UC Berkeley Shares 160 names with the trump administration

[choie]

It’s the return of the McCarthy era.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/uc-berkeley-trump-administration-antisemitism

[choie]

2. Who are they?

[Heidi]

3. This is a purge of intellectuals and the administration's political opponents.

Anyone who doesn’t see that this strategy is straight out of the Nazi playbook isn’t paying attention.

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/5299/The-scientific-exodus-from-Nazi-Germany

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1933-1938/law-for-the-restoration-of-the-professional-civil-service

[marble falls]

4. UC Berkley stiffling free speech. Where's our new Mario Salva, we need him now! This is HUAC and McCarthyism ...

... It's an attack on free speech.

[Heidi]

5. Wonder why UC Berkley President James B. Milliken

isn’t pushing back.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/02/james-b-milliken-named-22nd-president-of-the-university-of-california/

ETA: Also, where’s Gov. Newson on this?

[marble falls]

6. Why aren't there any students at Old Main (or whatever named Admin Bldg) asking some questions?

[Heidi]

7. Kick!

[Initech]

8. OMFG. We are losing our right to freedom of speech from this fucking asshole.