Another person has died in ICE custody—Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, who leaves behind a young daughter. The disregard for transparency, accountability, and basic humanity at detention centers like Delaney Hall is inexcusable. Delaney must be shut down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Immigrant being held at Delaney Hall dies, marking 22nd death in ICE custody

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was arrested in New Jersey in June, and died after a ‘medical emergency’, agency said

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"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Reminder: Todd Blanche has… -Weaponized the DOJ to persecute Trump’s political foes -Purged hundreds of career DOJ lawyers -Botched the release of the Epstein files and ignored victims’ wishes He can’t be trusted and has no business being Attorney General. The Senate must reject him.

Writing with @tim-gibson.bsky.social is such a joyful endeavor. Here's to fighting the monsters. @aaupmason.bsky.social @aaup.org openpublishing.library.umass.edu/democratic-c...

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Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court

The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twi...

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Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Trump traded GEO Group and CoreCivic stocks, two private prison corporations, nearly 30 times in 2025. GEO Group’s profits increased by 700% that year and CoreCivic raked in $650 million in ICE contracts — both benefiting Trump’s stock portfolio. Cashing in on his own cruelty.

Seeking asylum is a legally protected international human right. Trump’s deportation agenda was never about “legal immigration.” It was always about cruelty.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

Left- Paintings of dead Palestinian journalists killed by Israelis. Right- Dead Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Tal, in Nablus on July 25, 2026.

Love everything about this! Are you an @aaup.org advocacy chapter or at-large member? Then you are part of @local6741.bsky.social. Want to know the incredible stuff we did at the @aft.org convention last week? Check out this recap 🧵

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

Brilliant 🧵! Now, how do we get serious about fighting this? Gotta organize & UNIONIZE our academic colleagues! The power we as organized labor can exert on the economic & political system is far greater than shallow mobilization efforts. Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join Get organizing!

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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

🚨 Rep. Ro Khanna calls for the arrests of Netanyahu and Putin: "The American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop." "If the ICC has an arrest warrant for someone, they should be arrested by America if they come into American jurisdiction."

Every “journalist” at this dinner should hang their heads in shame.

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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The dumbest move of the billionaire retail class: making it impossible to buy shit. #freethetoothpaste (and hand lotion and tampons, please!)

Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are all the toothpaste yearning to be free, locked up because some billionaire got a Fwd:Fwd:Fwd from his golf buddy

We are all the toothpaste yearning to be free, locked up because some billionaire got a Fwd:Fwd:Fwd from his golf buddy

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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“This is the lesson I draw from having worked on both sides of the line. The tier system is not, at bottom, a hierarchy of merit, and it is not even really a hierarchy of security. It is a managerial technology.” higheredlaborunited.org/2026/06/16/r...

Seen in Cleveland, Ohio.

This is how we win

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Organize the South" is more than a slogan, it's a strategic necessity for the higher ed labor movement. Our resolution on supporting pre-contract unionism will help give our southern chapters the resources they need to fight and win. #UnionStrong @ajdouglas.bsky.social @aft.org @aaup.org

Elected union leaders from Utah, Bri Kramer and Sydney O'Shay, share why they supported our resolution in support of pre-contract unionism at the recent AFT convention. Like so many of our members, they're already doing amazing work—imagine what they could do with more resources! @aaup.org @aft.org

We have to fight like never before. Want to fight? Join @aaup.org today and get organize with tour colleagues wherever in the country you are!

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. Iván Chaar López: “If you want a productive university…that supports the state, its citizens, its neighbors, I’m not sure that you want the workers in this institution to be nervous, to be looking over their shoulders… Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled.”

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Read the AAUP’s Report on “Extorted Compliance”

BY HANK REICHMAN Today the AAUP released a major new report—”Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance”—prepared by a joint subcom…

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Sometimes people ask us why we insist that we must understand paying our @aaup.org dues as an important form of building power. Here is one example below. Join @aaup.org and help us keep defending faculty across the country and building power. Then, start organizing your colleagues!

AAUP@aaup.org · 3w ago

Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP-AFT filed a motion for a preliminary injunction asking the court to immediately halt enforcement of unconstitutional Texas Tech policies that restrict teaching on topics related to race, gender identity, & sexual orientation. @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org 👊🏽👊🏻👊🏾

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin

Border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López was denied tenure at the University of Texas at Austin after being recommended by more than 30 scholars, The Austin-American Statesman reported.

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Last night at @aft.org convention, delegates unanimously passed our resolution urging AFT to focus more of its incredible organizing power on non-collective bargaining workplaces, such as ours in @aaup.org advocacy chapters. President @mtmiller.bsky.social spoke for it w/ whole 6741 crew! 🧵