Tonight at 7p et @chenjerai.bsky.social and I are doing @aaup.org TV to discuss building a broad and militant coalition fighting for the future of higher education. Join us!

Everyone should be out in the streets until this is resolved

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What’s so painful about the attacks from the Jewish community on Zohran Mamdani in NYC—beyond the naked Islamophobia—is how they betray our own history. 1/4

Congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the grassroots movement of supporters for an inspiring, historic campaign. Working people in NYC rejected Cuomo/Trump/Musk to support someone they know will make this city we call home a safer, more affordable place for all families to thrive.

Best political news in a very, very long time.

I've been a member of @aaup.org for years, and I couldn't be more pleased, now that we've affiliated with @texasaft.org, to say I'm a union member too.

I'm glad to see our organizing with @AAUP.org is giving more colleges the courage to stand up to the Trump administration. Trump's offer to give preferential treatment to colleges in exchange for allegiance to his ideological agenda is entirely corrupt. www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

If they are not paying SNAP benefits, and they won’t give people healthcare, and they are giving Elon Musk and his ilk tax breaks then riddle me this: WHY SHOULD I PAY TAXES?

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Faculty, students & staff are joining together to defend & advance higher education on 11/7. Plan your action & register it here: docs.google.com/.../1bhu9QLt.... This event is in collaboration with studentsriseup.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aft.org

Man they are really scared of poor people having affordable access to food and transportation.

WE HEARD YOU! After some serious brainstorming, we will be launching an initiative that addresses these problems by looping in support from Blue districts to help build out activist hubs in target red districts. So, go follow @standupforscience.bsky.social and stay tuned!

Join us in the fight

TONIGHT! Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution. 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT Live on both IG & YouTube. Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

We say: NO

This clown, Marc Rowan, is the one that wrote the failed Trump loyalty oaths for higher ed with May Mailman. Listen to him talking about his leadership role at University of Pennsylvania. What a disgrace! @aaup.org

And University of Arizona rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. 7 down and 2 to go!! @aaup.org When we fight, we win!

Together we will defeat the drumbeat of fascism and rebuild a multiracial democracy that centers economic equality for all! @aaup.org @aft.org

Academic Frogs Unite

NO KINGS

“By declining to compromise its core mission, Brown has affirmed that no amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore & dissent.“ — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #defendhighered

UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!! First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️ cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

USC rejects Trump’s Loyalty OATH. Four down, five to go! www.latimes.com/california/s...

AFT 🤝 @aaup.org Organizing to protect higher ed

And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students! @aaup.org

And now Brown University has rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. Two down and seven to go! @aaup.org @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Stand up for higher education in #Colorado. Visit the #AAUP-CSU tent at the #FortCollins #NoKings Rally on October 18 to get involved. Join our efforts to Protect Free Speech and Defend Higher Education. We need help to make signs and pass out flyers. Visit aaupcsu.org/2025/10/08/h... to sign up.

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for." #noloyaltyoaths #academicfreedom

Today, @ofnhp.bsky.social members went on strike after Kaiser’s refusal to agree to a contract that addresses concerns about proposals that would weaken care, shortchange staffing and drive skilled healthcare workers away. Stand with Kaiser caregivers using this toolkit ⬇️ ofnhp.aft.org/we-are-kaiser

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Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth. @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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The @chronicle.com and Len Gutkin are straight TRASH. Gutkin never once mentioned @aaup.org v Rubio or AAUP Harvard case or our 25% membership growth or our campaign to defend higher ed. But they traffic in this childish hit piece & cite “Campus Reform”. Pathetic! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

As a reminder: the Nazis ruthlessly targeted union leaders as well as leaders of the Social Democratic and Communist Party with imprisonment and murder. They claimed they were domestic terrorists, and used pretenses like the Reichstag Fire, to mobilize the police. Sound familiar?

“Mr. Rowan, who is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone — are helping shape seismic discussions related to the Trump administration’s campaign to upend American campuses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Check out me & @chenjerai.bsky.social & Lorena Grundy of @aaup-penn.bsky.social break down the new Trump compact for higher ed…. Otherwise known as loyalty oaths. This is AAUP TV. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

Trump's offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that this govt favors in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda stinks of favoritism,patronage & bribery.  It is entirely corrupt. @ProfTWolf.bsky.social @AAUP.org 🧵 www.aft.org/press-releas...

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"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

Mussolini also demanded loyalty oaths from his universities and faculty. It is time to WAKE UP! www.clickondetroit.com/news/politic...