The rhetoric of anti-union admins notwithstanding, the best way to strengthen faculty governance is to unionize your workplace. A bunch of my Academic Senate-veteran colleagues wrote about exactly this:
Wednesday, April 22 at 8pm ET: Join HELU, @sanders.senate.gov, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @ydsa.org, @aaup.org, @ueunion.org, and more to gear up for May Day. Hear how students and workers are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
Communism with lunar characteristics
WE DID IT!
Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.
Love it when she calls out the Iowans as Nazis in "field of dreams"...
The victories happen quietly: www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Oh no what is the latest?
"Eros" by George Oppen, quoted in Chris Nealon's 2021 essay, "George Oppen and the Future"
I wrote about Trump’s ideological deportation policies and their implications for free speech, including on university campuses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
If you want to explore whether a company you buy from works with DHS/ICE, there is a real simple website to do that! www.usaspending.gov/search
SECOND CLASS ANGEL there’s a part of heaven reserved for my kind. the sun don’t grow there. the money don’t shine it’s not about wings altho chicken today feathers tomorrow might be called a way of being periodically there’s a breakthru: one of us gets over polishing halos evidentially status has endless ramifications like an infinite pecking order which suggests the light one moves toward ascending in death is merely the non-reflective neon of God’s corporate boardroom
the money don’t shine
Wanda Coleman
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
"We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us."
— Judge William Young
#AAUPvRubio
@mesa1966.bsky.social
"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Rumeya Ozturk has resumed her studies and Betar, the witch hunt org who pursued Palestinian protesters, has dissolved. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I regret to inform you that we are going to win.
There is a substantial connection between the affective + social infrastructure you build in a good classroom and the counter-hegemonic sociality of academic union organizing, and someday I'd like to write about that. Venmo in bio
Rick's Christmas episode is truly a joy
Excited to be included in this superb volume, edited by Lizzy Lerud and @carolinegelmi.bsky.social !
Holy cow! This is a legal smack down of the Trump regime's attack on UC system!
Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact!
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
This Friday, student leaders are walking out across the country...Find an action near you, find your friends, and go to it!
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
(extremely in my 40s voice) Some nice estate sales today!
