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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 2d

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

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From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 23h

Thousands of nonprofit organizations have penned an open letter condemning Trump for signing a memorandum indicating his intention to target the free speech of social justice groups under the guise of combating "political violence".

3,700 Nonprofits Sign Open Letter Condemning Trump for Targeting Free Speech

“Weaponizing the executive branch” to punish free speech “is illegal and wrong,” an open letter from the groups said.

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 21h

The attack on our colleagues’ academic freedom, and anything to do with race and diversity, is in full force at OSU.

Obeying in advance once again, OSU is now withdrawing support for scholars studying topics and attending relevant conferences that the federal government doesn't like.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 19h

Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.

Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 5d

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Professor Tom Alter unlawfully terminated at Texas State in a blatant violation of first amendment rights and academic freedom. Please share on social media: #DefendTomAlter #FirstAmendmentTXST

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the original article he is responding to: www.aaup.org/seven-theses...

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth.
@aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."

#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2d

#tdih 1925 Tenants in Panama City protested rising rents & unsanitary conditions. Withheld rent.

In response, U.S. gov't sent soldiers who banned gatherings of 5+ people, killed 2 tenant organizers, & arrested & deported more. 💔

Whose side is gov't on?

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Oct. 12, 1925: U.S. Fights Panama Renters’ Strike

Protesting rising rents and unsanitary conditions, tenants in Panama City, Panama were met with swift force and violence by U.S. soldiers, with six killed during the weekend.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

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Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Oppose Trump Loyalty Oath

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing President Trump’s proposed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” The resolution, citing concerns …

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

"We’ve seen this movie before, and Black communities have been telling America how it ends."

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 4d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 4d

CAHE member joins the LA press conference demonstrating solidarity with k-12 and higher ed workers denouncing AB 715!

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 4d

Check out Debt Collective's Jubilee School offerings -- always free and open to the public. Thank you @debtcollective.bsky.social!
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Jubilee School Courses

Debt Collective Jubilee School Course Offerings – always free and open to the public

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 5d

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 5d

"Discussions regarding the memo have too often focused on bloodless, technocratic terms like 'compliance' or 'implementation.' Behind the legal and policy concerns are real people . . . Transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals are part of our university community." Go AAUP-Texas Tech!

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d

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AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 7d

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 8d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 7d

Please share this widely and help defend Tom against this attack on him for what is indisputably lawfully protected speech.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow! Watch on FB and Youtube!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Good Trouble @whking.bsky.social · 8d

Resistance by a professor. When there is a will, there is a way to fight fascism.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 10d

"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...

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