For all those @aft.org members who disagree with your national union's decision to accept tens of millions of dollars from @microsoft.com, OpenAI, and @anthropic.com, you're not alone. @cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us. www.cft.org/resolution/e...

It's helpful to have Twitter so you can watch fascists cry over the fact that they are a political minority.

"with plans to eventually offer microcredentials and a minicertification in AI in the future"!!

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.” *Elon Musk Nazi salutes* Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.” This Congressman’s office:

Worth reading. www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...

Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.

At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses. dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social won't sue to stop Trump's extortion but campus labor unions will. democracyforward.org/updates/titl...

. @cnewf.bsky.social on the December 2024 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social deal with the lame duck Biden admin to obligate the UC to coordinate its enforcement of civil rights law on UC campuses with the incoming Trump administration. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

This is exactly why @ucla.edu must not settle with the Trump administration. It will only set a precedent for shaking down the whole system, then for going after other public research 1 universities after that.

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

. @ucirvine.bsky.social tooling up for its repression of demonstrations in 2025-26. The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions. regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25

My US higher ed labor list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

By 1966 the New Left already felt old and cliched to people who were part of it. The conclusion of much longer critique of the limits of immediacy and moralism.

Ideology test for public school teachers in Oklahoma. How long until it goes national? www.latimes.com/california/s...

🚨 Faculty, heads up! This fall brings hidden challenges & admin power plays. Hear Nolan Higdon, Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel break it down. youtu.be/sOHw91P9Qvg @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaft-riverside.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social @aaup.org

The @californialabor.bsky.social Unionize California t-shirts are awesome. stores.inksoft.com/unionize_cal...

My contacts at U of Oregon have asked to circulate this to-do list + this list of contacts to call and write to speak against the proposed evisceration of several programs (and termination of affiliated tenure-track, tenured, and career faculty).

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Tell the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents and Present: HOLD THE LINE against the Trump administration! No concessions whatsoever. Exhaust all legal remedies in fighting back. Draw on deep and wide support for public higher education in California. We can win. actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...

Let’s make sure UC faculty and staff know we have their backs! Sign and share, please! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

I wrote a recent history of @aft.org's partnerships with education technology companies, including @microsoft.com. I hope that it can help AFT members across the U.S. seek greater transparency and accountability from their elected officers. campuslabor.blogspot.com/2025/08/AFT-...

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Has Mamdani apologized yet for what other people post on social media?

What standing up for higher ed looks like. Our corporate admin won't do it so we have to. from @cnewf.bsky.social utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/07/line...

If @uofcalifornia.bsky.social doesn't budge on its concession bargaining with @uptecwa.bsky.social and @afscme3299.bsky.social, it faces the prospect of having more than 120,000 workers out of contract by January 1. @higheredlabor.bsky.social higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/t...

The AFT national leadership has to go. UFT's one party state control of AFT since 1969 has to end. The fiasco of AFT taking money from tech companies to introduce those companies' tools to our schools is indicative of a complete leadership failure.

Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references) therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...

I wrote about John “Ozzy” Osbourne—a working class lad made good, who rose from a slaughterhouse killing floor to the highest echelons of rock stardom in spite of himself, who gave us heavy metal and left a more complex legacy than many realize—for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Contempt for existing institutions, and belief that reform is either impossible or undesirable, is at the heart of much AI boosterism. It's less based in an honest assessment of what AI can or can't do, and more about manufacturing/ catering to people's escape fantasies.

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Important new report released by @aaup.org today: "Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions". www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

An actual quote, in earnest, from a Christian minister in the year of our lord 2025: "Why can't and why wouldn't the Holy Spirit work through AI?" www.npr.org/2025/07/17/n...

When a scholar and advocate of research universities can't seem to manage even a lukewarm defense of shared governance, we're really in trouble. The contrast between labor's demand for budget democracy and this faculty deference to corporate management is stark. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

UFT’s $23m Sell‑Out: Educators Betrayed in the AI Gold Rush open.substack.com/pub/educator...

The Council of University of California Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) presentation to @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents is surprisingly good given that it's a company union. In many ways it's advocating for the same thing as campus unions: flexible work, affordable housing, dependent tuition remission.

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents oppose increasing in-state tuition, say they would rather cut spending at the campus level. I can't remember any of them ever opposing cuts to educational spending, increasing class size, relying on low-wage temp teachers, etc. www.youtube.com/live/7YVsMXn...

Embarrassing: @uofcalifornia.bsky.social student Regent Josiah Beharry catches himself reading part of his AI generated speech that made no sense, corrects himself and says jokingly "you can't argue with ChatGPT."

Campus labor union public testimony at @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents this week shows growing organizing against layoffs, and growing likelihood of unions forming coalitions to challenge the corporate management of UC. Testimony & news coverage below. @ucaft.bsky.social @cftunion.bsky.social

Today!

OpenAI and Anthropic just announced a $23M initiative with the American Federation of Teachers. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace for Education. Educators, please be clear-eyed about the long financial connections between AI technologies and the military before welcoming it in your classroom.

Tomorrow, Tues Jul1y 15 @ucaft.bsky.social will testify before the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents at 12:30pm and rally at 1pm at UCLA against UC's manufactured austerity and devastating layoffs. See testimony below. Petitions are in the comments. @cftunion.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social

Highly recommend that everyone interested in academic labor check out recent posts to @cnewf.bsky.social's blog on budget politics. He's had a string of pieces analyzing manufactured austerity and its relationship to lack of meaningful shared governance at UC Irvine, ANU, UMN-TC, and the UK.

Nice society you got there, be a shame if somebody . . . subjected it to a mass casualty event amid unspeakable market extraction, then went full-fash a few years later

On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM EST, @higheredlabor.bsky.social is bringing together higher ed library workers across the country to strategize against threats to their livelihoods and profession. See this message for more info.