MassAppeal74
@matthewpehl.bsky.social
Historian, filmmaker, and Boston Celtics affectioniado
While this is a HUGE WIN, there's more work to do. It's time to DOUBLE DOWN in pressuring Congress. They need to revoke the OMB Proposal. Members of Congress who fail to stop the Proposal will be out of a job January 3rd, 2027, we will make sure of it. 🧵
Anticipatory obedience will 👏 not👏work👏. Extremists attacking higher education in Texas will not be pacified. ⬇️⬇️ www.texasobserver.org/university-o...
University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
texasobserver.org
“The American Association of University Professors is joined in the Texas A&M lawsuit by four faculty plaintiffs, each of whom says the policy prompted their course to be canceled or not offered.” www.chronicle.com/article/what...
‘What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&M
Plaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not offered.
chronicle.com
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Antonio Ingram, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund “unelected Chancelors + Board of Regents are implementing a vision for higher education not mandated by Senate Bill 37…we are here to call out the harms professors + students are experiencing under the guise of SB 37 implementation.” 👏
SB37 Never Required Classroom Censorship
CONTACT: Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org
aaup-texas.org
⭐️”At a competing press conference held by the American Association of University Professors, students and faculty presented a different view. They said their universities are acting beyond the law’s bounds and curtailing politically unpopular courses, degree programs and departments.” ⬇️
Texas lawmakers call SB 37 a success. Professors say it limits teaching.
Texas lawmakers say SB 37 is working. Professors argue some universities are going beyond what the law requires.
statesman.com
A gift link to an @theatlantic.com article on the warning signs the White House wants to erect outside one of the most beloved museums in America, warning people away www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Trump’s Trigger Warnings
The president is ordering new signs outside the Smithsonian to warn Americans about history.
theatlantic.com
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2w agoThis is an outrageous attack on the Smithsonian, on the professionals who work there and the Americans who love it. Like the Bolsheviks deliberately destroying churches www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
⭐️⭐️Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López⭐️⭐️ “The future of academic freedom depends upon institutions demonstrating that difficult scholarship will be evaluated on its merits and that faculty governance remains a meaningful safeguard against arbitrary decision making.”
Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López
The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...
actionnetwork.org
“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”
What Texas A&M Will — and Won’t — Let You Teach
Newly obtained records reveal that two courses for the fall were canceled outright, while administrators demanded changes to others. Instructors say the deliberative process is a black box.
chronicle.com
“It’s not like they were directly censored,” Schrader said of UNT. “There were no politicians that directly came and said, ‘You cannot have this show.’” Schrader said that’s where the real story is. apple.news/AI6xwRwp_QWm...
An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days — NPR
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
apple.news
As bad as you thought it was at Texas Tech, it's actually worse.
A Bombshell Lawsuit Points to an ‘Extraordinary System of Censorship’ at Texas Tech
An 84-page complaint offers a glimpse into how the system’s curricular-review process has operated behind closed doors.
chronicle.com
⭐️⭐️ PRESS RELEASE: Today, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) + its Texas affiliate, Texas AAUP-AFT, sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the Board of Regents over two system memoranda issued in the past eight months. 1/2
AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT file lawsuit against Texas Tech System
Social: Bluesky @texasaaup.bsky.social
aaup-texas.org
lambdalegal.org/newsroom/aau...
Legal Advocates Sue Texas Tech University System Over Censorship Policies Targeting Course Content on Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
A new lawsuit says Chancellor Brandon Creighton and the Texas Tech Board of Regents built a system to police what professors can teach, and that it violates the First Amendment and discriminates again...
lambdalegal.org
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Super excited that my submission made the cut!
An American Playlist
Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · July 2 · 58m
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Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report says - The Guardian Good at least to see that one part of Congress has documented this for posterity.
Here’s a member of the Texas State Board of Education openly bragging that they excluded “false religions” when they k-12 overhauled curricula last week.
I Am Not A Lawyer™. (Though I spent a year studying law) Neither is @joshtpm.bsky.social But we both know something about US history (him w PhD), including about anti-Asian immigrant wave of late 1800s. And agree w him 100% here. That this was 5-4 is a relief. That it was not 9-0 is an emergency.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last mo.In a way one of the clearest proof points of the citizenship clause is the United States v. Wong Kim Ark case, 1898. And not because it was the precedent. It is difficult to grasp just how racist the US was in 1898, both in a "hard" biological as well as a general cultural sense. Anti-Asian ...
Gina Hinojosa in a fearless speech accepting the Texas Democratic nomination for Governor. Texans are fed up with Greg Abbott pillaging the middle class to give to the mega rich and Gina will make working families her priority.
"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
In this guide I cover the basics: 1) don't go to grad school; 2) if you ignore rule #1 and intend to go to grad school, how to prepare the different parts of the application and how they are likely to be read
Patrick Iber@patrickiber.bsky.social · last mo.I'm fielding a lot of queries from prospective grad students right now, so I wrote up a long version of the general advice that I give students about the application process in an attempt to demystify it and level the playing field. Feel free to use it as well: patrickiber.org/2026/06/24/a...
The new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the U of Iowa (one of many right wing funded “intellectual diversity” centers popping up on campuses nationwide) will make up to $450K & have “sole & exclusive authority” over every hiring/firing decision at the center. 🤔 #academicsky
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Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · last mo.Salary $200,000-$450,000
www.oah.org/2026/06/04/f... This is a great initiative from the Organization for American Historians!
oah.org
Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself
🔔”The issues in Texas have been piling up over the last number of years, but they’ve accelerated in the last, I’d say, nine months,” AAUP national president Todd Wolfson said at a news conference Tuesday. He added that “because of that rapid acceleration…we felt like we had to act.” 👏👏
AAUP Investigating Academic Freedom, Shared Governance in Texas
An American Association of University Professors committee is investigating academic freedom and shared governance violations across Texas, where public university leaders have restricted what faculty...
insidehighered.com
Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian of the American Revolution and professor emeritus of history at Brown University, died on June 7, 2026. Read more about his life, scholarship, and legacy:
Passages: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown professor emeritus of history Gordon S. Wood
The prolific and preeminent historian of the American Revolution who taught at Brown for nearly four decades died on Sunday, June 7, at age 92.
brown.edu
ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...
One of Ken Paxton’s former defense attorneys just endorsed James Talarico. That should tell Texans everything they need to know.
Immigrants have founded or cofounded 59% (455 of 775) of America’s privately held startup companies valued at $1 billion or more, according to a new National Foundation for American Policy analysis nfap.com/research/new...
New NFAP Policy Brief: Immigrants and U.S. Billion-Dollar Companies - NFAP
nfap.com
“Members of the American Diabetes Association were escorted by police out of…the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to US biomedical research.” 😡 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
medpagetoday.com
