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Ohio State Civics Center Professor Who Tackled Cameraman Resigns www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Gee, maybe MIT should read the MIT report

AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Trump's assault on American higher education is worse than McCarthyism. #defendhighered #mccarthyism

LFG

Screening. First in Chapel Hill. This Thursday. See you there. www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/event/power-...

Wimpy gonna gladly pay us back for that hamburger on Tuesday

We are Bella Ciao scrolling

Mr. Reagan built up this wall

When we talk about the harms of LLM chatbot products, boosters often point out that "AI" has important research uses. And that's true. But these boosters are often referring to types of machine learning that have absolutely nothing to do with LLM chatbot products. substack.com/home/post/p-...

One of us went to Columbia University for a meeting today. We had an easier time getting through RDU airport security than getting onto the CU campus. Shame on Columbia administrators. Open the gates.

Breaking: the one remaining high-end shoe store in Donetsk will not be droned

Next: Palmer Luckey and Peter Thiel team up to breed Uruk-hai

Abdul El-Sayed is the kind of champion we need for American higher education. 🔥🔥🔥 Let’s Go! #HigherEdVoter #DefendHigherEd

Great to rally with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, AFT Michigan President Terrence Martin, @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social, students & union members at Wayne State today! Abdul is fighting for what working people need: more money in their pockets, Medicare for All & less money in politics.

Ha ha ha this doesn't apply to us because our work day never ends ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa

I believe we can have a secure border and a clear pathway to citizenship and we can do it without a rogue, illegal agency like ICE.

3-year degrees don’t solve the problem of affordability of college and don’t consider the neuroscience & cumulative effect of learning. That’s why @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social & I came out against these degrees in June. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Breaking: We have achieved Artificial General Insolvency

TOO BIG TO F*AI*L

Elon looked up "German composers Hitler loved" and decided not to go with Wagner

Oh, it's a closed-book oral exam?

Scholarly malpractice tied to a self-interested ideological campaign scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

No matter how they try to spin it, the UNC administration did this because they like being part of a repressive state apparatus www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...

Like Highlander, it won an Oscar for Greatest Movie Ever Made

Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

"Despite billions of dollars that firms around the globe have invested in AI over the past few years, major returns remain to be seen: 90% of executives say AI efforts have yet to translate to productivity gains at their companies... " www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fantastic piece on the need to shut down business schools. Replace them with schools of political economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

Perhaps this is an example of why universities shouldn't be falling all over themselves to invent use cases and teach students vague "AI competencies" and mysterious "AI skills" at the expense of teaching them how to think, read, write, and interact with other human beings.

There was only one radical theocrat in that room last night, and it wasn't El-Sayed

FYI

In all 50 states and around the world, people took to the streets today with one message: No Kings. Next up, we're going to protect the election and enforce the results. Because democracy is worth defending, and We the People are ready. RSVP to learn more: http://bit.ly/whatsn.... #NoKings ❌👑

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

#nokings in Burlington NC today So proud of Alamance County, the Alamance Hour of Action (40 weekly actions this year!) and @alamanceresists.bsky.social If you’d have asked me in 2020 if this place could do this, I’d have laughed. But some great & talented organizers organized …and here we are!

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Katie Zacharia's tenure as Press Secretary lasted just a bit longer than the new degree programs that UNC System President Peter Hans wants to implement

“Our biggest concerns are on how loose the language is on academic freedom. It opens the door to bad interpretations. SACSCOC also weakened their standard on shared governance. Genuine shared governance is substantially more than requiring ‘faculty input.’” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Everything is projection, part 26,968

There are many ways to destroy a university. Texas Tech, Texas A&M + the University of Texas have each taken a different approach…But the result will be the same: substandard education, substandard research + graduates who are less prepared for their future… + more prepared to obey without question.

“To save the research university, faculty must cultivate solidarity across disciplinary lines and organize with our students to raise public awareness of the Christian nationalist attacks on our institutions.” academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/sociology-...

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

Into our veins

“Students deserve an education of the first class from a university of the first class, and we’re pretty worried that that’s not the direction we’re heading in.” — Karma Chávez, UT Austin AAUP President @texasaaup.bsky.social

"Written by Ben Shapiro"

“We are facing an onslaught like we’ve never seen before. We need a movement that is wall to wall, every single worker, and coast to coast.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Google Gemini is having a campus fair at NC State. They want your data. We want you to be safe.

A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance

that’s right

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Today, the AAUP announced a slate of 12 national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. These candidates will champion higher education as a public good, protect academic freedom, advance debt-free education, & protect the collective bargaining rights of workers. 1/