Highly recommended! Jewish radicalism shaped by life on the borderlands of empire in Europe and North America

Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · yesterday

Forthcoming book from @nyupress.bsky.social: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles by @lucecaroline.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983835...

The sneaky extortion of McMahon's Compact 2.0. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2026/08/04/a...

“As with [Trump's] first compact, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their administrations and governing boards reject Compact 2.0. There is every reason to believe we can do so again." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org's @proftwolf.bsky.social

AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...

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After more than a decade, my relationship with @evernote.bsky.social is coming to an end. The steep subscription price hike really hits the long-time user. Guess they have to pay for all the new AI-related features I don't want or need. We had a good run, but I'm moving to @obsidian.md.

A story at the start of this book makes the obvious case for regulating automated systems. American Airlines created the first computer booking system, embedding bias toward their flights of course. After all CEOs say, “Why bother to build an expensive AI system if you can’t bias it in your favor?”

J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you know a manager who actually wants to prioritize reliable, accurate AI, tell them to check out our book Auditing AI. And if they refuse to test their systems, our book is a helpful guide to journalists, citizens, and public servants seeking accountability. auditingai.cc

"She didn’t take crap from anyone, but taught with humor and acceptance, inspiring generations of students.” What a life! Mary Morello, Tom's mom, passes on at 102. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Mary Morello, Libertyville native, activist and mother of Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, dies at 102

In 1990, Ms. Morello founded Parents for Rock and Rap, a group that sought to protect the free speech of musicians in the face of a censorship movement.

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Was working all day and missed this big news: Feds drop their bogus case against SEIU leader David Huerta. DOJ lost nearly every case that went to trial www.latimes.com/california/s...

Feds drop case against California labor leader arrested at immigration protest

The government on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the case against David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California. Huerta hailed the move as a victory.

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BFD: DOJ moves to dismiss CA SEIU President David Huerta's case (w/o prejudice for a month, then with). In the process misspells Todd Blanche's last name. 🤣 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why not a public bank rather than the public funding private banks with our business? Fascinating conversation that led me down a rabbit hole to the Bank of North Dakota, the Nonpartisan League, prairie populism, and post-WWI red scare that blunted but didn’t kill an alternative form of financing

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last wk.

Our conversation situates Hasegawa’s tireless public banking advocacy within his broader political formation.

This Day in Labor History: July 27, 1989. Workers at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, rejected United Auto Workers representation by a 2-1 margin. This was a huge loss for the American labor movement and the inability to organize southern auto remains a HUGE issue in labor today.

Sept 22 research conference at UMN HHH on the Impacts of DHS Operations in Minnesota Works in progress welcome Quantitative or mixed-methods multidisciplinary #CallForProposals due 8/13 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dear economists, please read scholarship outside your field before launching studies with statements like this: “Conscious thoughts are fundamental to the human experience, yet they remain remarkably understudied.” Really? Cognitive science, philosophy, religion?

Paying less attention to the news this summer? Catch up on the labor stories you missed this week with @uclairle.bsky.social's Weekly News Roundup: ▶️Trump's EEOC abandons it's mission (NYT) ▶️Labor's view of AI and the midterm elections with AFL-CIO chief @lizshuler.bsky.social and more!

UCLA IRLE@uclairle.bsky.social · 2w ago

📰 IRLE's Weekly Labor Reads delivers a round up of labor movement news to your inbox every Friday. Our top story brings in depth coverage of how Trump's cuts are impacting workers: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u... Read more news you missed: conta.cc/4wkce9J Subscribe at: bit.ly/IRLE_LaborReads

More info on the Wikimedia Foundation union drive. Workers with @wikiworkersunited.org are concerned about deployment of AI, disbanding of team that works with volunteer editors. They are asking management @wikimediafoundation.org to negotiate.

KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 2w ago

Cutting to the chase on Trump admin science funding plans: “They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.” www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Workers at the Wikimedia Foundation ask for voluntary recognition for their union in another sign of growing tech worker unionization. The union is part of an international network of workers for the global foundation that powers Wikipedia.

CWA@cwaunion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today, Wiki Workers United US/CWA demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and sister projects! We are hopeful that the Wikimedia Foundation will honor their stated values and quickly come to the table.

Yes. Organizing gets the goods...

Tom Iwanicki@iwanicki.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our (unrecognized) grad union at the University of Hawai'i won wage increases (incl. pay parity across the UH system leading to large raises for Hilo grads), sick & bereavement leave, ran a member & community supported hardship fund, etc. organizing gets the goods

Great examples of academic workers organizing and winning *before* formal union recognition. Don’t wait for permission or recognition from the state or employer. When people recognize the union as their own, that’s the basis of power

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

When we fight, we win! 6741 member Dan Greene has seen the incredible power of organizing in action, and you can too. Visit our website today to join, and stay tuned for organizing resources and trainings to help you get started! @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social @dmgreene.bsky.social @aft.org

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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An unprecedented, coordinated governmental assault on colleges and universities is taking place. The AAUP & AFT launched a campaign to defend higher ed from these attacks, and to ensure that our colleges and universities truly serve our students and communities. bsky.app/profile/aaup...

AAUP@aaup.org · 2w ago

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. 🧵

🧵: Recommendations in new Trump admin report on future of federal funding for science would destroy US university research model, divert funding to tech companies, and halt advances in healthcare. The author is a Peter Thiel functionary w/ apparently no experience in organized science research

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.

AAUP Report: "Higher education in the United States and the faculty members central to its mission are under unprecedented, destructive, and sustained attack, part of a larger assault on democratic governance, civil society, and knowledge itself." Faculty are pushing back.

AAUP@aaup.org · 2w ago

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. 🧵

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California admitted that they used keywords related to diversity to screen for projects. It’s an admission that lawyers for the researchers say is proof the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2b in grants.

DEI keyword search led to billions in cancelled California university grants

The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to UC professors. Their legal team says it has proof that was unconstitutional.

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The White House didn’t weigh scientific merit or alleged noncompliance of grant terms when they cut billions in life-saving research, they just looked for words they didn’t like. Blue states were specifically targeted for defunding.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

A thoughtful dissection of headline-grabbing claims that AI is replacing humans in the workforce. Studies that say "yes" often based on dubious assumptions about work tasks and the nature of occupations (not just a collection of tasks). More rigorous studies don't often make the headlines

TechEquity@techequity.bsky.social · 2w ago

Uncertainty can still be scary, but it also means that the future is still in our hands. Learn more: aijobstory.org

Uncertainty can still be scary, but it also means that the future is still in our hands. Learn more: aijobstory.org

AI & Jobs: Know the Story, Shape the Future

The research on AI and job displacement is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Here's what we found.

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This op-ed prompted me to read the speeches by Rubio, Miller and Bessent proclaiming our new Red Scare. Easy to dismiss as overblown rhetoric except they control the levers of power and intend to use them, are using them. As in older Red Scares: state repression as political wedge

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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“it’s hard to see how big tech’s sunk capital will allow the AI industry to climb down from its categorical and unjustified minimization of human capabilities,” says @cnewf.bsky.social. Will university leaders and state legislators simply accept that logic, or reinvest in human learning?

Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)

Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026   I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budge...

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Another must-read post from @cnewf.bsky.social on the reckoning AI is forcing on public universities.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

”In short, the typical public college or university lacks the money to improve instruction to the point that the vast majority of its graduates can run AI and not be run by it. Non-wealthy privates are in the same position.” - @cnewf.bsky.social utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/07/line...

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/