"I know that there's some of you who believe that you're in a dialogue with the federal government about the future of education. I think when you start from that premise you have already lost," he said. "Because the reality is, it's not a dialogue that's focused on solving the problems that are identified; it's an action focused on trying to undermine your independence."
Whew. More folks need to hear this
Trump’s oil blockade has pushed Cuba to the brink, with reserves projected to run dry by March, and even though the Supreme Court struck down his tariff threats on countries shipping oil to the island, the US-made humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.
it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
My wife just renewed her passport or, as we’ll rightly call it, paid her poll tax.
It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care!
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
Sign to demand the end of sheriff collaboration with ICE in Philly: sign.moveon.org/petitions/en...
why did it take me all day to hear about this? why wasn’t it all over everyone’s feeds? a national strike of 300 million people!
apnews.com/article/indi...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
75% of my students are future health professionals. Do you really want a physician or nurse or pharm. who has no critical reading/thinking skills, who cannot communicate worth a damn or knows enough to ask questions/problem-solve when something feels off? Would you put your life in the hands of AI?
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
"What’s important is for disabled people to understand that their situation is political, and for caregivers to understand that their situation is political, and that the same system of ableism that’s entrenched in every care policy we have is entrapping both people." – @lauramauldin.bsky.social
And let me add: I never encountered an LMS until I started teaching after grad school. Coincidentally, I never anticipated how much of my job would be providing tech support to students for the various apps and tools that I'm now required to use
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
(when you need mike tyson as a spokesfatphobe - man are you hard up)
The FDA recently approved the birth control implant Nexplanon for use up to five years, instead of three. But to providers' surprise, it also placed the device under a special monitoring protocol called REMS, which is infamous for the way it has limited access to medication abortion.
Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.
NEW: Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.
Lots of people in a beer hall
Absolutely packed house for the ICE out training in East Kensington tonight, put on by @riverwardsdems.bsky.social.
I’ll share out things I learn here.
I have looked up EVERY Democrat Senator's statements on DHS funding: only ONE Senate Dem is a YES vote.
John Fetterman.
Here are the statements if you want to read them for yourself.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
A zine documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship (zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...)
Sign to demand ICE out of Philly courthouses: sign.moveon.org/petitions/en...
Early eugenicists claimed that people from certain countries were a burden due to disability (whether or not they had one).
Now, Trump is doing the same by stopping immigrant visas from those from 75 countries. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assigned Media is a plucky little trans news site that punches WAY about its weight class.
No one else publishes this level of quality trans journalism as frequently as we do - and we do it on a shoestring.
We're raising $20K in January to ensure our work can continue to thrive in 2026. Join us!
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is back for our first live stream of 2026, wherein @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will look into how our health care system is suffering from AI-hype-itis:
Monday, Jan 26, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute
According to government documents, ICE abruptly ended its healthcare contract which left “no mechanism to provide prescribed medication” and no way to “pay for medically necessary off-site care."
There have been at least “85 credible reports of medical neglect." trib.al/07dC8yA
