Exciting news for higher ed workers! There is a union for you, if you want it

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 3w ago

"RESOLVED, that the AFT will affirm its commitment to pre-contract unionism in higher-ed and marshal its organizing power to help non-collective bargaining members and potential members build organizing- and power-building-focused, pre-contract union locals on their campuses." @aft.org @aaup.org

Last day to submit!!

Labor Tech Research Network@labortechresearchnetwork.org · 2mo ago

A reminder that *the deadline is June 1* for LaborTech’s awards for best book, graduate student paper, and social justice activism on labor and technology.

IT.IS.OFFICIAL. Our bill—giving 9K faculty across MD collective bargaining rights—was signed into law today! Huge thanks goes to @govwesmoore.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aftmaryland.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @local6741.bsky.social!

For Places, scholar of architecture Mohamad Nahleh wrote about the perverse achievements of dark-sky activism in the United States. And he embraces a different politics of the night sky, in which "looking upward becomes a practice of solidarity in an age of ruin.”

Empire Loves a Dark Sky

In Texas and Lebanon, darkness is an ecological commons turned strategic military asset.

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Wildly misleading, anti-labor baiting headlines like this: just one more reason to ditch the NYT

N.Y.C. Hotel Housekeepers Will Earn Over $100,000 Under New Contract

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Very cool. Surely this will increase her broad moderate appeal

8News WRIC Richmond@wric.com · 3mo ago

Spanberger will veto public sector collective bargaining bills, top Virginia Democrat says

the public has already paid ransom to corporate welfare when we could have nonprofit low fi local ed tech

Kathryn Palmer@kathrynpalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I had a great conversation last week with the editors and contributors of Media Rurality, a new book from @dukepress.bsky.social. Listen and read for important interventions into the often narrowly urban focus of our field.

"organizing with others in your same condition generates a lot of the goods we’re alienated from in our competitive society. the connection you have to others, the nonalienated ways of relating, it’s something I didn’t count on because I’ve never been in a union before." jacobin.com/2026/02/nyu-...

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike

After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusin...

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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

The Minnesota day care fraud guy showed up at a West Baltimore church's Narcotics Anonymous meeting with a selfie stick and got run out, reports @alissazhu.bsky.social "Go to the doctors who started the opioid crisis," a woman told him www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

YouTuber Nick Shirley faced confrontation when he came to Penn North

YouTuber Nick Shirley is known for both prank videos and conducting man-on-the-street-style interviews on politically charged topics.

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Very happy to see this special issue finally come to fruition ✨ and honored to have an article in there alongside some other stellar work

Jeffrey Yost@justcode.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

New: here's how a U.S. citizen was scanned with ICE's facial recognition tech. Jesus Gutiérrez was stopped in Chicago by agents, he said he was a citizen. Still detained, put in a car. Only after they scanned his face did they let him go. From 404 Media and Reveal: www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech

Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.

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Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama

By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity

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The UFW has sued the Trump Administration ... again. Why? Because they are trying to steal wages from farm workers and we are not going to let that happen. #WeFeedYou

One thing we're vvv proud of: 404 Media independent + journalist-owned. Here's a rundown of some of our recent work: After months of 404 Media reporting and pressure from lawmakers, US airlines will shut down a program that sold millions of YOUR flight records to the government.

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

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December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age. Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...

“A foundation tied to the spouse of a Penn trustee is among a small grp of publicly known donors to the secretive Canary Mission… Effectively a blacklist of 🇵🇸 solidarity activists, the CM’s dossiers are now reportedly being used to target immigrants… The site has long been accused of cyberbullying”

Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee

The University of Pennsylvania has been a target of Canary Mission, a pro-Israel “blacklist” group. Turns out the call was coming from inside the house.

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"Millions of $ in fed contracts for affordable housing were canceled after a DOGE review of nonprofits’ websites + LinkedIn profiles for terms associated with DEI... The canceled awards include ongoing projects in more than 1,000 communities to address homelessness, disaster recovery, poverty..."

Trump DEI Purge Hits Affordable Housing Groups

Millions of dollars in affordable housing contracts were canceled after a DOGE review of their websites and social media for terms linked to equity and diversity.

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