www.chronicle.com/article/a-cl... The Chronicle of Higher Education offers some background on the academic freedom crisis at Texas A&M. Note that by the end of yesterday the professor was fired, raising due process as well as academic freedom concerns.

Team Adams really putting the “utz” back in “putz”

📢 if you're someone who is pursuing PSLF or just someone who thinks it's important, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE participate in the notice & comment process to at least delay the horrific changes the DOE is trying to implement (including an ideological screen) www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED...

"critics call it extortion" gee thanks @nytimes.com pls let us know when you find out what's going on

@knightcolumbia.org has filed an almost-200-page brief describing evidence presented during trial in our AAUP v. Rubio case challenging the Trump admin’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen faculty & students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/content/post...

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

💥IN DEFENSE OF CUNY LAW PROF RAMZI KASSEM💥 We REJECT Rep. Elise Stefanik's baseless attacks! "Any discipline against Kassem for his representation of Mr. Khalil would violate AAUP standards on academic freedom & tenure & the terms of CUNY’s faculty labor contract." Read the full letter here⬇️

Recent law grads — we're now hiring for legal fellows to begin in Fall 2025. Our First Amendment rights are under daily assault. I hope you'll consider applying to work with us at @knightcolumbia.org to push back. knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

A school that voluntarily does this to its own students is practicing authoritarianism, not "capitulating" to it

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

In Boston, the most consequential and far-reaching trial of the second Trump Presidency has been set in motion: A.A.U.P. v. Rubio, which challenges the Administration’s systematic campaign to arrest, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.

Must read www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Today:

At the AAUP/AFT 2025 Summer Institute, we are developing the tools we need to help build a movement to truly realize our vision for higher education & democracy. #organizefightwin @afthighered.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social

This was truly bonkers: the State Dept official who signed off on the abductions of Öztürk, Khalil et al testified today that *ANY* criticism of Israel is potential grounds for visa revocation. Wtaf?!

Testimony in #AAUPvRubio today offered another disturbingly clear view of the inner bureaucracy of our fascist immigration apparatus: ICE agents offering matter-of-fact descriptions of their ideological targeting of students like Rümeysa Öztürk for Palestine advoacy www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

BREAKING: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team — referred to internally as the “Tiger Team” — rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."

Shai Davidai posted that Columbia closed an investigation into him today and issued no findings of wrongdoing. Per Columbia policy, the school can close investigations when an individual no longer works there. Davidai decided to leave Columbia, per email today theintercept.com/2025/07/09/p...

This ICE official’s testimony in AAUP v Rubio today, detailing ICE/Canary Mission collaboration, was wild. Def recommend reading the transcript once @knightcolumbia.org posts it knightcolumbia.org/content/dhs-...

Below are highlights from Day 3 of our AAUP v. Rubio trial before Judge Young in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation. knightcolumbia.org/content/dhs-...

The revelation comes per Knight Institute, highlighting testimony from Day 3 of the AAUP v. Rubio trial. Huge news confirming that the Trump administration has welcomed the help of the anti-free speech doxxing group Canary Mission to target students.

Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family. I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...

"Ideological Deportation": AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students

We entrust our city's future to the nearly 200,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors and more of the UFT. Now more than ever, they need a mayor who recognizes their value and has their backs. I am honored to earn their endorsement.

🚨 HUGE: The largest teachers union in the U.S. just dropped the ADL. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.” Read more: mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

Perfection. Find more here: mamdanitimes.com

“If some of us are not free to speak out, our whole university breaks.” —Zachery Samalin, Vice-President of the NYU-AAUP chapter, on why his chapter joined the lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt the arrests & deportations of international students who speak out on Palestine.

TOMORROW: A federal district court in Boston will consider whether the arrests & deportations of students & faculty for peaceful pro-Palestinian speech are consistent with the 1st amendment. How the court answers this could determine the future of American higher education for generations.

On Monday, July 7, our lawsuit (AAUP v. Rubio) challenging the Trump admin policy of arresting & deporting students & faculty for legally protected speech goes to trial at 9AM. @knightcolumbia.org @mesa1966.bsky.social 🧵

Follow @thecity.nyc. We relentlessly investigate people in power & when we have the goods on them, whatever their political position, we hit publish. What we don't do: Publish crap.

Support local coverage of NYC that actually has some fucking standards: hellgatenyc.com/membership

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📌MEDIA ADVISORY: Calling all members of the press interested in tuning in to tomorrow's final pretrial hearing in AAUP v. Rubio, our lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's ideological deportation policy on U.S. campuses. 6/26 at 11:30am ET. Register here: forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-sign...

Truly do not care what Trump and his fascist minions think of Zohran nor should any other anti-fascists.

Is it even politics if it’s not catastrophically disappointing

Young New Yorkers of every class, race and gender. This is truly your time. Come out tomorrow like you never have before and you'll have a much better shot of a future in this city if it's not run by Cuomo. You are needed to counter what Gen X and older are going to do.

Wait, I'm hearing that termites have endorsed Cuomo.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

Extremely bizarre exchange between Reps. Nadler + Goldman and the ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, where Joyce conceded immigrants held there sometimes spent multiple nights on the floors or on benches on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY

Dig! @astra.bsky.social interviews @ryannliebenthal.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @millennialdebt.bsky.social on Ryann's Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. How we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. thedigradio.com/podcast/stud...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.