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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@aclu.org & @amnesty.org just published a massive report "Student Speech Under Attack." 300pp & 2 years in the making it offers the definitive account of how the speech of students (faculty and staff) was silenced, and continues to be policed, on campus. @aaup.org www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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UNITEHERE Local 8 @uniteherelocal8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We've taken care of Seahawks fans for years. Embassy Suites might not let you know workers are on strike but we will. Skip Lumen Field's closest hotel this season while we're on strike for fair wages and workloads, year-round healthcare and immigration protections.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
LET'S GO! Solidarity to Tufts librarians unionizing with SEIU Local 888! 🌹
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Tufts librarians declare intent to form union, ask university for voluntary recognition - The Tufts Daily
Library staff from across Tufts campuses have begun the process of unionizing, announcing at a rally Tuesday morning that over 70% of library staff have signed union authorization cards.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/08/2026
Centrist orgs like Third Way aren't afraid that a progressive will lose the general in 2028. They're afraid that they'll win www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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“We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” said Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, a leading centrist Democratic group, revealing to The New York Times a new $15 million effort between now and 2028 to discredit democratic socialism.
Dr. El-Sayed’s win was not the blowout that some pre-election polls had predicted. But his narrow nomination in one of the country’s signature swing states still represented a critical moment for the party’s middle, which had previously sought to cast the far left’s successes as contained within the country’s most urban and liberal corridors.
**Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.**
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Solidarity for UIUC GEO (Graduate Employee Organization), just out of a bargaining session, needing to rally over just-rescinded pay increases that some of their members were promised. Full solidarity as always! ✊✊✊
UIUC solidarity rally for local GEO
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Proud to be one of the co-authors of a major new @aaup.org report on the variety of (extorted) compliance agreements that some universities and colleges have come to with the current Trump administration: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
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Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
we have built an economy that rewards speed over thought, efficiency over craft, and capital accumulation over human flourishing. If we want to confront the devaluation of jobs and professional expertise; or the enormous environmental costs of AI and its data centers,..
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/07/2026
PSU-AAUP is fighting to defend the future of higher education in Oregon. "We call on President Ann Cudd to pause these layoffs and to work with PSU-AAUP to build political solutions that can return PSU to productive growth." —Bill Knight, PSU-AAUP President @psuaaup.bsky.social
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/07/2026
Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
📣 BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS!‼️ The 2024 lawsuit against Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, AAUP-BHSNJ, AFTNJ, and AFT over the 2023 faculty strike was dismissed with prejudice—affirming public sector unions’ rights to free speech & collective action. Press release: loom.ly/xVmkrVA
BREAKING NEWS:
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed Against Rutgers Faculty Unions Alleging Damages 
From 2023 Strike
Yesterday marked a meaningful and victorious end to the lawsuit against our three faculty locals (Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, and AAUP-BHSNJ), our state federation (AFTNJ), and national union (AFT), over the 2023 Rutgers faculty strike. The lawsuit, filed in March 2024 by former Rutgers student Jeremy Li, was dismissed with prejudice, with the court upholding the rights of public sector unions and their members to engage in free speech and collective action.
The suit was filed in March 2024 by Rutgers student Jeremy Li and alleged that the unions deprived Rutgers students of a week of education in Spring 2023 as a result of our strike. Our unions filed two motions to dismiss this complaint on the basis of free speech, noting that free speech and conduct “were a matter of public concern.” 
Li is one of many students who have filed such lawsuits in an attempt to curtail the right of collective bargaining units to strike. 
Li’s attorneys, Patrick Hugues and Daniel Suhr, have filed similar lawsuits against teachers’ unions in Massachusetts and Kentucky for financial and emotional damages stemming from strikes there– and they’ve lost each one.“This ruling is a bright spot in a difficult year, affirming the critically important right of public higher education workers to take collective action in order to win stronger and better contracts through collective bargaining,” says Rebecca Givan, president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
“Our students' learning conditions can only be as good as the working conditions of the faculty and staff who support their education,” says Heather Pierce, president of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union.“Our fight is not only for ourselves, but for our students too. This is not only a win for labor rights—it is a win for the future of public higher education.”

“This ruling affirms our longstanding position that we are fighting for all of Rutgers—and we have the right to do so,” says Cathy Monteleone, president of AAUP-BHSNJ.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/06/2026
Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/
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Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available
This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/05/2026
"The secrecy & force of the changes are akin to the massive disappearances of immigrants that are happening in our streets & to the history of forced disappearances of people around the world who are hunted & targeted for their knowledge & beliefs." — Mariela Nuñez-Janes, VP, UNT AAUP
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UNT students protest censorship with a funeral at Board of Regents meeting
A handful of University of North Texas students traveled from Denton and Houston to Fort Worth on Thursday morning.
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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The young people are going to save this country!! ‘The University of Texas is dead’: Students stage funeral in academic freedom protest www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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‘The University of Texas is dead’: Students stage funeral for academic freedom
The protest took place before a UT Board of Regents meeting to consider policy changes that make it easier to cut departments in “extraordinary circumstances.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Curious: how many non violent offenders are in Colorado prisons for non violent offenses? Do they get pardons too?
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Defeating Trump just to go back to business-as-usual won't be enough. We need to hold him and his cronies accountable for breaking the law. Then we need to clean up the corruption in Washington to guarantee our government can never be hijacked again. That’s what I’m focused on.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Colorado governor grants election denier Tina Peters clemency, reduces sentence
Peters was convicted in 2024 after prosecutors showed she facilitated unauthorized access to voting equipment and helped expose sensitive data, actions driven by false claims that the 2020 election wa...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/05/2026
Hey Dems, how about a single idea on affordability that does not reaffirm longstanding Republican arguments?
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I have a long history of standing with the faculty & staff of @psc-cuny.org. Proud to have their endorsement in this campaign for Congress. (1/2)
PSC-CUNY endorses Brad Lander for Congress
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
congrats to AFSCME at Illinois State on the TA, pending ratification upstate UIC GEO remains on strike; FAIR CONTRACT NOW pantagraph.com/news/local/e...
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Tentative deal may end AFSCME strike at Illinois State University
Striking AFSCME Local 1110 members and Illinois State University reached a tentative agreement on a new union contract late Monday night, union officials announced shortly before midnight.
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Sean Kitchen @seankitchen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia hotel workers are ready to strike during the World Cup in order to secure a contract. The Sheraton is Philadelphia's second largest hotel and all of their rooms are booked for the sporting event. keystonenewsroom.com/news/philade...
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Philadelphia Sheraton workers threaten to strike during Wold Cup
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown workers walked off the job for the first time last October and are threatening to strike during the World Cup.
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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.
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Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone
A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/04/2026
Find a May Day action near you and other resources at link ⬇️ @higheredlabor.bsky.social
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Labor for Higher Education
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A lot of public service work is task specific, i.e. there is not a big private market for it. So one logic for civil service protections to recruit and retain people who see it has their career, and invest in improving their expertise. Harder to do that now. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We investigate how aspects of “civil service” systems of personnel management interact with bureaucratic discretion to create expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We construct a dynamic model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship-specific) policy expertise and may or may not be interested in policy choices per se. The legislature makes sequentially rational grants of discretion, which serve as incentives for expertise investment and continued service only for policy-motivated bureaucrats. Bureaucratic policy preferences and the legislature's agency problem vis-à-vis bureaucracies develop endogenously in the model. Bureaucratic expertise can be supported in equilibrium only at a cost of its politicization; “neutral competence” is inconsistent with strategic incentives of bureaucrats. We identify several conditions that support the development of an expert bureaucracy in equilibrium, including security of job tenure and control over policy issues for policy-motivated bureaucrats.
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Every federal official involved in this shameful episode needs to be prosecuted.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One thing I want to say about American higher education is that I’ve never had an administrator or colleague tell me to dial it back even on the current moment. My baseline is just “leave me alone” but Michigan has been very supportive.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"We've secretly replaced these users' social media platform with vibecoded hot garbage. Let's see if they notice."
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
From the @aaup.org mothership: "Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History" You're damn right it does.
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Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History
Starting July 1, 2026, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty across Maryland’s four-year public universities will have the right to bargain collectively for the first time in history.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie says fight the man !!!
Alt: a man in a suit and tie says fight the man !!!
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
Our members are on the picket line today demanding a fair contract now! We want a fair disciplinary process, layoff protections & guardrails on artificial intelligence. Support us by donating to our strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
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Eric Sorensen @ericsorensen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Team Sorensen is proud to stand with AFSCME Local 1110 in their fight for fair wages and contracts. Union workers are critical to Illinois State University and I will always have their backs.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 08/04/2026
Thousands of Mathematicians Protest International Conference in U.S. The U.S. is not safe for international mathematicians given the risk of detainment and harassment by ICE, they argue. bit.ly/4cewiRU #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Immigration agents are seen inside Newark Liberty International Airport's Terminal A in Newark, N.J., on March 23, 2026.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield
on strike for a fair contract
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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉
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PSU AAUP @psuaaup.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
City Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Candace Avalos calling on the Cudd administration to stop the worst layoffs in PSU history and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees
City Councilors Candace Avalos, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Mitch Green calling on the Cudd administration to stop the cuts and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees earlierCity Councilors Candace Avalos, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Mitch Green calling on the Cudd administration to stop the cuts and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees earlierCity Councilors Candace Avalos, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Mitch Green calling on the Cudd administration to stop the cuts and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees earlierCity Councilors Candace Avalos, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Mitch Green calling on the Cudd administration to stop the worst layoffs in PSU history and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees
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jamsheed @jamsheed.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
was in this earlier and happy to see it was in fact as big and sprawling as it seemed while in the middle of it.
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