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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When students lose financial aid, it changes the financial landscape for our colleges and universities. Workers bear the impact. Jobs get cut and programs closed. Join us Tues 9/1 at 7pm ET for a virtual Town Hall on the fight to protect and expand Pell Grants. Register: tinyurl.com/PellTownHall
Join the fight to protect and expand Pell Grants at our Virtual Town Hall Tues 9/1 at 7pm ET – Raise Hell for Pell!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/08/2026
“It seems like the new strategy now is to threaten litigation, and then to move the institutions into negotiations.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Trump's higher ed shakeup starts a new semester
Universities are raising red flags about proposed changes to federal assistance.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Where is the $$ going to come from if it doesn’t come from federal grants & it doesn’t come from foreign students paying full freight & it doesn’t come from in-state students because we freeze tuition again? Maybe someone should get in front of microphones & explain this to voters & alums & parents?
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 24/08/2026
How New Visa Limits Are Already Affecting Colleges Fifteen institutions submitted testimony explaining how the rule, which allows international students to stay in the U.S. for only four years without an extension, is already impacting their campuses. bit.ly/3SMWu0p #EDUSky #AcademicSky
An illustration of a hammer smashing a visa.
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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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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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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And if you're not a member? Well you should be. Dues scale with income and they fund the national lawsuits and the local organizing (like the lunch we ordered for new organizer training!). What are you waiting for?
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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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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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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 · 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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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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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 Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@aaup.org and AFT Higher Ed oppose Trump’s Compact 2.0!
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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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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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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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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jordan’s best option among plans is the Income-Contingent Repayment, and under this plan, her new monthly payment is $3,900, almost five times the original amount. “There’s no way on God’s green Earth I can afford that payment,” she said. Jordan is 70. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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The Plan 8 Million Student Loan Borrowers Were Counting On Just Disappeared
As the Biden-era SAVE plan ends, borrowers are facing unaffordable bills, lost payment records, and errors that have falsely put some into default.
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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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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Question is: what is the most effective way to stop this? The answer: organize and unionize with your colleagues! Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/07/2026
US research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...
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AAUP, AFT Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Be sure to read this if you haven't already!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/07/2026
Trump is waging a “Khmer Rouge-esque war on American science & intellectual achievement writ large,” escalating the climate crisis while systematically gutting the research needed to predict, mitigate, & survive it. #academicsky
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The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American Prospect
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New #RaceClass Podcast is out. We dive into Texas GOP's assault on its own universities. Lots of tactics, strategies & people(!) plucked straight from DeSantis' own effort to resegregate & undermine Florida's once heralded institutions. soundcloud.com/user-8088721...
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Ep. 66 | Why Education Scares Texas' GOP
Why is Texas' GOP so scared to educate their own students? Jon & Arnie discuss the rising repression across Texas' public universities. The Texas state legislature, with help from handpicked rightwing
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Be sure to check out this incredible recap thread from @local6741.bsky.social on the @aaup.org advocacy chapters' participation at the @aft.org convention! Amazing stuff, ya'll.
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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
organize, plan, propose -- we do not need NLRB recognition or a collective bargaining agreement (CBA/contract). organize!!!!!!
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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AAUP’s @local6741.bsky.social has nearly doubled in size, and they continue to expand their reach across various colleges and universities.
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🔥❤️🔥❤️ Check out this whole thread. Pure 🔥
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Welcome and give our colleagues at @nfaatunr.bsky.social some love & follow them!
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Brilliant 🧵! Now, how do we get serious about fighting this? Gotta organize & UNIONIZE our academic colleagues! The power we as organized labor can exert on the economic & political system is far greater than shallow mobilization efforts. Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join Get organizing!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/07/2026
Trump has called the decades of peer-reviewed climate science that guides the NAS manual for judges "fraudulent." He has repeatedly tried to discredit the science behind climate change, because his big oil and gas donors are responsible for accelerating it. 🧵
Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, via Truth Social.

"The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change. These bogus Manuals were used by Judges to decide massive "Climate Change" Cases, and have created huge losses across our Country. These Manuals have been totally DISCREDITED. Our Nation's Federal Judges deserve Facts and Science, not Political Fraud and False Science on Climate. With this TRUTH, I hereby order Federal Suspension and Debarment Officials to review this conduct. Our Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great examples of academic workers organizing and winning *before* formal union recognition. Don’t wait for permission or recognition from the state or employer. When people recognize the union as their own, that’s the basis of power
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wait, what?!?! Who is this? He looks familiar. Oh yeah, that's just our amazing VP @dmgreene.bsky.social dropping some powerful organizing knowledge about pre-contract union organizing on ya'll, using some inspiring examples from our work here—in our pre-contract union!—at UMD!
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Love everything about this! Are you an @aaup.org advocacy chapter or at-large member? Then you are part of @local6741.bsky.social. Want to know the incredible stuff we did at the @aft.org convention last week? Check out this recap 🧵
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🔥❤️🔥❤️ Check out this whole thread. Pure 🔥
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is why we fight. Join here: www.aaup.org/join And start organizing your colleagues with us today.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Elected union leaders from Utah, Bri Kramer and Sydney O'Shay, share why they supported our resolution in support of pre-contract unionism at the recent AFT convention. Like so many of our members, they're already doing amazing work—imagine what they could do with more resources! @aaup.org @aft.org
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is how we win
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 22/07/2026
Federal research cuts to minority serving colleges have threatened to crush the aspirations of young scholars who, just a few years ago, were hired because of their expertise on race-related topics that many now feel pressure to play down. chroni.cl/4yyNb4h
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The Research Cuts No One Is Talking About
Minority-serving institutions are quietly being denied funds key to their aspirations. Their leaders don’t want to discuss it.
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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We have to fight like never before. Want to fight? Join @aaup.org today and get organize with tour colleagues wherever in the country you are!
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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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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/07/2026
“Compressing or reducing the curriculum threatens to narrow students’ education at precisely the moment when society needs graduates with stronger critical thinking, communication skills, scientific literacy, & civic understanding." — @proftwolf.bsky.social, @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicsky
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Pennsylvania state universities weigh 3-year bachelor’s degree option
The development comes as colleges continue to face criticism over costs and some schools try to stem declining enrollments.
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Incisive thread on the Trump admin’s tightening of visa rules for noncitizen students as a new white-nationalist twist on a long history of using immigration restrictions to exert racial power: (By the author of a new book, Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students and the Making of U.S. Higher Ed)
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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@higheredheist.com once again has the goods. This time detailing the conflicts of interest that abound in the corporate structure of DeSantis’s accrediting agency, The Commission for Public Higher Education, Inc. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Do You Have Any Idea Who You Are Getting Into Business With—Or What Business You're Getting Into?
For the General Counsels of the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas Public University Systems—Et Al.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Organize the South" is more than a slogan, it's a strategic necessity for the higher ed labor movement. Our resolution on supporting pre-contract unionism will help give our southern chapters the resources they need to fight and win. #UnionStrong @ajdouglas.bsky.social @aft.org @aaup.org
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Sometimes people ask us why we insist that we must understand paying our @aaup.org dues as an important form of building power. Here is one example below. Join @aaup.org and help us keep defending faculty across the country and building power. Then, start organizing your colleagues!
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@insidehighered.com out with an incredible piece of investigative reporting detailing the shocking conditions that our @aaup.org members are fighting at Wenzhou-Kean University! www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Inside the 'Culture of Fear' At Wenzhou-Kean University
Faculty at Wenzhou-Kean have accused their employer of obfuscatory employment agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation and lack of shared governance. University officials dispute ...
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