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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 6h

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for your solidarity, fellow members of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social !!

Defending Our Colleagues from Attacks by the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA - Rutgers AAUP-AFT

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray has come under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Their campaign to have Dr. Bray fired has resulted …

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

Avoid healthcare premium increases! Come to a Coalition of Rutgers Unions town hall tomorrow 10/7 at 6:30pm to learn how to avoid large cost increases coming in many state health care plans. Click here to register for the Zoom link: https://loom.ly/roa1s8g

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

🗞️📰 “Our unions and associations are fighting for our rights, while higher ed institutions are failing to do so. It’s a sad state of affairs when a ruling that merely affirms all of our First Amendment rights feels like a tremendous victory.” https://loom.ly/6yyJw-k

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/education/2025/10/03/judge-campus-unions-suing-trump-free-speech/86503065007/

Federal judge upholds noncitizen students' right to free speech on campuses

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail higher ed so they can dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers study, and who's able to be safe at school. Sign on to this petition to reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" compact! https://loom.ly/GGoLaDI

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump administration’s attempt to deport students for their political views is an assault on the Constitution and a betrayal of American values. @knightcolumbia.org, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social Harvard & NYU AAUP, MESA & @aaup.org. All praise to @veenadubal.bsky.social

AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

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:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 7d

📰Read of the day🗞️ “If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that the government cannot imprison you because it doesn’t like the speech that you have engaged in, and this decision is really welcome because it reaffirms that basic idea[...]” Read here: https://loom.ly/GjFfp48

Judge Rules Campaign Against Noncitizen Protesters Unlawful

The lengthy ruling chastises two federal departments for their “invidious” efforts to chill pro-Palestinian speech and declares unequivocally that noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment.

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Politico @politico.com · 8d

NEW: A federal judge excoriated Trump in a blistering decision calling the president's efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal.

Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal

The Reagan-appointed judge decried Trump’s “great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”

www.politico.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

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:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 8d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 8d

📰📢Breaking News! In landmark ruling, federal court says Trump administration violated first amendment by deporting foreign citizens for pro-Palestinian advocacy. Our union is one of the plaintiffs in this case. https://loom.ly/zGJYyRU

In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

BOSTON—Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

The Department of Defense is banning books, changing lesson plans, and canceling history month celebrations in schools on military bases to comply with President Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders.

Congress must act now and protect the right to learn.

Tell Congress: No book bans in military schools

Schools run by the Department of Defense on military bases have banned hundreds of books and altered curricula that the Trump administration doesn't agree with. Take action.

action.aclu.org

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow at 7:30pm!
✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face & win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: loom.ly/2A_cWC8

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 14d

✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face and win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: https://loom.ly/2A_cWC8

The Challenges We Face, the Campaign We Need
All-UNION Town HallMeeting
Tuesday, September 30th - 7:30 pm on Zoom
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 9d

📣 📰 A little good 🗞️ for today:
“This has been a unifying moment for free speech and democratic rights, not only here in San Marcos, across Texas, but across the entire country."
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Fired Texas State professor to be reinstated while lawsuit against school proceeds

On Friday, a Hays County judge ruled that a fired Texas State University (TXST) professor will get his job back while his lawsuit against the school proceeds, according to the professor’s att…

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely coverage of my India book over the weekend.

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 14d

✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face and win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: https://loom.ly/2A_cWC8

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 14d

Calling all Rutgers postdocs!📢 We are holding listening sessions for postdocs to get to know your union. What would make your life as a Rutgers postdoc better? Let's fight for it in the next contract! Visit our events page to RSVP: https://rutgersaaup.org/events/

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 15d

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 15d

"@aaup.org...believes that higher education should be a common public good for everyone. We align ourselves with the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe who need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward in this country." www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...

Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So.

Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 16d

AFT is working to defend our institutions from this administrations disastrous funding cuts & program eliminations and advance a vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible, & transformative public good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJoEgBEG4

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 16d

Learn more about the impacts of the Trump attacks on higher ed for NJ here: aftvotes.aft.org/sites/defaul...

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 16d

@aft.org is working to defend our institutions from this administrations disastrous funding cuts & program eliminations and advance a vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible, & transformative public good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJ...

Attacks on Higher Ed are Attacks on ALL of Us.

YouTube video by AFT

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 19d

It’s not an exaggeration to say that higher ed saves lives. So many of the cures, medications, treatments, and technologies we depend on to thrive are the result of federal investment in higher education. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 21d

🎥 Members at our recent "Welcome Back BBQ" told us why being in the union matters to them. Stronger together, we can win more for everyone!
👉 Join today and talk to your coworkers!
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