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Trevor Griffey

@trevorgriffey.bsky.social

Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine & UCLA. VP of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. LAWCHA Board. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Higher Ed blog: https://campuslabor.blogspot.com/

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"with plans to eventually offer microcredentials and a minicertification in AI in the future"!!

28.10.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans: β€œStop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: β€œI love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:

16.10.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 757    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 17

LA transit fail is so epic it is hard to put it in the top tier of cities.

12.10.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

Worth reading.

www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

10.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who's the one donor? The PAC that nuked us with mailers?

27.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Storm is Coming (1932) A campaign speech by Joseph Goebbels from 9 July 1932.

How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...

22.09.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.

19.09.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you're active in IFA!

Even without the AI investment UCI has manufactured budget cuts by reallocating over $10m/ year combined to Biology, Engineering and Medicine. See Chis Newfield's great analysis on his blog.

18.09.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UC Irvine IMPACT Program | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation

At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses.

dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...

18.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Autocrats can only be just one guy?

18.09.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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18.09.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exploitation is a religious value.

18.09.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

17.09.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UC Faculty, Staff, Students & Unions Sue to Halt Trump Admin Assault
YouTube video by TheAAUP UC Faculty, Staff, Students & Unions Sue to Halt Trump Admin Assault

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRvt...

16.09.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Broad Coalition of Faculty, Staff, Students, and Unions Unite to Defend University of California System From Trump-Vance Administration Assault - Democracy Forward

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social won't sue to stop Trump's extortion but campus labor unions will.

democracyforward.org/updates/titl...

16.09.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Holzer installation at Tate Modern

Holzer installation at Tate Modern

16.09.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jenny Holzer: Fear is the Most Elegant Weapon...

Jenny Holzer: Fear is the Most Elegant Weapon...

16.09.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
I was shocked to be reading this for the first time.  UCOP officials knew when they signed it that it would be applied by Trump’s Office of Civil Rights, not Biden’s.  Biden would be gone in a month so what was the point? The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities. In my non-expert opinion, it breaches the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) that protects the privacy of student educational dataβ€”one could at least make a case. As UC strategy, it seems deeply inept. And, again to the theme, UCOP doesn’t protect its own community but exposes it to danger. It does this without the due process or the basic decency of openly explaining what they did or how they will minimize the damage.

I was shocked to be reading this for the first time. UCOP officials knew when they signed it that it would be applied by Trump’s Office of Civil Rights, not Biden’s. Biden would be gone in a month so what was the point? The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities. In my non-expert opinion, it breaches the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) that protects the privacy of student educational dataβ€”one could at least make a case. As UC strategy, it seems deeply inept. And, again to the theme, UCOP doesn’t protect its own community but exposes it to danger. It does this without the due process or the basic decency of openly explaining what they did or how they will minimize the damage.

. @cnewf.bsky.social on the December 2024 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social deal with the lame duck Biden admin to obligate the UC to coordinate its enforcement of civil rights law on UC campuses with the incoming Trump administration.

utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

16.09.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly why @ucla.edu must not settle with the Trump administration. It will only set a precedent for shaking down the whole system, then for going after other public research 1 universities after that.

16.09.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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15.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
Request by UCI for 2nd LRAD and various munitions.

Request by UCI for 2nd LRAD and various munitions.

. @ucirvine.bsky.social tooling up for its repression of demonstrations in 2025-26.

The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.

regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25

16.09.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weird that support goes down when Ds are in office.

08.09.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My US higher ed labor list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

08.09.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See you in occupied DC next summer. AFT convention needs to be democratic and focused on organizing.

08.09.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What we really need right now; someone with the courage to both sides genocide, mass deportations, unconstitutional governance and more.

04.09.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The great refusal has become a cliche.

The great refusal has become a cliche.

By 1966 the New Left already felt old and cliched to people who were part of it. The conclusion of much longer critique of the limits of immediacy and moralism.

27.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This red state fears Californians bringing 'radical, leftist ideology.' It's targeting teachers In Oklahoma, education officials are requiring teachers from California and New York to take an exam aimed at guarding against 'radical leftist ideology.'

Ideology test for public school teachers in Oklahoma. How long until it goes national? www.latimes.com/california/s...

23.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean racist?

23.08.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Faculty Under Fire: Administrative Power Plays and the Challenges of This School Year
YouTube video by The Disinfo Detox Faculty Under Fire: Administrative Power Plays and the Challenges of This School Year

🚨 Faculty, heads up! This fall brings hidden challenges & admin power plays. Hear Nolan Higdon, Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel break it down. youtu.be/sOHw91P9Qvg @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaft-riverside.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social @aaup.org

20.08.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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California Labor Federation

The @californialabor.bsky.social Unionize California t-shirts are awesome. stores.inksoft.com/unionize_cal...

20.08.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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