A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.

Today, we joined a broad coalition of unions in suing the Trump administration over their unilateral termination of federal research grants to UCLA and other ongoing federal funding threats: www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals. This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.

Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money. Join your UC Faculty Association or union!

Really excited about Sarah T. Hamid this Saturday in San Diego, speaking about research the EFF has done to understand what is working and not working with surveillance organizing around the country! Join us!

California closer to bond measure to fund our own science and health reaearch. Ty @uaw4811.bsky.social! Yes to this! But it should not fund a UC that also submits to federal prohibitions on politically targeted research. https//www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

I would suggest one small change to how we frame this and that is to use “murder” instead of “euthanize”. he suggested homeless people be given “involuntarily lethal injection, or something. just kill them.” which is an incitement to murder. he still has his job I believe.

Action alert! 🚨 Tell the Regents and UC that you do not want them to capitulate to Trump's demands. Submit a public comment today. LA Times reported on the demands today. See thread below. cucfa.org/sos-coalitio...

Why the UC should sue the Trump administration rather than capitulate to its demands, attacking academic freedom and freedom to provide medical care in ways doctors find suitable. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

Signatures needed! Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount. Please sign and share this petition. www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...

Join Tenant Councils of San Diego in front of City Heights Library on Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. for a targeted canvass of tenants confronting landlord theft! RSVP at bit.ly/chcanvass.

Join TCSD and our friends at Arif & @dollar-lunch-club.bsky.social 8 a.m. on October 4th for a garden work day and a lunch-n-learn where TCSD will talk about tenants' power to change their circumstances through tenant councils! See you at the Peace Resource Center!

We're so excited that @eff.org's Sarah T. Hamid, a founder of Portland's Carceral Tech Resistance Network, will keynote the @sandiegotrust.bsky.social conference. Lorena Gonzales had to step back due to unforeseen circumstances (don't worry, it is a nice thing) Newbies and old hands welcome!

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Observing that news legible as humanitarian atrocity gets massively reposted but news of a council of unions representing more 100k+ workers passing a resolution to stop weapons sales to Israel and condemning an attack on Chris Smalls got few likes or reposts. Is it tech? is it cultural training?

The @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social "calls for Recognition of Genocide in Gaza, Condemns the Abduction and Assault of Chris Smalls, and Demands an End to U.S. Weapons Transfers to Israel” This reso was passed through democratic democratic vote of union reps https//www.instagram.com/p/DN6bUKIElxK/

Palestinian professor Omar Harb dies of starvation from the famine Israel has imposed on Gaza as another weapon if mass destruction. www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

The occupying force of Israel is ethnically cleansing with bombs and forcedvm evacuations while bustling neighborhoods, killing children (as usual) in Gaza City Shame www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake. It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Flock lied to cities and it has come out that federal immigration agents had direct access to Flock's networks. www.9news.com/article/news...

@sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social, @aftguild1931, @ucaft.bsky.social, UCSD Faculty Assoc, @uaw4811.bsky.social, @calnurses.bsky.social call on SD City Council to turn off automated license plate readers and delete the data that ICE uses to track residents and workers docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Deadline September 1st!

San Diego! Come!

This is straight out of Curtis yarvins butterfly revolution playbook. These people should be shamed and pepper sprayed

If you wear Orion smart glasses near me, I will make it very uncomfortable for you.

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes. “The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

On the forms and use of memes as right wing propaganda: “What they’re offering people is not health insurance or economic security...They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.”

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley... Timothy Snyder calls “sadopopulism“...“If you hurt people you create a resource of pain, of anxiety and fear which you then direct against others,” Snyder says in a video explaining the concept.

Join, learn, plot, and dream at TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity conference. Educate and organize for the fight against mass #surveillance in #sandiego! September 20, 11am-3pm in City Heights We're thrilled about our keynote @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, President @californialabor.bsky.social

To recap: Meta is pushing "AI companions", because Zuck see a "market" for artificial friends. They have a large workforce "training" these chatbots, presumably doing content-moderation style work, according to guidelines. www.reuters.com/investigates... >>

A man who sought to remove salt from his diet asked ChatGPT for an alternative. He ended up poisoning himself and going to a hospital

I wonder when all the national media is going to start breathlessly reporting every day on how all the rollbacks of equity programs, scholarships, and social justice centers on college campuses at behest of this admin makes black, brown, trans, and queer folks feel unsafe

Worker-led newsroom in San Diego for news *relevant* to diverse San Diego, not just about us.

Your turn, California!

A “certain amount of rights” for the “host body”🫠

Trump the job killer is also making cite lab animals' lives more cruel: "Wakimoto and UCLA leaders also said other UC campuses were offering to help, including by taking care of lab animals that may need aid." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands: www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

AI is not a tool like a hammer. AI is a service run by a few corporations who stole half the materials and is literally uninvested in customer support.

What's going on with science funding and campus budget cuts makes it really clear that faculty are at best foremen, not owners, in the knowledge factory.

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Journalism supplies a public good (benefits people beyond those who pay for it). The market alone under-supplies it. Here's a consumer- and citizen-first vision @deanbaker13.bsky.social for supporting it. cepr.net/publications...

We are all worse off with the loss of journalism as a public goods. Public goods like clean air don't make a profit, don't run out through use, and we need them.

No anticipatory compliance. Fighting fascism requires us to muster our courage in all these small moments. We can do it!

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025. Please email your submissions to ([email protected]). See the cfp below! saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...