Death to GenAI. By any means necessary. ✊ www.jezebel.com/woman-succes...

💡Reminder to NC politicians: Regardless of party, the overwhelming majority of North Carolina voters SUPPORT having early voting sites on college campuses. ➡️ Learn how you can advocate for robust, equitable early voting plans in your county: ccnc.me/2026Toolkit

Remember when Trump’s tariffs were ruled illegal? And then prices went down, and all the customers were refunded the extra, illegal taxes they had been paying for like a year? Yeah, me neither.

They tell me GenAI is good at pattern recognition. Well, so are many autistic people, and they drink a lot less water. Plus, they’re, ya know, human beings.

That’s a funny way to spell “revolution.”

In America, we cook prisoners alive. A horrific country.

An excellent description of the classroom crisis professors are experiencing. And for those of us who teach at regional comprehensives, the problem is much worse, because our students come from marginalized communities. #academicsky www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Me: [struggling to open a bottle with a child-proof lid] My wife: Just press down and twist. Me:

For @prismreports.org I covered all the places that were forced to cancel Pride events this year. Over & over, organizers told me that this was the MOST difficult year to make Pride happen. The hostile political climate is tearing into the fabric of queer organizing. prismreports.org/2026/06/03/w...

A Republican member of the Jackson County Board of Elections said he was pressured to vote to keep an early voting site off Western Carolina University’s campus this fall. ncnewsline.com/2026/06/03/a... By @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #WCU #voting

As hundreds of immigrant detainees mark a week of their hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, ICE agents and guards are violently retaliating against protesters both inside and outside the facility.

This is madness, the brainchild of a theocratic lunatic. Will UNC's institutional neutrality policy prevent administrators from denouncing what promises to be the destruction of scientific research and of higher education in this country? SPEAK OUT! open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

"This is idolatry. This is heresy." Bishop William Barber condemns religious displays of devotion to President Trump, which has become common among the Republican Party's evangelical base.

Imagine you’re the victim of a crime or are witnessing a medical emergency. You call 911 in a fit of panic…only to be placed on hold. This is the reality for hundreds of thousands of people in the US as an underfunding and staffing crisis affects the country’s dispatch centers.

The May Day rally at Western Carolina University had about 90 people show up. #handsoffhighered #academicsky

New in #Academe: "The AI Nuisance" by Jonathan Rees www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

Dear Stellantis: Please stop using AI in your commercials. Watching your AI slop doesn’t make me want to buy a car. In fact, it actively repels me from your brands.

After surrounding a billionaire’s house armed with Molotov cocktails: Workers of the world, IGNITE!

· #AcademicSky · If students rely on AI summaries as starting points – or substitutes for enquiry – they risk bypassing the processes higher education is designed to cultivate: comparison, evaluation and critical analysis. Cayce Myers offers solutions via @timeshighered.bsky.social.

Yesterday was a good day. 😌

On Earth Day, the AAUP & @aft.org requested a meeting with TIAA to discuss an immediate moratorium on all new investments in fossil fuels extraction, processing, & power generation. We need to reinvest these funds in renewable energy & climate solutions for frontline workers & communities. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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#OtD 24 Apr 2013 the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,000 garment workers, as bosses in the country's largest industry put profits before workers' safety stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9625...

#OtD 24 Apr 1916 Patrick Pearse proclaimed an Irish Republic in Dublin, the start of the Easter rising. The rebellion was quickly and brutally repressed by British forces, who then executed Pearse and James Connolly stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9617...

May Day is ONE WEEK AWAY. Are you ready for the joy and solidarity? Join us at labor4highered.org #HandsOffHigherEd

What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons

This story is heinous. The US-Israel empire must be destroyed and perpetrators brought to justice.

One reason debt cancellation is key—and why political elites work so hard to prevent it—is because it empowers workers. Debt is a promise to depreciate even your *future* wages. $30/hr with medical debt is damn near $15 an hour. $65,000/yr with student debt feels like $30,000.

North Carolina lawmakers have returned to Raleigh for the start of this year’s legislative session. ➡️ Add your voice to our call for legislators to put people above politics in the 2026 legislative session - sign the People's Agenda petition at ccnc.me/PeoplesAgenda #ncpol

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Yesterday, I realized I’ve been on social media as long as some of my students have been alive. 18 years. 🧓 #academicsky

The video features “Dounana (Without Us)” by Siba Alkhiami, who says the track “speaks about crimes against humanity and the atrocities white supremacists have allowed themselves to commit on our planet,” and calls for unity across the “Global South.” youtu.be/EdFlJFXPNZU?...

Wednesday, April 22 at 8pm ET: Join HELU, @sanders.senate.gov, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @ydsa.org, @aaup.org, @ueunion.org, and more to gear up for May Day. Hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...

“We’re mired in this conversation about wokeism, which I don’t think is particularly useful to any of us when our schools are closing, our students have no clear pathways, they’re in debt, our teachers are living paycheck to paycheck and our workers don’t have any sense of stability.”

Palestinian digital autonomy has been constrained by settler colonialism bolstered by neoliberal privatization.

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... Shrinkflation has come to higher ed. @ncaaup.bsky.social

Day of Action Event Roundup /🧵 Join us on April 16 and 17 as we fight back against Trump's attacks on higher education! We have a packed slate of organizing workshops and conversations. Bring a friend, bring a colleague. Find all the details and registration links below ⬇️

Kentucky House Bill 490 is yet another state bill that prioritizes profit over education & partisan interests over academic inquiry & student achievement. Kentucky lawmakers should reject it. Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AFT President Randi Weingarten's statement here:

“For days or longer.” As if they’d live that long. ⚰️⚰️⚰️

“The modern world is set up to encourage the illusion that we are alone in our sadness.” Those who force AI & violence on our countries don’t recognize the beauty of the Earth anymore. They cannot feel the suffering of others; they want a world without grief, writes Avik Jain Chatlani in an op-ed.

Progressive Dems should take a page from the GOP and start using Democrat-in-name-only (DINO). It conveys the politician is old and out of touch. Don’t support Medicare for All? DINO. Don’t support abortion rights? DINO. Pro empire? DINO.

United Nations expert Francesca Albanese’s latest report warns that Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale that “suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent” and that “torture has effectively become state policy” since October 2023.

Looking for what's next after the No Kings rally? Take action with us by connecting with the thousands of people in our communities that sat out the last elections. Join our Enough Should be Enough Listening Tour and help create a People's Agenda that answers to us!

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

The Trump administration is working with billionaires and ICE to take over and transform higher education. Join us at #NoKings tomorrow to rise up against authoritarianism and its federal abuses and to affirm that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Nice wound you got there. Be a shame if someone rubbed some salt in it.

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

💢 Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have now killed 886 people & wounded 2,141, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. ➤ The dead include 111 children, while 332 children have also been wounded. ➤ Among those killed are 38 healthcare workers, including medics, paramedics, & nurses. ➤ 5 of those...

Freedom for Immigrants launches interactive map to track U.S. detention centers & connect families to resources, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. The new tool compiles information about ICE facilities & offices, resource providers & news & updates sourced from the larger community.

Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96. I interviewed the German philosopher for @thenation.com in December 2002, in the runup to the US invasion of Iraq. I'll have more to say about him in the coming days, but for now I wanted to unearth and share this text. www.thenation.com/article/arch...