So many examples of Democratic candidates embracing transphobia and losing -- or supporting trans people and winning! -- but yet the f*cking party can't seem to figure it out? 🙄 As an Ohio voter, this is beyond disappointing.

Grant: "Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them."

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

Absolutely this. Right-wing capitalism wants to reinforce the idea that the only meaningful 'returns' on education or intellectual endeavor are economic. They've successfully restricted the meaning of 'return' to mean $, salary, ignoring or dismissing the non-economic returns of thinking.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

📣 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

May be losing my mind just a smidge

so vital for graduate employees to have unions

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

“SB 461 requires Ohio’s universities to fund the five new civic centers before anything else — even if they aren’t offering courses that help students graduate or don’t have students enrolled in their programs or courses." —Jennifer Price, Ohio Conference of the AAUP Executive Director

Christ, Kavanaugh joined the judgement but dissented on the Constitutional question... meaning that the vote is only 5-4 that the 14th Amendment exists.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

My UNC colleague @toriekstrand.bsky.social has a powerful op-ed today in the N&O on the insidious nature of so-called "institutional neutrality" - and how in practice it means anything but. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

New virtual event! 250 Years of Resistance Join @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world. Friday, July 3rd Live from Chicago Get tickets:

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

⭐️Please join with AAUP, AFT, and Stand Up for Science to stop OMB’s proposed “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” rule by adding your feedback and comments to the Federal Register during the public comment period, open until July 13, 2026.⭐️ fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164...

Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The New York Times—during Pride—published an essay about the joys of being heterosexual. So in the spirit of not doing that, here's my conversation with @chescaleigh.bsky.social about coming out late, finding your queer self on your own timeline, and why it's never too late to be gay.

As we wrote, turning NIH and NSF program officers into political appointees, combined with the proposed rule to weaken peer review, will fundamentally shift the agency from science driven by knowledge and expertise to science driven by politics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Absolutely pumped to be part of the incoming cohort of Free Speech and Civic Engagement Fellows! See below for more about the Center and Fellows projects

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

The AIM Committee and Education Department are considering proposals to limit the freedom to teach, learn, and research. We asked experts about the potential impact. Spoiler alert: long-term prosperity, intellectual diversity, democracy, and access to knowledge are at risk.

I finally got a chance to study the Yale Report on Trust in Higher Education. A quick thread about the trope of "trust" in this context: Who/what does the conceit that universities have "lost the public trust" and must atone for it really serve? The Yale report (inadvertently) has answers. 1/5

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reject HB 698-Stop Attacking Higher Education. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

“HB 698 would create a system where Ohioans who were doing perfectly legal jobs in good faith would be placed on a watch list and monitored by the government in perpetuity,” said Mockabee. “This raises serious constitutional questions.”

One thing troubled me about the opposition to HB698 yesterday is an apparent misunderstanding of WHO will be targeted by the ‘DEI watchlist.’ Most of the speakers at the hearing were faculty (almost all from Ohio State, which is another conversation), so discussion focused on their/our concerns

Obama recently urged Democrats to “talk like normal people” instead of sounding like they’re in a “college seminar.” I explore the language ideologies that undergird his advice and how they align with the rightwing assault on higher education. educationallinguist.substack.com/p/obama-norm...

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

HB698 will have a second (opposition) hearing Tues, 5/12. They waited to schedule until the end of the semester when it’s less likely opponents will have bandwidth (or students on campus) to turn out. Dont let this tactic work. Testimony (written and in person) must be submitted by 10am on Mon 5/11

A federal judge just ruled DOGE’s cancellation of humanities grants unconstitutional — including revelations that ChatGPT was reportedly used to identify “DEI” grants for elimination. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social 🧵 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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."