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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 01/10/2026

It’s going to be really interesting when the civic center right and the AI right start to go to war against each other over the future of public higher ed. One wants you to misread Edmund Burke; the other doesn‘t want you to read anything, just debate AI Socrates.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trying to explain to colleagues from elsewhere on the planet that the US has no public funding body with real resources* to fund research in the humanities is amazing. I just get dumbfounded stares, usually.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Susan Collins was at the center of a major bribery probe for steering millions in contracts to a company whose CEO illegally funneled thousands to her campaign. Then Trump took office and gutted the FBI and DOJ units investigating her. Is this what "being moderate" looks like?

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping po

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The ACLU of Texas, ACLU, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  System’s new extreme Censorship Policy that prohibits faculty from discussing certain topics + viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation + gender.”

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American Association of University Professors, et al. vs. Albritton, et al. - ACLU of Texas

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  Sys...

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!

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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NEW: Mike Rogers is campaigning against Abdul el-Sayed based on what el-Sayed supporter Hasan Piker has said. But who's looking at the anti-American radicals supporting Rogers? They’re not hard to find. I found some because I’ve already reported on them.

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Rogers Touts Backer Who’s “Not Necessarily” on America’s Side

“Whose side do we wanna be on?” backer of GOP Senate candidate asked, “Not the United States of America, necessarily.”

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Hank Reichman @hankreichman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love the music. Paul is terrific. But this is stupid.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The response to Trump’s attacks on these outlets should be for every news outlet to boycott the Trump White House. They don’t need to stand there to do their reporting. See how Trump likes it when no legitimate news outlet shows up for his tantrums and lies.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-trump-c...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New: Students suing Columbia for its response to a library demonstration last year. Student Jessie Rubin recalls officers "shouting racist & homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, & dragged their bodies across the stone floor."

Student protesters sue Columbia University for illegal detention and assault in class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK, NY – Plaintiffs Nisreen Khokhar, Jessie Rubin, and Hayes Buchanan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2026, alleging that Columbia University falsely imprisoned and assaulted nearly 100 students and community members during a pro-Palestine teach-in last May. The lawsuit seeks to hold Columbia accountable for its collusion with the Trump Administration and for violating students' constitutional rights, and seeks damages and injunctive relief to prevent Columbia from similarly targeting other campus activists.

The teach-in on May 7, 2025, included speeches, a reading syllabus, and guided discussions on the writings of Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian teacher and intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli government in 2017. Flyers with five demands distributed at the teach-in extended the April 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampments’ call for Columbia to divest its holdings in corporations complicit in the US-backed Israeli genocide.

According to the suit, Columbia responded to the teach-in by kettling participants in a reading room and barricading all exits for nearly four hours, all while denying food, water, and urgently-needed medical assistance.

The unlawful and violent confinement ended only after the NYPD's Strategic Response Group entered the room and began arresting participants — most of them students in their own library — on trespassing charges.

Rubin recalled “Public Safety officers shouting racist and homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, and dragged their bodies across the stone floor.”

The arrests and disciplinary hearings that followed resulted in the largest sweep of suspensions and expulsions in Columbia’s history. Plaintiffs allege that Columbia's actions have severely and permanently impacte…

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Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ACLU has filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking the Court to block Texas A&M's censorship policy until a final judgment is made. The Motion includes detailed allegations of how the censorship policy has been enforced throughout the A&M campuses. www.aclutx.org/cases/americ...

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American Association of University Professors, et al. vs. Albritton, et al. - ACLU of Texas

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AAUP NC stands with our colleages in SC

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

We're in the midst of an illegal war that's costing Americans $1 billion a day. Gas is over $4/gallon. AI companies are warning of threats to humanity. And the President is trying to demolish the Kennedy Center because he can't put his name on it. Sums up the Trump era.

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Judge says Trump’s board may not demolish Kennedy Center without warning

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge to clarify that the center cannot be torn down after images surfaced of the president reviewing what appeared to be a printout related to the institution.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/09/2026

New AAUP Statement: Higher Ed must “refuse to comply” with the latest Trump admin demands in Compact 2.0. 👇👇👇 www.aaup.org/news/faculty... #academicsky

"Faculty members, staff, students, and administrators must remain clear-eyed about the need to refuse to comply"
- "Why Academic Freedom Matters Now," statement on Trump's Compact 2.0 by the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“If a public university can leave a tenured professor in administrative purgatory for criticizing his bosses, then every professor watching is going to learn the same lesson. You may have the right to speak, but exercising it at UTRGV could leave your career frozen indefinitely.”

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I read this with the law and order sound effects and narrator

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“This is indoctrination,” said Andrew Dessler a Texas A&M atmospheric sciences prof who has taught a climate change course that regents recently voted to remove from the core. “There are things that they don't want people to learn + they’re doing whatever they can to stop people from learning them.”

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How University Core Curriculums Are Getting Political (Gift Article)

Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey @utaustin.bsky.social, when will President Jim Davis condemn this racist attack on UT students and defend our campus community??? 🤨 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

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Texas Republican’s Racist Social Media Post Draws Condemnation

Many Republicans criticized the post, some in more direct terms than others.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Democrats should be targeting crypto, as a Republican constituency, with the same zeal that Republicans targeted universities for being liberal-coded. But they won’t, because it might jeopardize the crumbs that industry throws their way.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/09/2026

“You can’t be lecturing us about democracy and refuse to even take meetings with faculty." – Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang @aaupyale.org www.courant.com/2026/09/02/w...

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Why some Yale students, faculty and alumni are condemning its Board of Trustees, others

A large crowd of blue-shirted students, faculty and alumni gathered at Yale University’s Cross Campus to protest.

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Hank Reichman @hankreichman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Imagine if this were Hasan Piker.

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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 02/09/2026

Yesterday’s Democratize Yale teach-in brought hundreds together on Cross Campus to demand a more democratic Yale and oppose a settlement with the Trump administration. Swipe through the coverage below—and join the movement: democratizeyale.org More coverage will be added as it comes.

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Democratize Yale

Four demands for a more democratic Yale.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Imagine being so out of touch, you “celebrate” 9/11. Well, that’s what JD does. Let that sink in…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At this point, if Trump ordered troops to deploy to Fifth Avenue with specific orders to shoot Trump’s political opponents on sight, a federal court would issue an injunction, but SCOTUS would overturn it, 6-3 “per curiam,” on the ground that nobody got shot yet, let’s wait and see.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now

The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When the Indiana Senate refused to do mid-decade gerrymandering, Trump posted about it nonstop & got directly involved in taking out the senators who voted against it. But when thousands of people in IN have been without power for 2 weeks, Trump posted nothing and doesn’t care.

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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The Hollywood Ten” (1950) This short film was a direct appeal to the American people from the Hollywood Ten, writers and filmmakers who were imprisoned and blacklisted for refusing to answer questions about their alleged ties to the Communist Party. New on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/CCi-pYyKiFw

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The Hollywood Ten (1950)

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 20/08/2026

Opinion | Who Really Politicized Higher Education? When universities become more expensive, eliminate academic programs or make unpopular institutional decisions, Americans routinely blame professors. That confusion obscures what has actually happened to higher education. bit.ly/3S5hbV7

A ballot box that says "Vote" with a ballot stuffed into the top.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 19/08/2026

Debatable Ideas | The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Censorship’ The worst combination of mindless bureaucracy and authoritarian control. By John K. Wilson: bit.ly/4xajzJx #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The phrase Debatable Ideas is stacked on top of each other in white text on a chalkboard background separated by a block of text and speech bubbles in different sizes, colors, shapes.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We have a major Democratic law firm, two major party committees, and two media outlets dead to rights suppressing research into how digital fundraising firms scam seniors and barely a peep from the national press corps or elected officials. A goddamn shame.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the most egregious failures of journalists who cover these charges of antisemitism: not acknowledging that the political appropriation of that charge echoes propaganda from deeply antisemitic groups in Russia + Eastern Europe used to attack democratic institutions. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools

A whistleblower is alleging that a Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities.

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