"UT’s administrative overcompliance is nothing new. We have seen it most recently in its decisions to conduct mass firings following SB 17 and deploy state troopers against student protestors." thedailytexan.com/2025/04/25/w... @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #HigherEd #FreeSpeech

"If parents do not want their children exposed to scientific facts and fundamental realities, they have another option: private school. Imposing the will of a few parents on thousands of children is antithetical to the goal of public #education." truthout.org/articles/the... #SCOTUS #Politics

"Ben-Gvir and top Republicans reportedly believe that Israel should bomb what few supplies there are left in Gaza, in a seeming effort to accelerate Israel’s extermination campaign." truthout.org/articles/isr... #Gaza #Israel #genocide #politics

Trump and Musk have cut funding in Austin for: 🌧️ $50 million FEMA grant to fight flooding 💊 $15 million in funding for Austin Public Health 📚 $200k+ for Austin Public Library ⚡ $1 million grid grant from the Department of Energy Just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

So unfortunate for Ohio, and a harbinger of what could happen in Texas if SB 37 passes. Governmental attacks on academic programs is an attack on student choice, intellectual thought, and the future. #AcademicFreedom ⬇️

Even if you're strongly anti-immigration, you should be very concerned with the Trump administration's tactics in the case of Abrego Garcia. #immigration #politics #KilmarAbregoGarcia #migration #trump

Footage shows Israeli missiles bombing tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi—the so-called “safe zone” Israel told them to flee to. At least 52 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn. Details on some of the strikes are in reply.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

Featured story: School"vouchers" aren't just going to drain money from public schools, they're also a huge windfall for these private corporations.

'Woke' is so 2024. Now, everything they don't like is 'terrorism.' Words have no meaning in their hands, but that doesn't make them less dangerous. If snowflakes like Gorka, Bondi, and Rubio get their way, free speech is dead. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-cou... #FreeSpeech #Politics

Can someone please find a photo of Karoline Leavitt in a Chicago Bulls hat so we can exile her to a dungeon as well? #politics #TrumpAdministration #fascism #Press #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Leavitt

"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway." www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.

MAHA: Make Americans Hungry Again? Is this the 'greatness' we were promised? Being able to feed your family is now just another luxury for the elite. So much winning, it hurts... literally, for those going without dinner tonight. www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025... #politics #Texas #health

Marco Rubio gave a self-congratulatory statement crediting himself for being a harbinger of free speech — as he is working tirelessly to hand-pick activists for deportation in a sweeping campaign to crush dissent.

Working and Homeless in America is an epidemic - it’s nothing to do w/ education or how hard someone works. Unlimited late fees, predatory lending/interest rates, hedge fund run properties, purposeful destruction of social programs - this Admin’s greed policies make it far worse. Get Brian’s book!

The version of SB 37 substituted by Sen. Creighton at the last minute is an even worse attack on academic freedom and shared governance than the original. It is also inaccurate. Read what our officers have to say about it. ⬇️ Our fight moves to the house. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

The party that claims the banner of “freedom” is actively trying to limit what students can learn. SB 37 is the #Texas GOP's latest move to distort history to align with their chosen narrative. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t... #HigherEd #Politics @aaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

"The administration’s only claim against her was a single op-ed the PhD student had written urging Tufts to divest from Israel, which did not express support for Hamas or contain any antisemitic sentiment." truthout.org/articles/sta... #HigherEd #Politics #FreeSpeech #DHS #ICE

Over 170 students at UT System institutions have had their visas revoked as of today (4/14): statesman.com/story/news/p... Still waiting on @utaustin.bsky.social leaders to say how they're going to support + protect their students. #HigherEd #Texas #Politics #FreeSpeech @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

The pattern is clear: on a popular level there is strong resistance to Trump, among the elite near total capitulation. In education we see grade school staff (principals, teachers) refusing to co-operate with Ice while Ivy League universities are silent. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

"Our message to Washington is that we are not silenced, we are not afraid, and we stand together, determined to defeat this ongoing assault on our fundamental rights." truthout.org/articles/jew... #Khalil #FreeSpeech #HigherEd

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Students @utaustin.bsky.social are being caught up in the Trump administration’s sweeping visa revocation scheme simply for what they've said or written, with no evidence of actual wrongdoing. #FreeSpeech #HigherEd #Texas @aaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social

Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars

If you support our government's continued funding and supplying of Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians, just say that. I think it's a horrendous position to hold, but it's your right to hold that position.

New: Nineteen international students at UT-Dallas, 16 at the University of North Texas and three at Texas Tech have had their legal status changed in a wave of removals from a federal database that have swept across the state and the nation.

BREAKING: Everything

“The hypocrisy written into this bill is clear. While pushing against alleged indoctrination, Texas lawmakers are attempting to change our system to enforce their own.” thedailytexan.com/2025/04/08/a... #Texas #HigherEd #politics #education

Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.

Hey @progressivecaucus.bsky.social, don’t you have a little more important work to be doing than worrying about millionaire commentators on a corporate network? #politics #oligarchy #media

"Donald Trump told the world that his administration would end the censoriousness of 'woke' liberal culture. His time in office has seen one of the worst crackdowns on free speech in recent American history." jacobin.com/2025/04/trum... #FreeSpeech #1A #politics #censorship #press

A disturbing but necessary overview of student journalism censorship at many UT System institutions. Excellent reporting from @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci... @utaustin.bsky.social @utdallas.bsky.social #journalism #highered @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

"The tacit approval of a race science conference at UT-Austin, alongside the large-scale defunding and muzzling of American science by a far-right regime, marks a very dark chapter of our history." @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

"It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine. That is what the gagging of protesting students, and now the gagging of faculty, was always meant to lead to." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #HigherEducation #Columbia #politics

The oldest trick to avoid accountability is deflection. Don't fall for it. They want us to focus on the how of protests instead of the why—the genocide we're funding and fueling. Don't let them shift the conversation. medium.com/@millerlc3/d... #Gaza #Palesine #Genocide #Politics

Israel's renewed genocidal assault on Gaza killed at least 404 people—including 174 children, 89 women, and 32 elders—and wounded at least 562 others, with the death toll expected to rise. Entire families were wiped out.

The UT Board of Regents loves ‘free speech’—as long as it aligns with their personal beliefs. Banning drag shows is just the latest example. Free speech for me, not for thee. #Snowflakes #CancelCulture @aclutx.bsky.social @thefireorg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/18/u...

Texas spends less per person on public health now than it did before the pandemic. Fewer Texans are getting vaccinated. Officials have less power to respond to health crises. What does that mean for the next pandemic?

"The real question for us at this point is how far the degeneration of the Dem Party must go for the Left to understand that it is incapable of responding to the threat that Trump poses, a threat that requires a response that cannot wait for 2028 or even 2026." Warren Montag

Now more than 300. Including children and even babies. All so Netanyahu can avoid a court date today. Sick stuff from Netanyahu’s Israel, backed by Trump.

They want us debating the nature of protests and the intricacies of constitutional law instead of confronting the real moral imperative: stopping the genocide being carried out with our weapons and our tax dollars. Don’t lose focus. medium.com/@millerlc3/d... #politics #gaza #palestine #israel

"The sprawling park was already understaffed, with some ninety full-time positions to cover more than 800,000 acres, while the volume of visitors has steadily increased to more than half a million per year as of 2024." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... #DOGE #Texas #NationalParks #Politics

It's so telling that we’re having a louder debate about how to protest genocide than about the genocide itself. If you’re more outraged by campus protests than by our funding of mass slaughter, it’s time to rethink your priorities. medium.com/@millerlc3/d... #Palestine #Gaza #Politics #Israel

Court Temporarily Halts Columbia Activist’s Deportation theintercept.com/2025/03/10/m...

My piece in @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Millionaires stop paying into Social Security today. That’s because they've now made $176,100, and hit the contributions cap. Billionaires made that much about an hour into the year. Elon Musk did in just 15 minutes. Tax the rich. Scrap the cap.