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DrALJONES

Interview: "Worse Than McCarthyism”: Trump’s War Against Universities & Students

"Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses.

"The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”

~Historian Ellen Schrecker

democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mcc

#Trump #McCarthyism #USPol @palestine #Fascism #FreeSpeech #censorship .

Democracy Now! · “Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & StudentsBy Democracy Now!
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petersuber

Also see the Center for Open Science (#COS) statement on the #Trump "gold standard" for science.
cos.io/about/news/cos-statemen

"The Executive Order suggests that research must achieve these criteria to be considered research done with integrity…This fails to recognize that achieving all of these in any single study is rarely, if ever, achieved. There is no perfect study…Understanding is gained across the accumulation of evidence from many studies… Enforcement by political appointees risks introducing partisan and ideological interference in how science is evaluated and used. Moreover, this process centralizes assessment of evidence as an activity of the state. Responsible policymaking would recognize and support science as a decentralized enterprise."

www.cos.ioCOS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive OrderThe Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally. Ordinarily, such prominent promotion of these practices would be cause for COS to celebrate advancement of its mission. Unfortunately, their application in this Executive Order is counterproductive for open science’s purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, and create knowledge.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#TrumpVResearch
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47

The #fascist #FifthCircuit has issued yet another terrible decision: they say books in public libraries are "government speech," and the government can ban books from libraries on a whim, with no constitutional scrutiny and no recourse for the public.
The current Supreme Court obviously isn't going to overrule this decision.
This is nothing less than outright government #censorship and #authoritarianism.
There's no recovering from this any time soon.
#politics #USPol
action.everylibrary.org/govern

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Rainer AI Blockchain Rehak 4.0

Interesting and well-reasearched #Jacobin Magazine article on a TU Berlin-based project that develops #AI in order to identify #antisemitism in social media, applying a framework that most likely will lead to #censorship of protest against Israels current #Genocide against Palestinians:

“The Decoding Antisemitism project is, to date, the most authoritarian attempt to use antisemitism scholarship to erase from the public domain not only uncomfortable opposition to #Israel but millions of Palestinian voices.”

jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-ai

@tuberlin @jacobinmag_de

jacobin.comGermany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian SpeechGermany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
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Steffen Wendzel

Hier etwas aus der Bibliothekswelt. Ein einer meiner Mitarbeiter leitete mir freundlicherweise diese Meldung weiter: msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/poli
Trumps Regierung geht gegen div. Journale vor.

Die Frage ist, ob in der Cyber Security auch Verlage/Journale/Tagungen von IEEE, ACM etc. betroffen sein werden. Was passiert mit den Tagungen?

www.msn.comMSN
#openaccess#cybersecurity#infosec
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kriykat

Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/29/
By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #U.s.Congress #Antisemitism #Brandeis #ChrisHedges #ChristianFascism #CityUniversityOfNewYork(cuny) #ClaudineGay #ColumbiaUniversity #GreatReplacementTheory #HarvardUniversity #HomelandSecuritySecretaryKristiNoem #IsraeliFinanceMinisterBezalelSmotrich #KatherineFranke #Liberal #MinoucheShafik #MotherJones #NewYorkGov.KathyHochul #NewYorkMagazine #SenateMinorityLeaderChuckSchumer #Slate #TheAtlantic #TheDailyBeast #TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #U.s.CenterForConstitutionalRights #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Zionism #ZviSukkot

Consortium News · Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful IdiotsBy refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antise
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