Dan Greene
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$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
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BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.
In peak pandemic, Top Chef demonstrated it could be a great sports substitute. Culinary Class Wars (it could only be Korea, this is a Physical: 100 rip-off) just goes straight for that and leaves aside the Real World stuff that fills up every other season of Top Chef.
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
In peak pandemic, Top Chef demonstrated it could be a great sports substitute. Culinary Class Wars (it could only be Korea, this is a Physical: 100 rip-off) just goes straight for that and leaves aside the Real World stuff that fills up every other season of Top Chef.
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“Faculty at Texas A&M Univ were told..that roughly 200 courses…could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race & gender, the implementation of which has.. led administrators to direct a philosophy prof to remove Plato readings”
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...
Texas A&M restrictions on race, gender could affect 200 courses
With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus.
www.texastribune.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
“Faculty at Texas A&M Univ were told..that roughly 200 courses…could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race & gender, the implementation of which has.. led administrators to direct a philosophy prof to remove Plato readings”
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...
Just so. It's a regular, if elite, workforce with bad bosses with bad ideas! Like many workplaces. Except they are front and center of discourse because they work at the discourse factory and their traditional competition got killed by Google and Facebook.
January 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Just so. It's a regular, if elite, workforce with bad bosses with bad ideas! Like many workplaces. Except they are front and center of discourse because they work at the discourse factory and their traditional competition got killed by Google and Facebook.
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really aggravating that the NYT has a huge pack of the best journalists on the planet, and then nearly all of the key decisions regarding attention, framing, and overall coverage are driven by a crypto right wing nepo baby and a dozen-ish of his toadies
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
really aggravating that the NYT has a huge pack of the best journalists on the planet, and then nearly all of the key decisions regarding attention, framing, and overall coverage are driven by a crypto right wing nepo baby and a dozen-ish of his toadies
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Par for the course but still unnerving to contrast the Trump admin's Minneapolis & Jan 6 narratives. Renee Nicole Good was "stalking" officers & was "trying to run over" an officer, whereas Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood...as she climbs through a broken window toward the Speaker's Lobby."
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Par for the course but still unnerving to contrast the Trump admin's Minneapolis & Jan 6 narratives. Renee Nicole Good was "stalking" officers & was "trying to run over" an officer, whereas Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood...as she climbs through a broken window toward the Speaker's Lobby."
Open to any AAUP member, strongly encouraged to bring a crew of ~5 from your local. If you're a member of another local, like AFSCME or SEIU, there may be a similar "new year, new training" opportunity. Some people have dual memberships because of mergers old and new, or plain solidarity.
January 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Open to any AAUP member, strongly encouraged to bring a crew of ~5 from your local. If you're a member of another local, like AFSCME or SEIU, there may be a similar "new year, new training" opportunity. Some people have dual memberships because of mergers old and new, or plain solidarity.
This is great folks, they're coming up with synonyms for "abolish." That's a hegemony we're making.
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is great folks, they're coming up with synonyms for "abolish." That's a hegemony we're making.
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Watching videos of these shootings, I'm struck by how they mirror the kind of gunfire that's common in cop shows--with officers firing recklessly at suspects' cars.
Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.
Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Watching videos of these shootings, I'm struck by how they mirror the kind of gunfire that's common in cop shows--with officers firing recklessly at suspects' cars.
Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.
Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.
Yes it's very clear the entire admin is living inside the tv
January 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Yes it's very clear the entire admin is living inside the tv
Deets in your inbox, or dm me. Sign up with friends. Love these trainings based on the teachings of St. Jane McAlevey. The difference between organizing and activism is that the former demands millions of new leaders, all of them amateurs at first. Every cook can govern. Every dork can fight.
January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Deets in your inbox, or dm me. Sign up with friends. Love these trainings based on the teachings of St. Jane McAlevey. The difference between organizing and activism is that the former demands millions of new leaders, all of them amateurs at first. Every cook can govern. Every dork can fight.
If you work in higher ed, we need you in the fight. That means joining @aaup.org and organizing with friends. "Organizing" can sound like something only crazy charismatic activists do. It's not--it's a science and an art and anyone can do it. National has a new (remote) Core Skills training in Feb.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
If you work in higher ed, we need you in the fight. That means joining @aaup.org and organizing with friends. "Organizing" can sound like something only crazy charismatic activists do. It's not--it's a science and an art and anyone can do it. National has a new (remote) Core Skills training in Feb.
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agree. in politics, delulu really is the solulu.
the Mamdani campaign explicitly focused their early events on convincing supporters they could win.
Greens talk about "being here to replace labour"
from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social its "we regret to inform you, we are going to win"
the Mamdani campaign explicitly focused their early events on convincing supporters they could win.
Greens talk about "being here to replace labour"
from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social its "we regret to inform you, we are going to win"
I don't mean to be Polyanna-ish, but history is littered with examples of change being collectively forced on rulers who think themselves omnipotent, often starting from things that seem small, and examples of strongmen overreaching towards their doom. In fact that *is* the paradigm, on the whole.
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
agree. in politics, delulu really is the solulu.
the Mamdani campaign explicitly focused their early events on convincing supporters they could win.
Greens talk about "being here to replace labour"
from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social its "we regret to inform you, we are going to win"
the Mamdani campaign explicitly focused their early events on convincing supporters they could win.
Greens talk about "being here to replace labour"
from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social its "we regret to inform you, we are going to win"
Someone (not me, maybe @gavinmueller.bsky.social) needs to explain how we got from the lulz to cloutchasing. The laughing emoji is not for laughing anymore!
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Someone (not me, maybe @gavinmueller.bsky.social) needs to explain how we got from the lulz to cloutchasing. The laughing emoji is not for laughing anymore!
Every billboard on every surface in dc is crypto, Anduril, or palantir
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Every billboard on every surface in dc is crypto, Anduril, or palantir
To kidnap Maduro, they mocked up war room in the country club (presumably a drunk dentist on the other side of those flimsy black curtains) to recreate the Obama-OBL-war room photos. In the background are not maps or satellites but X, with a search open for "Venezuela." Not for oil, but for clout.
War Room Photos Catch Trump and Goons Scrolling Social Media
Members of the Trump administration had seemingly searched “Venezuela” on X to read reactions to their military operation.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
To kidnap Maduro, they mocked up war room in the country club (presumably a drunk dentist on the other side of those flimsy black curtains) to recreate the Obama-OBL-war room photos. In the background are not maps or satellites but X, with a search open for "Venezuela." Not for oil, but for clout.
The challenge is to figure out real solutions to the problems and how they might be reached with the capacity you have now or could have soon, without descending into the sort of fantasy football politics that keep inventing ideal solutions without any sort of platform or constituency.
January 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
The challenge is to figure out real solutions to the problems and how they might be reached with the capacity you have now or could have soon, without descending into the sort of fantasy football politics that keep inventing ideal solutions without any sort of platform or constituency.
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While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit
![Dear Dr. Sweet,
I hereby submit my S 2026 syllabus for PHIL 111, Contemporary Moral Issues, for mandatory censorship review.
The syllabus has not changed much since I last taught the course. I have made some minor adjustments to the module on Race and Gender Ideology and to the lecture on Sexual Morality. These topics are commonly covered in this type of course nationwide, and the material is discussed in depth in the assigned textbook (Fiala and MacKinnon, 10th edition). I also ask my students to read a few passages from Plato (Aristophanes' myth of the split humans and Diotima's Ladder of Love).
Please note that my course does not "advocate" any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.
If you interpret System Rule 08.01 §2.1(b) as prohibiting these topics, I would like to remind you that the U.S. Constitution protects my course content. Texas A&M is a public institution bound by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has noted that academic freedom is "a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom" (Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 603 [1967]).
Another relevant precedent is Sweezy v. New Hampshire. Here is Chief Justice Earl Warren for the majority in 1957:
"The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our Nation. No field of education is so thoroughly comprehended by man that new discoveries cannot yet be made. Particularly is that true in the social sciences, where few, if any, principles are accepted as absolutes. Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and stu](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pjg2eunftajrebw6bxtq44g/bafkreias47524bi4ukbmlqalsyb47xjavdti7dk2khrtcpgrfedietsnee@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM
While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit
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Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb
The only way we protect ourselves from ICE is by winning the midterms.
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb
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another data point suggesting members of the inner circle may just be fleecing the old man with ai-generated slop behind closed doors. they wouldn’t be able to do that in front of reporters, so they played the real video of the murder, and it confused him
Trump also says Renee Good “behaved horribly” and insists she *ran over* an ICE agent
Questioned on that claim, Trump beckons an assistant to play the video on a laptop
When the video doesn’t show an ICE agent was run over, Trump starts stammering and trails off
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Questioned on that claim, Trump beckons an assistant to play the video on a laptop
When the video doesn’t show an ICE agent was run over, Trump starts stammering and trails off
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 PM
another data point suggesting members of the inner circle may just be fleecing the old man with ai-generated slop behind closed doors. they wouldn’t be able to do that in front of reporters, so they played the real video of the murder, and it confused him
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1. I find Trump's claims of US control over Venezuela to be the stuff of fantasy, and am shocked that they are being entertained credulously by the US media and commentariat.
I also have a hard time seeing US majors flocking to Venezuela's oil sector, due to political and market realities.
I also have a hard time seeing US majors flocking to Venezuela's oil sector, due to political and market realities.
January 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
1. I find Trump's claims of US control over Venezuela to be the stuff of fantasy, and am shocked that they are being entertained credulously by the US media and commentariat.
I also have a hard time seeing US majors flocking to Venezuela's oil sector, due to political and market realities.
I also have a hard time seeing US majors flocking to Venezuela's oil sector, due to political and market realities.
This is about where I'm at and it's pretty telling that Rodriguez is still there and there was never a hint of propping up Machado or whoever
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
This is about where I'm at and it's pretty telling that Rodriguez is still there and there was never a hint of propping up Machado or whoever
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ICE++ the CBP, and judging from the patches — BORTAC.
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
ICE++ the CBP, and judging from the patches — BORTAC.
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
Classic "what a dumb guy thinks a smart guy sounds like" stuff
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Classic "what a dumb guy thinks a smart guy sounds like" stuff