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Mid century liberals managed the surplus population of deindustrialization and secular stagnation with higher education and prisons; Trump, Kennedy and company are just going with prison and death.

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HOT off the press: A MUST READ somber assessment of the war on American higher ed & the fight to save it. From Harvard AAUP member Dennis Hogan in the @defector.bsky.social “In the war between colleges & Trump, too many Americans are choosing Trump.“ defector.com/the-nih-cuts...

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In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

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“The forces arrayed against scientific inquiry, once dispersed, are united and organized.”

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oh you know, just some of my thoughts on monsterfucking thanks to my student Jacyln Legge for getting me into Ruby Dixon and @brandyjensen.bsky.social, a great editor @defector.bsky.social

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not enough people are talking about how they turned Rubio into flat stanley

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I love this essay because Dennis reminds us that we can't say higher ed research develops the cancer treatment for your grandmother without also saying that we need to make it so that your grandmother can afford that treatment, and so on and so on.

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Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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"Asked how the meeting went, state Sen. Art Haywood provided WHYY News with a one-word reply: “Bullshit.” He did not comment further."

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AAUP President Todd Wolfson at rally outside HHS headquarters today

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We’re headed to HHS to say Hands Off our healthcare, our research, our jobs. Not in DC? Plug in at www.labor4highered.org

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Join us TODAY at 1:30pm ET/12:30pm CT/11:30am MT/10:30am PT! Let's tell our legislators: 🎇 HANDS OFF our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! 🎇 See you in D.C. and online. Register: labor4highered.org/feb-25 @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @phew-cwa.bsky.social @uaw.org

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The hallmark of totalitarianism at this stage isn’t genocide or extremes of violence. It is doubled or twofold organization. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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good time for academics to join AAUP

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re-upping this today: attacking the federal workforce is attacking one of the largest and most secure employer of Black people in the US

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now reading:

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I’m taking the train down to DC from Baltimore on Tuesday for this rally and folks who can should join. Let’s go and fight back!

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Ironically I can't attend this rally because I'll be teaching in Baltimore, but I hope my higher ed friends in DC will show out on 2/25: www.labor4highered.org#register

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🚨🚨The Maryland Senate Finance Committee hearing on our collective bargaining bill is about ready to start!!!🚨🚨 Watch it live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oos4...

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Philadelphia turned out! 💪 Workers, students, and allies from universities across the city rallied to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Billionaires want to gut higher ed & lifesaving research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd

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All that robust institutional neutrality working as an effective shield or what?

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Today in 15+ cities & online: We Walk Out, We Rise Up, We Fight for the Future! From campuses to Capitol Hill, higher ed workers take action. Join us as we demand funding for science, protections for research, and a future where knowledge serves the people—not corporate greed: www.labor4highered.org

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protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over! protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters. find your local action! www.labor4highered.org chicago join us at 10am!

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It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

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"Wall Street–Silicon Valley nexus of distressed debt+startup culture; anti–New Deal conserv think tanks;+extremely online world of anarchocapitalism+right-wing accelerationism. Within the new administration, each strain is striving to realize its desired outcome." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Send this to your Baltimore friends who need or want to talk enemy feminisms? Wednesday and Thursday next week, at JHU and at @redemmas.org (with Jules Gill-Peterson)

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Shop update.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Happy VD to the great big heads on here, especially those linking to long form writing! LOVE is learning from you all.

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Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

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Now unlocked: in Covid Year Five, we look back at 2024, a year of mask bans and welfare state retrenchment, and how the disastrous consequences of the social production of the end of the pandemic set the stage for a second Trump term on.soundcloud.com/7NC2AL7ECrcK...

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feeling politically...depressed? angry? unhinged? nihilistic? something SO cool you could do to assuage those feelings and get to work is come to @haymarketbooks.org Socialism 2025 this year, in Chicago, July 3-6: socialismconference.org

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tonight!

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Tomorrow night 2/13, join the Labor for Higher Ed national strategy call to plan next steps in the fight to defend our healthcare, research, education, and jobs. And next Wed 2/19, connect with unions in your area for a day of action! Philly folks, bring coworkers to 2000 Market at noon on 2/19 ✊

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Over the moon to see our @versobooks.bsky.social Jameson Reading Group featured today on @literaryhub.bsky.social today! Thanks for the write-up @britt-kathryn.bsky.social! lithub.com/late-capital...

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The public relations person who has to reassure donors that we're not including nudity in our production of Hair > The public relations person who has to reassure faculty that we're not caving to donors by excluding nudity from our production of Hair.

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Oh brother

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