Lisa Siraganian
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
Author of MODERNISM & the MEANING of CORPORATE PERSONS (2021). Prof. @ Johns Hopkins U. Modernist mom. Could always be playing more tennis.
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.
I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.
Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot
Defenses of the policy miss the political point.
www.chronicle.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.
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“This is extortion, plain and simple.
It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“This is extortion, plain and simple.
It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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This conversation was very good and well worth watching:
www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social
Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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October 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This conversation was very good and well worth watching:
www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social
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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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“Put most bluntly: Viewpoint diversity is anathema to academic freedom.” JHU-AAUP President Lisa Siraganian presents seven theses against viewpoint diversity and the dangers it poses to academic freedom in a new article for #Academe.
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
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.
www.aaup.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Put most bluntly: Viewpoint diversity is anathema to academic freedom.” JHU-AAUP President Lisa Siraganian presents seven theses against viewpoint diversity and the dangers it poses to academic freedom in a new article for #Academe.
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
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I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky
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Good morning & happy Labor Day 🌞
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Union Strong Worker GIF
ALT: Union Strong Worker GIF
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September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good morning & happy Labor Day 🌞
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!
#UnionStrong
#Solidarity
www.hopkinsaaup.org/teach-in
What does trump mean for Hopkins? Find out! Come one and all to our Hopkins teach in! 1-3 today, Gilman 132
What does trump mean for Hopkins? Find out! Come one and all to our Hopkins teach in! 1-3 today, Gilman 132
In Defense of American Universities — Hopkins AAUP
www.hopkinsaaup.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
www.hopkinsaaup.org/teach-in
What does trump mean for Hopkins? Find out! Come one and all to our Hopkins teach in! 1-3 today, Gilman 132
What does trump mean for Hopkins? Find out! Come one and all to our Hopkins teach in! 1-3 today, Gilman 132
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Eager to share this cluster on modernism in comics, now on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus! With contributions from @lkonstan.bsky.social, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Paul Peppis, Jean Lee Cole, Marie Sartain, Mike Classon Frangos, and @kinohi.bsky.social.
"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Eager to share this cluster on modernism in comics, now on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus! With contributions from @lkonstan.bsky.social, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Paul Peppis, Jean Lee Cole, Marie Sartain, Mike Classon Frangos, and @kinohi.bsky.social.
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Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.
March 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Twenty prominent law professors have joined a letter defending academic freedom and the First Amendment against the Trump Administration’s recent treatment of Columbia. Among those from right of center: Michael McConnell, Eugene Volokh, Keith Whittington, Steve Calabresi, and Richard Epstein.
A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
www.nybooks.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Twenty prominent law professors have joined a letter defending academic freedom and the First Amendment against the Trump Administration’s recent treatment of Columbia. Among those from right of center: Michael McConnell, Eugene Volokh, Keith Whittington, Steve Calabresi, and Richard Epstein.
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Wow - as NLRB/MSPB arguments kick off at DC Circuit, Judge Henderson asks if Trump's removal powers are so sweeping that he could fire all female agency heads, or all those over 40. Dep AG says yes! Trump-appointed Judge Walker swoops in to try to salvage: 'don't have to go there' due to the 14th A
March 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Wow - as NLRB/MSPB arguments kick off at DC Circuit, Judge Henderson asks if Trump's removal powers are so sweeping that he could fire all female agency heads, or all those over 40. Dep AG says yes! Trump-appointed Judge Walker swoops in to try to salvage: 'don't have to go there' due to the 14th A
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Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
The 2025 Grafstein Lecture in Communications | University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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March 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
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happy ides of March, the time when we celebrate a Senator stabbing you in the back
March 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
happy ides of March, the time when we celebrate a Senator stabbing you in the back
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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Every Armenian remembers when Trump proudly announced that he had negotiated an end to the 2020 War and that Azerbaijan had agreed to a ceasefire.
(There was no ceasefire. And there were no consequences.)
(There was no ceasefire. And there were no consequences.)
Reports Russia has now rejected the ceasefire, so lets see if this was just bluster.
🇺🇸 Sen. Graham warns: If Russia rejects ceasefire, “sanction the hell out of them.”
He also plans new sanctions on Russia and nations buying Russian energy.
He also plans new sanctions on Russia and nations buying Russian energy.
March 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Every Armenian remembers when Trump proudly announced that he had negotiated an end to the 2020 War and that Azerbaijan had agreed to a ceasefire.
(There was no ceasefire. And there were no consequences.)
(There was no ceasefire. And there were no consequences.)