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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m working on multiple fronts this evening. I implore people in Charlottesville, especially those with children in the public schools, to start sounding the alarm on the urgent need to set new policies governing minor student infractions (in both basic meanings of “minor”). Repeatedly removing 1/

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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited to share that Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth-Century America is available for pre-order. To order the book, go here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/youth-in-the... #protest #pedagogy #histed #edhist #history #socialmovements

A book cover with a fist in the air, holding a pencil, followed the book title - Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth Century America edited by Dara Walker, Alexander Hyres, and Jon Hale

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Ed Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Waiting for some higher ed institutions to start advertising themselves as focusing on non-AI instruction, learning, and preparation. Might work to increase enrollment at some places. @cantb.bsky.social

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*looks directly at camera*

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the govt will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." The anatomy of a coup d’université www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A very good letter in the @chronicle.com by @lsiraganian.bsky.social & other JHU AAAUP members debunking the fake crisis of declining public trust in higher education and highlighting a real one: university administrators willing to collaborate with authoritarians. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Excerpt from article: Compact 2.0 relies on misleading rhetoric citing a lack of public trust in higher education. Ironically, public trust in higher education, including medical and scientific researchers, ranks higher than in all three branches of government, including the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court, as well as tech companies, according to Gallup data. Although polls show trust has declined over the past decade, this is part of a larger trend affecting all US institutions — not just universities. The mistrust in US institutions is, in part, a symptom of the Trump administration’s erosion of democratic norms and the rule of law and use of anti-university, “adaptable authoritarian rhetoric” from Russia and Hungary. As the Brookings Institution notes, “targeting higher education is an essential tool in the autocratic playbook.” Beyond polls, data tell a different story. College enrollment is stabilizing or rising despite demographic decline and the unaffordability crisis. Most high school students want to attend college. Globally, students trust our universities to provide unparalleled educational and research opportunities. International student enrollment continued to rise until the Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures caused a decline. In the U.S. and around the world, millions of students and their families work hard to earn a spot in our classrooms and to save money to pay for it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the standard union-busting trope, “Our workplace is a family and a union would disrupt that.” A few words are swapped tomake it about mentorship, but that’s it. And as a former unionized grad student who now supervises unionized grad workers, let me state the obvious: It’s nonsense.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Feels like we need a website that tracks which university presses have agreements for ai training

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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This tracks with what I've seen here at the University of Utah, both in my college and across campus.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A position or view currently being “mainstream” or shared by the majority does not, in itself, make it a good, right, justified, or acceptable position or view. Look at all the things in history that were “mainstream” or shared by the majority, especially views/positions that are meant to oppress.

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The median college student enrolls at an institution 17 miles from home

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really is a machine for people who cannot think.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

BLUESKIS. This is what @katecarp.bsky.social and I have been working on! Check out the website and join our community of readers who want to know and talk about #history worth reading! www.draftingthepast.com

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Alliance for a Better Utah @betterutah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cox is right that reform is decades overdue. But a visa pilot doesn't help the DACA recipient or asylum seeker losing status right now, and letting states manage work permits only works if it's paired with due process and real protections, not just labor on demand. buff.ly/hRP5Xtx

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Why Utah governor says ‘now’s the time’ for U.S. immigration reform

Cox to lead bipartisan task force requesting state-led migrant work visas.

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Get ready, Blueskis! @katecarp.bsky.social and I have some fun things to show you over the next few weeks and months …

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Annaliese Paulson @annaliesep.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

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Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

School people: ICYMI, I just figured out I had a *gift link* to this article! Trump's private-school subsidy is coming January 1. The history is grim:

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Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/07/2026

"What I found most encouraging in the ruling was the rejection of Florida’s claim that paying faculty members’ salaries gave the state the right to control their classroom speech. The opposite decision would have fundamentally changed public higher education."

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How the Stop WOKE Act Ruling Strengthened Academic Freedom

A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Seizing people’s ill gotten gains is entirely consistent with abolition and I do think it’s a bigger deterrent than the threat of prison. It also arguably accords more with justice as the scale & breadth of corruption-for-thievery taking place is almost unfathomable.

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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thank you, @erinalberty.bsky.social. The maps are a great tool for seeing what is happening. The cuts are even more than in 2017.

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Alliance for a Better Utah @betterutah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If lawmakers want to argue this was money well spent, the invoices are now public. Voters can judge for themselves.

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Alliance for a Better Utah @betterutah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For nearly two million dollars of public money, Utahns got a losing effort to undo something they voted for, argued by out-of-state lawyers at rates the state's own attorneys don't charge. 🔗 Utah Political Watch: buff.ly/O4uUsMj

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Utah lawmakers hired a D.C. law firm to defend their repeal of Prop. 4. The tab: $1.86 million.

Utah taxpayers paid Consovoy McCarthy $1.86 million to defend the Legislature's repeal of Prop. 4's anti-gerrymandering rules, and lost at nearly every turn.

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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Time to pick your next read! Which books from @nyupress.bsky.social’s Black Power Series are calling to you? Maybe your manuscript is our next read. Writing about Black Power? Submit a proposal! More info: blackpowerseries.com @ibramxk.bsky.social

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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Can't wait to read this book!

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Ashley Carey @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New article in Educational Policy. We looked at how school culture and climate measures changed before, during, and after the pandemic. Findings underscore the importance of "soft" data for student engagement and school improvement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jackschneider.bsky.social

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As I said in one of my Red Scares columns, faculty have been leading the charge on protecting institutional independence

Screenshot of article which reads: The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to.

Screenshot of article which reads: When government officials sent their extraordinary demand letter to Harvard University last spring, Harvard’s AAUP chapter and the national AAUP organization sued the Trump administration the same day. The university itself later sued as well, although university leaders reportedly remained open to negotiation. In September, a judge ruled in favor of Harvard. (The government said it intends to appeal.)

Screenshot of article which reads: That same month, after the Trump administration had frozen almost $600 million in funding to the University of California at Los Angeles and proposed a deal, a laundry list of unions representing University of California faculty and staff members sued. The government was trying to “illegally coerce the UC into suppressing free speech and academic freedom rights,” the suit says. In that case, the university did not follow. In November, the plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction while the case proceeds.

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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Check out my appearance on the American Campus Podcast talking about the making of the Black high school in the South open.spotify.com/episode/0un7... @ugapress.bsky.social #history #histed #edhist #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy

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Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Nearly 1,000 weighed in, and now, 5 years after Charlottesville's Confederate monuments were removed, the next chapter begins. This Friday, July 10 at 6 p.m. at the Jefferson School—the final design team for Swords Into Plowshares will be announced.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way to the Isaac Chotiner interview where I will outsmart him.

Aaron Rodgers 5 seconds before he blew his knee out

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Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Every day the SCOTUS releases opinions is another day to bring this back and remind people what the Court has become.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 24/06/2026

🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Something that is not talked about enough in the hand wringing about public education is how we have created a "market" for teacher education where the financially "smart" way to get a credential is to enroll in an online program, which offers no modeling, mentoring, or feedback on practice.

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