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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/09/2026
"The AAUP is not going to stand by & watch President Trump once again attempt to destroy the greatest system of higher education in the world that gives opportunity to a diverse set of students for a diverse country. Yes, emphatically, yes. We are going to fight this." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students
The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/01/2026
“Based on my professional judgment & disciplinary expertise, issues of race, gender, & sexuality are not peripheral but integral to the study of administrative ethics & public service.” — Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day!
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Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day, remember: workers weren’t given the rights we enjoy today out of the kindness of businesses or institutions. Workers organized. Unions fought. People marched, sacrificed—and bled—to win them. Honor their struggle. Protect their gains. Keep fighting. ✊ #LaborDay #UnionStrong #AAUP
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Prediction: We are going to end right to work and grow our unions in NC, across the South, and across the country. This is our time! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US labor unions saw membership gains in 2025, mostly in states with bargaining protections
Uptick in US union membership coincides with high public approval ratings of unions
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
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NFA at UNR @nfaatunr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you're an advocacy chapter like us (along with our friends in @local6741.bsky.social!) One of the best things you can do for your members is stand in solidarity with unions on strike, in contract negotiations, etc. You'll learn a lot, and when your time comes, you'll get that solidarity back 10x!
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Amy Pason @apason.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some of our @local6741.bsky.social brothers and sisters are probably tired of being told that "advocacy chapters" can't do much for their members. We say, knowledge is power! And until we bargain, we'll keep acting like a union and fighting for members!
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Woot woot! Welcome CMU AAUP!
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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CMU friends and colleagues: we now have an @aaup.org advocacy chapter on campus. Reach out to me if you want to join or just learn more. We are stronger together! triblive.com/news/educati...
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Carnegie Mellon faculty form advocacy group amid increasing pressures in higher education
More than 40 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have formed an advocacy chapter, an effort they say gives them more teeth to respond to university decisions during a time of increasing pressur...
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join @aaup.org and @aft.org in Dropping ICE, shopping local & union, and skipping buying anything at Target until they take a stand against ICE!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.
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Department of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rest in Power, Dolly Parton. Did you know the below labor union - Dolly Parton connection?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/08/2026
"The Republicans have been hell-bent on destroying what is the greatest higher education system in the world, bar none." trib.al/zIlS5Zl
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Transcript: Why Professors Got Behind El-Sayed
AAUP President Todd Wolfson says that endorsing El-Sayed and other candidates is part of defending both higher education and democracy.
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Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looking forward to catching up with @proftwolf.bsky.social of the @aaup.org and @aft.org to discuss their recent actions to restore science funding, protect academic freedom, and endorse political candidates willing to push back against authoritarian attacks on higher ed. Join us tomorrow, noon CDT.
Image announcing the show and giving details of its broadcast - August 26 at noon Chicago time on the Breaking Culture Live Youtube channel.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are wondering how bar-shit crazy Texas is these days: the University of Houston removed almost half of its courses to comply with state censorship laws.
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UH removes over 45% of courses from its ‘core’ curriculum to comply with SB 37 | Houston Public Media
Some of the classes removed from UH’s core curriculum include those discussing race and gender, such as Introduction to LGBT Studies, Women and Gender in Arabic Literature, and Intro to Global Climate...
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Emory AAUP @emoryaaup.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Hey Emory faculty! The AAUP is fighting for academic freedom, financial support for the academic enterprise, and the freedom for our colleagues and students to work, study, and live without government harassment. Join now to support these and to protect your own career! www.aaup.org/membership/m...
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Member Benefits
The tangible benefits of AAUP membership.
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Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks again to @proftwolf.bsky.social for taking the time to talk about all the important work @aaup.org and @aft.org are doing in their fight for academic freedom in Texas and elsewhere and to strengthen and transform U.S. higher education as a whole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO3...
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Breaking Culture Live - Higher Ed update with Todd Wolfson, AAUP president and AFT Vice president
YouTube video by Breaking Culture Live
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amen! J.O.I.N (or start!) Y.O.U.R U.N.I.O.N! Are you a campus worker? Join @aaup.org today: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join us in NOT shopping at Target! More here: www.shopsmart.aft.org
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Shop Smart, Not Target
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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/08/2026
Target has failed to protect its community in Minneapolis from ICE’s trampling of basic rights & undermining public safety. With the AFT, we urge you to shop locally & shop at union-strong stores. Show Target what community really means. Shop smart, not Target. www.shopsmart.aft.org
Shop Smart. Not Target. Shop Union. Shop Local.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#Solidarity with our labor siblings @sbworkersunited.org!
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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AFT @aft.org · 21/08/2026
Faculty deserve an administration that bargains seriously, respects their union, and invests in the people who make Ohio University work. Share to show your support for United Academics of Ohio University as they fight for a stronger OU for all!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/08/2026
“Academic workers did not create this crisis. But we intend to fix it by building a system of higher education worthy of this country—affordable & accessible to every qualified student, governed once again by those who teach & learn within it.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president #academicsky
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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AFT @aft.org · 20/08/2026
"Higher education is not a luxury...It expands opportunity. It advances scientific discovery. It educates the people who build our economy. It prepares citizens to govern themselves. And it creates knowledge that no market can produce on its own." - @proftwolf.bsky.social @aaup.org
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@aaup.org and AFT Higher Ed oppose Trump’s Compact 2.0!
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A giant of the labor/union studies world is retiring. Don’t know her work? Spend some time reading it. You won’t approach organizing the same again. Great piece by @alexnpress.bsky.social of @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/08/bron...
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Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her fin...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just followed @local6741.bsky.social as part of their campaign to to build out a national amplification network for AAUP advocacy chapter and at-large members.
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It’s probably just a coincidence that conservatives are pushing for 3-year bachelor degrees, right?
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Three-year Bachelor’s Degrees Devalue Student Education, Do Nothing to Address Root Cause of Affordability Crisis
The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack Universities in Massachusetts threatens academic integrity.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026
"Professors didn’t choose the battlefield, but we’re no longer willing to pretend we aren’t standing on one." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Opinion | What professors gained by winning with El-Sayed
The American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more.
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Hank Reichman @hankreichman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The sneaky extortion of McMahon's Compact 2.0. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2026/08/04/a...
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A Sneakier Attempt at Extortion
BY HANK REICHMAN “If at first you don’t succeed . . .”  The Trump administration is at it again.  With their much-ballyhooed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education&#822…
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/08/2026
💥💥💥
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Trump Administration has declared a war on our universities and science. It will hurt our economy and competitiveness for years to come.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/08/2026
“My lawyers keep giving me these refreshers, these ‘know your rights’ trainings,” Khalil told me. “I ask—they hate it when I say this, but I can’t help myself—‘What if I know my rights, and the government knows my rights, but they just don’t care?”
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How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?
Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Incredible group of essays! Do take a look. Including one by our EC member, @ajdouglas.bsky.social!
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/ here to blurb all 13 essays from @bulaw.bsky.social “The University & Democracy” special issue. Incisive, sharp, provocative analysis abt why universities keep cowering & colluding w segregationists & authoritarians. @aaup.org #CLC #SNDHE long 🧵w highlights from each. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
It is this uncomfortable place—the recognition that universities might, in fact, be sites of antidemocracy—that motivated the Boston University Law Review’s 2025 Symposium on “The University and Democracy.” The thirteen essays in this Symposium issue help us begin to interrogate, struggle with, and perhaps answer why so many of our institutions have accommodated fascistic attacks on their own communities and commitments
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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Brilliant symposium on the university in crisis. Very generative set of resources for those of us, perhaps especially in pre-contract campus unions (🚨 @local6741.bsky.social 🚨), working to resist and build.
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yep, yep, yep! inthesetimes.com/article/affo... Tripling union membership would raise wages, reduce inequality and strengthen communities. Policymakers should take note. If you are a campus worker in a higher ed space, we got a union for you! Join @aaup.org and get organizing with us!
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Affordability's Key Ingredient Is Union Power
Tripling union membership would raise wages, reduce inequality and strengthen communities. Policymakers should take note.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/08/2026
While this is a HUGE WIN, there's more work to do. It's time to DOUBLE DOWN in pressuring Congress. They need to revoke the OMB Proposal. Members of Congress who fail to stop the Proposal will be out of a job January 3rd, 2027, we will make sure of it. 🧵
The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought and a news clipping from Politico reading: "Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump's grant overhaul. Language is included to delay the president's move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval." The graphic reads:
"WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DELAYED VOUGHT'S OMB GRANT PROPOSAL"
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Anticipatory obedience will 👏 not👏work👏. Extremists attacking higher education in Texas will not be pacified. ⬇️⬇️ www.texasobserver.org/university-o...
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University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As @aaup.org members, we are proud to have endorsed and supported you, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Now, let’s get this done in November together!
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Congratulations! Our members in Michigan backed Abdul El-Sayed : he wants money out of politics, he supports public schools and higher ed, and he knows that healthcare is a right. Now let's do the work and send him to the US Senate. bsky.app/profile/abdu...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 06/08/2026
In a new Between the Lines (@btlradionews.bsky.social) interview, former Yale professor Jason Stanley warns that yielding to Trump's demands would politicize universities—and praises AAUP Yale for standing up "to really save Yale." Listen to the full interview at: bit.ly/BTL_StanleyInterview.
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Yale University President Surrenders to Trump Regime Demands
BTL Yale President Surrenders to Trump Regime Demands; Nation Must Safeguard Midterm Elections from Trump Disruption
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky
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Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/08/2026
“A lot of things in the new compact are red herrings for conservative priorities. Reform needs to happen through the channels of faculty governance...We’re disappointed in the lack of transparency in President Daniels involvement." – Ahmed Ragab, Hopkins AAUP chapter vice-president
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Johns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education framework
Ron Daniels, the longtime leader of Johns Hopkins University, helped the Trump administration craft its new higher education call to action
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
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NFA at UNR @nfaatunr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
You want to read more about the resolutions passed by our national local @local6741.bsky.social ? It's in this month's UNR-NFA email newsletter!
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