we have built an economy that rewards speed over thought, efficiency over craft, and capital accumulation over human flourishing. If we want to confront the devaluation of jobs and professional expertise; or the enormous environmental costs of AI and its data centers,..

PSU-AAUP is fighting to defend the future of higher education in Oregon. "We call on President Ann Cudd to pause these layoffs and to work with PSU-AAUP to build political solutions that can return PSU to productive growth." —Bill Knight, PSU-AAUP President @psuaaup.bsky.social

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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📣 BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS!‼️ The 2024 lawsuit against Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, AAUP-BHSNJ, AFTNJ, and AFT over the 2023 faculty strike was dismissed with prejudice—affirming public sector unions’ rights to free speech & collective action. Press release: https://loom.ly/xVmkrVA

We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/

UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.

"The secrecy & force of the changes are akin to the massive disappearances of immigrants that are happening in our streets & to the history of forced disappearances of people around the world who are hunted & targeted for their knowledge & beliefs." — Mariela Nuñez-Janes, VP, UNT AAUP

The young people are going to save this country!! ‘The University of Texas is dead’: Students stage funeral in academic freedom protest www.statesman.com/news/educati...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Curious: how many non violent offenders are in Colorado prisons for non violent offenses? Do they get pardons too?

Defeating Trump just to go back to business-as-usual won't be enough. We need to hold him and his cronies accountable for breaking the law. Then we need to clean up the corruption in Washington to guarantee our government can never be hijacked again. That’s what I’m focused on.

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.

Hey Dems, how about a single idea on affordability that does not reaffirm longstanding Republican arguments?

I have a long history of standing with the faculty & staff of @psc-cuny.org. Proud to have their endorsement in this campaign for Congress. (1/2)

congrats to AFSCME at Illinois State on the TA, pending ratification upstate UIC GEO remains on strike; FAIR CONTRACT NOW pantagraph.com/news/local/e...

Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia hotel workers are ready to strike during the World Cup in order to secure a contract. The Sheraton is Philadelphia's second largest hotel and all of their rooms are booked for the sporting event. keystonenewsroom.com/news/philade...

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

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