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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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jacob biba @jacobbiba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

need someone to track down the person Balkcom’s mother shot youtu.be/s1lD736grdg

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YouTube video by Jennifer Balkcom for Congress

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We just spent two hours on hold with the IRS, but the hold music was not abrasive and we were finally connected with a dedicated, competent, and friendly federal employee who resolved our issue in a few minutes. We look forward to a future in which everyone can have this, minus the two hour wait.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/09/2026

“We’ve seen time and time again that fascism doesn’t want to use force to achieve its goals. It wants people to be scared and to comply…We want the university to stand up for its principles.” Welcome CMU-AAUP!

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Professors form advocacy chapter

More than 40 faculty members joined together this August to form an advocacy chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Co-founded by Dietrich professor Jay Aronson…

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us Friday, 10/2, for a critical AI teach-in with the wonderful Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social! She'll be helping us think about the importance of reclaiming our reading and writing skills from generative "AI." Learn more and access Zoom link here: www.aaupnc.org/projects/gen...

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AAUP NC - Genuine Intelligence Project

The Genuine Intelligence Project

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He admitted it in an all-caps text and asked for donations to fix the problem

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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/09/2026

Join us on Monday, 9/28 to learn why billionaires like Marc Rowan want to destroy academic freedom & how faculty, campus workers, & students can fight back to defend the freedom to teach, learn, research & speak out without government censorship. RSVP 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

THE BILLIONAIRE ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨”Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies was the only field within the newly consolidated Social and Cultural Analysis Department that had all of its courses cut from the core, said professor Jo Hsu, who specializes in gender studies and rhetoric.” 🚨 www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These cuts will leave 760,000 working people without healthcare. That’s on top of the millions of Americans already going without healthcare because of rising costs and cuts to care in the Big Beautiful Bill. This does nothing to address affordability. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraud

Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The NIH funds lifesaving research for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cancer & more. Handing funding control to political appointees instead of independent boards makes us less healthy, & sets a dangerous precedent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... @rweingarten.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org

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What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great article on how sheriff's deputies in Durham, N.C. are referring people to ICE for very minor offenses. The cooperation between local cops and the immigration goon squads is a growing stain on America indyweek.com/news/durham-...

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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes

Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/09/2026

The Vanderbilt Report complex perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon: academic celebrities attacking solid scholarship by completely misrepresenting it, and then blaming scholarship for academia’s demise.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.aclutx.org/cases/americ... 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. It includes details on 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

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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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People from all over the world end up at Baton Rouge or Shreveport or whatever to clean its waters and cure its cancers and these jetski dealers want to watch them squirm because it makes them feel big. Stalker state.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is mind bogglingly insane and utterly infuriating. Some of the most important academic research today is the social science and history that can help us understand how we got here.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At NCSU next Thursday, brought to you by our allies at UE-150

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨🚨AAUP Chapter at UT Austin VP Lauren Gutterman: “There's been no direct communication from the provost with faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, no clear explanation about why these degree plans are being shut down," she said."The justification is just entirely lacking."

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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors

The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're excited about this workshop next week! Hope to see you there! @aaup.org @ncaaup.bsky.social

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Learn how right-wing groups are trying to change accreditation to promote their ideology.

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please join us for a teaching critical AI literacies workshop with Dr. Lauren M.E. Goodlad on September 23rd at 4:30 PM at the Franklin Humanities Institute! @ncaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org fhi.duke.edu/event/lauren... If you can't make it in person, the event will also be streamed via Zoom!

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Lauren Goodlad, "Teaching Critical AI Literacies" | John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute

Lauren Goodlad, "Teaching Critical AI Literacies"

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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There is no more "state of the humanities" as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack. There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of educational
infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack
in which civil society can remain unimperiled. There is no sense calling for independent or solitary action by something called "the humanities" when that category has been so thoroughly absorbed by concerted attacks on democratic governance, due process of law, rights to privacy, security, assembly, and expression.
We are all humanists now.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A North Carolina professor in the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: "I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” Here are more voices from the region: 1/x lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...

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University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

State laws are targeting the curriculum, pedagogy, and student support. How should faculty members navigate the new legal environment? Jeffrey C. Sun, Heather A. Turner, and Mitchel R. Mandel offer analysis and recommendations in a new Academe article.

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The Vise Tightens

State laws are targeting the curriculum, pedagogy, and student support. How should faculty members navigate the new legal environment?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A pastor for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP Senate nominee, opened with a prayer asking God to bestow "integrity and honesty." It was delivered by Pastor Daimon King, a registered sex offender twice imprisoned for convictions involving children. apnews.com/article/what...

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/09/2026

“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #academicsky

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Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate

Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.

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