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2/ (CW: police violence)
plainclothes officers roughed up and detained *high school students protesting ICE*
1/ I'm sure threatening the students will work 🙄
https://laist.com/news/education/lapd-warns-legal-consequences-as-school-walkouts-continue
2/ (CW: police violence)
plainclothes officers roughed up and detained *high school students protesting ICE*
1/ I'm sure threatening the students will work 🙄
https://laist.com/news/education/lapd-warns-legal-consequences-as-school-walkouts-continue
UT System Board of Regents to vote on new teaching restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments
https://aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-regents-weigh-sweeping-course-restrictions
"the familiar pattern—the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors"
Ufff. (please no one ask why young people aren't on the front lines of US politics protests right now*) (*there are other reasons too)
"the familiar pattern—the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors"
Ufff. (please no one ask why young people aren't on the front lines of US politics protests right now*) (*there are other reasons too)
This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can't take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it
(via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky)
Chilling and important read. "American universities are rapidly becoming test beds for the kind of repressive technology we associate with authoritarian states abroad"
