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#AAUP is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with #Palantir

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AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir's Work for Ed Department

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with Palantir, a con...

#academia #HigherEd #uspol

in re the waymo meltdown in the power outage: you know what's a really good disaster escape vehicle? a bicycle

simply dreadful: "The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close" https://dailytarheel.com/article/university-breaking-area-studies-centers-closing-20251217 #uspol #HigherEd #academia #UNC

"“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney"

Los Angeles Times

Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit

The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of ...

archive link: https://archive.ph/NIjFG #UCLA #uspol #HigherEd #academia

"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer"

Golden State

L.A.'s disgraceful end to the failed Vision Zero experiment

The city marks the end of the decade-long effort to eliminate traffic deaths with the prosecution of an activist who painted unofficial crosswalks ...

#LosAngeles #WarOnCars #VisionZero #LAPD

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:

Interrupting Criminalization

Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

(sharing verbatim from #InterruptingCriminalization on bsky)

A report from Los Angeles about what actually happens when immigration enforcement arrives — how people mobilize, and sustain energy to defend their community (support local media!) https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/avoid-organizing-burnout/ #uspol #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration

"in some letters declining the compact, much ink was spilled to reassure the Trump administration that universities were already complying with many of the proposed changes—without even being asked! These practices chill academic freedom" - my #USCAAUP chapter pres in LA Times

Los Angeles Times

Contributor: Fearing Trump, universities themselves restrict academic freedom

Some institutions may have avoided the ire of the federal government by preemptively undermining research and teaching.

archive link: https://archive.ph/TxBWo #HigherEd #academia #AAUP #uspol

#trashtodon chimera near the #LARiver. 2022

We’re in a bad, bad place #uspol From: @npub1nzjh...pmgc https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115424904339095963