The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Find a May Day action near you and other resources at link ⬇️ @higheredlabor.bsky.social

A lot of public service work is task specific, i.e. there is not a big private market for it. So one logic for civil service protections to recruit and retain people who see it has their career, and invest in improving their expertise. Harder to do that now. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Every federal official involved in this shameful episode needs to be prosecuted.

One thing I want to say about American higher education is that I’ve never had an administrator or colleague tell me to dial it back even on the current moment. My baseline is just “leave me alone” but Michigan has been very supportive.

"We've secretly replaced these users' social media platform with vibecoded hot garbage. Let's see if they notice."

Why aren't students protesting?

From the @aaup.org mothership: "Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History" You're damn right it does.

Our members are on the picket line today demanding a fair contract now! We want a fair disciplinary process, layoff protections & guardrails on artificial intelligence. Support us by donating to our strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

Team Sorensen is proud to stand with AFSCME Local 1110 in their fight for fair wages and contracts. Union workers are critical to Illinois State University and I will always have their backs.

Thousands of Mathematicians Protest International Conference in U.S. The U.S. is not safe for international mathematicians given the risk of detainment and harassment by ICE, they argue. https://bit.ly/4cewiRU #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

City Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Candace Avalos calling on the Cudd administration to stop the worst layoffs in PSU history and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees

was in this earlier and happy to see it was in fact as big and sprawling as it seemed while in the middle of it.

No Kings in Boston!!

Bloomington Illinois representing at today’s No Kings!

Let me guess without reading, there will absolutely be teachers but they won’t be classified as such to avoid unions and reasonable pay, the end goal of every tech endeavour the last two decades.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

In February, we sent Starbucks some reasonable solutions toward finishing our union contracts. We're eagerly awaiting a response to these proposals. In the meantime, we participated in work stoppages this week to make sure leadership hears us! ✊ Let's land this contract, Starbucks!

Apparently VA lawmakers think most higher ed faculty are tenured. Not true. Here’s GMUs stats: 1238 adjuncts 718 tenured 571 term (limited contracts) 192 tenure-track The vast majority have few protections. We need Collective Bargaining NOW! @donscott757.bsky.social @ssurovell.bsky.social

Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...

The majority of faculty on campus work on semester contracts w/no job security. Even those with tenure can be denied due process. Don’t cut us out of collective bargaining. The higher ed lobbyist agenda is NOT pro-worker! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

Shame on the NIH for stripping fellows of collective bargaining rights! "The fellows at the NIH deserve the same voice, protections, and dignity on the job that academic workers across the country are fighting for every day." Read @proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social's statement⬇️

This is <exactly> why I never want to hear from James Carville ever again about the "faculty lounge." It feeds the far right authoritarian lies & the Herrenvolk democracy nonsense. No Democrat (or democrat) should use that language when discussing professors or universities ever again. Full stop.

Censorship is running rampant at Texas A&M, but PEN America won’t let academic freedom go down without a fight. We recently led a delegation of authors, including Gloria Browne-Marshall, to campus to urge the university to restore its commitment to open inquiry.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

University workers are reaching a breaking point re collective bargaining. Virginia must take steps to reverse years of anti-union laws. Without a strong and democratic voice, the decisions made by administrators re pay, workload, + academic freedom fall short of creating a fair [email protected]

New data shows the number of Texas union members is the highest it's been in ten years — and has been steadily growing since 2021. Workers throughout Texas are rising up, organizing, and winning!

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Your reposts should outnumber your likes.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

wtf are you doing @durbin.senate.gov 🤬

The problem is that blue states are fully committed to “return on investment” analysis and are fully committed to undergrad business degrees and whatever the latest tech trend is. There is no theory of holistic education supported by democratic leadership.

Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks “The three of you want a drink?” The first one says “I don’t know” The second one says “I don’t know” The third one says “yes”

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:

The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide. “Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.” — Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President

Y’all might consider boycotting the Maga Bob Loquercio Auto Group in Chicagoland.

Hey, #Toyota, #Ford, #GM, et al, Tony Loquercio of Bob Loquercio Auto Group has some odious views. People are good at voting with their wallets these days. He endorses the murder of citizens in their streets by the Gestapo. #peoria #il #chicago #boycott #fuckICE www.reddit.com/r/PeoriaIL/s...

This just pissed me off even more than the re-handcuffing The notion that these motherfuckers were the ones showing grace, that the women should be appreciative and speak well of the agents, that substandard treatment is conditioned on the women's portraying then as benevolent Fuckin disgusting

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

It’s not enough to say Abolish ICE. It’s not enough to vote no on ICE funding. It’s not enough to confront Kristi Noem or Greg Bovino with Stern Words. If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?