The Trump admin's appeal of AAUP Harvard v. DOJ is "just a continuation of their shameless campaign to halt critical research funding in an attempt to chill universities & faculty from engaging in any speech, teaching & research that Donald Trump disfavors.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

The Daily Northwestern reports on @gowder.io & my legal concerns over NWern's "deal" w Trump admin. And take note, Bari Weiss: the intrepid student journalists sought comment from the U & the Trump admin. but did NOT spike the story when neither responded. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/21/c...

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

ICE whistles work.

Just thinking about this thread again for no reason

One thing re: bans on gender-affirming care is that for all the hand-wringing about procedural expense, capacity, and physical safety, these bans explicitly allow and encourage similar procedures to be used without consent on intersex kids. We wrote about this: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism. We are going to have to scale up our organizing to build with other sectors, all under attack in different ways. We need to make militant moves if we’re going to win in this moment." — Todd Wolfson

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

guys is it happening?? www.mediaite.com/politics/two...

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

For Academics: we really, really, really, really, REALLY need to stop requiring travel for career advancement and come up with alternatives to conferences because if we don't, we're pretty much damning international folks in pretty much any capacity. Like, this is BAD.

@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.

Had a great time talking to Maggie Penman about new research on lifespan brain development led by @alexamousley.bsky.social in @duncanastle.bsky.social's group. This is a great summary of the study and a broader discussion of what brain research can teach us about important developmental phases.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto by Steven W. Thrasher cover art by Jamaal Barber Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

NEW: We sent a letter demanding that ICE end immigration detention at Fort Bliss, the same facility used to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II. People detained at this facility are denied adequate food, medical care, and are physically and sexually abused by the guards.

The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow. We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?

Higher ed workers at the University of Virginia demand: Democratize the campus! Out with the Rector and Vice Rector! In with student, faculty, and staff power! Collective bargaining and a living wage NOW!

I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.

Important for people to know the $75 mil payout from Northwestern to the government didn't turn on canceled grants that broaden participation in stem, physics, promote diversity etc... what this communicates about uni priorities is clear: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...

The awfulness of the northwestern/Trump deal, described on NPR yesterday will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Our regular contributor @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy is also an alumnus of Northwestern. They wrote about their anger and disappointment after Northwestern caved on trans rights to secure federal funding from the Trump admin.

ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Members at Northwestern fighting back!

Professors have launched a Political Action Committee! We are going to fight for the legislation that all faculty, students, staff, and higher ed workers deserve. A new future for higher education is possible. Join us in the fight!

Boom! We have to start to fight in the political arena...or we will be destroyed by it.

Yes, Northwestern and @medillschool.bsky.social, go hide in shame. You realize that no one will want to give you money to turn around and give it to Donald Trump. My alma mater is dead to me.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers! gothamist.com/news/starbuc...

It is incredibly strange that these schools seem to factor in zero reputational, enrollment, or recruitment damage to their “settling with Trump” equation, when clearly there’s a major hit to all three.

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Fixed it “Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as extortion.”

"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community." Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.

This is an incredibly invasive settlement — similar in several parts to the Columbia settlement. It is signed by Northwestern University interim president Henry Bienen. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Any person who claims to be an academic leader and signs a document like this is neither.

Paragraphs 21-26 are incredibly invasive diversity-related changes.