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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Big win at the AAUP v. Rubio case

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is beyond outrageous. In their eagerness to appease, our universities have completely lost sight of their mission.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What does this even mean

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

DOJ’s antisemitism task force led by ex-Fox News Leo Terrell begins its witch-hunt against pro-Palestine student activists with a tour of 10 campuses. “We are going to put these people in jail—not for 24 hours, but for years,” Terrell has said in a recent interview. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...

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Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism Announces Visits to 10 College Campuses that Experienced Incidents of Antisemitism

The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that it will be visiting 10 university campuses that have experienced antisemitic incidents since October 2023. Created pursuant to President T...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/02/2025

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

Dear Senator
I am writing as a constituent, former FAA air traffic controller (26 years) and current Airline Transport rated commercial pilot. On Friday, hundreds of FAA technicians and engineers were terminated. These technicians and engineers maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation. They were identified as "probationary" and there is a reasonable speculation that Al was used to "find" probationary employees, assuming that meant that they were new hires. That is not an accurate assumption. A newly hired federal employee is probationary and may be subject to at will termination, but the term
"probationary" is also applied to promotions, to describe not that you are a probationary employee, but if the promotion or transfer is not successful, the employee would return to the pre-promotion position. That allows the government to retain needed expertise.
However, even that is not the case in these positions as workers were indeed succeeding in their new roles.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is the group that posted 100s of hateful messages under a book award I got, not bc they knew my politics, but bc of my Arab face. The reporter who wrote about it then told a good-people-on-both-sides story. Glad they’re exposed for the hate group that they are theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

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A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported

The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

NYU’s ‘campus without walls’ yet many fences; lest its faculty and students dare to congregate.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It is utterly shocking how a scholar of her standing and reputation was silenced and hounded out by her home institution for the temerity to speak out about the genocide in Gaza. Academic freedom in the US is in severe crisis. Join your local AAUP and any other unions you can.

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Columbia and NYU continue to outbid each other in their race to the bottom...

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/01/2025

The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed. mondoweiss.net/2024/05/how-...

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How Israel turned hospitals into ‘military targets’ by lying about international law

The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed.

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Because killing educators and blowing up universities is bad?

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“NYU’s expansion of what constitutes discrimination is too broad and will inevitably infringe on lawful, important academic discussions and debates on campus about Palestine and Israel — it’s dangerous and puts academic freedom principles at risk.” www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

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NYCLU Cautions Campuses Against Policies Stifling Student Speech - NYCLU

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

When one student’s Sunday night anxiety over an incomplete grade inadvertently shatters the university’s unshaken record of keeping its entire faculty from talking to each other, and an infinite loop of ‘remove me from this thread’ with an occasional ‘free Palestine’ and ‘let’s unionize’ ensues…

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Over 1500 scholars, artists, writers, scientists, students sign open letter to NYU admin condemning the arrest of faculty members and the declaration of faculty and students as Personae Non Gratae (PNG) for participation in nonviolent protests. facultyforpalestine.education/2024/12/23/d...

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December 23, 2024. Open Letter Signed by More Than 1500 External Scholars Opposing NYU’s Treatment of Faculty and Student Protesters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2024 – Over 1500 scholars, artists, writers, scientists, students, and academic staff, mostly from outside NYU, have signed and sent an open letter to NYU a…

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.

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AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU

The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "persona non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be ...

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m so thankful for the solidarity, courage, insight and momentum of NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. This org and AAUP have given us the structure to support our community including but not limited to students staff and faculty. Please follow our work here. @nyufsjp.bsky.social

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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented.“

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/12/2024

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

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AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU

The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now

Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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