"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

"Many colleges now make policies, syllabi...with an eye on what congressional committees may think...I warn you gentlemen, there are some shocking things in Plato and the Bible." -- Prof. Oscar Schaftel (Queens College), 1952, before the McCarran Committee

When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.

Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches! Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top! To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns

AAUP-TNS explains how the New School is vanguard in its approach to cuts, but its a model that will be rolled out elsewhere. Our fight is your fight! Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it. Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns

Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social! Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.  I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.

Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity. In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.

Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs

This year, I set out to chronicle free speech under the Trump admin. No small feat. Trump attacks dissent & leverages the White House to go after critics constantly. But how? Read our bombshell new @freepress.bsky.social report. I'm proud & horrified: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

anatomy of a smear campaign gone bad. a 🧵about what happened when #MA @aaup.org chapters organized against a pressure campaign designed to smear & shut down a @bostonu.bsky.social webinar on antisemitism. 1/5

everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

B’Tselem presents: Our Genocide Thursday, November 20, 2025 4:30-6pm Silver Center, Room 300 31 Washington Place B'Tselem will come to NYU to engage in a critical conversation about its new report & its implications.

🎷Get up and get down for higher ed 🎷 Our coalition rejects the compact! We believe that higher education should be free from partisan interference and billionaire influence including that of Marc Rowan, who spearheaded Trump’s dangerous loyalty oath compact! @aft.org

Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

if Mamdani PR is listening I humbly request a victory speech cut to Mobb Deep

The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.

Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by the Chambers Street subway station.

I've lived my whole life in NYC + Chicago. As far back as I can remember, I've only ever detested, loathed, despised, abhorred, cursed, reviled or been outright horrified by the mayor. not sure I'm ready for this strange new chapter. what will I even call these unsettling feelings of admiration?

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

“All across NYU, students and colleagues have been undeterred in their organizing. NYU leadership should follow the example of their courage and tell the Trump administration and grifters like Rowan to keep their hands off higher education.” — @zachsamalin.bsky.social, NYU AAUP #DefendHigherEd

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies." www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

Libraries are where kids & adults go to learn, socialize & connect. Now more than ever we need to invest in our public institutions. They are an essential good — the literal stuff of democracy. New Yorkers, please write & demand this budget increase! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

I'm excited to share that our first on the record official YES to our demand is Council Member Lynn Schulman of District 29!!!! If Council Member Schulman is your representative, please thank her for supporting our public libraries. nycplan.org/scorecards/l...

Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc

Master Plan Step 1. Arrive Step 2. Steal jewels

U of Arizona says NO to the Compact: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.