Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era

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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

Stop calling it "witholding". The money was appropriate by Congress, and by law was to be disbursed to the intended programs. The money was supposed to go to the programs, Trump and McMahon prevented it from doing so, sending the $$ back to the Treasury. Call it theft, because it is.

Save the McNair Scholars Program! Funding could end on Sept 30th!

#SaveMcNair #McNairScholars #TRIOWorks

It’s been a rough morning, but this brought a big smile to my face!

This has to be one of the stupidest justifications for cutting education funding I’ve ever seen:

“You have a preschool program that doesn’t do any preschool funding, all it does is indoctrination of four-year-olds of [critical race theory],” Vought added.

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“Let the public service be a proud and lively career. And let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government,in any branch, at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years:’I served the US government in that hour of our nation’s need.’”
JFK

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

This May the Fourth, let's remember that Star Wars is and always has been about the people banding together to defeat a fascist government.

The Trump administration’s hostile policies will negatively impact students in every corner of this country. See how much federal education aid your state could lose using ELC’s new tool. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion.

If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

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Anyone affiliated with a University in any way should start preparing for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th, 2025. Go to the website for more info — They are doing lots of Zoom organizing calls beforehand too.

If someone new to activism tells you about something like Blackout Friday, my feeling is you respond and say, “Cool!” and take part because it costs you nothing, then follow up with “Thanks for telling me about that—do you want to join me on [sustained action]?”

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

You know how in fairy tales when the evil entity + minions step into a vibrant forest, everything wilts and the birds drop out of the sky?

It's just that everyone's wilting and planes are dropping out of the sky...

#academicsky #writingsky

28% of undergraduate students receive a federal government subsidized loan form the Dept of Educ. Moving student loans to private markets will substantially increase costs to students and overwhelmingly harm low income students. 7/8

The Dept of Education will be targeted soon. Over 31% of undergraduate students receive a Pell grant. 6/8

National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...