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“The data indicates that 74.2% of North Carolina’s 143,998 private school students received an Opportunity Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year.” We’re living through the resegregation of US education. Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.

It's award season at NYU Press! We're taking a moment to celebrate all the recognition our authors and books have been receiving! Find out more on: buff.ly/vsapVze

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.

In a few years, will we read the same article about AI’s impacts on education? If AI is used to supplant kids’ social interactions, kids’ well-being will take a major hit.

The article ends with a list of very concrete, small steps scientists can take in everyday life to resist censorship

Congrats Caddie!! This looks great!

UNCW AAUP President Todd Berliner: “We don’t want politics and politicians interfering in the free exchange of knowledge in higher education — we don’t want politics and politicians deciding what programs universities have and what they teach.” Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect as some A.I. companies coach young adults on how to get away with it. Inside a new arms race: "humanizers" and "autotypers" face off against AI detectors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!

Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!

Nearly 1,000 non-tenured faculty at NYU walked off the job for two days this spring. Peter Cole reports that they returned with a strong first contract: minimum $14,000 raises, annual increases and long-term employment guarantees.

"Inclined" is doing so much work here

New reporting from @sanjosespotlight.com confirms ICE is building a detention camp in Gilroy, CA. A trusted source within the DHS contracting world told us that ICE is eying similar “greenfield” projects in the Southwest as the warehouse plan falters. We’re adding this to the tracker.

Read all of this @sifill.bsky.social post. But this point seems to me especially important. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

"How have I accomplished this? For starters, I spend sixteen hours a day live-streaming my gym routine while simultaneously giving betting advice on overseas cockfights and state-sanctioned executions."

📢 Dr. Teresa Klein, President-Elect of Texas AAUP-AFT: “Our students understand that having academic freedom is the difference between a complete education that prepares them for long-term careers + civic engagement, and a state-sanctioned spoon-feeding...” 👏 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/stude...

There is not one organic Success Story among them, unless you count Rogan, who isn't really a pure product of the right-wing ecosystem but simply slotted himself into it because he's a meatheaded reactionary. It's all a money pit. Look at what the people putting up the money have gotten for it.

The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.

84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school

$900 million to pay companies to not do wind energy and $400 million for the ballroom, that’s $1.3 billion or ~1,300 3 to 4-year NSF awards.

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

How to Build Power through a General Strike (and why #MayDayStrong is important even if it doesn't have a visible aggregate effect on the economic system in the US on May Day): danarfisher.com/2026/04/26/h...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

fun fact: it's common these days, post publication of James Q. Whitman's oft-cited work, that the Nazis modeled their regime in part off of the example of the US. but the first half of Whitman's "Hitler's American Model" focuses on the US as a “global leader in racist immigration law”

Is NBC really the only major news outlet covering this overtly anti-Muslim (and eugenicist) rhetoric from Trump and his Congressional cronies? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Professors do not indoctrinate students in class but teach them how to think critically and openly. In the wake of SB 37, University of Houston has introduced syllabi "checklists" and "certifications" to prevent so-called indoctrination in the classroom. This clearly threatens academic freedom.

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

This Wednesday, 2/25 at 3 PM Eastern/noon Pacific! I'll be talking to the brilliant Cecilia Menjívar, of UCLA, about the gender and immigration policy and the impact of ICE enforcement on immigrant women and their families. Join us! stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

ncnewsline.com/2026/02/09/p... A good 15 interview on where we are at in North Carolina with higher ed

Check out our book event this if you are in Wilmington this Friday! @profmarycollier.bsky.social and I will be discussing connections between our new books!

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Resistance by governor in Pennsylvania 👇

Democrats embraced *public school choice* Also no panacea & plenty of problems but there is public accountability. FWIW: as an expert on AI slop (along w all other profs & teachers), I’d bet some plasma this was written w ChatGPT. Fitting, because the evidence cited herein is of the same merit.

Check out our book event this if you are in Wilmington this Friday! @profmarycollier.bsky.social and I will be discussing connections between our new books!

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.

Just to underscore: Trans people, we aren't "issues". Me, I'm not an "ideology". I'm a human, like anyone else. The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.

Remember *two weeks ago* when Duke Energy told us their system was incapable of handling the load from a snow storm? Today: $5 billion in profits for Duke Energy, higher bills for you and me, and what does this state have to show in terms of energy resiliency? #ncpol www.wral.com/news/local/d...

Highly recommended interview if one is in need of joy, inspiration and loving embrace to the value of the arts. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Physical copies just arrived!