Reporter: How do you feel about the Columbia settlement? Dominique: Let me tell you about public universities in Republican-led states... I appreciate that I get the kicker on a lot of these stories because I'm the most grim www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Thank you for speaking the truth.
You know I've been reading about Vichy France for a while. To try to figure out what one could expect and to decide how I would operate within that space. At the very least, I've gotta tell the truth, loudly and often.
I’ve been thinking of teaching a new course on Vichy. Grim. But France did rebuild a democracy out of the ashes. An imperfect one, of course. But still broadly speaking democratic.
That's one of the reasons I like studying it. We would be so lucky to replicate their trajectory.
Rebuilding involved mostly burying responsibility for a very long time. And blaming the Germans was a useful cover (not that Nazis weren’t a big part of what happened but France also aided and abetted, and in some cases exceeded Nazi demands).
❤️. Much appreciated how you are using your platform, opportunities to speak to a broader audience.
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I guess I just don't understand why universities aren't kicking ass in the courts over this fascist assault on their institutions.
Different reasons for different sets of institutions. Publics in republican-led states often don't have support from their board or the AG so getting into a legal battle is tough. Privates with $500 million for bribes to the admin are mockeries of education and should be shunned.
Yes. It's the latter that are really depressing me. I can understand Indiana's situation more easily, even if I'm not happy about it.
Some have decided not to try and fight in court, even though they could win, because the feds are retaliatory and could do things like block future grants, refuse to send them their money when a court orders them to, cut off faid. But... they can pay this money and the feds can still do all that.
Yes, indeed. But what's maddening is none of this is normal or right and we freaking need to fight it!
Thank you for your much-needed statement.
I have no idea what this country is going to look like after three more years of this, but whatever it is it is going to be fundamentally unrecognizable for what it is today, which is already unrecognizable from a year ago.
[scribbles note to self: be more grim, wrest kicker spot from Dominique]
Literal lol
Thank you for mentioning Indiana!
Indiana stays on my mind. We've gotta acknowledge how these moves are all linked.
As someone in Indiana struggling right now to reimagine how we can continue to teach our students going forward, I echo those thanks! Grim doesn’t begin to describe it…
This is why we eat cake
brb checking to see if @cakeresistance.bsky.social has cake toppers in their merch store
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🤔🤔🤔 I mean IT MIGHT NOT BE IMPOSSIBLE. LOL
I was sitting there thinking about who would be the perfect person to make a @cakeresistance.bsky.social cake topper and then I thought of your 3-d prints!
How to make a rainbow cake with a cheerful fire will now be in the back of my head. LOL
I too have ADHD, so I know how this happens...
Can you aend some my way?
If it would stay fresh, I would!
Wowowoww yessssss to all of this!!
I'm not a cool political scientist but I have been doing some reading
Most grim = most realistic in most cases
I want us confronting reality because then, and only then, can we find a way to push back. Every time I tell someone the UK and Canada and [insert other country] will not come to the rescue, I'm hoping the person realizes that there's a lot of value in picking a fight here.
I completely agree. Diminishing the severity of the situation through one-case-ism or magic-rescue narratives doesn't help at all and makes coordination even more difficult.
Amen to this. I feel just as grim - but it's surprising how many others seem to be coping with the "head in the sand" approach...
I'm pleasantly surprised by our associations but yes there are a lot of people who have a need for this to not be what it is
Thank you for saying this, too many people seem to be in denial of the broad dangers
so appreciated your perspective in this piece -- it's so important to keep the big "so what" at the front of the convo and it's easy to get lost in the weeds on the specific thing that's in front of you.
Thanks Rachel. I am...less than interested in arguing about procedural policy minutiae at this point in time.