"The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched, or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry." - AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.” “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’. — Judge William G. Young #AAUPvRubio

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

“What’s so striking here...is that this is allegedly all about antisemitism, & almost nothing in the demand letter is actually about addressing antisemitism nor does it even reference or discuss all the things that universities have done to address alleged antisemitism.”

The #Ohio Democrats' proposed maps are very impressive They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES! We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹 Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...

VICTORY: The City of Chicago, represented by Everytown Law and co-counsel, will proceed to discovery in its case against Glock. Glock has been selling pistols that are especially easy to convert into illegal machine guns for decades. This is a major step forward in holding Glock accountable.

Ohio State University must permit students to think critically, speak boldly, and dissent without fear of expulsion, even if the viewpoints expressed are offensive to the Trump administration, or to the sensibilities of the majority. See you in court. abc6onyourside.com/news/local/a...

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

Today, VP Vance told Americans to get their neighbors fired for speaking negatively about #CharlieKirk The government can't (yet) arrest you for #FreeSpeech, so they're pressuring your employers & neighbors to punish you instead Their goal is to create a culture where we're afraid to speak freely

Here’s the question for Ohio: 👉 Why haven’t Mike Carey, Mike Turner, or Warren Davidson signed the petition yet? If they believe in transparency and accountability, there should be nothing stopping them from joining.

If you are fired or punished for expressing your opinion:

You need to know what might be coming. Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

“41 states allow permitless open carry, and nearly 30 allow permitless concealed carry. This trajectory leads to a society where firearms could be everywhere, and where neither officers nor ordinary citizens can tell the difference between a law-abiding gun owner and the next shooter.”- Nick Suplina

"President Walsh should reconsider and reverse course, reinstate the campus leaders he sidelined, and reassure all faculty that their ability to teach will not be sacrificed to political whims." #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

I know there’s a lot going on but just days ago our government dropped a bomb on a boat killing everyone on board. They said a whole lot of stuff about why they did it without producing any evidence. And now no one is talking about it. That’s messed up. We can’t let them sweep this under the rug.

We have failed our children.

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, echoing the position of his organization, said guns should not be permitted on college campuses. It impedes efforts to have productive discussions on important & controversial issues when “somebody’s got a weapon on their hip,” he said.

"It is appalling that a university professor, her dean, & her department chair have been removed from their positions based on viral video clips & an online outrage machine stirred by state politicians & the governor himself."

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

Our colleague and AAUP-OSU member Elissa Washuta, director of American Indian Studies, spoke to WOSU about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements and why it has a “chilling” effect on our teaching. Link to article follows.

ICE is a very poorly regulated militia using guns to terrorize people in service to government tyranny. SCOTUS refusing to recognize that is beyond infuriating.

Authors - perhaps a tiny amount of justice is to be had, and hopefully more in the future. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC

Shoutout to all the glamorous @studentsdemand.bsky.social groups recruiting new volunteers during club fairs and back-to-school tabling events across the country. Keep it up, y’all! 💪🏾

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…

= 1 year of NEH funding, but we guess money magically conjures itself with this administration.

“AI has softened the consequences of procrastination and led many students to avoid doing any work at all. As a consequence, these programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students.“ The increasing disconnection between students is indeed jarring. They barely talk to each other!

This is all dangerous political theater. The Trump administration's manufactured emergency is meant to create chaos and scare us into silence, but we won't let them intimidate us. Tell @govmikedewine.bsky.social to bring Ohio's National Guard troops home: action.aclu.org/send-message...

It’s unconscionable, it’s illegal, and it must stop. I spoke at the Aug 30 Dayton-Cincinnati Rally supporting federal employees at the VA. It was a great privilege to stand in solidarity with all of the veterans’ administration, hospital, veterans’ clinics healthcare and medical workers —

It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!

GOP US Reps Carey and Davidson voted Yes to do this.

We don't have to live like this.

The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the school’s church—killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.

It's hard to wrap our head around this. The cuts to staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities are only a tiny % of federal jobs lost, but we, #IMLS, & #NEA did the bulk of the work of funding the #arts & the #humanities across the U.S. Where are we now? How does this get fixed? 😔 #NEH

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

“Historically the best & brightest in the world came to the US to study. Now under Trump’s destructive policies, the best & brightest are fleeing the country. We need to reverse course & reclaim the values that made this country a beacon of research & free inquiry.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

“Our National Guard families and our soldiers deserve better, and all of the veterans on that veterans’ wall around the corner. We damage their reputation when we act in an immoral, unlawful and unethical way. This is simply political street theater.” www.statenews.org/government-p...

"Hispanic businesses in Connecticut see decline in foot traffic: Where have all the customers gone? Over a dozen Hispanic businesses told NBC Connecticut Investigates foot traffic has plummeted."

I won’t fly an airline that profits from deportation flights and human rights abuses—and believe me, living in New Haven, I would love to fly out of Tweed and would be a frequent client otherwise. Yale must end its partnership with Avelo, too.

Using the Ohio National Guard in a partisan political stunt is reprehensible. The Governor needs to call soldiers back immediately.

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact. futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

Sending Ohio National Guard troops to support President Trump’s abuse of power and sow fear in D.C. communities is unnecessary, inflammatory, and a serious misuse of our state’s Guard members. We condemn this action by @govmikedewine.bsky.social. www.fox19.com/2025/08/17/g...

Postdoc Opportunity! The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context. networks.h-net.org/jobs/68969/u...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

10TV also reported on the chalking ban. Pranav Jani, representing AAUP-OSU, explains: “We have to fight for every inch of free speech — it’s like a muscle, you use it or you lose it. If we give up our paths for free expression, then we will actually lose those paths.”

"Without these institutes, we lose a key resource that sustains democratic understanding in American education. People who care about protecting democracy need to make sure that what #NEH used to do to help teachers acquire skills in democratic pedagogy is not lost." - Austin Sarat & Roy Blumenfeld

Researchers in Florida (and nationwide) face significant disruption and uncertainty due to millions stripped from universities by the Trump administration. “When you try to control what experts in scientific fields are researching, then you undermine the entire scientific enterprise.”

Trump’s economics and second trade war are making this a terrible time to be a farmer. We have to do more than take selfies at county fairs to reverse this. Crop prices are down as traditional export customers shift to more reliable partners, and the costs of inputs, including machinery, fuel,