Chris Newfield

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Liner Note 43. Caring for Austerity UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024    Every meeting tells a story as Rod Stewart once sang, more or less.   What stories have UC’s Office of the...

What do you do when your board never asks for enough money to keep academic quality--& has no plan ever to ask for enough money? A new post at the Remaking blog on responding to the hypernormalization of bad university budgets, with U California as Exhibit A utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

I’m so sorry Matt.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork

BRB inviting all my friends over for drinks and insurance forms.

the OBR - the incompetent overloards of a destabilising fiscal rule regime

GIVE US BACK OUR TRAINS, DAMNIT

*__this post brought to you by autism__*

Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit? The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?

really good advice from @latimes.com @hiltzikm.bsky.social for the Unversity of California to be more like Michael Corleone in this one way: "my offer is nothing." www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Panic Tears Through U.S. as Health Insurance Costs Spike - The American Prospect The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance.

really good overview by Whitney Curry Wimbish of the Trump health cost crisis with examples of insane premium increases.“It’s kind of like this war,” Sam said, “on everyone.” prospect.org/2025/11/21/a...

Justice Dept. Sues California Over College Benefits for Undocumented Students

My response as a college would to say, bring it on: it is time to start attacking executive order to the states or private entities that are not federal agencies, www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u.... An executive order is an instruction to a federal agency.

an update on the post below: on the 2 UCLA faculty resolutions--for restoration of shared budget governance and for IT transparency, the votes were 115 Approve, 1 Oppose and 104 Approve, 2 Oppose. It seems to quote Avery Gordon "the repression isn't working anymore."

We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand.

But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.

Yeah whatever happened to this?

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

WE WON!!!

The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.

Read the order here:

I refuse to believe politicians are forgetting how rancid MTG is. Sure we can have a big tent but we do not need to welcome someone like her. Please everyone get a fucking hold of yourselves.

Liner Note 42. Since Your Power is the Story Then Never Interrupt It Indiana University on November 6, 2025    Critiquing universities is one thing and rebuilding them is another.   Getting from the first to...

I spoke at 4 US universities over 3 weeks, had a great time with everyone and learned a ton from people. The post theme is never not telling our story and never not acting on it. The weather was perfect in Bloomington, Indiana and so were the leaves. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.

NEW: Both Pro-Life Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood have registered in support of a bill to expand Medicaid coverage for new low-income moms.

Despite the bipartisan unity, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says, “We already have enough welfare in Wisconsin.”

Ky. Professor “Reassigned” After Call for War on Israel Sues The University of Kentucky law professor who was removed from teaching amid his calls for a global war on Israel to end its existence as a state is now suing his institution and the U.S. education sec...

Ky. Professor ‘Reassigned’ After Call for War on Israel Sues
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Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."

WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report. It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

My employer has announced a voluntary redundancy scheme. By the standards of what’s happening elsewhere in the UK it’s really not that bad…

But the fact that the University insists on describing this as an ‘investment’ is mind-boggling.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.

In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.

“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."

For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.

Stunning report.

Get ready for Trump to tell SCOTUS that murdering Epstein was part of his official duties as president, and them saying "sounds good"