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Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited to share the keynoting privilege with @camitchell.bsky.social scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...
17.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Breaking News | UVA Becomes 5th University to Reject Trump Higher Ed Compact
The university is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." https://bit.ly/47tWIOl
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
17.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
The absurd softness of the language used in this headline. “Reaching out.” “Invitees.” This is the fucking President of the United States using the power of the federal government to publicly intimidate institutions of higher education into accepting an ideological mandate.
17.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco
intolerant billionaire, 61, discovers holding and vocalizing disgusting political views has business consequences www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
17.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A take on Benjamin Franklin’s Join, or Die political cartoon originally published by The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. Franklin’s cartoon was based on a superstition that if a snake was cut in pieces and the pieces were put together before sunset, the snake would return to life. The original cartoon is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the American colonies. This version replaces the colonies with universities targeted by the Trump administration for a ‘loyalty oath’ compact to ensure federal funding. The schools are M.I.T., Penn, Brown, UVA, Dartmouth, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Arizona, and the University of Texas. So far, M.I.T, Brown, Penn, and USC have all rejected the offer.
Four down.
Five to go.
Let’s go.
Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths.
Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#DefendHigherEd
17.10.2025 03:07 — 👍 160 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 1
“With its compact, the Trump administration is attempting to silence not just university presidents, but every school, department and center that universities run.” @ucaft.bsky.social @aaup.org @uc-faculty.bsky.social
16.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow, October 17 at 2 p.m. ET on Zoom.
Register here for our Teach-In on Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” Compacts here👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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16.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
16.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 276 🔁 98 💬 4 📌 8
When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us!
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!
@aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
15.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 87 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 0
Judge Lin: “As it appears that Defendants have the resources to continue terminating grants despite the lapse in appropriations, they must also allocate resources to defend the legality of those terminations in court.”
15.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
U.S. District Court rules the Trump administration cannot delay lawsuit proceedings with AAUP and labor unions because of the Federal government shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
15.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“The Regents of the University of California is ORDERED to produce the requested document on or before Friday October 24, 2025.”
15.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The document was sent from one public entity to another public entity, it addresses matters of public concern and the expenditure of public funds, and much of its contents has already been made public in the University’s own press releases...”
15.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
from the order: “The University’s central argument is that it would be easier for the University to negotiate with the DOJ if the document were not disclosed to the public. That is not compelling...”
15.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”
But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.
“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”
I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.
15.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 239 🔁 81 💬 7 📌 11
Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement
Drop Site Daily: October 14, 2025
⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 14, 2025
Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement
www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...
14.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 140 🔁 87 💬 8 📌 19
The Facebook page ICE Sighting-Chicagoland with over 70,000 members has been taken down by Meta.
Meta spokesperson Francis Brennan, who was director of strategic response for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, said the page violated its policies on coordinating harm.
14.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 148 🔁 84 💬 9 📌 12
SEND AN EMAIL: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library
Ask your representative to call for the reinstatement of CDC librarians to protect public health.
On Oct. 10th, staff at the CDC Library and many other agency employees were laid off as part of massive job cuts. While some staff have been rehired, librarians have not been called back to work. Take action now!✊ action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
14.10.2025 22:35 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump attorneys argue "neither the UC Regents nor the University of California broadly are parties to this suit," and cite that as UC's implied support for a stay.
That's right. Trump lawyers using UC's failure to stand up to them as consent for continued threats to 100k workers and students.
13.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
MIT President Sally Kornbluth next to a shot of the campus and text of an open letter to the government on the education compact proposed by President Donald Trump. In black text the kicker Governance, the headline MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact, and the sub-headline MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding for far-reaching changes. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Nate Hovee/iStock/Getty Images | MIT
The quote “In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.” — Sally Kornbluth, MIT president, in a letter to the campus community Friday.
ICYMI | MIT has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.
https://bit.ly/3KO0g5l
13.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Fall Bargaining Summit flyer for UC-AFT Unit 18 Teaching Faculty. Event scheduled for Friday 11/14 from 12-1pm on Zoom. Features UC-AFT logo and photo of faculty at a protest rally.
Attention UC-AFT teaching faculty: Save the date for our Fall Bargaining Summit on Nov 14 at noon. RSVP for the Zoom and join UC lecturers from across the state to discuss building power in upcoming negotiations.✊ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
12.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
12.10.2025 04:12 — 👍 50 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 3
Founded in 1966, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world.
Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Moving our East Bay community for over 60 years 🚍 actransit.org
Pres & CEO @DemocracyForward.org | lawyer | supporter of the arts | (cowboy) boot lover | alum of ACOG, WilmerHale, Covington, Baylor U, Georgetown Law | our kids will ask what we did | views mine
Chicago-based library worker + DJ—MA + MSLIS
#CritLib, #CriticalAI, #InfoLit, digital preservation, communication, cultural studies—views my own
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A leftist library worker podcast.
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Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
Writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. UCSB. www.charmainechua.com
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
Administrative law, political theory. Author: The Public’s Law. Personal views only. https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/blake-emerson
Guardian senior reporter, based in Los Angeles. Sam.Levin@theguardian [dot] com. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin
Academic Librarian, SFHEA, #ebookSOS campaigner, WikimediaUK trustee, NLISN committee member. UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020, JISC Community Champion 2025.
A community of practice for open institutional publishers in the UK, driving change in academic publishing. Visit https://oipauk.org/
Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Working to build a better Berkeley for all of us!
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Podcast covering the end of capitalism from a “far Left” perspective.
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Professor at Berkeley School of Education interested in the intersections of learning & ideology, race, technology.
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