Daniel Braaten

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Aggie Board of Regents: "Ignorance is strength.”

End Academic Censorship at Texas A&M University The Regents have the obligation to uphold academic freedom and encourage, rather than stifle, open inquiry in and out of the classroom.

⭐️👏✊Please add your name to the letter below and join PEN America — and the hundreds who have already signed — in sending a strong message in defense of academic freedom to the Texas A&M Board of Regents.

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big shout out to my co-authors Tina Zappile and Jon Strand (3/3)

Bureaucratic inertia, Congressional restraints, and level of embeddedness in international institutions can constrain foreign policy change (2/3)

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We develop a theory of U.S. foreign policy that argues foreign policy change is mostly driven by Presidential salience. i.e. if the President puts their attention to an issue they can change the U.S. foreign policy orientation. (1/3)

interesting. They must think the AK guy can win. I'm not so sure but this is still a dem pick up opportunity

illustration of circle with sound waves radiating out.

album of the day - 311's Soundsystem

Keep March Madness Free From Deportation Flights When universities transport our student athletes with the same charter companies that send our families and neighbors into detention or deportation, that university is complicit in a system that tears...

At @aaup.org & @aft.org we are partnering with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & others to demand that our universities don't do business with companies supporting ICE! @seiu.org launched a campaign to keep March Madness free of Deportation flights. act.seiu.org/a/de-ice-the...

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that one is wild! I always use this one jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/pdfs-docs/or...

I don’t want to indulge in conspiracy brian, but Hegseth sounds like a domineering and abusive father or romantic partner when he’s talking about the US military use of force. It’s no wonder the same political movement wants to close gender studies programs and censor sociologist.

posture over policy is a good description of the contemporary GOP (along with white christian national authoritarianism!)

“We’ve lost a generation of scientists”: US talent turns to France Funding cuts and attacks on academic freedom are driving US researchers to seek opportunities in Europe, as stakeholders warn of “historic damage” to America’s scientific ecosystem.

Attacks on academic freedom are driving US researchers to seek opportunities elsewhere.

“Contingency, dwindling jobs & rampant underfunding of education means that a lack of mobility is the norm across the academic profession...& why we must fight..."

—Isaac Kamola, AAUP CDAF

hmmm. I liked cheering for DJ Moore but it's clear he was, for some reason, not as productive as he could have been last season. also he's got (a well deserved) huge contract so its not surprise the Bears are trading him. Good pick up for the Bills, give Josh Allen a big weapon

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Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality Fiscal Year 2026 October 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026 Actual Destination State Name PA Nationality Nov Dec Jan Grand Total Grand Total Alabama 125 595 931 1,651 Total 7 7 Alaska South Africa 7 7 Total 4 4 Arizona South Africa 4 4 Total 2 7 21 30 Arkansas South Africa 2 7 21 30 Total 1 1 California South Africa 1 1 Total 12 28 59 99 Colorado South Africa 12 28 59 99 Total 10 39 31 80 Afghanistan 3 3 South Africa 7 39 31 77 Connecticut Total 9 14 23 South Africa 9 14 23 Florida Total 14 48 59 121 South Africa 14 48 59 Microsoft Pol

notice any changes in which refugees are allowed to come to the US

Author Sandra Cisneros to Texas A&M: The world is watching you censor education Cisneros, awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015, said she wants Texas A&M students to understand that the world is watching their education being censored and will not look away.

TAMU's reputation for suppression and censorship is growing fast.

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The future in Texas is bright and terrifying Democrats are once more dreaming of what could be. Republicans are dreaming of Rhodesia.

2026 in a nutshell: a Democratic Party with maybe a puncher’s chance if everything goes right—and a Republican base testing just how far gone it can go, before it ever pays a price for anything. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this is what happens when a political party gives up any pretense to governing

I don't know but I think the imperial presidency is a mistake

this is my view as well. In terms of Senate votes there is no difference between Paxton and Cornyn. It's a relief that Paxton will not be attorney general for much longer where he has done much greater damage. Its also not hopeful that two MAGA ghouls are running to replace him as AG

The Human Cost of Mass Detention: ICE Reports 9th Custodial Death of 2026, 39th of Trump II Administration ICE press release for the death of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes debuts a strikingly callous (and ungrammatical) new claim. Full table of all 39 deaths under Trump included in post.

The Human Cost of Mass Detention: ICE Reports 9th Custodial Death of 2026, 39th of Trump II Administration. Full table of all 39 deaths under Trump included in post.

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💥 BIG NEWS: Texas union members running for office are charting a new path for Texas politics.

Here are six union members advancing to the May 26 runoff, or who won their primaries outright!

is this something a worker's party would do?

CPHE Standards and the Threat to Independent Accreditation The following is a letter submitted by Nancy MacLean, a fellow at the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, to the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) concerning the CPHE’s p…

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I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

I don't have proposal for this but I will definitely be attending. Censorship and AI are the two most destructive forces in education and we are getting both double barreled

it turns our here in the Texas A&M system our board has a lot of power

I could not be more cynical about Texas politics but the extent to which this primary race and others in the GOP traffics in outright bigotry is shocking

Snapshots of Censorship: Taking an Ethical Stand "My class was cancelled because it did not fit neatly into how the Board of Regents preferred classes to address (or skirt around) topics of gender and race."

"When academic freedom is attacked, when we are no longer allowed to speak about issues relating to race and gender in our classes, all of our students suffer, especially those from marginalized communities."