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Robert Moorehead
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Sociologist of race and immigration in the US and Japan
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aaup.org
“We will not be intimidated into silence.”

—Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M

This fight is bigger than Texas A&M—it is about whether public universities will serve democracy or fear it.

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January 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
Anyone have a link to an online version of this textbook?
moorehead.bsky.social Robert Moorehead @moorehead.bsky.social · 1d
How can anyone now take these universities seriously? I have empathy for my colleagues trying to do their jobs under these circumstances. The state shows such disdain for its students as it thinks they can’t handle a real education.
amlevere.bsky.social Andrea Leverentz @amlevere.bsky.social · 1d
“the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality.” State. Approved.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
January 29, 2026 at 5:25 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
How can anyone now take these universities seriously? I have empathy for my colleagues trying to do their jobs under these circumstances. The state shows such disdain for its students as it thinks they can’t handle a real education.
January 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
The Board of Evil will take a piece of this country, a piece of that country. To avoid all this “peace” countries will have to pay him $1 billion but that only buys 3 years
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
President Trump’s “Board of Peace,” originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, is now billing itself as an international peacekeeping body. Trump is inviting countries to join beyond a three-year term if they cough up more than $1 billion, according to a draft of the board's charter.
$1 Billion in Cash Buys a Permanent Seat on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but its charter does not mention the Palestinian enclave, suggesting a possibly broader mandate.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
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January 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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drrobertbullard.bsky.social
Check out Rivers of injustice: exploring Oklahoma’s black floodplain communities through the framework of whiteness as property - Ethnic and Racial Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rivers of injustice: exploring Oklahoma’s black floodplain communities through the framework of whiteness as property
This article analyzes two Black floodplain communities in Oklahoma Territory, Sandtown (Oklahoma City) and The Elbow (Guthrie), through Cheryl Harris's framework of whiteness as property. Founded i...
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January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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isaackamola.bsky.social
I'm really proud of this academic freedom syllabus language that the @aaup.org CDAF fellows developed. Having language like this opens up an opportunity to talk with your students about what academic freedom is (and is not). If you add it to your syllabus this semester let me know how it goes!
biblioracle.bsky.social John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23d
The Center for Academic Freedom has developed some recommendations and language around academic freedom that you can make part of your semester syllabus. Check out this post by CDAF director @isaackamola.bsky.social for details and links. open.substack.com/pub/academic...
Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom
Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
A permanent pause is a stop. Release the MRI results. And the Epstein files. President Pedo File needs a nap.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Nov 28
Trump says US will "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries".
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
It would be a shame if that 24/7 option for students to report profs got spammed incessantly
brookenewman.bsky.social Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · Nov 14
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
DHS uses tax dollars to produce war porn for the masturbatory fantasies of wannabe Nazis chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," Professor Nick Cul...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I don’t disagree that Ben Shapiro is trying to kick Carlson out. But I still think the analogy here is fights between White Citizen’s Councils and the Klan. On most points, these folks agree. But the establishment prefers their bigotry thinly veiled and this is harder to maintain in the Trump era.
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Nov 3
Ben Shapiro is outright trying to kick Tucker Carlson out of the conservative movement in this video. The right's civil war is truly here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRJ...
Tucker Carlson Sabotages America
YouTube video by Ben Shapiro
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November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
This from the head of a “think tank”
benjaminchambers.bsky.social ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · Nov 3
they all write/talk like this now and it feels like a new genre: hate smut; manic, agitated vitriol that reads like it was written while feverishly masturbating to revenge fantasies
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 3
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
We marched in heavily Latino Cicero IL including along a busy road. People honked horns took photos & video & showed support. & they felt seen & supported after our cities have been terrorized by ICE. Some drove past multiple times, passengers cheering & in tears. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
TFG admits he’s taking away freedom of speech … you know, that thing he boasted about bringing back.
altspaceforce.altgov.info AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · Oct 8
"We took the freedom of speech away..." needs to be blasted across the nation.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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danimmergluck.bsky.social
Is this "cancel culture"?

"Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats"

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
One online activist called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor,” and another shared the address of his home in New Jersey. The campus’s chapter of the conservative student group Turning Point USA then launched a petition Thursday to demand that the university fire him, referencing Trump’s executive order and claiming Bray is a risk to their safety. Bray has received three death threats since Sept. 26, including one threatening to kill him in front of his students, according to screenshots of emails reviewed by The Washington Post. The threats and the publication of his address compelled Bray to move his family to Spain for the remainder of the academic year, he said
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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danimmergluck.bsky.social
Hearing a docent at the Chicago History Museum say that residential segregation in the city is “mostly just economic now” and I almost bit my tongue off.
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
My dad was in one of these. Get your freaking vaccines.
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
New Yorker cartoons nail it again.
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
moorehead.bsky.social
As men no longer predominate on college campuses, the presence of women and people of color delegitimizes higher ed in the minds of those on the right. All that estrogen and melanin must mean something is amiss.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Oct 3
The new editor of CBS News looked at political violence in America, and confidently identified the "biggest culprits": the universities.
This is the perspective that Weiss is being hired to bring to a hard news outlet.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The acceleration of political violence has been frightening: from the attack on the Capitol in January 2021, to the murder of a healthcare executive allegedly by Luigi Mangione, to the attempted assassinations of Trump, to the killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., to the shooting of state lawmakers in Minnesota. And now Kirk’s murder. There are many guilty parties in the rise of political violence. But to our minds, among the biggest culprits are the universities. In the same way that madrassas radicalize jihadis, America’s campuses are among the places in the U.S. most hostile to disagreement and debate. Where they preach “inclusion,” they actually practice exclusion—shouting down speakers they disagree with, for instance. Where they promote “diversity,” they actually enforce a uniformity of thought, denying tenure to dissenters.
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM