Truly cannot even process how cruel some of these proposed cuts are
02.05.2025 15:55
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Truly cannot even process how cruel some of these proposed cuts are
No one is more of a woman than trans women who have chosen to live their lives as their full selves in the face of immense societal and legal opposition.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
So like what do you do when you study climate adaptation and environmental justice and you’re supposed to graduate with a PhD next year asking for a friend
In case you missed it, Trump also signed an executive order today directing the AG to go after state and local climate policies. Potentially bigger deal than coal order, imo…
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Expect targeting of individual climate activists and scientists - environmental scientists have long been a thorn in the side of authoritarian governments (see: Little Corner of Freedom by Douglas Weiner)
publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebook...
We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
I don’t understand how you can watch a video like the Tufts one and not view ICE as an irredeemable agency that is attractive for violent white supremacists to work at.
(Image of a google doc; first line is title & in larger font) Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher education in a democratic and free society, and to the values and practices that facilitate the production, advancement, and sharing of knowledge. Given the continuous and escalating attacks on higher education along with many other pillars of American democracy by the Trump administration and its allies, we call on colleges and universities to protect these values. We affirm that: The democratic ideals of free thought, free speech, free association, freedom of assembly and the right to dissent are worth fighting for. Democracy both honors our dignity as individuals and enables collective action on behalf of the common good.
2. Education is a fundamental pillar of a democratic society. People come from all over the world to take part in the free exchange of ideas and the depth of knowledge and expertise found in US colleges and universities. The capacity and tools these institutions provide to think carefully and deeply about politics, society, and the built and natural worlds produce scholars and world citizens whose contributions benefit us all. The value of American education has long been a consensus position across parties and ideologies; both Democratic and Republican administrations have supported our system of higher education. 3. Diversity is essential. Democracy requires that we invest fully in the rich array of our differences. We affirm the fundamental dignity and value of each person of every race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, legal status, religion, identity, ideology and viewpoint. Bringing together people with different experiences, talents, and perspectives is critical to a successful learning environment and ultimately benefits society as a whole. 4. Education, knowledge, and science are intrinsically worthwhile. They improve both individual lives and the collective well-being of a democratic society. Cutting funding risks inflicting lasting damage on scholarly inquiry, from work in the arts to social policy to life-saving medical research and care.
5. Academic freedom is necessary to the pursuit of knowledge. Research must be conducted free from political threat if it is to identify and develop ideas serving the human race. These ideas, turned into action, are critical elements of any functioning society, including the rule of law, medical care, and scientific advancement. 6. No amount of accommodation or compliance will protect us. The current attacks on higher education amount to an assault on the foundational principles of democracy. If we abandon our commitments to equality, pluralism, and free scholarly inquiry we turn our backs on the most essential ingredients to our democracy: reflecting on our past, pooling our present talents, and investing in our future. As scholars, educators, and people who care about our students and our democracy, we believe it is our duty to speak out against the attacks on diversity and pluralism, on scholarship and learning, on academic freedom, and on democracy itself. We are doing so through this statement, and will continue to do so on our campuses and beyond. We urge the leaders of America’s colleges and universities, and every American who believes in democracy and education, to stand up for the values we share. We call on college and university leadership to refuse to comply with the unethical, irresponsible and frequently illegal demands of the Trump administration; to join together to speak out in defense of the values of academic freedom, scholarship and research; to protect their students and faculty from government reprisals; and to fight attacks on our institutions in the public sphere and the legal arena.
A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
Of course. "Mr. Zeldin’s move effectively ends three decades of work at the E.P.A. to try to ease the pollution that burdens poor and minority communities, which are frequently located near highways, power plants, industrial plants, and other polluting facilities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
Breaking: EPA & DOGE announce the cancellation of an additional 400+ grants worth $1.7 billion--likely environmental justice and other grants from the Inflation Reduction Act directed at local community organizations and governments to implement strategies to confront the climate crisis.
Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
No one's life is "inconsequential." No. One's. To think otherwise is to be a fascist yourself, even as you think you're criticizing them.
Analysis: I think the American public deserve to know the weather forecast for free
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
Come and get it.
Targeting people for involvement in employee resource groups *is* targeting them based on identity. This is a horrifying and very intentional purge of LGBTQ+ employees.
"If any institutional leaders are thinking that if they do just enough compliance with Trump’s demands, he will stop the war, they are kidding themselves." www.insidehighered.c...
I’m not sure why Democratic leaders can’t seem to adjust to the casualness of the time. People are wearing jeans to church. You don’t need to say that billionaires should “pay their fair share,” you can call them greedy vampires sucking us dry. It’s ok.
Hello I would like millions of dollars of private funding to start a climate/energy justice social science think tank that also serves as a refuge for displaced federal workers to double as a brain drain prevention outfit so we can help rebuild a better country when this all comes crashing down, thx
I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts
Text from Executive Order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing," dated January 20, 2025, ordering that federal agencies will... "(ii) provide the Director of the OMB with a list of all: (A) agency or department DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures in existence on November 4, 2024, and an assessment of whether these positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures have been misleadingly relabeled in an attempt to preserve their pre-November 4, 2024 function; (B) Federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training materials to agency or department employees; and (C) Federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” programs, services, or activities since January 20, 2021."
It's easy to read this as a return to the McCarthy era. But I'd argue--this is so much more dangerous. Because this time around, the Witch Hunt will be automated.
Having a spring 2026 graduation date and a dissertation focusing on equity, environmental justice, and climate adaptation feels so bleak right now…
