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How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New commentary by @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and myself: "The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feb. 7th 6PM poetry and labor a reading and discussion Keegan Finberg, author of Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public Kristin Grogan, author of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work Gina Myers, author of Works & Days Lot 49 Books 408 E Girard Philadelphia

One week from tomorrow, I’ll be reading and talking to Gina Meyers and Kristin Grogan about poetry and labor. We will be waxing on about the wageless and the low-waged labors that make up most of our lives. The bookstore is called Lot 49. Philadelphia, you are perfect!

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

Mellisa McCoul tellers her story about being fired at Texas A&M for (check his notes) teaching her subject matter...while being recorded by a student/operative...

I would like to think that I'd have as much grace in that situation as Professor McCoul. @aaup.org @texasaaup.bsky.social

This list of people whom Yale is platforming to discuss the future of higher education encapsulates why the elite, private R1 American university is really the wrong institutional site to think about these questions. president.yale.edu/committees-p...

What a deeply grim line up

I was fortunate to work with Dan when I was an intern at Philadelphia Weekly and always admired and appreciated his writing and love for Philly. I’m going to miss reading him. Love to all the folks close to him.

The snow won’t stop us! Join us online or in person (if the latter travel safely!) tomorrow!

reading University Keywords ("Adacemic Freedom", Ruth and Schrecker) and stopped in my tracks by their quotation of a 1948/49 AAUP declaration that punishing profs for political views would cause campuses to "become havens of cautious mediocrity"

National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social) The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

More than 50 resident doctors and caregivers stood outside HCMC in Minneapolis on Friday shouting “ICE out!” bit.ly/4sXMm25

Philly!! I can’t wait

such questions simply cannot be answered

Would be interested to find out what happened when the titanic tried to turn

This is next week!

As Other Campuses Cut Back, Vanderbilt U. Looks to Expand The university’s announcements of new outposts reflect a desire to chase prestige and enrollment without watering down its brand.

Vanderbilt charting the course of the MAGA accomodationist university to increase revenue and prestige. They're the CBS news of higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/as-o...

there is not a like button big enough for this.

Again, I just can’t shake the end times fascism thesis. We’re dealing with a new class of governing oligarchs who foresee no productive role for the university and are simply preparing to abscond to their little network states.

They also seem to think that hollowing out the system will achieve their weird pronatalist goals.

blue, white and black text based graphic. deep blue background. white layer on top reading "death panel presents" at the top. below that is a larger "death panel" that is mostly obscured by white mark-making. on the very top is the black layer which reads "health fascism and the anti-state state."

Health Fascism and the Anti-State State, now unlocked :)

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Realized that I buried the lede on this before. The report states explicitly that colleges and university should "cultivate a local marriage culture" via a variety of incentives.

Poster with green and yellow background, four moody black and white portraits all with interesting hair, and the green and yellow cover of University Keywords with the text: Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak in conversation January 27, 4:15p ET Sproul 201, IC Dome In-Person and Livestreamed Free and open to the public Supported by the Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore College Libraries

Philly-adjacent! On 1/27 at 4:15p ET I'll talk with Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak about the University Keywords book, but also how to approach the contemporary situation in US higher education.

If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

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“What Welfare Does to You”: Personhood in Baltimore’s Chicory This essay explores how women and children writing lyric poetry about welfare in the 1960s and 1970s for a government-funded publication dismantled the white liberal imagination of what made poverty a...

Hi! Here is a free-access link to my essay on the War on Poverty, family abolition, and lyric technologies for @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Claire Grandy's brilliant special issue about "lyric beyond containment." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Book cover that says Brian Soucek The Opinionated University Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education

It's official publication day for The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education
@uchicagopress.bsky.social

More info on the book here:
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Links in the comments to lots of places I'll soon be visiting.

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

surprise, the inside candidate hand-picked from the business school by the right wing board is a scammer who cooked his CV and systematically misrepresented credentials to impress idiots and politicals who know nothing about academic work

Screenshot of word document which reads: Introduction to Class Heins, M. (2013). Priests of our democracy: The Supreme Court, academic freedom, and the anti-Communist purge. In Priests of Our Democracy. New York University Press. Ch 11 and Ch 12. Marketplace. (2025). What to consider when choosing a college. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_TohEg0EQ [Watch this video to get a feel for the different types of colleges at which you could teach] Ruth, J., & Schrecker, E. (2025). Academic Freedom. In University Keywords, edited by A. Hines. Supplemental Reading: AAUP. Academic Freedom Reading List. https://www.aaup.org/about/programs/protecting-academic-freedom/center-defense-academic- freedom/academic-freedom-1

Still hammering stuff out but I think the first week of my Teaching in Higher Ed class is just about there