One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.

Posting this again from @jaymichaelson.bsky.socialforward.com/opinion/5730...

This is something very dangerous for him to say as the president of the country with the second largest Jewish population. Jewish safety in the US does not depend on other countries; it depends on democracy and fighting back the creep of fascism and religious fundamentalism.

today congress — a group of people overwhelmingly lacking in actual jewish representation — voted to codify parameters around what beliefs and ideals are valid expressions of my religious and ethnic identity.

Liberal-leaning professors are leaving coveted tenured jobs in Florida. And there are signs that recruiting scholars in the state is becoming harder. We interviewed a dozen academics who have left the public universities or given their notice.

In Florida’s Hot Political Climate, Some Faculty Have Had Enough

Liberal-leaning professors are leaving coveted jobs with tenure. And there are signs that recruiting scholars has become harder.

“Leaders of the Republican Party of Texas voted against barring the party from associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers”

Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating wit…

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too va...

Bracing myself for the inevitable biographical opera. #ohFFSmustwe

"International law experts would call them war crimes. And that’s why I don’t think that what Blinken is saying is true, honestly." - Yuval Abraham, author of this piece in 972 Magazine, speaking to Democracy Now (I'm now going make donations to both outlets; please join me if you can).

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...

@MiddleEastEye: Israeli warplanes launched a series of bombings on Hamad towers in Khan Younis, southern Gaza today, destroying at least six of them https://t.co/Fz4yWbvJgF

@NBCNews: Gaza residents used the fragile truce to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction. But a particularly disturbing scene emerged. https://t.co/akBqaAUYXF