Now is (past) time to put forward Dem leaders who truly represent the left. Later we will hear, “fall in line we have no other options!” Don’t want people to skip voting or vote 3rd party? Elevate candidates who stand up for human dignity. Showboaters don’t serve us. We are not asking too much.

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From my union: "The Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda stinks of favoritism, patronage, and bribery. It is entirely corrupt." www.aaup.org/news/univers...

A U.S. District Court has ruled that the Escambia County School Board of Florida, acting as a government agent, can force school libraries to remove a children’s book about a same-sex penguin couple. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/fede...

New Report! The Neoliberalization of Higher Education Changes in State Funding and Governance Throughout the 20th Century rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

"The Impact Factor arms race is not inevitable; it is a collective decision, reinforced every time we let a single number stand in for scholarly worth." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/11/g...

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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity: The problems with arguments for intellectual pluralism www.aaup.org/seven-theses...

In the US, Wikipedia editors see a similar playbook being deployed. Conservative outlets and influencers have been attacking the site, and last week House Oversight demanded info on alleged efforts to “inject bias” into the encyclopedia, including details on individual editors.

JOB POSTING: Assistant Director, Faculty Engagement, Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Boston University www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

By @surlyacres.bsky.social <3

"...reawakened to the simple magic
of circulation—library books moving like blood
through a body, passed like vital sustenance
from hand to hand to hand, all those good hands
I take briefly in my own in this pause
before plowing forward again."

On libraries, loss, love.

lizahl.com/2025/03/21/l...

Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...

Printed copies of my new zine are now for sale in the continental US, $10 per copy including shipping. For ordering info, visit robinderosa.net/printed-copi...

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“The business commitments include things like cash prizes for students and teachers who use AI in educational ways, and cheap or free access to the companies' AI tools, trainings and certifications.”

Printed copies of my new zine are now for sale in the continental US, $10 per copy including shipping. For ordering info, visit robinderosa.net/printed-copi...

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The cruelty is the point. (Oh and also the further political and economic disenfranchisement of the poor and working class.) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.

Good read @surlyacres.bsky.social

"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

On the first day of classes, Columbia AAUP held a press conference sounding the alarm on threats to #academicfreedom in teaching & research. Several of Columbia’s most distinguished faculty spoke out on the government intrusions & administrative concessions that have harmed our institution.

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Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop www.pastemagazine.com/books/publis...

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