Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Make no mistake: Trump's EO changing NIH funding isn't about improving lives or public health. It's about attacking our colleges & universities for failing to fall in line with his extreme authoritarian agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...nytimes.comWhite House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. GrantsFederal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending. 02419
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hundreds of thousands of Americans submitted public submitted comments calling on Trump to stop politicizing research funding. The Trump administration's EO ignores the will of the people, doing an end run around Congress & around what voters want. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...pbs.orgKey senators reject White House proposal on NIH grantsSens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. 22314
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The NIH funds lifesaving research into treatments for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, cancer & more. Handing funding control to political appointees instead of independent review boards won't make us healthier or safer. It’s the opposite. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...scientificamerican.comWhat a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for scienceAdvocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science 16039
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The 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.orgscientificamerican.comWhat a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for scienceAdvocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science 0119
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAFT @aft.org · 16/09/2026@rweingarten.bsky.social & @proftwolf.bsky.social respond to Linda McMahon’s “Compact 2.0”: “Rather than expanding educational access and preserving academic freedom, your administration has led a coordinated scorched-earth campaign of ideological demands, funding threats and grant terminations.”aft.orgAAUP and AFT Call on Linda McMahon to Halt Unlawful Political Interference and Protect Academic FreedomWASHINGTON—Today, in a direct response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s “A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards” (often known as “Compact 2.0”), American Associa... 186
Reposted by Todd WolfsonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wrapping up our @standupforscience.net trip to Paris. We are working to get out the vote of Americans abroad, met with leadership of several NGOs and Sciences Po to discuss science and democracy in 2026, opened the CERI academic year with @proftwolf.bsky.social, and met with the French Senate! 37019
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRebecca Givan @rkgwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We have some questions for Secretary McMahon. Crucial letter from @proftwolf.bsky.social and @rweingarten.bsky.social. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...aaup.org 031
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When AI is used in schools, parents & educators deserve transparency, students deserve safety & everyone deserves strong privacy protections. That’s what this agreement between @aft.org, @uft.org & @microsoft.com delivers w/enforceable safeguards that put students & families & educators first. 1111560
Reposted by Todd WolfsonUC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026At the August 27 bargaining session in San Diego, UC-AFT lecturers advanced six proposals and challenged the UC on layoffs. Read the details and join our fight for a fair contract!✊ weteachuc.org/2026/09/09/b... 055
Reposted by Todd Wolfsonprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026"network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent--became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations" by @proftwolf.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...press.uillinois.eduDigital Rebellion 152
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026While safeguarding national security is a legitimate govt priority, this demand creates a serious danger of racial & national-origin profiling that threatens academic freedom & undermines scientific innovation and research that benefits all Americans. www.aft.org/press-releas...aft.orgAFT and AAUP on Department of War Directive Targeting 30 UniversitiesWASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Department of War directing 30 universities to b... 2169
Reposted by Todd WolfsonSean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Thanks 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...youtube.comBreaking Culture Live - Higher Ed update with Todd Wolfson, AAUP president and AFT Vice presidentYouTube video by Breaking Culture Live 0177
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAFT @aft.org · 26/08/2026"By threatening to pull vital federal research funding without disclosing the standards used to target these institutions, and without providing any public evidence of actual wrongdoing, the government may be bypassing due process." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @proftwolf.bsky.socialaft.orgAFT and AAUP on Department of War Directive Targeting 30 UniversitiesWASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Department of War directing 30 universities to b... 0114
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026The 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.aaup.orgDepartment of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded. 35939
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026They are actively trying to destroy higher education. 032
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026economic sabotage culture detonation bigotry bomb 15516
Reposted by Todd WolfsonSean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Looking 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. 1127
Reposted by Todd WolfsonPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I had a great convo with @proftwolf.bsky.social, president of the American Association of University Professors. He discussed AAUP's endorsement of El-Sayed, the group's plans to make more endorsements this fall, and why universities are a core part of democracy. newrepublic.com/article/2146...newrepublic.comTranscript: Why Professors Got Behind El-SayedAAUP President Todd Wolfson says that endorsing El-Sayed and other candidates is part of defending both higher education and democracy. 18423
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thanks for the discussion @perrybaconjr.bsky.social! 021
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Target has shown that its leadership can change course. But it still refuses to call for an end to ICE’s occupation of the Twin Cities. Until Target stands with its own community, we’re asking members and allies to shop local instead. shopsmart.aft.org 48944
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAFT @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.orginsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 15429
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @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 #academicskyinsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 14724
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @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 Presidentwashingtonpost.comOpinion | What professors gained by winning with El-SayedThe American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more. 211740
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026🥱 Response incoming! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | What the professors lost by winning with El-SayedThe AAUP first-ever endorsement comes with political and professional costs. 041
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @aaup.org · 08/08/2026Trump’s Compact 2.0 announced by Linda McMahon this week should be placed in the context of their failed 2025 “loyalty oath” compact that was defeated by students & faculty at every institution they offered it to. Organizing & collective pressure works. 1 🧵 www.aaup.org/issue/winter... 226286
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026@NYSUT.bsky.social President @MelindaJPerson.bsky.social is right. Kids don’t need a robot teaching them. They need more human connection to learn most effectively. www.latimes.com/world-nation...latimes.com 287
Reposted by Todd Wolfsonabdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Melat Kiros and Darializa Avila Chevalier (the latter two are PhD candidates) examples of academics who successfully went out of the ivory tower and talked to regular people and resonated with them. but you'll never hear of this as an example of higher ed being engaged. 235364
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Congratulations! 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... 06319
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026“By embarking on a campaign of censorship, Texas A&M has abdicated its responsibility to support students’ right to learn & faculty’s right to teach. A university that censors Plato & other texts abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, & the public trust.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president 5aaup.orgAAUP President Todd Wolfson: An Institution That Censors Plato is Not a Serious Institution of Higher LearningCensoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or ge... 06222
Reposted by Todd WolfsonTexas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“The American Association of University Professors is joined in the Texas A&M lawsuit by four faculty plaintiffs, each of whom says the policy prompted their course to be canceled or not offered.” www.chronicle.com/article/what...chronicle.com‘What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&MPlaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not offered. 214770
Reposted by Todd WolfsonJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Everything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org 24825
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...aaup.orgNew Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t OverThe Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their... 27238
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAFT @aft.org · 04/08/2026“As with [Trump's] first compact, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their administrations and governing boards reject Compact 2.0. There is every reason to believe we can do so again." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org's @proftwolf.bsky.socialaft.orgAFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp... 03925
Reposted by Todd WolfsonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...politico.comTop senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgapIt’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said. 512766
Reposted by Todd Wolfson🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Often my academic friends ask how they can help when they learn how Texas is restricting teaching and denying tenure. The answer: Join AAUP. Your dues—small as they are (~$30)—help build collective power to fight for legislation, policy, and in the courts for students, faculty, & staff. Join us! 35628
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today, @aaup.org proudly endorses @abdulelsayed.bsky.social as Michigan's next US Senator. This is the first endorsement in our history. Abdul's a past member & son of an AAUP chapter president & he understands the crisis and how we build for what comes next! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comAAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate EndorsementsThe group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality. 061
Reposted by Todd WolfsonAAUP @aaup.org · 30/07/2026"There's an extreme, radical, right-wing agenda coming out of the federal government targeting higher education. The AAUP won’t exist in an ivory tower and wait for politics to be done to its members. That’s not the AAUP of 2026." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP Presidentinsidehighered.comAAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate EndorsementsThe group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality. 06526
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Charges against @seiu.org USWW President David Huerta have been dropped! This administration cannot silence people who exercise their constitutional right to peacefully stand up for working families and the safety of their communities. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...politico.comDOJ moves to drop case against California labor leaderThe arrest of SEIU leader David Huerta sparked outrage around the administration's immigration agenda. 8513141
Reposted by Todd WolfsonRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 27/07/2026@aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social is right.Chancellor Creighton's memos are meant to scare staff away from teaching subjects some lawmakers disagree with. Texas Tech's restrictions are about ideological control, not academic oversight. @texasaaup.bsky.social www.aft.org/news/america...aft.orgAmerican Association of University Professors and Texas AAUP-AFT fight back against academic censorshipThe American Association of University Professors and Texas AAUP-AFT are suing the Texas Tech University System, claiming its policies restrict professors from using course material about race, gender... 29038