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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brief but ILLUMINATING reveal of what we're up against. From Provost and VP, supposed to support academ pursuits of teaching, research, knowledge pursuits. All our slashing explained in 4pp: Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus 1. Staffing & Administrative Efficiencies ETC. @aaup.org

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UC Irvine: Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus FY 2027

This is a copy of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) document, Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. It is on the letterhead of the UCI Office of the Provost ...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The obvious problem here is that the organization negotiating and overseeing Microsoft's compliance with "AI guardrails" is funded by Microsoft. A less obvious problem is that this is a union initiative that, because it is run as a separate org, seems outside of union democratic governance.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

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September 11 Docs

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Purchasing power of the federal minimum wage in the US has gone down 38% in the last 20 years.

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Union Jobs @unionjobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Los Angeles College Faculty Guild, AFT Local 1521 seeks an Organizer to be based in Los Angeles, CA. Details can be found at: www.unionjobs.com/listing/3131... #1u #UnionStrong @aft.org

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The @nytimes.com treats @aft.org as Exhibit A in tech industry move to capture the ed sector of US economy. AFT leaders need greater transparency about AFT's "National Academy for AI Instruction": copies of partnerships, bylaws, lists of officers, budget, etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...

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How Big Tech Captured American Schools

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What do cross burnings on college campuses in the US West the 1930s have to do with Trump's attacks on higher education? Check out this episode to find out more. Thanks to Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, who couldn't be a more generous host. americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

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The KKK comes to campus in the 1930s with Trevor Griffey - American Campus Podcast

References and suggested readings:Trevor Griffey. 2007. “The Strongest Chapter in WA: Bellingham's KKK.” The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.Allan J. Lichtman. 2008. White Protestant Na...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

OK I read the Atlantic piece by the ex-Bates professor. 1) there are infinite resources for those willing to write from personal experience in the genre of the "ex-left" expose; 2) unionization helps adjuncts, promoting reverse discrimination complaints or quitting tenure track jobs doesn't.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is why @cftunion.bsky.social should have taken a support position, instead of being neutral. Not too late to revisit the issue.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

$200b in spending over 20 years, with AI in schools and career & technical education a major focus. Imagine if a foundation spent $200b on promoting literacy, small class sizes, and lifelong learning-- but no, it's inconceivable.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A very beautiful expression of 1950s-60s counterculture. Dylan's "last thoughts on Woody Guthrie" has a similar beginning.

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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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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Representing 80% of USC faculty, plus grad students and postdocs, is incredible power! USC will never be the same again, even if media are oblivious.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yet another goddamned op-ed conflating social class with college attendance (not income, wealth, or power at work), framing "immigration, gender and policing" politics as "elite" issues, and treating the average working class person as... a construction worker. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

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Opinion | A Working-Class Party Without Many Workers

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I know writers who: -wrote their first book/ got tenure by elaborating on someone else's digital history -published a book based on a dissertation before its author could publish his own work (but cited it) -wrote multiple textbook chapters that paraphrased monographs (cited but barely mentioned)

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

These stories are piling up of "popular" writers "discovering" history that is "untold", but not mentioning that they found the history in a published historical monograph and/ or unpublished dissertation. It's beyond using "untold" loosely. It's dishonest.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Billionaires always have someone else to blame -- unions, schools, communists, government -- for their lack of popularity.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Why Trump admin cut a deal with Iran: oil price shocks were about to hit the US and global economy at a much more significant scale. In other words, shutting down the strait of Hormuz worked for Iran, and prevented a much greater humanitarian catastrophe.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

After the period of history that I study ends, everything remained fixed...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hard to defend higher ed when teachers are hollowing it out like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

www.ocregister.com/2026/05/29/n...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Unregulated extension and continuing education programs are ripe for abuse -- teacher exploitation, ripping off students, and corruption. Check the @ucirvine.bsky.social example to see why we need to regulate and in some cases abolish these programs. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/from...

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From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine's Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)

510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also ca...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

CA Legislative Analyst's Office wants @uofcalifornia.bsky.social to teach more students with less govt $, advocates non-resident tuition increase premiums at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social , @ucla.edu and @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Sounds like slippery slope. abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Have begun to write about @ucirvine.bsky.social finances to push back against unnecessary budget cuts & layoffs. First 2 pieces: 1) expose Division of Continuing Education mismanagement; and 2) document UCI skimming from tuition and state funding to pad reserves. Link here: campuslabor.substack.com

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Higher Ed Labor (w/ CA Focus) | Trevor Griffey | Substack

This is a publication for sharing information about U.S. higher education labor issues, with a focus on public higher education in the state of California. Click to read Higher Ed Labor (w/ CA Focus),...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is true of me. Anger isn't always good for organizing but it seems hard to really do it right without it. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The corruption around AI companies buying off unions, non profits, schools, politicians etc is next level.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Good job student journalists at @ucirvine.bsky.social New University. newuniversity.org/2026/04/02/s...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This Monday, April 7 at 12pm PT! @heavyredaction.bsky.social and Martha Kenney on "the implications of the uncritical adoption of generative AI in higher education." Link to register for zoom link here: sites.google.com/csusb.edu/cr...

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Critical Perspectives on "AI" in Education

French Postcard, ca. 1901, "In the Year 2000," Wikimedia

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Taught this piece on the first day of class. Similar to what the author predicted, the most engaged students were most excited to criticize their fellow students. Whereas I see the piece as being about a mismatch between students wanting a credential and teachers wanting to promote humanism.

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A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A plurality of Americans loathe Donald Trump. With independents turning against him, a majority oppose his administration. You'd never know it from Twitter or most mainstream news. It's amazing how much the media landscape has been distorted by both siding Trumpism.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Governor Newsom @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social just appointed John “Rusty” Areias and reappointed Greg Sarris to serve 12 year terms to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Board of Regents. Areias is 76 years old. Sarris is 74. ISeems bad to expect people to serve well into 80s or to step down mid-term.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Twitter is mostly right wing influencers testing out messages for destroying support for social welfare or human rights. How to get more people who hate Elon's politics to leave that space and tank his business? I'd be here much more if more professional academics and left pundits were here.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Assembly budget subcommittee 3 meeting today at 9am Pacific on @uofcalifornia.bsky.social budget. Governor's generous budget proposal minimizes anxiety. But leg needs to prevent UC from using tuition increases to pad reserves. www.assembly.ca.gov/events/today

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Events | California State Assembly

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

At this point it's hard to find separation between FIRE and @chronicle.com. Today Len Gutkin at the @chronicle.com reports that when he asked when cancel culture started that a FIRE staffer and a FIRE fellow both chimed in that it was BLM's fault.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm not opposed to great books at all. If every college major were required to study the seminal texts in their field I think it would be for the best. Too bad conservatives have hijacked this cause and tried to shoehorn humanistic disciplines into unthinking patriotism.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social is developing new ways to pit #highereducation workers against each other: 1) put faculty on management bargaining teams; 2) require teachers to pick up the work of striking TAs and graders; 3) make faculty collect TA/RA timesheets; and 4) offer $ for adjuncts to scab.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

People say "historians will judge" their enemies poorly. But the history we're ushering into being is climate change, resource wars, terrifying epidemics, biodiversity collapse. What kind of history do you expect people living through that to produce?

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The @uc-faculty.bsky.social chapter at @ucmerced.bsky.social is doing great work using budget analysis to push for greater spending on instruction in relation to administration. ucmfa.org/fund-learnin...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Modeling budget democracy for higher education: @cnewf.bsky.social critiques @ucirvine.bsky.social for cutting funds for instruction while accumulating hundreds of millions in reserves. Cosponsored by @ucaft.bsky.social and @uc-faculty.bsky.social . youtu.be/T-8MA3VnWQA?...

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Pause the Cuts, Restore Shared Governance: A Zoom Town Hall on the UC Irvine Budget (02/13/2026)

YouTube video by UCAFT

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Far-right regimes can govern without broad popular support. Controlling media, rewriting rules, and weakening institutions lets authoritarian capitalism run smoothly from the top. Resistance requires fracturing capital. www.tni.org/en/article/f...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Great new report on rising fascism and authoritarianism, from international perspective that pays proper attention to race, gender, and imperialism (in a way that some other accounts do not when they merely focus on "populism"). Check it out.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The US is the greatest threat to economic and political stability in the world right now.

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