Shock doctrine tactics supported by schlock data make a mockery of shared governance. UNL AAUP are fighting hard. Time for faculty at every university going through "program review" to stand with their colleagues and students being targeted. @aaup #highered www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...

This is true and important!!

Wow!

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Conversely if bunch of moderate Senate Dems like Masto, Hassan, Shaheen, Peters, Osoff et al decide to cave to Trump and Republicans after tonight with just a promise of a vote on ACA. ... Now would be the time to tell those Sen Dems - don't surrender. #NoKings www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

Feeling optimistic for Virginia colleges and universities tonight.

"the party at Mar a Lago wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-big-smirk

Soon after publishing this—and it's not ironic, it's intentional—Heritage was given near-total control over the fed gov't and filled it with unqualified malicious incompetent crooks. Any one of these imaginary enemies of his would be better in the job than all of Trump's actual appointees.

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own. Pathetic.

Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities. #defendhighered @ryanenos.bsky.social

"The first step toward encouraging debates and viewpoint diversity is to reject the mistaken notion that colleges and organizations are guilty by association with any professor who says or writes something controversial." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

Trump's FCC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air...literally a month ago today! Do they think we are stupid?

🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.

Judith Norman is a philosophy professor at Trinity University. In this interview, she shares her experience of being cleared of all allegations following two Title VI investigations into six complaints. She discusses how these policies and procedures can be weaponized to silence faculty voices.

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans. It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay We're stronger TOGETHER. #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

Hank Reichman, professor emeritus of history at Cal State, East Bay; former AAUP vice-president & chair of the AAUP Foundation, on the similarities between Trump & Ice to Ivan the Terrible & his Oprichniki. @hankreichman.bsky.social

Trump's latest plan to invade Portland (of all places) reminded me of this piece about the late civil libertarian Hans Linde at a time when the Proud Boys -- not yet officially deputized -- were running riot in that city's streets. Worth a read today. academeblog.org/2020/09/03/h...

Waste and abuse for sure. Maybe fraud as well?

Putting my Russian history training to use. #Academia #Russia

Re-upping in light of the censorious, illiberal, unconstitutional “compact” with universities announced today… #EduSky www.chronicle.com/article/inst...

"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brought to us, in part, by the eugenicists! Had so much fun in this conversation about the birth of the AAUP with @hankreichman.bsky.social, who was a great sport Everyone go join your chapter www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Government gangsters

It’s official! We’re launching the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. After years of building as a small but mighty “program,” Labor Studies has been elevated to departmental status. We’re the first but hopefully not the last of our kind in the UC system.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

In 2024, teachers earned 73 cents for every dollar their similarly educated peers made, on average—a record low. In 1996, the gap was much smaller: teachers earned 94 cents for every dollar. We need to pay teachers more! How? By investing in public education. www.epi.org/publication/...

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

“‘Solidarity’ sounds grand and heroic. In reality, it means holding hands not just with admirable men and women, but with people you don’t like. People whose preferences, miens, and prior judgments are foolish, or priggish, or worse.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“What started with lawmakers weaponizing their platforms against civil servants has morphed into a statewide directive to hunt down and fire educators for opinions shared on their personal social media accounts,” said Zeph Capo, president of Texas AFT.

“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.”

Andrew Ryder’s The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary “illustrates how reactionary campaigns against higher education are not only a response to the rise of academic capitalism but also in some ways a fulfillment of that program,” writes @hankreichman.bsky.social in a review for #Academe.

"Right now, Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“What we in academia cannot look away from & what surely needs more attention, however, are Kirk’s actions, rarely dwelt upon by commentators who seem to buy the line that his main activity involved debating opponents on campus.” — @hankreichman.bsky.social

I have some thoughts. #Academia academeblog.org/2025/09/19/t...

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"let’s be frank: Practicing politics in the face of angry people on the internet, or the idiotic spokesmen of a failing presidency, as frightening or annoying as it can be, requires somewhat less courage." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade, who advocated killing all homeless people, still has a cushy Fox job.