An Outlier in Irish Politics Has Become the Country’s President www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/w...

Looking forward to this on December 5 !

We at @gihnyu.bsky.social are hiring! uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/14767/c...

apnews.com/article/andr... Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

It’s now incumbent on all members of university communities to understand how the funding for institutions of higher ed works. This interview offers some insight into how complex these issues are and some strategies for protecting academic freedoms.

We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

@barackobama.bsky.social calls on universities to remember that academic freedom might be a little more important than new wings and gymnasiums. 🩵 youtu.be/J48l41l94HQ

Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.

Happy pub day to @forestissacj.bsky.social, whose new book GOOD TROUBLE tells the story of how the movement for Catholic civil rights in Northern Ireland was inspired and influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

More good news today.

I’m struck by criticisms of @booker.senate.gov ’s record-breaking speech that it still isn’t “doing anything.” This cynicism, while justified, feels misdirected. I read the intention of the speech as a disruption and an acknowledgement that the Democratic Party is broken and has work to do. (1/3)

Also? Really classy and thoughtful to thank the pages, door openers, and other staff.

One thing about me is that I love a Democratic filibuster.

1 AM #Filibuster Cory Booker: “You cannot lead the people, if you don’t love the people.” @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

this will be excellent!

This is also true for womens/gender studies programs and student spaces like LGBTQ+ resource centers which arrived via not just scholarship but mass movements. While many programs and centers feel institutionalized now, attacks need to be historicized as attacks on the movements that birthed them.

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Foreign students pay full tuition so that universities can give financial aid to students from the US.

This is some dystopian capitalism.

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

The assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government & Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution. uaw.org/in-shocking-...

Had the privilege of listening to @markhennessy.bsky.social speak today at @gihnyu.bsky.social about Common Ground from the @irishtimes.com. The project is an impressive display of journalism on an immensely complex topic, and I’m looking forward to reading more. www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/

Imagine having this kind of entitlement.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Not to be missed on April 18th at @umasspress.bsky.social

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh, a chairde.

I buy nearly everything Tramp publishes because they are my jam.

Striking that in Roald Dahl's open letter on the dangers of measles, he celebrates the American approach to measles immunisation and warns British parents that they are risking their children's lives and health. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...

#OtD 12 Mar 1912 the Bread and Roses strike won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. More on the strike: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-wo...

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train. Out April Celebrating the journey continue on #internationalwomensday2025

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

I spoke with Levin Kim, President of @higheredlabor.bsky.social and Todd Wolfson, President of @aaup.bsky.social about the chaos in higher education and research caused by the Trump Administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A federal judge reinstated Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that President Trump’s attempt to fire her was unlawful.

@kevinkenny.bsky.social and I were delighted to be joined by 200 distinguished guests at Glucksman Ireland House Gala including NYU President Linda Mills, Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, and Consul General Helena Nolan. @gihnyu.bsky.social @csmapnyu.org

👩‍🎓✍️ UCD Professor and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright is this year's recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters. Awarded by @gihnyu.bsky.social – the Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University – the honour recognises the best in Irish literature and arts.

Some good news.

@mayorwu.boston.gov for the win.

Dare I say, he’s better than Brando.

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

A majority of New York City’s Commission on Gender Equity called on Friday for Mayor Eric Adams to resign if he does not lay out a strategy for defending transgender New Yorkers, women and immigrants against the Trump administration’s threats to those groups’ rights.

#OtD 28 Feb 1969 Black Panthers held an armed protest at the Olympia, WA capitol in protest at state attempts to disarm them. Lawmakers rushed through a ban on carrying weapons, and the NRA didn't oppose it. Learn more about the Panthers in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

The White House has referred to Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister of ‘Great Britain and Ireland’.