My friend drew a thing and it’s beautiful!

At least 24 staff members, with a wealth of expertise and institutional memory and whose jobs primarily exist to support the undergraduate teaching mission of the university, have been laid off. Why?

Everyone deserves shelter, food, water & healthcare. Even the people you don’t like. Even the people you feel made “bad lifestyle choices” Even the people who you don’t think “contribute enough” Every person should have their basic needs met This shouldn’t be controversial.

Who is on the board right now for the American Studies Association? Doesn’t ASA often use Hilton brands for their conference hotels? Hope they speak up!

people offended by $600 shoes are going to be in for a surprise when trump eventually reshores US manufacturing

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

💔This is a heartbreaking story. We support our students, whatever their identities, and we deplore the political environment that is making their experience in Texas public universities so painful—while also harming the learning environment for everyone. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/t...

The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands.

I honestly wonder what's wrong with people that don't believe everyone deserves access to healthcare. Like what is broken in you that you don't see other people as human beings?

MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏

Professor Karma Chávez of @utaustinaaup.bsky.social explaining how the abolishment of faculty senates in Texas strips away democracy & any notion of shared governance in TX higher education. #defendhighered

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... Great opinion piece from UT Austin faculty member Lisa Moore. 👏🏽👏🏽

“LGBTQ+ history has reshaped how historians understand American citizenship, the Cold War and the civil rights movement, among many subjects. Officials may succeed in driving LGBTQ+ history out of Texas’s public universities — but they will not erase the past. LGBTQ+ history belongs to all of us.”

Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine. In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.

Academic freedom means that a course that teaches students to critique settler colonialism can be taught alongside one that teaches students to maximize shareholder value. Both are "biased" in their framing. Only one is currently at risk of being cancelled by state and/or institutional actors.

Healthcare should be a basic human right. People shouldn’t have to fear bankruptcy for needing the ER. They shouldn’t end up homeless because they became ill. They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to get Medicaid. For profit medicine is cruel & punitive. Universal healthcare saves lives

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Showed up for my COVID vax appt today and got turned away. I answered the health risk questions honestly (not medically high risk, a caretaker for a child who is). Not surprised, but surprised how angry I am. How are people getting this vaccine? Are they accurately reporting their health status?

Join us for an evening with Mimi Khúc, who is, in her own words, "a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell," as she discusses her 2024 publication, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. RSVP: bit.ly/4nm6YgZ @slothprof.bsky.social @vjohsu.bsky.social @professorjulie.bsky.social

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

A delighted reminder that if you don't want people celebrating your death, don't be a huge piece of shit.

If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

Bookseller input: Edelweiss (industry site for catalog listings) shows that the publication was canceled Ingram's iPage (biggest wholesaler in the country) has it available POD @jasonkincade.bsky.social heads up

Since my life is really boring (hello *massive* fibro flare) it’s somewhat exciting to have a hardcopy of a book that apparently doesn’t exist.

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

Read the whole thread, because this is wild. A book from an academic press that was cancelled and never printed by the press has been found being sold in multiple locations--and not as a print on demand version.

I don’t think it should be called doom scrolling but toxic positivity scrolling. I’m not refreshing my news apps looking for doom; I’m trying to find the tiniest shreds of hope.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio." Neil Young Remembering: Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19 4 May 1970

That’s right, folks. 👏👏 We CAN stop SB 37 in the House. Now is the time to step up our activism not surrender! 👊👊👊 Contact your representative, reach out the the House Higher Ed Committee members and let them know how bad this bill would be for #HigherEd in Texas! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/sb-37...

Movements succeed when they have mass participation—the safer it feels for people to participate, the more likely it is the movement will succeed. Protests are helpful because they show safety in numbers. If the protests aren’t safe, people won’t show up or do other actions (like strike).

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

“Neri José Alvarado Borges … also had tattoos that relatives suspect may have led to him being ​wrongly identified as a criminal. One … features the name of his younger brother, Neryelson, who is autistic, and the rainbow-colored​ ribbon of the autism acceptance movement.”

I’m in so many groupchats and not one of them has leaked our war plans.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Who are the five writers that made you? James Baldwin Dorothy Allison Sandra Cisneros Arundhati Roy Gioconda Belli

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...

i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

Anyone who tells you “we need to run government like a business” is secretly calculating how much your organs will sell for after they repossess your house

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.