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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻

@wendyphd.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Feminist. Anti-Racist. Teacher. Union Troublemaker. Joyful Warrior. Runner. Sourdough Baker. Beer snob. We're from Jersey, baby, and you're not! (all views here are my own)

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Labor leaders and organizers: Following the NYT's investigation on Cesar Chavez, we are looking to speak to women in the farm workers movement about how this movement is also about their contributions -- not just those of Chavez. 📩 Reach out to me here or via email at ccarrazana [at] 19thnews.org
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
There's only one party that likes to make voting harder, especially for women and minoritized voters... msmagazine.com/2026/02/23/s...
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The SAVE Act Isn’t About Election Security. It’s About Blocking Women, Young and Low-Income Voters
The SAVE Act, Republicans’ attempt to strip voting rights from women, low-income and young voters to “safeguarde” elections, is in the Senate.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2026
The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...
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Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars
The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is heartbreaking. As a young lesbian coming out in the 90s, lesbian bars were a safe space. An instant home. And not just NYC ones (Henri's, Wow Bar, C Club, Meow Mix). Anywhere I traveled in the U.S., I was home in that city's lesbian bar. www.them.us/story/gay-ba...
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From Macri Park to Ginger’s, All the Gay Bars That Have Closed in the Last Year
They play a crucial role in the LGBTQ+ community, and they're disappearing.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2026
So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/01/2026
REPUBLICAN 2026 PLATFORM: - Republicans hold the unfettered right to abduct, rape, and murder any American citizen and get away with it. 2026 CENTRIST DEMOCRAT PLATFORM: - ICE agents just need a little more training. Hugs! 🤗 WHAT AMERICANS WANT: - Stop murdering us - Abolish ICE - Nuremberg trials
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And... bystanders can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I hate this timeline. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | Americans Are Turning Against Gay People
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DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This personal essay (from 2024, pre-print version) narrates a crucial bit of my grad school research that helped me unlearn some of my racism. Thanks to the Black people I learned to listen to, wish I could replicate this for every white person. academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_pubs/881
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An Accidental Sociologist Learns the Power of Listening
A personal essay by a white sociologist describes her experience with becoming a sociologist and unlearning racism through a qualitative research project in which she had to transcribe interviews with...
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 13/01/2026
This is so cruel and vindictive. Trump's decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status from every Somali in the U.S. will put lives at risk, including here in Maine. Doing this with no grace period or automatic extension means hundreds of thousands are now vulnerable to detention and removal.
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Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Somalis
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin dies at 86 19thnews.org/2026/01/civi... via @19thnews.org
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Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin dies at 86
At 15, Colvin became the first Black person to be arrested for challengingMontgomery’s bus laws. History has largely ignored her bravery.
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Canerican™️ 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @canericanisms.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This makes me sick.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
In JD Vance’s world, Jonathan Ross is both the hero and the victim. The woman he killed? She’s the perpetrator, solely responsible for her own death. This is peak abuser language and a public battering of a woman killed by an abusive government agent. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
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JD Vance and the MAGA battering of Renee Good
“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America… He deserves a debt of gratitude.”
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What is everyone doing on their campuses to help immigrant students feel safe? #highered hechingerreport.org/opinion-coll...
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OPINION: Colleges must start treating immigration-based targeting as a serious threat to student safety and belonging   - The Hechinger Report
On college campuses, many young people are learning to police one another through immigration-based targeting rather than learn alongside one another. Our schools are not prepared for this. Here’s wha...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Because 2 lesbian women in an SUV going less than the average speed in a Costco parking lot are so threatening.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
To be clear: Even if she was a protester, or agitator, or immigrant, or immigrant "thug." Even if she disobeyed ICE and told them to f*ck off. Even if she broke a law-- she did NOT deserve to have some guy high on fake power shooting her in the face.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Are there no journalists left willing to say "hey, that's not what the video shows" at a press conference, FFS? www.jezebel.com/after-ice-ki...
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After ICE Killed a Woman, Too Many Newsrooms Chose Government PR Over Actual Journalism
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's shooting, anyone on social media could have independently verified that DHS was lying about what happened.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/01/2026
Today is very bad and we should all be very angry but I am here to remind us that the birthday we are celebrating this year is not for the Constitution but for our rebellion against monarchy. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
we know regime playbooks here: smear the deceased, target the family, valorize the murderer both as supposedly innocent and with a sadistic delight in the murder itself.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/01/2026
One thing that shouldn't be missed is that the woman murdered was queer and was murdered right in front of her wife. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"To forge a path toward lasting change, our movements must build from the ground up. Organized people have been the power behind every great expansion of our democracy, from abolition and women’s suffrage to civil rights and marriage equality." nonprofitquarterly.org/how-communit...
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How Community Organizing Can Stop Authoritarianism and Advance Justice | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Building community power and advancing a Third Reconstruction requires a combination of a clear vision coupled with a commitment to deep relational organizing.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“We know our strength is in our solidarity as working people, and we have allies all over the world who have stepped up to back our cause.” truthout.org/articles/des...
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Despite Trump’s War on Workers, Labor Movement Notched Crucial Wins in 2025
As Trump prepares to escalate attacks on unions and immigrant workers, the labor movement must build power to stop him.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is great in theory, but not in practice. It ignores the fact that many of us are teaching larger classes and 4 courses a semester. Inserting more "human" elements into the writing process means an impossible amount of work for faculty. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We absolutely need to have tough conversations and stop avoiding politics to keep the peace-- bc nothing is peaceful right now. These are some great tips. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/lets...
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Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“This is a new paradigm,” she told me. “No one’s going to get out of this moment intact by keeping their head down.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘No One’s Going to Get Out of This Moment Intact by Keeping Their Head Down’
How a powerhouse liberal legal group is challenging Trump 2.0.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Every day, people across the US are turning protests, boycotts, and mutual aid into a powerful groundswell of activism, a bridge to the future being built in real time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A groundswell of activism takes hold in the US: ‘We are a bridge to the future’
Everyday people from blue and red states alike are leading actions such as protests, boycotts and mutual aid
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Teen Vogue’s closure means the loss of a fearless, youth-driven platform for justice journalism and feminist media. When spaces like this disappear, young voices and vital perspectives go unheard. This is a massive blow to good reporting and democracy. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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Less politics, more makeup: the unraveling of Teen Vogue under Trump 2.0
The folding of the progressive youth-focused magazine into Vogue comes at turbulent time for journalism and the crumbling of feminist media
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Please sign! Teen Vogue is invaluable. They cover a wide range of social issues and do excellent research on historical context. Their coverage of the labor movement and social activism has made them a go-to for assigned readings in my courses. @teenvogue.com actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting
On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Talked to @alivitali.bsky.social youtu.be/9O2CcYMRM54
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Why Dems Won BIG In The 2025 Election w/ Ali Vitali
YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Another reason to vote for Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social this Tuesday! newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/31/n...
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Republican governor hopeful wants to remake Supreme Court, but hurdles abound • New Jersey Monitor
Jack Ciattarelli wants to add more conservatives to the Supreme Court, a plan that could be perilous for him if he wins the governor's race.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I wrote about the 2025 cycle and women candidates and New Jersey www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Need to Chill About the Electability of Women
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"The current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
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The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Faculty members describe heightened anxiety, sleepless nights & a persistent fear that a misstep could derail their careers. This psychological strain, compounded by workload & financial stress, leaves little space for creativity, innovation or joy in teaching." theconversation.com/college-facu...
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College faculty are under pressure to say and do the right thing – the stress also trickles down to students
Faculty members say they are worried about job security but also whether they should be introducing certain topics, like gender, in their class or with colleagues.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"There’s a lot we can do. That’s what they want us to forget." www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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Still Got the Power of the People
In these terrifying times, I keep thinking of something Racine, Wisconsin, educator Angelina Cruz once said: “There’s a reason we’re supposed to feel isolated and powerless. It’s because we’re not.” E...
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"Federal policymakers could choose to spend their energy addressing these challenges. Instead, they’re putting college out of reach for students who come from poor families." hechingerreport.org/opinion-we-c...
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OPINION: New education budget cuts will mean millions of young people could lose the opportunity to earn a college degree and build a more financially secure future
If recent education budget cuts are enacted, millions of young people will lose the opportunity to earn a college degree and build a more financially secure future for themselves and their families. I...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I would absolutely not be a professor if these limits were in place when I was a grad student. theconversation.com/new-student-...
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New student loan limits could change who gets to become a professor, doctor or lawyer
Tighter federal borrowing limits may deepen inequities, especially for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Workers, students, campus community members across this great country are coming together to fight for a higher education system that actually works for all — one that is affordable, strengthens freedom and democracy, and stands up to its public mission.” www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses
Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/10/2025
Thou Shalt Not Declare War On Thine Own Country.
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"This compact is a “reward” in exactly the same sense that it is “rewarding” to purchase protection from the Mafia. The compact is an open, explicit threat." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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WendyMC 🏳️‍🌈💪🏻 @wendyphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"The future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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