Over the past 9 months, @aaup.org and the 100's of branches have proven that WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. We are building a "Wall of Wins" to help faculty, students, and staff see the power of unity. HELP US by quote-posting with links to your own stories about #AAUPwins to be collected on a new website.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way | Rebecca Solnit Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

the thought police

unbelievable

The violent incident was also witnessed by Fr. Vidal Rivas at nearby St. Matthews Episcopal Church. St. Matthews has served as a safe space for community members; Rivas has pledged to become legal guardian for any children whose parents were deported, signing documents on behalf of 14 children.” ⚓️

proud of my union every day

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

the exact right question if you ask me

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel's Assault on Gaza In Italy, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of dozens of cities Monday as Italian labor unions led a nationwide 24-hour general strike to demand an end to Israel's assault on Gaza.

Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now.

But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

lol

Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan | The Dig Get more from The Dig on Patreon

Terrific and clarifying conversation on @thedigradio.bsky.social with Ian Gavigan on labor and the politics of universities www.patreon.com/posts/138288...

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

congratulations Andy! I'm looking forward to reading and using this.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

@StephenJ_Caruso on X: Inbox: Gov. Josh Shapiro has ordered that the commonwealth's flag be flown at half-staff in memory of Charlie Kirk until Sunday.

Jesus christ what is wrong with Democrats

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

this seems like the place for this:

www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

As expected, they aren't going deep into the city proper at the moment and are crawling through the suburbs, including Elmhurst, potentially Evanston, Des Plaines. Seeing an arrest video now out of Elgin again yesterday as well.

they should be fighting *everything* -- the failure the Dems to oppose the rise of fascism is monumental, staggering, unforgiveable

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

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