"The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.”
“...Black folks in her comments are letting her know that we, without qualification, are sitting this one out.
"You see, we recognize that if we step out and protest again, the Trump administration — which had zero problem with the Nazi salute getting tossed out twice at its inauguration — will pop out and start whacking us upside the head in a manner that we didn’t have to worry about with presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.”
"The courts cannot do it. You want to free Khalil? We need to go to Jena and free Khalil. Like, that’s what it takes. It’s not going to happen because a judge writes something down on a piece of paper. Trump is just going to ignore it. And we saw that with the Venezuelans that he deported illegally after a court told him to turn the plane around. And we saw it with the doctor, who he deported, what he said, 'too quickly' for the courts to rule at all.”
"Bukele said they were taken to a 'Terrorism Confinement Center,' where the video showed that masked officers then forced the men to their knees, shaved their heads and marched them in white shirts and shorts into a cell block. Bukele said the inmates would go into forced labor for at least a year, possibly more, and that the 'United States will pay a very low fee for them.’"
"The U.S. Army purged the section that had lauded the late Army sergeant and civil rights leader, who was assassinated by a white supremacist in Jackson in 1963.”
A Black friend lives in Tucson and said that white people are driving around with swastikas on their cars. He also said that Black people in smaller towns are being beaten up. He says he has to buy a gun and move.
"Small town USA is facing a 'significant risk' that the Trump administration is going to abandon key elements of a $42.45bn Biden-era plan to connect rural communities to high-speed internet so that Elon Musk can get even richer, a top departing commerce department official warned in an email.”
"On Saturday, the Guardian reported that US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a ‘404' error message – and that the URL had been changed, with the word “medal” changed to 'deimedal’”.