Jovanna Rosen

Everyone deserves joy. And it's pretty ironic for the capitalist class to complain that Gen-Z is finding what joy they can afford--given how little they're paid and how much debt they've been forced to carry--in a store-bought pastry or coffee cup.

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems
with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow driver unions The deal brings Uber and Lyft on board with a pathway to unionization for ride-hailing workers after the companies spent years fighting against the idea.

BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Ground the choppers The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.

LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.

It's time to ground them.

As you’re developing syllabi and thinking about AI statements and talking to students, consider using or adapting this resource on social and environmental harms, from our work in the climate justice and media committees. rutgersaaup.org/ai-syllabus-...

New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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One of the more notable things about our present political moment is that former Republicans like Joe Walsh or the folks at the Bulwark have a more clear eyed understanding of political strategy than a significant number of long-time, moderate Democrats.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

Elon Musk regrets tweets about Donald Trump. He does not regret cutting off food and medicine for millions of the poorest people around the world, killing untold numbers of them.

‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated | New Jersey | The Guardian The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry

I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy.
theguardian.com/us-n...

For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Using #Google as a case study, this new special issue paper by Burcu Baykurt calls for a broader theorisation of tech power in cities

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#SmartCities #PlatformUrbanism

We stand with Mayor Baraka, a leader willing to put himself on the line for our communities.

Always inspired by the organizing at Rutgers and, in particular, my brilliant and scrappy colleagues. Thanks for your leadership—for showing us another way forward 💫

Senator Anna Haley pointing to historic moment and focus on resolution as defense of academic freedom, the world is waiting for Rutgers, disappointed with Holloway’s response and failure to have a vision, further vision of the original resolution

Thanks BoG Chair Towers for being here.

The resolution is on the desk of Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway as we speak.

If you think he should move forward with it, drop him a note at president at rutgers dot edu to say so.

Anyone with an interest should write! And that goes double for Rutgers alums + affiliates!!

Good luck!! You’ve got this

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

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Sims examines Mountain View city in #SiliconValley to help make sense of how #DigitalGrowth machines and the restructuring schemes that they pursue arise from and vary in accordance with local contexts, and introduces the notion of growth genres
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Tenure didn’t protect anyone at Columbia. Let this be a lesson in the need for labor solidarity across all ranks in higher ed.

Very excited to finally share my article on reparative-advocacy planning in Philadelphia public schools! This article would not have been possible without all the support of organizers, parents, teachers, and staff in Philadelphia including OCOS, WPCNS, and @parentsunitedphl.bsky.social

Some good news! Friday the US District Court of Maryland granted a nationwide injunction on parts of a pair of EOs issued by Trump related to DEI & accessibility mandates, policies, programs & activities among federal government grantee including colleges & universities. www.aaup.org/news/win-aau...

The thing I keep thinking is that I can’t buy my own cancer research or air traffic control but that’s what Elon is cutting