@aaup.org endorsement was decisive. I’m sure this is what pushed it over the edge.
Victor Ray
@victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Super happy to have received this fellowship opportunity as I work through my data involving working-class political and cultural views and what such folks would like to see from government.
American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · 57m agoASA is pleased to announce the 2026–2027 cohort of its Policy Outreach Program (POP) Fellowship, which aims to strengthen connections between sociological research and policymakers, legislative offices, think tanks, and other policy leaders. Read about the fellows here: https://bit.ly/4fCa0N5
Via @apnews.com: Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate apnews.com/article/mich...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a massive victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.
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The big story is that Black newspapers gave a lot of coverage to worker struggles and struggles against austerity throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and treated the attacks on public unions in 2011 as an issue important to Black people, as well as covering the later Occupy protests. 2/1
Black protests about workers and economic issues – Race, Politics, Justice
ssc.wisc.edu
Had a hit piece written by the Boston Herald on one of my social media posts, so I've officially made it into the big leagues. Honestly, offended it took this long.
"If there's one thing about the wealthy people in the United States," Lopez explained, "it's that they are big whiny babies, and that they've got a lot of money to make sure that you hear all their issues that they have with anything that goes on." hellgatenyc.com/nyc-tenants-...
NYC Tenants React to Pied-à-Terrorism: 'I Think It Speaks to How Detached Rich People Are'
A few of the millions of New Yorkers who don't own a home weigh in on the controversy.
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Theory speak for “nobody likes parochial bigots except other parochial bigots”. Trump 2.0’s entire HE position is: one, retribution for legitimizing inferior humans and 2) breaking the career pathway mechanism because it favors liberalism.
Doubt you could count on one hand the number of NYT or Atlantic articles caring one lick about the actual state sponsored culture of coddling fragile egos and canceling disfavored topics. bsky.app/profile/gsha...
Gautam Hans@gshans.bsky.social · yesterdayAnother banger from @aclu.org @aaup.org www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
That isn’t how I would describe them. Unless you only mean the bad ones.
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Yes, this. Moderates are forever telling us progressives to be part of the team. That works both ways.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNew in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Yes, decades of austerity and red-baiting and bang-for-your-buck pearl-clutching have paved the way the wide-ranging institutional bulldozing we’re seeing. For most of us, continuing TO BE and TO DO the things we understand universities to be about is the most necessary and effective response
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Weird for NY Times to give David Ellison space to lie about Paramount-Warner. News "requires independence" and must "answer to the facts...not any party or cause"? He's done the literal opposite with CBS. Nonpartisan with a mix of views? Larry Ellison spent over $45M helping elect Trump in 2024.
Not good timing, but some extremely important points in this now unredacted part of the 2024 Autopsy: -loss more about Dem turnout decline than swing voters -Dem consultants extracting huge $ for bad advice -Biden shouldn'ta run -spam PACs ruining fundraising www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
nytimes.com
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jpygold.bsky.social an example of where there is going-WVU was an R1 institution, a bud of Jim Justice took over as president & immediately cut research, literally turned a stellar language program into duo lingo classes, and hired people to counter “woke” indoctrination ⬇️
All this exposes MAGA’s real position: Mass deportations must be carried out *even if* they hurt the economy. They should be prioritized *over* economic concerns. The goal is not primarily economic: It’s about ethnically purging the country. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam
Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: That immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.
newrepublic.com
this piece connects the AAU letter and the new loan limits on “low-paying” degrees. Our state institutions (and others) are out ahead of this, already terminating programs in part based on ostensible workforce studies of the return to degrees
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d agothe department of education today issued a 'national call to action' - which, in plain english, is a call for capitulation to trump administration's assault on higher ed. www.ed.gov/media/docume... note how this doc deploys recent yale & vanderbilt reports
Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026
"Show the world that academic rigor is not just for conservatives" I'm not sure it makes sense to call the climate change & vaccine denying folks who are banning books by Black folks rigorous but I'm not an editor at the times.
Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · 2d agoHe spent one year visiting schools. I’ve been teaching high school and writing about this issue for years and I don’t think this is a good idea.
oh good, a new and even more dangerous phase of universities actively looking to collaborate with the behemoth looking to destroy them.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoSo no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I know “don’t obey in advance” has become a cliche but it is really appropriate when university leaders are ready to sell out higher ed to appease the Trump administration.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoSo no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
bloomberg.com
Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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