every damn public university in the state is operating under a censorship regime
“The American Association of University Professors and its faculty, staff, and student members across Texas are committed to defending the freedom to teach so that students have the freedom to learn, and maintaining the excellence of the state’s public colleges and universities.”
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📢 TEXAS WORKER WIN: Staff at the Fort Worth Report voted overwhelmingly to unionize!
The Fort Worth Reporters Guild, part of @newsguild.org, is fighting for regular raises, a transparent pay scale, and protections against unjust firings & layoffs.
Welcome to the labor movement, y’all! (via WFAA)
album of the day - Rob Zombie's The Great Satan
Making syllabi and CVs public puts instructors at risk of targeted harassment and invites political actors to attack free inquiry on our campuses.
Sign this petition to demand that the University System of Georgia abandon this policy.
album of the day - The List from Roseann Cash
We are talking about interview methods in class and I ran out of time to assign a larger project on it. If you were going to have students draw up some questions and interview classmates in class, what would be a good topic to have them interview each other about? #polisky #academicsky
The ‘best trumpet player’ in Texas is being detained by himself in Raymondville. The rest of the family is locked up in the San Antonio-area Dilley facility.
If we want to understand why the republic is on the brink, we must start with the fundamental reality of American politics today: The struggle over whether or not the country should actually be a pluralistic democracy maps onto the conflict between the two major parties.
The Texas GOP primaries were full on Islamaphobic. this is not just Trump the GOP is rotten with this stuff
This is what ecocide looks like.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Awesome! Rock Chalk!
Aggie Board of Regents: "Ignorance is strength.”
⭐️👏✊Please add your name to the letter below and join PEN America — and the hundreds who have already signed — in sending a strong message in defense of academic freedom to the Texas A&M Board of Regents.
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big shout out to my co-authors Tina Zappile and Jon Strand (3/3)
Bureaucratic inertia, Congressional restraints, and level of embeddedness in international institutions can constrain foreign policy change (2/3)
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We develop a theory of U.S. foreign policy that argues foreign policy change is mostly driven by Presidential salience. i.e. if the President puts their attention to an issue they can change the U.S. foreign policy orientation. (1/3)
interesting. They must think the AK guy can win. I'm not so sure but this is still a dem pick up opportunity
album of the day - 311's Soundsystem
At @aaup.org & @aft.org we are partnering with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & others to demand that our universities don't do business with companies supporting ICE! @seiu.org launched a campaign to keep March Madness free of Deportation flights. act.seiu.org/a/de-ice-the...
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I don’t want to indulge in conspiracy brian, but Hegseth sounds like a domineering and abusive father or romantic partner when he’s talking about the US military use of force. It’s no wonder the same political movement wants to close gender studies programs and censor sociologist.
posture over policy is a good description of the contemporary GOP (along with white christian national authoritarianism!)
Attacks on academic freedom are driving US researchers to seek opportunities elsewhere.
“Contingency, dwindling jobs & rampant underfunding of education means that a lack of mobility is the norm across the academic profession...& why we must fight..."
—Isaac Kamola, AAUP CDAF
hmmm. I liked cheering for DJ Moore but it's clear he was, for some reason, not as productive as he could have been last season. also he's got (a well deserved) huge contract so its not surprise the Bears are trading him. Good pick up for the Bills, give Josh Allen a big weapon
notice any changes in which refugees are allowed to come to the US
TAMU's reputation for suppression and censorship is growing fast.
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