Andy Vaughan

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Decision Desk is projecting Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City Mayor election.

Decision Desk HQ already calling Zohran Mamdani the winner.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

Don’t forget the prize:

As millions of American children are about to starve and million more Americans are going to lose their health insurance bc this guy and his party have shut down the government they control ...

The PIs of third floor Old Vet / Rosenthal @montserrat-anguera.bsky.social @themodzlab.bsky.social @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social

I wish. But more likely

JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism

Eliminating DEI & hiring your friends www.science.org/content/arti...

WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact.

This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.

Seen at the protest in Philly today @jamesgunn.bsky.social

Dartmouth joins the chorus of rejecting the compact!

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday. I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House- is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission. Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world. We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

Fanboying a bit for my state rep Rick Krajewski, who just gave a powerful call to arms at our AAUP teach-in today. Couldn’t be happier to have such a true progressive representing me.

If you think you won't be affected by the ACA because you have coverage through your employer, you might want to see if they are doing it through the ACA established Small Business Health Options Program, which is ACA for companies of 1-50 employees.

Let’s fill in the snake!!!

Same for me

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Same! Now let’s hope our leaders take our recommendation!

Penn faculty senate overwhelmingly votes to urge university leaders to reject Trump compact The compact "demands that American universities surrender their institutional autonomy and place themselves under the control of the U.S. Federal Government," the faculty senate wrote.

Proud of the Penn faculty!!!

www.inquirer.com/education/up...

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Penn faculty senate overwhelmingly votes to urge university leaders to reject Trump compact The compact "demands that American universities surrender their institutional autonomy and place themselves under the control of the U.S. Federal Government," the faculty senate wrote.

Proud to have been part of this vote. www.inquirer.com/education/up...

White House compact signals threat to Penn shared governance, faculty petition warns The compact was broadly described as a threat to the practice of shared governance — where faculty, staff, administrators, boards, and sometimes students share responsibility for decision-making and p...

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Statement of PA-AAUP on Trump Administration "Loyality Oath" Compacts - PA AAUP We join with education, professional, and civic organizations across the country in opposition to the Federal Government’s recently-proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The ...

paaaup.org/statement-of...

This is the lesson of 2025

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...