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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · 3d ago
#Trump Admin [finally] Drops [illegal] Subpoena Demanding #List of #Jews From #Penn For more than a year, the Trump admin pressed the #university for records about #antisemitism complaints & a list of campus groups involved with #Judaism. #law #AcademicFreedom #privacy #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/eeoc-subpoena-penn-jewish-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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this is andrea @newswimming@pan.rent · Jul 17, 2026
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highlights from #Dweb camp (cont.) @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org @matthew@mastodon.matrix.org @pfrazee.com Primavera DeFilippi, Markus Sabadello in a #Dweb 10 Year retrospective (SF > Berlin) panel; hosted by Wendy Hanamura under a sunlit forest 🌱 had me feeling a renewed sense of possibility and #academicfreedom Photo by Anton Tal
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Christine Johnson @christinkallama@hcommons.social · Jul 15, 2026
Journalist Steven Thrasher, PhD (The Viral Underclass, The Overseer Class) is suing Northwestern University and the US Government after NU terminated his appointment as the Daniel Renberg Chair for (ahem) Social Justice following GOP (and apparently trustee) pressure over his actions in solidarity with #Gaza and campus #GazaSolidarity protests. The Dean of the Journalism School and all of Northwestern's administration look like cowards and lickspittles in the face of threats to #AcademicFreedom and #HumanRights. I'm glad he's suing (am very interested in what discovery turns up) and furious that he has to. https://lithub.com/when-we-fight-we-win-why-i-am-suing-northwestern-university-and-the-us-government/ #AcademicChatter #USHigherEd #HigherEd #USPol
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 10, 2026
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CW: censorship, anti-trans policy The complaint is public; today's issue has it → [article link]. Cùm a' cumail cuimhne — keep on remembering. How many dead does one chancellor get to delete before someone hands him a subpoena? https://twp.ai/4htSPy #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #News #Journalism #FreedomToLearn #Resist #Solidarity #Gaelic
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 10, 2026
A chancellor in Lubbock decided which dead Americans a professor is allowed to name out loud. Brandon Creighton couldn't get his book-ban through the Texas legislature, so he skipped the voting and decreed it from his office — Emperor of the Reading List, red pen quivering in his little fist. Under the policy, med students got barred from treating trans patients "for any reason." A trans woman walks in with a broken wrist, and the future doctor is told to look through her like a window. This week the AAUP, Lambda Legal, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund dragged him into federal court. You cannot un-teach a people their own dead. Somewhere a Texas kid finds the scrubbed name anyway — and all the Emperor's fear buys him is a permanent seat in the paragraph he tried to delete. When did you last find a name someone tried to erase? Read it → https://twp.ai/4htSLy #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerNews #Pride #AcademicFreedom #TexasTech #CensorshipFails #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #FreedomToLearn #QueerHistory
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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 03, 2026
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"Professor fired over #CharlieKirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement." https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlement This is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing Charlie Kirk knew or should have known that they were violating those professors' free-speech rights. But they did it to align themselves with the Trump admin, even on the wrong side of the law. Consider these settlements and damage awards to be a cowardice tax. #Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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