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...nytimes.comCanada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top UniversitiesA crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north. 010
Reposted by Victor Silverman Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Ohio says she will cooperate with ICE if elected paydayreport.com/ohio-dem-gov...paydayreport.comOhio Dem Gov Candidates Backs ICE Cooperation -- Haitian Pastor Detained in Springfield -- Pittsburgh DA May Press Charges Against ICEOhio Democrat shocked many by saying that she would cooperate with ICE 5129
Reposted by Victor Silverman John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The United States in its dumbest timeline. 052
Reposted by Victor Silverman Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/08/2026Immigrant visa applicants with scheduled interviews at US embassies and consulates have received emails telling them their appointments were being rescheduled and that they would receive future notice of a new date and time. ft.trib.al/3FVnNCL 1710966
Reposted by Victor Silverman Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Lawyers for President Donald Trump issued a letter demanding the Center for American Progress retract a factual report or face a $5 billion lawsuit.americanprogress.orgSTATEMENT: Baseless Threats Won't Stop Our Independent Research, Says CAP's Neera Tanden 19282100
Reposted by Victor Silverman Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026STATEMENT: In light of new revelations about DOJ's sham antisemitism investigations, CJFS urges higher ed leaders to reject Trump admin's push to attack our institutions and communities, silence criticism of Israel, and smear Arab and Muslim faculty. www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/federalwhist...concernedjewishfaculty.orgFederal Whistleblowers Reveal | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff 12816
Reposted by Victor Silverman John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026theonion.com/trump-unveil...theonion.comTrump Unveils New 250-Foot Gilded Catering Container For Presidential TravelWASHINGTON—Touting the new vessel as an investment that could discreetly transport the nation’s chief executive for years to come, President Donald Trump unveiled Tuesday a new 250-foot gilded caterin... 041
Reposted by Victor Silverman PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/08/2026The complaint alleges that the investigations into some of the nation's most prestigious academic institutions were designed to strong-arm the schools into cutting deals for political purposes.https://to.pbs.org/4x7XlYBpbs.orgWhistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism investigations targeting universitiesThe complaint alleges that the investigations into some of the nation's most prestigious academic institutions were designed to strong-arm the schools into cutting deals for political purposes. 1014248
Reposted by Victor Silverman Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is not a surprise to many of us. Yet, too many our academic leaders have embraced a narrative they too know to be false for some inexplicable reason. Rank cowardice in the face of a paper tiger. Yes, an indictment of the Trump administration but of university presidents and trustees as well. 28227
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Terrible news. DTIC is an essential resource of non-and declassified information for scholarship, journalism and for democracy. This is our information not the privileged possession of the military. Another sign of the authoritarian destruction of the US intellectual world. 010
Reposted by Victor Silverman Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Military history and adjacent folks, public access to DTIC has been discontinued. This is an incredible loss to anyone who studies the US military 🗃️ @modamhist.bsky.social @oah.org @afssage.bsky.social @warontherocks.bsky.social @taskandpurpose.com #milhist 22112
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The major media makes us all broken records: Islamophobia, unlike antisemitism, is promoted by the President. It is practiced by major institutions such as universities and legislatures. The @nytimes.com finally noticed, but a few years late www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...nytimes.comWith El-Sayed’s Victory Comes a Wave of IslamophobiaAs Muslim politicians like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan have become more prominent, they have experienced considerable bigotry. President Trump said Democrats were electing “jihadists.” 000
Reposted by Victor Silverman Reuters @reuters.com · 12/08/2026US military operations killed 153 civilians in 2025, official says, citing Pentagon assessment reut.rs/4cf30n2reut.rsUS military operations killed 153 civilians in 2025, official says, citing Pentagon assessmentU.S. military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded 243, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, citing Pentagon assessments. 104026
Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026When he walked off they played Hail to the Chef" 000