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Trevor Griffey

@trevorgriffey.bsky.social

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Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine & UCLA. VP of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. LAWCHA Board. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Higher Ed blog: https://campuslabor.blogspot.com/

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 10d

Who's the one donor? The PAC that nuked us with mailers?

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 15d

How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...

The Storm is Coming (1932)

A campaign speech by Joseph Goebbels from 9 July 1932.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 19d

Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 19d

I hope you're active in IFA!

Even without the AI investment UCI has manufactured budget cuts by reallocating over $10m/ year combined to Biology, Engineering and Medicine. See Chis Newfield's great analysis on his blog.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 19d

At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses.

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UC Irvine IMPACT Program | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 20d

Autocrats can only be just one guy?

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 20d

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 20d

Exploitation is a religious value.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 21d

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 21d

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UC Faculty, Staff, Students & Unions Sue to Halt Trump Admin Assault

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 21d

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social won't sue to stop Trump's extortion but campus labor unions will.

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Broad Coalition of Faculty, Staff, Students, and Unions Unite to Defend University of California System From Trump-Vance Administration Assault - Democracy Forward

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 21d

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 22d

Jenny Holzer: Fear is the Most Elegant Weapon...

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 22d

. @cnewf.bsky.social on the December 2024 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social deal with the lame duck Biden admin to obligate the UC to coordinate its enforcement of civil rights law on UC campuses with the incoming Trump administration.

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I was shocked to be reading this for the first time. UCOP officials knew when they signed it that it would be applied by Trump’s Office of Civil Rights, not Biden’s. Biden would be gone in a month so what was the point? The Agreement may have served as a template for Trump’s demands of Columbia University and other universities. In my non-expert opinion, it breaches the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) that protects the privacy of student educational data—one could at least make a case. As UC strategy, it seems deeply inept. And, again to the theme, UCOP doesn’t protect its own community but exposes it to danger. It does this without the due process or the basic decency of openly explaining what they did or how they will minimize the damage.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 22d

This is exactly why @ucla.edu must not settle with the Trump administration. It will only set a precedent for shaking down the whole system, then for going after other public research 1 universities after that.

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 22d

The University of California receives $17 billion annually in federal funds. Its president is warning of a possible Trump push across the system, making current federal cuts at UCLA and elsewhere seem “minor in comparison to the threat that looms”
www.latimes.com/california/s...

It's not just UCLA. UC president warns of Trump push into all campuses and hospitals

President James B. Milliken said current federal cuts are "minor in comparison to the threat that looms." Cuts, he said, could go far beyond UCLA and hit all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23d

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 22d

. @ucirvine.bsky.social tooling up for its repression of demonstrations in 2025-26.

The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.

regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25

Request by UCI for 2nd LRAD and various munitions.

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Weird that support goes down when Ds are in office.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Sep 8

My US higher ed labor list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Sep 8

See you in occupied DC next summer. AFT convention needs to be democratic and focused on organizing.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Sep 4

What we really need right now; someone with the courage to both sides genocide, mass deportations, unconstitutional governance and more.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Aug 27

By 1966 the New Left already felt old and cliched to people who were part of it. The conclusion of much longer critique of the limits of immediacy and moralism.

Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ideology test for public school teachers in Oklahoma. How long until it goes national? www.latimes.com/california/s...

This red state fears Californians bringing 'radical, leftist ideology.' It's targeting teachers

In Oklahoma, education officials are requiring teachers from California and New York to take an exam aimed at guarding against 'radical leftist ideology.'

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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · Aug 23

You mean racist?

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The Podcast Where Headlines Meet Media Literacy @thedisinfodetox.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 Faculty, heads up! This fall brings hidden challenges & admin power plays. Hear Nolan Higdon, Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel break it down. youtu.be/sOHw91P9Qvg @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaft-riverside.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social @aaup.org

Faculty Under Fire: Administrative Power Plays and the Challenges of This School Year

YouTube video by The Disinfo Detox

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