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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social are right once again. While the @nytimes.com swoons over Chris Rufo and treats him as a "very serious person," they call him out as the fascist and "turd polisher" he is. PTI is #1 source for news (and music)! www.patreon.com/cw/PostingTh...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

<world's smallest violin emoji>

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That so-called mainstream outlets see the bigoted ghouls at The Manhattan Institute as worthy of interviews and profiles (rather than derision, scorn, and exile) is evidence of their debasement and an indictment of the mainstream.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nazis taking over the Republican Party? How'd that happened? Lie to the media for years, chastise experts who knew invading Iraq would lead to catastrophe, stoke racism for short term political gain...hmmm...you reap what you sow, ass hat. <smallest violin emoji> www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...

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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'

The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shipping from Fordham now. My thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social and Grace Hong for their generous reviews of the manuscript and these blurbs! Use EMPIRE26 for 25% off too! Degrees of Empire - Abigail Boggs share.google/IFCGRIBTTh2G...

Powerful, timely, erudite and rigorously researched, Degrees of Empire is incredibly prescient in this moment as the Trump regime targets international students for deportation. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding that such authoritarian orientations are inherent to the structure of international education. Indeed, Boggs gives us a framework for understanding the entire sweep of US empire.—Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference

Abbie Boggs offers a profoundly structural but simultaneously humane account of the American university. In organizing her study around the figure of the noncitizen student, Boggs reveals how tensions and contradictions between university, state, capital, and empire evolve over time, shaping the very fabric of the institutions we inhabit.—Isaac Kamola, Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@abbieboggs.bsky.social book just arrived!! Can confirm that—in addition to an amazing cover— the book itself is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Reviewed and blurbed if. And still thinking about it all the time!

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great breakdown of what is at stake in the MAGA/Heritage Foundation efforts radically rewrite the accreditation standards for academic institutions! Submit your comments please! @aaup.org www.tiktok.com/@mrs.frazzle...

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🚨PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN NOW🚨 Deadline: September 21, 2026 Go to: Regulations.gov Search: ED-2025-OPE-1042 Rule: Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization 💭 If you’re a current or former college studen...

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unCivil @uncivilcollective.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We tracked the right-wing funding networks behind the civility-industrial complex. At @theguardian.com, @alicesperi.bsky.social uses our research to explore the explosive growth of "civility" and "dialogue" programs on campuses across the U.S.: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/06/2026

I beg of you: please read @uncivilcollective.bsky.social's new report on the "civility industrial complex" that is pushing a right-wing version of the humanities into public higher ed while defunding actual humanistic teaching & research. www.uncivilcollective.org

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Once again @teenvogue.com brings the FIRE and the RECEIPTS. Universities are fundamentally conservative. We should stop validating those claims that the existence of faculty teaching race and gender somehow negates changes the material realities... www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...

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The Modern American University Is a Right-Wing Institution

Just look at who is really in control.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@michaelehayden.bsky.social @jaredlholt.bsky.social great discussion of anti-trans provocation by Enes Kanter. Looks like he's being backed by America First Legal! Riley Gaines 2.0 (who was bankrolled by the Leadership Institute) Follow the money!! talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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Trump-Aligned America First Policy Institute Backing Ex-NBA Player Tossed from WNBA Game

An organization closely tied to the Trump administration seems to be collaborating...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sometimes the only thing to do is to laugh at these morons...and, yes, I'm calling the Chief Justice a moron...What did he think Trump would do with complete immunity...moron...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great piece about what universities should be, while placing students at the center of that discussion. "When we reduce college to metrics like short-term return on investment, we are ignoring so much human potential it is staggering." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/o...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I just watched this, like, 7 times. Libertarian hacks line Rand Paul are MAGAs gateway drug. Legitimizing the individualism and cruelty. Laying out the red carpet for the racism and the xenophobia…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/07/2026

The AAUP stands with Mohsen Mahdawi & other faculty members, graduate students, & academic workers whose speech the federal government is attempting to censor. An injury to one is an injury to all. Full Statement: www.aaup.org/news/we-stan...

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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Incisive thread on the Trump admin’s tightening of visa rules for noncitizen students as a new white-nationalist twist on a long history of using immigration restrictions to exert racial power: (By the author of a new book, Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students and the Making of U.S. Higher Ed)

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@higheredheist.com once again has the goods. This time detailing the conflicts of interest that abound in the corporate structure of DeSantis’s accrediting agency, The Commission for Public Higher Education, Inc. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Do You Have Any Idea Who You Are Getting Into Business With—Or What Business You're Getting Into?

For the General Counsels of the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas Public University Systems—Et Al.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@everyonehateselon.bsky.social is the Ad Busters energy we all need right now. Bring it on!! Culture Jam the shit out of that fascist.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A marketplace of ideas that looks more like an extortion racket...hmmmmm....

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What's at stake in the creation of DeSantis's accreditation agency--the CPHE? A: Reestablishing Southern state control over public education...ie "explicitly subordinate some aspects of campus activities to the political realm" www.wlrn.org/education/20...

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Next in Florida's war on 'woke': Becoming its own higher ed watchdog

Accrediting agencies have long fought to keep politics out of higher education, but a new Florida-created accreditor could open the political floodgates.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The troglodyte Russ Vought at OMB is behind efforts to give political appointees the power to determine grant funding for academic research. Oh, shit?! I know! Submit comments explaining why this is a terrible, terrible idea here... @aaup.org @aft.org fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1/ The Trump report attacking the Smithsonian's telling of American history is written by the Domestic Policy Council. Q: Who is the DPC? Historians? Scholars of American history? No. Political hacks. @nytimes.com @donmoyn.bsky.social @nancymaclean.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

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White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’

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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/07/2026

“SB 461 requires Ohio’s universities to fund the five new civic centers before anything else — even if they aren’t offering courses that help students graduate or don’t have students enrolled in their programs or courses." —Jennifer Price, Ohio Conference of the AAUP Executive Director

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Bill would give more independence to Ohio's civic centers one year after Senate Bill 1 took effect • Ohio Capital Journal

An Ohio state senator recently introduced a bill that would give the five Ohio "civics centers" created last year by Republican lawmakers more autonomy at their various universities.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's really easy to conclude that the American people have lost trust in American higher education when right-wing think tanks and partisans have spent $$ millions over three decades seeking to discredit HE institutions for teaching and researching topics they object to on ideological grounds.

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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fuck SpaceX, I’m putting my money on TimeX

A 1976 Timex SSQ (Solid State Quartz) LED Watch - gold with red LED

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This was an amazing g event! Thanks to the speakers and amazing @aaup.org staff for making it happen!

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is amazing! Long live New College!!

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

new draft for anyone who felt the DNC autoposy might've missed something or feels the university distrust narrative a bit misses the mark. w @isaackamola.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

MAGA’S BLUE STATE STRATEGY: HOW DEMOCRATS AND UNIVERSITY LEADERS HELPED THE REACTIONARY RIGHT WEAPONIZE ANTISEMITISM AGAINST HIGHER EDUCATION JONATHAN FEINGOLD* & ISAAC KAMOLA** CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 102 I. THE BLM BACKLASH .......................................................................... 108 II. FROM “CRT IS RACIST” TO “DEI IS ANTISEMITIC” ............................. 111 III. THE DEMOCRATS OBLIGED ................................................................. 116 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................... 130

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Great take down of "the Yale Report"--ie right-wing talking points masquerading as "very serious ideas." There *IS* a crisis in higher ed. It's not a lack of trust or civility. Not polarization. Higher ed is too damn expensive, run by corporate hacks, and dependent upon contingent labor. @aaup.org

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Yes. US has a money in politics problem. Therefore it has a disinformation problem...

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I really love this piece by @profjulies.bsky.social published in @msmagazine.com about the right-wing attack on the teaching about gender. @aaup.org Authoritarians are scared of GWSS because it "teaches students they deserve to live their true, autonomous selves." msmagazine.com/2026/04/03/t...

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I Want to Be Obsolete. Instead, I’m Afraid to Teach.

a gender studies professor describes the growing surveillance, censorship and intimidation reshaping what happens inside her classroom.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/05/2026

Resistance to reckless implementation of AI is growing. Local communities have successfully blocked data center construction projects & faculty unions have blocked vendor contracts & codified protective language in collective bargaining agreements.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/05/2026

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

1) Pols in FL, NC, TX, and TN are creating "civic centers" at universities, pushing a preferred version of US history in the name of "viewpoint diversity" 2) Same states are creating an accrediting agency--the CPHE--which would require "viewpoint diversity" 🤔 prismreports.org/2026/05/06/a...

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Florida uses public universities to build conservative civics pipeline ahead of ‘America 250’

Several civics centers opened in Florida as part of the Department of Education’s America 250 Civics Education Coalition to “renew patriotism”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/05/2026

Union busting is Unholy! St. John University must adhere to Catholic social teaching by honoring workers’ rights & returning to the bargaining table. “The needs of labor ought to take precedence over the needs of capital.” Sign the petition here: 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

St. John’s University AAUP is fighting back. This photo taken at the main gate of SJU shows faculty holdings signs and banners demanding a return to the bargaining table.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/05/2026

RIGHT NOW! NYC HIGHER ED WORKERS ARE IN THE STREETS! @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org #MayDay2026

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“The US has experienced a remarkably sharp drop in institutional autonomy compared to other countries”…The decline began in 2020 + intensified last year, driven by “an unprecedented array of coercive federal executive measures.” www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

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Academic freedom slides globally, as it takes a nosedive in the US

The last decade has seen institutional autonomy curbed in 50 countries

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