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

This question and essays like this aren't in good faith. Also if the Atlantic wants answers about what students are currently doing across the country, why doesn't it devote a special issue of their magazine to the issue and hire students to write the pieces?

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...

Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!

For our roundtable on “University Keywords,” Dan Nemser offers “revenue” and highlights four flows: 1) state appropriations; 2) tuition and housing; 3) research funding (whether public or private); and 4) distributions from endowments and gifts.

"Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, Feb. 9." @uawregion9a.bsky.social www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...

Please mark your calendars for 2/24 at 6 PM when we present "Olfactory Arts in a Warming World," a public lecture by Silke Felber, followed by a conversation among Felber, @zachsamalin.bsky.social, and moderator Brandon Woolf. More details and RSVP info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/olfactory-...

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

I’ll try to live-blog for @lawfaremedia.org the TRO/preliminary injunction hearing in MN v. Noem this morning at 10am ET/ 9am CT. MN seeks to pause, reduce, or restrict DHS’s Operation Metro Surge, citing the 10th Amendment. Relief sought is below: /1 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

“The docs indicate that.. the arrests of the students were recommended based on their involvement in campus protests and public writings, activities that the Trump administration routinely equated to antisemitic hate speech and support for terrorist organizations.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Judge Young's final "annotated order" in AAUP v. Rubio, just issued. A huge First Amendment victory. Very proud of my colleagues @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social @alexabdo.bsky.social @georgewang.bsky.social & grateful to our clients @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/documents/k4...

This is next week!

(If you don't know, the *BIG* NYC protest against ICE is Friday at 4pm in Union Square, here's the flyer, please come, and let me know if you'd like to meet up. I'll be with a 3-year-old trying to find a spot that's high-energy, high-chanting, relatively-low-noise)

I've been tracking Trump's attacks on the First Amendment -- & the broader federal govt ethos of retaliation -- all year. I've seen roughly 200 incidents of attacks on dissent & free speech, w/ particular aggression towards press, protesters, public servants: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good