Jennifer Mittelstadt

@sfndhe.bsky.social is working with @aaup.org's CDAF and the Critical Legal Collective to imagine new futures for #highered. Join us for our next webinar in the series!

Imaginative aspirations for new higher ed must grapple with material realities: funds, faculty and staff employment, land or online infrastructure, students, and accreditation. This webinar will examine past examples of how others organized to make their alternative ideas into tangible reality.

The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE - Public Seminar If you saw an armed stranger forcing his way into your neighbor's home at dawn, would you have the right to stop him?

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit."

publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

At #LibCon2025: @dandrezner.bsky.social and @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social

"As I went through the papers of [the American grassroots movement], their private papers and their organizational papers both, what I found was this deep and abiding expression of anti-internationalism, which they then redefined as a defense of sovereignty."

- @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social

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Thanks to @rolandpeters.bsky.social for such a thoughtful conversation about anti-internationalism, sovereigntism, and the right.

Trump ist politischer Wiedergänger der 1930er-Jahre Weiß, rassistisch und protestantisch waren die ersten anti-internationalen Graswurzelbewegungen in den USA. Geistig verwandt fühlten sie sich mit dem deutschen Faschismus. Bislang hätten sie nur Niede...

Donald #Trump is a sovereigntist, says historian @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social from Rutgers University. What does that mean for his foreign policy? And where does the movement come from? An interview. (Published in German)

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson.

College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

As the tournament moves to its next venues, let's see some #marchmadnessteachin action in other cities. Sports fans know what's up...

Military's DEI purge seen putting its future — and its history — at risk Many Pentagon materials now labeled as "DEI" were a bit more like advertisements — aimed at recruits who have shown a willingness to serve, military experts tell NPR.

www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

The full effects of cuts to federal funding for #highered— the view from March Madness schools.

Air Force Sending Teams to Make Sure Bases Are Following Executive Orders The Department of the Air Force is sending teams to nine bases to make sure they’re implementing President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

This -- Pentagon-directed site inspections to ensure compliance with anti-DEI / anti-gender directives -- will be happening for all the Services, not just USAF.

www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-va...

Yes.

I know. Mine is small potatoes compared to that stuff.

This is a great idea. I need to see if I can find my own copy. Stupidly, I thought it would remain there....

www.defense.gov/News/Release...

The guidance is from DOD, Feb 27, "Digital Content Refresh": chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://media.defense.gov/2025/Feb/27/2003652943/-1/-1/1/DIGITAL-CONTENT-REFRESH.PDF

I feel terrible for all the incredibly smart and hardworking faculty members and students at #usawc who have to execute these directives.

Just received notice that my 2018 op-ed for the USAWC's War Room, "Less War, More College," was being purged from Army website as per the #DEI guidance from #DOD secretary #hegseth.

It discussed the value of diverse perspectives and people in the USAWC classroom.

Some good news! Friday the US District Court of Maryland granted a nationwide injunction on parts of a pair of EOs issued by Trump related to DEI & accessibility mandates, policies, programs & activities among federal government grantee including colleges & universities. www.aaup.org/news/win-aau...

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Including reclaiming NYC as sovereign territory.

@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Here come the sovereigntists!

The sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN.

www.lee.senate.gov/services/fil...

Among other things, Lee’s bill includes long held dream of anti-internationalists to revoke the “sovereign territory” ceded to UN in Manhattan in 1947.

The sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN.

www.lee.senate.gov/services/fil...

TOO MUCH WAR, NOT ENOUGH COLLEGE In "Too Much War, Not Enough College," Jen Mittelstadt provides a civilian academic's perspective to the balance between preparing senior leaders for brigade command or leadership at service or joint ...

Hegseth on PME is a disaster for civilian control of the military and civ-mil relations.

My 2018 case for “less war, more college” at the US war colleges.

warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/too...

Thank you, Larry!

Thank you for writing. I don't know what I gift link is.... Sorry!