This is mind bogglingly insane and utterly infuriating. Some of the most important academic research today is the social science and history that can help us understand how we got here.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 5d ago

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.

Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas

The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

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Please consider signing this letter from law professors responding to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk's troubling remarks about the recent 9/11 Conference at UCLA School of Law. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Law Professor Statement on 9/11 Conference at UCLA School of Law

Law Professor Statement on 9/11 Conference at UCLA School of Law We join the forthcoming call by members of the UCLA law faculty for Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his recent comment on an event t...

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“A San Mateo County collaborative effort has acquired an apartment complex for $54.8 million to provide housing for teachers and other education staff..San Mateo marks the first educator workforce housing project for the San Mateo County Office of Education.” www.rwcpulse.com/housing/2026...

San Mateo County acquires apartment building for educator housing

The purchase of the 74-unit Azara community at 1650 S. Delaware St. in San Mateo marks the first educator workforce housing project for the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE).

rwcpulse.com

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

Avery@dyingsignals.love · 7d ago

The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department

“The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor.. to withdraw his public repudiation of the UCLA School of Law symposium..& to reaffirm the academic freedom of..faculty to organize scholarly events, select speakers…without fear of institutional condemnation.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ca...

AAUP Calls on UCLA Chancellor Frenk to Defend, Not Undermine, Academic Freedom

The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to withdraw his public repudiation of a UCLA School of Law symposium and to reaffirm the academic freedom of UCLA faculty.

aaup.org

@veenadubal.bsky.social is a treasure dissentmagazine.org/article/gig-...

The Myth of the Gig Economy - Dissent Magazine

App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention.

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Loved this new short piece by @veenadubal.bsky.social in Dissent. Cuts through the obfuscation in a simple and intuitive way. "The Myth of the Gig Economy" muse.jhu.edu/article/999920

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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"The phrase 'gig economy' should be retired." -- @veenadubal.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Read this from @veenadubal.bsky.social of @aaup.org alongside this from @abbieboggs.bsky.social below bsky.app/profile/lpeb...

Public Good U@publicgoodu.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you read two things this Labor Day weekend, read this by @abbieboggs.bsky.social spectrejournal.com/the-universi...

The week in review: Sameer Ashar on the transformation of the U.S. immigration system, Luke Herrine on the history of multilevel marketing, and a CFP for the second annual ALPE conference. Plus, new student groups, job postings, and hot LPE items from around the web 🧵

Weekly Roundup: Sept. 11

Sameer Ashar on the potential transformation of the U.S. immigration system, Luke Herrine on the history of multilevel marketing and right-wing movement building, and a CFP for the second annual ALPE…

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At the @aaup.org, @veenadubal.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration’s assault on immigrant students and scholars exposes the fragility of conditional belonging and the need for solidarity.

The Precarities of Collaboration

The Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant students and scholars have shattered the model-minority myth.

aaup.org

Elena, a nurse, signs up for a shift at a base rate of $35/hour. The next day it's $33/hour. There's no explanation, no one to ask why. AI Now's @katiejwells.bsky.social & @veenadubal.bsky.social tell Elena's story, showing how algorithmic wages & prices are reshaping our lives: bit.ly/46Qp4kR

Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

bit.ly

Poverty is dirty, Mr. Vance. Not immigrants. And the only people to blame for poverty are the politicians and corporations who have ensured that every last drop of surplus is extracted from our blood and tears—with no safety net to hold us when we fall.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The wrong platform for science

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

science.org

A personal(ish) essay on the attacks on noncitizens in higher education — against the backdrop of the model minority myth and my own family immigration to the US. www.aaup.org/precarities-...

The Precarities of Collaboration

The Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant students and scholars have shattered the model-minority myth.

aaup.org

I wanted to surprise my 11yo with Katseye concert tickets and the cheapest I could find were more than $350 per ticket in the nosebleed section. Sooo I guess my kids just aren’t going to experience music concerts. 😫

More from me... and WHY UNIONS ARE AMAZING! karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

karenattiah.substack.com

In our latest, we speak with R.H. Lossin about how the US targeted IWW’s political education around industrial sabotage in the early 20th century, and how those acts of repression continue to shape how certain demands are dismissed as “too radical” today www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

Property, Sabotage and the Origins of Anti-Left Repression w/ R.H. Lossin (08/24/26) | The Death Panel

Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to crim

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I think a lot of people don’t understand that the academic freedom that we have — which we have fought for — is not the freedom to say every asinine racist & sexist thing that you think.

Companies can use your financial and social media data — payday loans, credit card debt, scraped posts — to calculate the lowest salary you'll accept. A study by @veenadubal.bsky.social found these tools already being sold to major US employers. And most workers have no idea it's happening.

Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept

Surveillance pricing came for your wallet. Now, surveillance wages are coming for your paycheck.

marketwatch.com

My daughter was going an awful lot to face/body prep for her first day of middle school. I expressed annoyance. She started crying, “Mom, I’d like everything is perfect no one will have any thing to make fun of.” 😭😭😭😭😭 I hate middle school already.

No faculty input. No mechanism for feedback of any kind. “The new Western civilization requirement is a direct response to what right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation & the Manhattan Institute have been calling for in terms of transformation of higher education." #academicsky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin@utaustinaaup.bsky.social · last mo.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

On the political economy of the resurgence of “race science” bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

Earlier this summer, campus reform 🙄, published an article focused on little old me, and even asked AI to create an image! I wanted to share it because it has been making chuckle. The “lawsuit” in my hand is 😂.

I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

“That means that, for the fourth month in a row, Americans’ real wages — how many sandwiches, haircuts and gallons of gas they can buy with an hour’s pay — actually fell.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/b...

Worker Pay Isn’t Keeping Up With Inflation Once Again

When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.

nytimes.com

“Avowed neo-fascists have been emboldened by their leader’s brashness. Vannacci makes extensive use of AI in his propaganda, releasing lurid and shoddily produced clips that make a splash.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Matteo Pucciarelli, Meloni’s Challenger — Sidecar

The rise of Roberto Vannacci.

newleftreview.org