Jeffers Lennox
@jefferslennox.bsky.social
Historian at Wesleyan || co-president of Wesleyan-AAUP || working on a book about Indigenous Reconstruction || Homelands & Empires || North of America
Also music, bikes, and fighting the good fight. 🇨🇦
https://linktr.ee/jefferslennox
Also music, bikes, and fighting the good fight. 🇨🇦
https://linktr.ee/jefferslennox
More good news. More good news. More good...
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:
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:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Build power for when you need it.
"Although they have not hit Wesleyan yet, they will come for us. And we want to make sure that everyone on campus is prepared to resist what those attacks look like.” #DefendHigherEd @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
AAUP Rallies Students, Faculty, and Community Members Against Trump Attacks on Academia – The Wesleyan Argus
wesleyanargus.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Build power for when you need it.
Excited to be with comrades tomorrow for this. Higher Ed for the Common Good! @aaup.org
Tomorrow! Wesleyan-AAUP hosts a "One Campus" rally to celebrate Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students who refuse to live in fear. Academic Freedom! Freedom of Speech! Solidarity across campus!
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Excited to be with comrades tomorrow for this. Higher Ed for the Common Good! @aaup.org
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Zohran wins! Full statement here: www.dsausa.org/statements/z...
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Zohran wins! Full statement here: www.dsausa.org/statements/z...
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This image aptly captures this feeling of the walls closing in, a shrinking of freedoms in the academy over 10 years.
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This image aptly captures this feeling of the walls closing in, a shrinking of freedoms in the academy over 10 years.
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
Let Kardinal Offishall pitch hit for Drake and LA doesn't stand a chance.
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Let Kardinal Offishall pitch hit for Drake and LA doesn't stand a chance.
Go Jays. World Series here we go. I'm 12 (and 13) again. Time travel is real.
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Go Jays. World Series here we go. I'm 12 (and 13) again. Time travel is real.
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
"This is righteous warfare, and it’s a great service to God to rid the earth of such a wicked seed" (charges at an inflatable T-Rex)
AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"This is righteous warfare, and it’s a great service to God to rid the earth of such a wicked seed" (charges at an inflatable T-Rex)
We need viewpoint diversity on campus.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We need viewpoint diversity on campus.
A Blue Jays / Dodgers world series will finally put this beef to rest.
NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.
More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social
More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A Blue Jays / Dodgers world series will finally put this beef to rest.
If only there was money for universal healthcare...
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has finalized a plan to give $20 billion to Argentina.
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If only there was money for universal healthcare...
Look who showed up to celebrate this morning. Tdot in CT. Go Jays.
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Look who showed up to celebrate this morning. Tdot in CT. Go Jays.
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Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
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...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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
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
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Saugeen First Nation in Ontario joined together for some sun and sand to celebrate getting their beach back.
The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.
The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.
Saugeen First Nation celebrates getting their beach back
Saugeen First Nation is celebrating having a beach returned to it after a surveying error from the 1850s excluded it from the reserve.
www.aptnnews.ca
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Saugeen First Nation in Ontario joined together for some sun and sand to celebrate getting their beach back.
The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.
The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
ino.to
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2
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Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.
www.aaup.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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It would be nice to see privacy settings on Bluesky rolled out in response...
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It would be nice to see privacy settings on Bluesky rolled out in response...
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This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
Opinion
knightcolumbia.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
Reminder: Join a union! Form a union! Organize to win.
Patel on left-wing groups: "We are properly going to chase them down like the domestic terrorists that they are."
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reminder: Join a union! Form a union! Organize to win.
"It can only good happen."
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"It can only good happen."
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There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues
September 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues