A university cannot be a sanctuary for knowledge while serving as an agent of the border. As long as some students can be threatened with deportation, no one's academic freedom is secure. 20/

“The AAUP stands in solidarity with Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, who last week filed a lawsuit against Northwestern and against partisan government actors” www.aaup.org/news/northwe...

When we fight, we win! 6741 member Dan Greene has seen the incredible power of organizing in action, and you can too. Visit our website today to join, and stay tuned for organizing resources and trainings to help you get started! @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social @dmgreene.bsky.social @aft.org

✅ RESOLUTION PASSED: Supporting Pre-Contract Unionism in Higher Ed "The AFT will affirm its commitment to pre-contract unionism in higher ed and marshal its organizing power to help non-collective bargaining members..." www.aft.org/resolution/s...

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

@hammerandhope.bsky.social More 🔥🔥🔥in the brand new issue of Hammer and Hope hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

“This is essentially legislatively directed hiring at a university. It’s basically setting up political loyalty for tenure.”

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

Hakeem Jeffries is about to join the DSA

do I keep or finally delete my folder of screenshots of dan goldman retweeting canary mission?

We're hiring! The Knight Institute is looking for a litigator to join us for a two-year position fighting for free speech in the digital age. knightcolumbia.org/page/staff_a...

“If this kind of austerity can happen at The News School, it can happen everywhere. Faculty all over the country need to be on guard. We need strong labor unions.” — Jeremy Varon, New School AAUP President on @democracynow.org today. 👊🏾👊🏿👊🏼 @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Trump cursed the joint and Wu-Tang cleansed it.

This letter to the New School details the crisis for full-time faculty and our demands, which include reinstatement or “step-down” (a phased retirement process); and that the criteria for termination, institutional need, & financial impact be made publicly available docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Friends! The rally last night was incredible. Check out Greg’s gorgeous photos. There’s this feeling in the air like…maybe the Knicks AND the AIM coalition might win. Could you help us get to 1000 followers here and 4000 signatures on the petition today? linktr.ee/aim_coalitio...

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

I finally started my substack back up! This post includes a draft project proposal for my new research project on character AI. I would LOVE feedback! Please comment and share, I want to build my subscriber base back up after a 2 year medical hiatus.🌈🎓 #AI #feministsky #leftist

As the Trump regime relentlessly targets peaceful protestors for arrest, violence, and deportation, the City should be defending our speech rights - not stifling them. @mayor.nyc.gov: veto these bills.

Why full-time faculty need to unionize now! www.newschoolfreepress.com/2026/04/17/w...

Fifteen home health aides started a hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly immigrant women working in the industry and patients who rely on round-the-clock care. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/h...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵

Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

This song is a thing of beauty, but what is happening at TNS is a fucking tragedy. The little indignities of faux austerity pile up year after year until suddenly the whole school is underwater. Solidarity forever w TNS students faculty and staff and @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

This song is a thing of beauty, but what is happening at TNS is a fucking tragedy. The little indignities of faux austerity pile up year after year until suddenly the whole school is underwater. Solidarity forever w TNS students faculty and staff and @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Stop this vote planned for today. Call and email NOW if you can. youtube.com/shorts/iDZjz...

NYC Council sent out a press alert that they’ll be voting on their buffer bills tomorrow. Announcement makes clear these bills are specifically taking aim at protests against illegal land sale events at synagogues. Language also curiously seems to pitch the bills as a sort of punishment on NYPD.

my badass CFU-UAW colleagues at NYU were on strike for less than 48 hours and won the contract they'd been fighting for (for the previous 16+ months)--in case anyone needed clearer evidence that unions work

At the rally, PSC members delivered 5000 letters demanding reinstatement of the Fired Fourth to @cuny.edu Execs. The letters were also sent to @brooklyncollege.bsky.social President Anderson, Provost Bedford, @cunychancellor.bsky.social Félix Matos Rodríguez & Board Chairperson William Thompson

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

NYC! Don't let the chancellor and DOE impose this careless and under-informed "AI guidance" on our city's schools. See below & spread the word 👇

It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.” —Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!

CFU IS ON STRIKE! The AAUP is standing with Contract Faculty United - UAW 7902 on the picket line today. CFU is on strike to fight for a fair contract. Faculty at NYU deserve fair wages and dignity. New York is a union town!

AAUP President Todd Wolfson joined striking non-tenure faculty at NYU today. The AAUP stands in solidarity to CFU-UAW!!! #FairContractNow

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more. Read here: hammerandhope.org

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services. Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26. Details here:

I was in conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi and the Equator's Jonathan Shainin about the US-Israeli war on Iran. We cover a lot in the one hour discussion

This is what solidarity looks like. @psc-cuny.org stands shoulder to shoulder with St. John’s University in their fight to maintain faculty union representation and collective bargaining rights on campus.

"I'm just tremendously disappointed in the university's response. We're ready to get back to bargaining. That's what our goal has been, to get a good, fair contract. We do it to make the university stronger." —Fred Cocozzelli, St. John's University AAUP President

New issue of the @lrb.co.uk has my piece on “Thought Control”—Trump’s censorial effort to deport pro-Palestinian protesters, disinformation researchers, fact-checkers, and anyone whom Marco Rubio thinks has a “hostile attitude” towards the United States. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

90% of NYU’s contract faculty (full-time faculty who are not on a tenure-line) voted to authorize a strike — after trying to negotiate a first contract with the NYU administration for more than a year. They’re represented by Contract Faculty United-UAW

"organizing with others in your same condition generates a lot of the goods we’re alienated from in our competitive society. the connection you have to others, the nonalienated ways of relating, it’s something I didn’t count on because I’ve never been in a union before." jacobin.com/2026/02/nyu-...

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/...

Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org brief asking the Eleventh Circuit to reverse Judge Cannon and release Jack Smith’s Mar-Lago report. knightcolumbia.org/documents/v4...