Get their asses. Also, cancelling classes on Ethics in Public Policy really gives the game away doesn’t it Like when Trump pulled grants for disinformation researchers
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critical race theory should be on your syllabus. https://www.raceclasspodcast.com/
Our friends in Texas @texasaaup.bsky.social have a plan and it's to fight for academic freedom on every campus. Want to support them and the rights of teachers to teach and students to learn? Join your local @aaup.org or start one today.
Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · yesterdayEverything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
They sold people on some imaginary college classes that promoted fringe ideologies, but when they got the reigns of power what did they ban? Plato. Ethics in Public Policy. American History. Judge them by their actions.
Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · yesterdayEverything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
Where are the complaints from those folks who are always up in arms about academic freedom?
Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · yesterdayEverything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
I was appalled (though not surprised) when I learned Sunday that Senate Dems intend to help Republicans fund the government through the election, with one minimal concession that has nothing to do with election subversion or ongoing Trump theft of federal dollars from blue states. And I remain so.
Senate Democrats Dodge Last Pre-Election Opportunity To Fight Trump
They won't take a big stand to protect the election, or resist Trump's broader lawlessness, before the midterms.
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Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
Everything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
Gautam Hans@gshans.bsky.social · yesterdayAnother banger from @aclu.org @aaup.org www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
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...
The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
Minnesota law prohibits all state and local units of government from contracting with private prison companies. This, however, is an existing prison and there is no state or local actor involved in the contract.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
Courts are tools. Sometimes, as here, for fascism. bsky.app/profile/chri...
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · yesterdayBREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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...
Everything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
Gautam Hans@gshans.bsky.social · yesterdayAnother banger from @aclu.org @aaup.org www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
Another banger from @aclu.org @aaup.org www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
ACLU of Texas, Professors Sue Texas A&M System Over Censorship Policy, Detail Violations of Academic Freedom - ACLU of Texas
Faculty have been instructed to remove educational materials — like the film “Moonlight” and writings by Plato — from syllabi following policy banning race, gender, and sexual orientation related topi...
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"Much as the First World War created the legal authorities used for the Palmer raids, through the PATRIOT Act and other legislation, the post-9/11 national security apparatus provided the investigative powers needed to treat a domestic political movement as a threat."
The Third Red Scare
“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.
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We are off to a great start in our 1000 Miles to Memphis voting rights march. Nearly 200 miles in, the momentum is growing—but we have a long way to go. Here are three ways you can show up to help us protect voting rights. Let’s go ❤️✊🏽 www.qasimrashid.com/p/10-days-in...
10 Days In. Nearly 200 Miles Marched. And We Are Just Getting Started.
A progress update from the ground on 1000 Miles to Memphis—and three ways you can keep growing this movement for voting rights
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The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...
2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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“[Israel is] basically putting Palestinians in smaller and smaller cages to make the coming genocide easier.” Palestinian campaigner Fadi Quran tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that settler violence is “the worst I have seen it in my life.” Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/what-happe...
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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Yes. In retrospect, it was naive to hope that the AAU would not get back to their roots of carrying water for McCarthy-era censorious purges and Jim Crow.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoMe 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...
The societal and political payoff that would come from taxing billionaires to fund public infrastructure (like schools) is very hard to overstate. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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
And maybe they should listen to their own commencement speeches. They always include some variant on the old platitude, "Be part of the solution, not part of the problem." Well, U presidents, helping autocrats capture universities makes you part of the problem.
Yes. And I am begging U presidents & trustees to read some of the outstanding work on autocracy (from their own institutions!) that incorporates lessons from other countries. One of the first moves in democratic backsliding: The autocrat captures civil society, including universities.
Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · 2d agoMy lord at this point it’s either incompetence or collusion. any university president who thinks they can “work” with the Trump regime lacks fitness for the job.
@mbkplus.bsky.social and I will have some thoughts on this neo-compact soon. For now, I will just note that many powerful people regard the Trump administration as a useful cudgel against perceived adversaries. Our last two episodes touch on some of the background. livefromwatthall.transistor.fm
Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike
Milan Markovic and Mike Boylan-Kolchin are two former college roommates who somehow ended up as professors in Texas. Tune in for incisive takes on higher education and academic life.
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Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · 2d agoMy lord at this point it’s either incompetence or collusion. any university president who thinks they can “work” with the Trump regime lacks fitness for the job.