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trevorgriffey.bsky.social
Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine and UCLA. Vice President of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Crypt0 is a scam.
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“Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team,” an OPM email address responded to CNN’s FOIA request.

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Wish I had been there. lbwatchdog.com/hundreds-ral...

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Trump gutted the National Labor Relations Board and things are already getting grim. The new board’s first memo signal its intentions to hamstring organizing and worker mobility, allow captive audience meetings, and deny college athletes’ right to unionize. www.nlrbedge.com/p/acting-gen...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

I would rather not read your Substack

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Analysis from CA Assembly Subcommittee on Higher Ed finance flags that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's proposed cuts to @uofcalifornia.bsky.social & @calstate.bsky.social "would constitute the largest ongoing decreases to universities since the Great Recession." abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...

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The alignment of K-12 teacher contracts in 32 school districts in California, bringing together 77,000 teachers with unified demands and strike power, will change California and possibly education politics even if they don't go on strike. edsource.org/2025/califor...

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. @higheredlabor.bsky.social is kicking ass with its organizing against NIH funding cuts. Consider joining or organizing an action to contact your legislator Wednesday, Feb. 19! www.labor4highered.org

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Dems aren't weak because they're stupid. They're weak because groups they claim to represent are not well organized, the left is in sorrier shape than the Dems, and because they're up against the power of billionaires who have been building autonomous media and policy infrastructure for decades.

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"the real problem with the federal government is that it is too small to properly secure the health, safety, and overall well-being...Cutting it further will make a bad situation worse." --Algernon Austin (@a-austin.bsky.social) and Jordan Billings cepr.net/publications...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

James Weinstein, 1970, from Socialist Revolution Vol 1 No 3. I was trained by the history from the bottom up folks and their descendants who he critiques here. They might ask, "wrong according to whom?" The debate persists as the hollowing out of the historical profession comes for us all.

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The real arithmetic problem is the systematic underfunding of @calstate.bsky.social for decades. High tuition and old facilities create sticker shock that makes enrollment crisis worse.

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Just a joke, right?

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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Roughly 18% of California's workforce is in health care and education. The cuts being proposed by Trump admin could send the US into recession. www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.h...

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So, basically, the equivalent of announcing a nearly $1 billion cut to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's budget. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Authoritarianism feels like being taken over by a foreign power. When it's homegrown, it feels like treason.

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Go UC Student Association! www.courthousenews.com/students-sue...

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So I found the answer to HOW MUCH THE CSU IS PAYING for "AI tools" "at no cost to students or faculty" to be an "AI powered university." @cfaunited.bsky.social: help! 🚨$16.9 million In the middle of a "budget crisis" where the CSU is doing layoffs pleading poverty! edsource.org/2025/cal-sta...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

We know that this approach to running the CSU system will not end with the cuts and layoffs at Sonoma State. That’s why CFA members need to do all they can to fight the layoffs and cuts to programs and departments detrimental to students. www.calfac.org/hundreds-gather-to-save-our-sonoma-state/

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A reflection on the potentially devastating consequences of battering ram the Trump administration is taking to higher ed-- especially research universities.

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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