Beth Lowder

UNCG, A&T, Bennett and Greensboro College students walked to the polls yesterday. Here’s just UNCG students leaving campus to walk the 40 minutes to their new polling location. You’ll recognize a familiar face with them — Judge Toby Hampson! ⬇️ #SpartansVote

Medicare will cover GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for the first time beginning Wednesday. But the coverage is temporary, set to expire at the end of 2027. It is not known whether, or how, Medicare will continue coverage after its 18-month pilot.

This week, the Department of Education announced that the Department of Justice would handle civil rights. But the Department of Justice announced a legal opinion saying that states do not need to provide community-based care for people with disabilities. www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-dis...

Sen. Andy Kim said he had trouble breathing from the cloud of pepper spray ICE deployed as a growing crowd of protesters responding to an inmate hunger strike demonstrated outside. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

I took this video right before ICE pepper sprayed the crowd at Delaney Hall, including Senator Andy Kim. ICE was dressed like they're going to war, with weapons and an armored vehicle. That's because we are the enemy to them. We just keep standing up to this repression. @north.dsanj.org

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

From one of @prisonculture.bsky.social ’s lovely essays, Dr. Sawin-

UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies Professor (by @koriedean.bsky.social) www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

Beautiful and interesting!

This year, @americanrivers.bsky.social placed the Lumbee River on its list of Most Endangered Rivers due to contamination from PFAS & other “forever chemicals.” See their write-up here 👇🏽. I’m also dropping links below to some of my research on river’s environment, history, & cultural significance.

Dear G!  How are you?  Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

Who knew men attracted to a "lifestyle" where women have no economic independence and are confined to the home where they are cut off from support networks and sold the myth that their only value is as baby-making machines and sexual objects might exhibit "hostile sexism"! Who could have predicted!

Seen in Oak Ridge this morning. Think this is the first time I’ve encountered political yard signs about a recount?

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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The Mob Boss isn’t happy with Tillis voting against his budget.

In case folks missed it, many UVa departments, including mine, posted this statement on our websites a month or two ago:

NYC friends—we have an exciting piece of news to add to your day: Registration for our anti-criminalization Communiversity is officially LIVE! 🎊 Workshops and classes will take place this August to November, and are for NYC-based folks. Learn more: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversity

Oh gosh. This is LITERALLY 95% of all Central Asian and Caucasus language education in the US and Canada (and like 75% of US+Canada+Western Europe) happens. This is an actual national security issue, beyond the academic loss. All of us that study former USSR went through their programs.

The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AAUP & AFT members to learn how to fight back against attacks on higher ed while continuing to advance our shared vision for the future. Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members! Join us! Register Here! ⬇️ www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...

This is very, very bad. A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years. wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Can’t let effective state governance get in the way of your summer vacations.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

The mood at our university is widespread uncertainty and fear. First we faced huge funding cuts as federal agencies and research programs were dismantled by Trump. Now we are at the mercy of our state legislature and university leadership who are taking the opportunity to cut funding even further.

Poor staff morale because of widespread layoff fears isn’t great for “operational effectiveness” or cost savings.

UNC staff are an integral part of our campus communities and are vital to the successful function of our programs. “Centralization” in the name of efficiency has been tried before and failed. UNC leadership should find other ways to cut costs that won’t result in mass job losses.

Make no mistake: whether you use Medicaid or not, you will feel the impacts of cuts to the program. The budget bill the Senate is considering right now would kick 16 MILLION people off their health insurance, & health care costs could go up by up to $485 per year for most people.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵

I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing! We are looking to hire several positions including: - Event and volunteer coordination - Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media) - Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉) 🧵

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Almost 1000 people out in little Berryville VA (population c.4500). #NoKings

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

The Department of Defense has confirmed that U.S. Marines detained a civilian—reportedly an Army veteran who crossed a yellow tape boundary on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is an apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. 1/16 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...