A yellow and red flyer with a bull horn that reads: You are invited to a PSC-CUNY Contract Town Hall April 24, 6-8pm WOW Cafe Theatre, 59-61 4th Street, 4th Floor Let’s not wait until the current contract expires to start building for the next one. RSVP at bit.ly/TownHall424

Fortunately (or un-), the next @psc-cuny.org + CUNY contract will be up for negotiation sooner than later. What do you want to see in it? How can we make bargaining more participatory, in a meaningful way? Come chat with fellow union members next Friday! bit.ly/TownHall424

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Higher Ed Is at a Turning Point. 11 Scholars Predict What’s Next. AI, enrollment, finances, politics, and the turbulent road ahead.

"As institutional leadership drifts towards anticipatory obedience [to tech evangelism], students will begin to reconstruct education around the living, embodied world of meaning and experience they feel has been stolen from them." We can only hope. @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/high...

"People want to be known for what they do, and that becomes their only identity. That is who they are. You are your job, you are your position, or you are your clothes... In order to do that, one's interior life must be hollow, truly frail." Well, damn, Toni Morrison, lol.

Full list of panels and presenters is now up on our website!

Organizers working for free education, affordable housing, cops off campus, campus labor, accessible childcare, BDS, and other struggles.

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@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

I guess this is why it's so hard to see Ivy League universities cut deals with the administration or the NYT frame every single political issue as a good faith debate between two equivalent sides. Your whole existence depends on not living in an authoritarian state. Act like it.

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

first in my line of critical universi-tees

I'm currently poisoned, restrained, and grappled, which sounds like it could be hash brown order at Ye Olde Waffle House. #DnD

"AI masks the amplification of particular management approaches as procedural improvement and institutional efficiency. It provides linguistic cover for intensified oversight, risk aversion, or conflict avoidance, making these tendencies feel evidence-based, measured, and legitimate."

Opinion | AI Sycophancy Is Making Academic Bureaucracy Worse What happens when our technology consistently tells us we’re right?

"What emerged was not simply that AI reinforces cultural norms or ideological polarization. It also amplifies personal traits and disguises them to look like professional best practices." @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/ai-s...

Jose Mourinho made ‘huge mistake’ with Vinicius Jr comments, says Vincent Kompany (Gift Article) After Tuesday's match, Mourinho said that “every stadium where Vinicius plays, something happens”.

Jose is such an asshole, and he's getting worse with age (and increasing irrelevance in the sport).
www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

NYC Public Library Action Network Read our response in our latest newsletter Mar 21 at Make the Road New York (in Queens). Learn how you can advocate for increased public library funding, hear more about the services that libraries…

Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor.

@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!

nycplan.org

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why Joan Wallach Scott

Guardian piece by the redoubtable Joan Scott explaining the connections between Trump’s Defending Women EO and shutting down women’s and gender studies prograns. archive.is/2026.02.13-1...

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

January 30 update: We donated a portion of movie ticket and popcorn sales from the final weekend in January to the New York Immigration Coalition, which ended up totaling to $6,819!

Thanks to everyone who came through!

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors!

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Announcing the Spring 2026 Schedule!

This semester we have varieties of paper topics and presenters, ranging from out students to faculty members.

Come and join us on Thursday 6:30 pm! (Except the first session on Wednesday.)

Poster with a description of Basic Audio Editing with Audacity.

Spring '26 workshops begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, 26! Learn how to edit and clean audio files with Audacity! RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-...

A grid of six people, different expressions & backgrounds

Our new season of public programs was just announced and people are signing up. Reserve today to join us in person or online: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat. Frank Rich, Lina M. Khan, Paul Krugman, Elijah Wald, Qween Jean, Rocío Márquez & more! @CUNY

Ban anyone with structural power (employers, elected officials, org leaders, etc.) from saying "I hear you." At this point, I struggle to think of situations where it's anything more than dismissive: they're just trying to be more pleasantly dismissive. Save it for loved ones, who you actually hear.

Pointing out the bravery and decency of Alex Pretti is not about finding the perfect victim. It’s relevant because he was attacked and killed for being decent. People all over Minnesota are engaging in this kind of everyday, ordinary heroism and they know they are taking risks when they do so.

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!