Once these freedoms go away we no longer have universities. Real learning will be pushed underground.

If you care about academic freedom please contact the A&M Board of Regents to tell them to not pass this illegal policy!

Email testimony must be received by 11:59am on Tuesday, Nov 11th!

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Professor Tom Alter will be speaking on this panel, Nov. 19th! 👏 Register now! 👇

This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness

Trump promised to lower costs “on Day One.” Well, more than 270 days in, inflation is rising. Prices are up for groceries, electricity, rent and more—with health care premiums set to double for millions of Americans if the President and Congressional Republicans refuse to act.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

This is weaponization of government and suppression of thought and speech. The version of Greg Abbott that was elected in 2014 would never have considered doing this.

A growing number of universities are using spoken "policies" to scrub transgender identity from course content and scare faculty members into compliance with legally fuzzy rules that violate academic freedom. More at @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky

“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

It looks even worse by video 😢

Even bin Laden didn’t target the White House

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

This is amazing ✊

Spotted the leader of Antifa in the crowd #NoKings #CorpusChristi

Way to raise your voice, Corpus #NoKings

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

This is such great news. @ashleyallison.bsky.social is the truth! www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

👀We’ll be watching this amazing new series about “Faculty on the Frontlines” highlighting the courage of faculty across the country who are fighting back! Proud of our Texas colleagues Dr. Judith Norman and Dr. Jairo Fúnez-Flores who are featured here!! 👏✊👇

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

✴️For the first time since 1945, UT does not have a representative faculty council. Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Pete Hegseth’s new grooming policy practically guarantees an unfathomable wave of terminations, with Black service members likely to face the brunt. Does the secretary know who mainly benefits from the waivers? There’s almost no way he doesn’t.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Staying up late for Kimmel #FreeSpeech #Kimmel #Disney

Be sure to stay for the part where the head of the Virginia state Republican party calls the closure of multiple rural health clinics "a win for rural communities”... www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy

404 Media reports on AAUP's "practical and actionable" guidance to academic workers, "Strategies to Protect Yourself Online in the Current Climate," cowritten by Isaac Kamola, Director of @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Access the guide here: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd

A must-read essay from Joan Scott: “We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers…and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself.” ⬇️

"What started with lawmakers weaponizing their platforms against civil servants has morphed into a statewide directive to hunt down and fire educators for opinions shared on their personal social media accounts." - @zephcapo.bsky.social www.texasaft.org/government/t...

“The value of a degree from a Texas college or university is not made by administrators and certainly not by politicians in Austin. It stems from the hard work of faculty and academic staff, and the determination and discipline of our students." Brian Evans @texasaaup.bsky.social President

@aaup.org has released several statements in defense of the right to peaceful protest and speech, and condemning the administrative policies in many universities that have made the freedom of assembly more difficult on campus: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Texas faculty, staff, and graduate students - Consider joining Texas AAUP-AFT to have the free legal guidance and protections. Link to join: connect.aft.org/app/memberfo...

Right after the Texas governor called for the professor to be fired, the president of TAMU has fired the professor and claimed it wasn’t about academic freedom. president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

New #Academe articles are out today! Check out selected articles and book reviews from the forthcoming fall issue and an article from the #Academe archives here:

Fired for teaching the curriculum the university hired them to teach. Fired for teaching what the syllabus described. Fired for teaching what every student in the class knew would be the content.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.