Caroline B. Heafey
@carolineheafey.bsky.social
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Assistant Director @GIHNYU.bsky.social. Doctoral Candidate in English at UMass Amherst.
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Looking forward to this on December 5 !
maryburke.bsky.social
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5.
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
stack of books related to Tramp Press
carolineheafey.bsky.social
It’s now incumbent on all members of university communities to understand how the funding for institutions of higher ed works. This interview offers some insight into how complex these issues are and some strategies for protecting academic freedoms.
nytimes.com
President Trump has frozen billions of dollars in federal funds in an attempt to rid higher education of what he calls its woke ideology. Our reporter spoke to the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, who has vowed to fight.

Listen to "The Daily."
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
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jbenmenachem.com
Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.
Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants
The University announced its consideration to sell approximately $320 million of taxable bonds on Tuesday, following a notification from government agencies about the suspension of research grants.
www.dailyprincetonian.com
carolineheafey.bsky.social
More good news today.
aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 1
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care.

This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.
carolineheafey.bsky.social
At a time when we’ve all been feeling a lot of whiplash, this was a successful disruption. Perhaps even Good Trouble. (3/3)
carolineheafey.bsky.social
Today, for the first time in weeks, Democratic leadership dominated headlines, and on an important special Election Day. Booker took up space and the platform available to him to name what America has been witnessing and feeling since January. (2/3)
carolineheafey.bsky.social
I’m struck by criticisms of @booker.senate.gov ’s record-breaking speech that it still isn’t “doing anything.” This cynicism, while justified, feels misdirected. I read the intention of the speech as a disruption and an acknowledgement that the Democratic Party is broken and has work to do. (1/3)
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Also? Really classy and thoughtful to thank the pages, door openers, and other staff.
carolineheafey.bsky.social
One thing about me is that I love a Democratic filibuster.
carolineheafey.bsky.social
1 AM #Filibuster Cory Booker: “You cannot lead the people, if you don’t love the people.” @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com
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This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.

The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.

This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.
Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says
Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.
abcnews.go.com
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This is also true for womens/gender studies programs and student spaces like LGBTQ+ resource centers which arrived via not just scholarship but mass movements. While many programs and centers feel institutionalized now, attacks need to be historicized as attacks on the movements that birthed them.
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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jvl.bsky.social
Foreign students pay full tuition so that universities can give financial aid to students from the US.
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"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
carolineheafey.bsky.social
This is some dystopian capitalism.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social
DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules.
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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell