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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lobbyists hired by academic orgs? Why, you might ask??
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Solidarity action—org sign in if you can!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/08/2026
“I would be surprised if this agreement is enforceable, given the way that we now know it was arranged on the side of the federal government. This is essentially a blackmail operation.” – Rob Newton, Columbia AAUP #academicsky
insidehighered.com
Whistleblower Allegations Might Not Affect College Settlements
Former Justice Department lawyers say investigations into Brown and Columbia over alleged antisemitism were politically motivated. But it’s unclear whether federal officials will investigate the whist...
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not on here enough to post beefs, but this is a conversation that's so often repeated in private, and it's just come up again... What are the politics of ignoring movements and academic research *while* claiming expertise on the same work? It really feels like Beinart lives alone on earth.
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks @insidehighered.com and @ryanquinn.bsky.social for demonstrating what we are fighting against: bland catering to the “political polarization” crowd. @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements
The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Power up with @local6741.bsky.social !!
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Shout out to all the academic workers seeking to disrupt new forms of higher ed hostage-taking! @aaup-sc.org @ncaaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.org @local6741.bsky.social @aaup.org @actioninhighered.bsky.social
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Who rules the academy? Join us for a virtual strategy session tomorrow, July 9, at 8 pm ET, hosted by the good folks of @debtcollective.bsky.social Learn how we can exploit university debt dependency to reshape the future of higher ed. Register here: debtcollective-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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scholarsforsj.bsky.social @scholarsforsj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We demand that Chancellor Gillman, the UC Irvine Administration, and the Academic Senate drop all disciplinary charges against Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, who peacefully exercised her right to free speech and academic freedom in solidarity with the people of Gaza! Sign here: bit.ly/4wPwMa7
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A powerful statement by 142 historians, representing the 142 years that the American Historical @historians.org has had its congressional charter, to say one thing: it's time to confront the AHA's Palestine Exception. In awe of these colleagues, read more: www.usscholarsspeak.org
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US Scholars Speak
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org
usscholarsspeak.org
US Scholars Speak
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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!
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
An essential report documenting assault on academic freedom. Join @actioninhighered.bsky.social
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Join us and share out the Days of Action event roundup!!
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📆 ❗Join us on April 16 & 17 for our third annual #DayofActionforHigherEd This is a call for free higher ed in every sense: - Make public schools tuition free - Erase all student debt - Ensure schools remain bastions of free thought for a better world www.dayofactionforhighered.org/day-of-actio...
dayofactionforhighered.org
Day of Action 2026 — Coalition For Action In Higher Ed
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Join in the joy of struggle on April 17 @actioninhighered.bsky.social
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
@actioninhighered.bsky.social join us!!
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
On Saturday, come out with your fellow @aaup.org- @aft.org United Academics Local 6741 colleagues from across the country to say: No Kings. No Wars. No ICE! Find your local protest and a toolkit here: docs.google.com/document/u/0... Why "No Kings! No Wars! No ICE!"? Read 🧵 👇
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pls read the 161 page opinion. I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed. (1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
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Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sure feels great to approach a USCIS officer with a tweet as rationale not to detain you
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A. It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home
newyorker.com
The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide
How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany.
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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please  share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/07/2025
“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe. "Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
diverseeducation.com
DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns
AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/07/2025
❌AN AGREEMENT THAT SETTLES NOTHING❌ "Far from being legal settlement, the Agreement fulfills the Trump administration’s desire to dominate a prominent university, to diminish autonomy & to silence critical speech." Columbia AAUP for Academe Blog @aaupcu.bsky.social @academemagazine.bsky.social
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An Agreement That Settles Nothing
BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The Agreement between the federal government and Columbia University announced on July 24, 2025, has been presented as a settlement of Title VI violat…
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The @aaup.org submitted a letter to @cuny.edu leadership supporting the academic freedom & constitutional rights of Prof Ramzi Kassem in response to the outrageous suggestion by Rep. Stefanik that he be disciplined for representing Mahmoud Khalil. Read it here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-le...
aaup.org
AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem
Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...
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GMU-AAUP @aaupmason.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Join us THIS FRIDAY 8/1 for a Day of Action in Merten Hall (ffx campus) during the BOV meeting, 8:30am - 1pm. Tell the BOV to Stand up for Mason and Protect GMU President Washington! Pack the BOV mtg in the morning. Join our community assembly and press event at 12noon!
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
theguardian.com
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Some of 6741's leadership team spoke at @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend. When we organize and fight, we win! Reach out if you want help organizing! We are here to help. #OrganizeFightWin
Picture of some of 6741's leadership team spoke at @aaupnational & @aftunion's Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Hell yeah! We are at @aaup.org Summer Institute to #OrganizeFightWin with co-sponsors @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/07/2025
“Advocacy chapters can act like unions! We need to act like fighting, organized unions.” “United faculty for the common good!” — Leadership of AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741, Summer Institute 2025, #OrganizeFightWin
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@local6741.bsky.social-amplify to help build toward densely organized spaces!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/04/2025
"If you destroy higher education in this country, you harm the ability of every day kids to build a better life, you kill innovation, & you undermine democracy because higher ed gives us the skills to create a critical, thriving democracy...I think that's part of the intention." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP
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HF @h95f.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@scholarsforsj.bsky.social tv news round up of @actioninhighered.bsky.social April 17, not a protest, a movement! #dayofactionforhighered
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who participated in the #DayofActionforHigherEd yesterday! What an incredible day of advocacy and action! 👏👏👏 Don’t forget to tag us in your pics, and stay tuned for next steps!
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
1. Condemn the attacks on higher education, even if your own institution has not yet been singled out.
2. Legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands from the federal government.
3. Work with other universities to mount a coordinated opposition of administrators, faculty, and alumni to combat these anti-democratic attacks.
Harvard University - link to sign - 840 signatures so far
Stanford University - link to sign  1096 signatures so far
Yale University - link to sign - 970 signatures so far
Cornell University - link to sign -  505 signatures so far
Boston University - link to sign - 502 signatures so far
Northwestern University - link to sign - 329 signatures so far
Emory - link to sign - 276 signatures so far
Tufts - link to sign - 179 signatures so far
Brandeis - link to sign - 110 signatures so far
Suffolk University - link to sign - 91 signatures so far
UW Madison - link to sign - 84 signatures so far
University of North Carolina - link to sign - 70 signatures so far
Washington University in Saint Louis - link to sign - 33 signatures so far
SUNY Albany - link to sign - just started collecting
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
On this day of action, faculty from around the country have one message for our boards and presidents: it's time to join together and fight back! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/5...
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>5000 faculty from around the country call on academic leaders to resist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Faculty From 14 Universities Join Forces to Call on Administrative Bodies to Stand Up to Attacks on Higher Education Nearly 5,100 Faculty From 14 Universities Call on Universi…
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of students and faculty members rallied on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard to condemn the Trump administration for demanding that Harvard turn over detailed information about the academic and disciplinary records of the international student body.”
nytimes.com
Pride and Dread in Harvard Yard as Trump Wars With the University
Students on Thursday protested the president’s attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An incredible collection of images from #DayOfActionforHigherEd protests across the country yesterday!! ❤️❤️ apnews.com/article/educ...
apnews.com
AP PHOTOS: Education Day of Action Protests Photo Gallery
University professors and students led protests on campuses across the U.S. against what they say are broad attacks on higher education, including massive cuts to funding, the expulsion of internation...
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
⭐️⭐️TODAY is the #DayofActionforHigherEd! 👏👏 We couldn’t be more excited! With more than 175 events across the country and a slate of online events there are SO many ways to participate. Join us as we fight to #FreeHigherEdNow! 👊 www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events
dayofactionforhighered.org
Events — A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
Organize your April 17 Day of Action for Higher Education action now! You can also register for a virtual action. See you April 17!
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