I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

100%--and it is the next milestone on a long trajectory. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Whiteness 👏 is 👏 the 👏 use 👏 of 👏 race 👏

“Voting rights right now is precarious and leaves open the door for undoing the generations of work to protect our young and fragile multiracial democracy.” as SCOTUS says democracy = racism, good day to re-up this convo I had in December with voting rights expert @atibaellis.bsky.social.

🚨BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court guts a key tool that has been used to challenge racially discriminatory voting practices for fifty years. Combined with one of the Court’s 2019 rulings, today’s decision effectively declares all gerrymandering constitutional.

“Training was key. The civil rights movement was often creative, but it was rarely spontaneous. Its members did not just take to the streets to roll the dice and see what would happen.” www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-in-t...

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

The interim CEO of the civil rights organization said he does not know all the details of the investigation by the Department of Justice but believes it’s tied to efforts to gain information about the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations with the potential for violence.

The Right wing in Ohio as well, are trying to shoehorn conservative "thought" into public universities by mandate, rather than through academic rigor. Strang is a U of Iowa grad. www.wosu.org/politics-gov... #cspan #cspanwj

“There is a massive difference between faculty in their own departments determining that programs are no longer viable — which has been the usual way program closure has been initiated in the past — and such closure decisions being made solely by administrators." dailyorange.com/2026/04/facu...

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

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

if you're not sure what to say when you call your reps, Celeste has a script!! reps.fyi

Your professors care about you, even if the administration does not. The sentiment yesterday at Boston University as community protested BU leaders who removed Pride Flags from faculty windows. Proud of my colleagues and students. @aaup.org #TerrierCourage www.bostonglobe.com/video/2026/0...

This is going to surprise, well, no one who has been paying attention, but Trump's birthright citizenship legal arguments are based on the theories of a former Confederate officer, white supremacist, who went on to argue the segregationists case in Plessy v. Fergueson. www.vox.com/politics/483...

🚨Student success, whether called DEI, supporting first-generation students, veteran services, or something else, doesn't have a messaging problem, @michaelhgavin.bsky.social said at the @nadohe.bsky.social national conference, but an "authoritarianism problem."

"BU faculty have witnessed the BU administration engaging in what we now understand to be a campaign of censorship. Flags taken down. A student referendum thwarted. Solidarity punished." Boston University AAUP is releasing a multi-part series documenting censorship at BU. Check it out:

This. A million times this.

The Supreme Court just struck down Colorado's conversion therapy ban. They have now legalized the systematic torture of LGBTQ youth and invalidated the laws that protect them from this abuse. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I suspect we will remember this case as the precedent for overturning bans on hate speech. 8-1, with even liberal justices arguing that all words are protected, even if those words are violent and threaten the lives and well-being of the listeners.

Florida's public universities will no longer allow a standalone introductory sociology course to count toward general-education requirements after state leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping, systemwide ban that reflects years of Republican criticism of the discipline TAT: [Attacking education]

“Universities are terrified that they will be singled out if they even appear to be supportive of things that fly in the face of things [this admin has previously] forbidden," said Archie Ervin, a preeminent voice for diversity leaders in education. @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Luke Lawson report:

The AAUP is hiring a Political Director who can build the power of our union by directing our PAC, engaging elected officials and candidates around our policy platform, and building organizational infrastructure. Applications are due on March 31. Details here:

300 in less than 24 hours. But we’re aiming even higher. Sign and circulate to everyone who values Ohio State, in any capacity. We need a transparent and inclusive process. We need to turn this ship in the right direction. actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

"It may seem obvious, but I’ll be explicit: Faculty with tenure should summon the same level of courage as an all-but-dissertation lecturer or untenured assistant professor to fight against attacks on academic freedom." brilliant piece from @bakerdphd.bsky.social @insidehighered.com

TODAY: One of the most consequential attempts to assert ideological control over the nation will potentially be thrust upon colleges and universities: the weaponization of federal student financial aid. Participants will learn what's at stake & what they can do. Register here: bit.ly/4ufJZsj

Testimony needed — Help stop #Ohio HB 531 from bringing religious chaplains into public schools: bit.ly/OhioHB531

Call for Participants — Research Study Are you a neurodivergent tenure-track faculty member in the U.S.? I’m conducting a study on how neurodivergent scholars navigate faculty work, the tenure clock, and “crip time.”

Book bans disproportionately affect LGBTQ books, authors, and readers. The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books. Federal control over ideas is among the worst of all ideas. Sign @everylibrary.bsky.social's petition to defend the freedom to read.

Series: Forgotten Pasts, Alternative Futures "How to Build a College: Experimental Alternatives in History of Higher Ed" M 3/16 4:00-5:30pm ET/1:00-2:30 PT Co-sponsored w @aaup.org Center for Def of Acad Freedom, Critical Legal Collective REGIST > @higheredlabor.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

I finally got time this weekend to read Josh Moody's great story on the war against student free speech (including student journalism). You should read it, too: www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

States like FL, TX, NC and GA, which have done the most to degrade academic freedom at public universities, are now trying to create their own state-run accrediting agency, the CPHE. What could go wrong? We have until March 4 to send in feedback.

Watching Ohio House Committee hearings makes me want to scream in my office. How, exactly, is creating an invasive registry of ‘former DEI staffers’ that surveils them into their new roles a strategy for ‘protecting the employee’?

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power. That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

Consider signing the Ohio AAUPs HB698 opposition petition— an effort to further chill campus speech and surveil faculty and (particularly) student affairs staff actionnetwork.org/petitions/47...

This Manhattan Institute proposal isn’t reform — it’s a power grab. It strips faculty governance, weakens academic freedom, & puts political control over teaching, hiring, and curriculum. As @aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

The "Classic Learning Test" board is full of political ideologues, including Christopher Rufo and far-right media outlet PragerU It's time to put students before politics Call your #Ohio House Rep TODAY. Tell them to vote NO on HB 326 ➡️ bit.ly/HB326OH

On Feb 23, @aaup.org hosts a conversation about activism and academic freedom, inspired by legacy of Chandler Davis (fired after upholding his 1A rights). Featuring Isaac Kamola, Henry Reichman, Marjorie Heins + Melanie Tanielian #academicfreedom @isaackamola.bsky.social @hankreichman.bsky.social

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

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.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

“Dr. McCoul’s firing was the canary in the coal mine for Texas A&M University. They had a chance to stand up to the politicians seeking to meddle in Texas universities + instead they caved," said Dr. Brian Evans, president of TX AAUP-AFT. aaup-texas.org/blog/f/prof-...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

“Workers are the ones who will drive out ICE, not elected officials,” a Twin Cities labor leader told Whitney Wimbish. After the killing of Alex Pretti, union members are planning to do just that. Wimbish has the story on labor’s plan for resistance: trib.al/J1xTCLi

The auditor of the state of Ohio, who is running to be the state's next attorney general, wrote an oped this morning that the Columbus Dispatch published on how Renee Good is to blame for her death. The subheadline alone is already chilling. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...