This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

I’d probably be fine with the robots if they gave everyone a universal basic income

Harvard AAUP fights to extend free speech protections to international students & faculty! “We look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community — and campuses across the country — from the government’s unconstitutional conduct.” - Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard

A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

I sometimes genuinely do wish people could have the experience of seeing what gets reported and taken down so they could viscerally understand what an unmoderated space on the internet looks like, because however bad you can imagine it is, the reality is far worse.

Read this thread laying out some of the astonishing emails between MAGA architect Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein across 2018 and 2019

“This is an open-ended strike… They’re going to be on strike until they win. This is a big escalation… That’s got to be kind of scary for the suits.” @sbworkersunited.org

The AAUP - UVa has accused the Board of Visitors of limiting faculty seats on the presidential search committee. The committee “is dominated by current and former members of the Board of Visitors and administrators...none of those members were selected by the faculty.” @aaupvirginia.bsky.social

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Johns Hopkins University will no longer charge tuition to undergraduate students from families making under $200,000 a year, the school announced Thursday. The university will also cover the room and board and other living expenses for students whose families make under $100,000. buff.ly/MRJcyFm

Today, I'm excited to share @capitalb.bsky.social's first strategic plan: capitalbnews.org/capitalb-202... It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Note how CPHE pushers invoke "innovation" and "efficiency" instead of substantiating their claims about the need for a new accreditor. Ultimately, this is about regulatory capture. And pleas of innocence notwithstanding, yes, it is about DeSantis. @aaup.org www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

Week 10 brings us to lung cancer and its reputation as one of “The Big Cs” in the Black community. Thank you for watching! While we build our app, please signup for the waitlist at genehouse.co and find our dictionary at dictionary.genehouse.co 💙💚

This is a great question

Same guy has a WSJ column which he has occasionally used to criticize me, personally I always find out via the hate mail that starts rolling in

Via Ralph Chapoco: The chairs of the Alabama Legislature’s education budget committees are drafting legislation that could change the funding mechanisms for higher education, potentially tying some funding to educational outcomes, like workforce placement.

AAUP TV TONIGHT AT 7 PM ET! Building a Broad Higher Ed Coalition Tune in to hear an update about current events in higher ed, a recap about our November 7th Day of Action, and a breakdown of our positive vision to transform higher education for the common good! Live on both IG and YouTube!

Solidarity is KEY to defending our communities from ICE! Caroline Luce and Chenjerai Kumanyika reflect on labor and coalitional power in Los Angeles and beyond in a recent episode of AAUP TV, “ICE and the University: Defending our Communities.” Full episode here: www.youtube.com/live/62uji3s...

The National AAUP urges the Texas A&M Board of Regents to reject the proposal & protect the reputation, integrity & ability of Texas A&M to …remain an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge & committed to safeguarding students’ rights to learn. aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...

"Faculty, students & staff will show up in ever larger numbers to defend the free pursuit of knowledge & higher-ed as a public good...administrators need to decide whether they are committed to such a vision or are collaborators in the destruction of the institutions.” - David Markus, AAUP NYU

Source: The General Strike generalstrikeus.com #GeneralStrike

@AAUP.org at UNL President Sarah Zuckerman is right. A budget is how a college shows what its priorities are - and these cuts show that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln isn't prioritizing its staff or students. www.highereddive.com/news/univers...

In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people? www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...

“In an era of automated bullshit,” Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social asks us to tell the truth! Starting with the fact that innovation often depends on exploitation… so social progress can never be taken for granted. What are we building? For whom? With whom? #MozFest

Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊ “There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University! @neatoday.bsky.social #defendacademicfreedom

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

⚡️ THERE IT IS — Trump pardons disgraced former speaker Casada and his chief of staff Cade Cothren after their federal corruption charge convictions. (More proof the law no longer applies to Republicans) www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

Urgent solidarity request! Calling on everyone to support UUP member detained by ICE!

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November

Thanks to the Editorial Board of the Austin American Statesman for this strong editorial opposing the Compact!

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The right has spent years absolutely incensed that anyone would claim their views are grounded in bigotry rather than principled commitments to liberty because they wanted to put misogyny on the front page of the New York Times with no pushback.

AAUP: IU is not MAGA University! Faculty and students speak against the Trump Compact and abuses by the IU upper administration. Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support. Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...

In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Difficult to watch what is happening to NASA Goddard. www.space.com/space-explor...

J. R. Caldwell Jr., “Black Institutions, White Interests: The Dilemma of HBCUs, Academic Freedom, and Philanthropic Capture” www.aaup.org/JAF16/black-...

Trump's illegal attack on PSLF will chill protected speech, drain talent from desperately needed jobs helping vulnerable communities, and saddle remaining workers with an insurmountable debt load. That's why we're taking him to court. www.aft.org/press-releas... @ProtectBorrowers

UNL-AAUP is fighting back against administrator raises while programs get cut. “Decisions are being made behind closed doors & without faculty input. We weren’t invited to the table. There’s no transparency in this process. We’ve been shut out at every turn…” — Sarah Zuckerman, UNL-AAUP president

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Take some Christian Nationalists, add an imaginary persecution complex to cover their true motives and voila!—war

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social