24 years between taking out my first college loan and getting tenure (incidentally same year as loan forgiveness).

Why full-time faculty need to unionize now! - The New School Free Press The last few months have been a nightmare for students, faculty, and staff at The New School. The university’s top administrators are vandalizing this unique institution and destroying the lives of th...

Why full-time faculty need to unionize now!

www.newschoolfreepress.com/2026/04/17/w...

24-Hour Workday Pushes NYC Home Care Aides to Hunger Strike The battle over 24-hour shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry against vulnerable patients who rely on round-the-clock care.

Fifteen home health aides started a hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly immigrant women working in the industry and patients who rely on round-the-clock care.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/h...

A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.

Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...

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Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

This song is a thing of beauty, but what is happening at TNS is a fucking tragedy. The little indignities of faux austerity pile up year after year until suddenly the whole school is underwater. Solidarity forever w TNS students faculty and staff and @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

This song is a thing of beauty, but what is happening at TNS is a fucking tragedy. The little indignities of faux austerity pile up year after year until suddenly the whole school is underwater. Solidarity forever w TNS students faculty and staff and @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

What A Wonder School (This Would Be) YouTube video by Austerity Singers

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs.

Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis.

Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students:

@newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Stop NYPD Buffer Zone Bill YouTube video by Chenjerai Kumanyika

Stop this vote planned for today. Call and email NOW if you can.

youtube.com/shorts/iDZjz...

@zachsamalin.bsky.social

As Part of Comprehensive Efforts to Combat Hate, NYC Council to Vote on the Schools and Houses of Worship Access and Safety Act Legislative package requires NYPD to establish safe perimeters around entrances and exits of vital locations while protecting constitutional rights to protest The New York City Council is expected to vote on the following items at Thursday's Stated Meeting. All items on the Council's agenda are subject to change. The full agenda will be available here following committee votes.

Legislation: Schools and Houses of Worship Access and Safety Act As part of the Council-led Five-Point Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism, introduced in January, the Schools and Houses of Worship Access and Safety Act would require the NYPD to publicly post its plans to respond to protests outside schools or houses of worship that contain the risk of physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation, or interference, set up a dedicated hotline to report incidents of discriminatory harassment, and require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute materials to students about the risks and dangers associated with social media, including on online bullying, harassment, discrimination, misinformation, and disinformation. The Action Plan also calls for new investments in Holocaust education and a community-based, city-supported security training initiative for Jewish organizations and institutions.

The legislative package comes amid a documented rise in antisemitic incidents nationwide and heightened concerns about safety around religious institutions in New York City. According to the NYPD, antisemitic incidents accounted for 57% of reported hate crimes in 2025, although only approximately 10% of New York City residents are Jewish. Jewish New Yorkers were the targets of hate crimes more than all other groups combined. Introduction 1-B, sponsored by Speaker Julie Menin, would require the Police Commissioner to establish a plan to address and contain the risk of physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation, and interference at places of religious worship, while also preserving and protecting the rights to free speech, assembly, and protest. The plan would include considerations for the New York Police Department (NYPD) to use in determining whether, when, and the extent to which security perimeters may be used to protect entry to, and egress from, places of religious worship, and communication

with stakeholders, including the public, people seeking to assemble or protest, and affected religious leaders. The Police Commissioner would be required to submit a proposed plan and a final plan to the Mayor and Speaker of the City Council no later than 45 days and 90 days, respectively, after the bill's effective date. The final plan would also be posted on NYPD's website. Introduction 175-B, sponsored by Council Member Eric Dinowitz, would require the Police Commissioner to establish a similar plan as required in Introduction 1-B at educational facilities.

NYC Council sent out a press alert that they’ll be voting on their buffer bills tomorrow.

Announcement makes clear these bills are specifically taking aim at protests against illegal land sale events at synagogues.

Language also curiously seems to pitch the bills as a sort of punishment on NYPD.

my badass CFU-UAW colleagues at NYU were on strike for less than 48 hours and won the contract they'd been fighting for (for the previous 16+ months)--in case anyone needed clearer evidence that unions work

NYC rolls out AI school rules. Major questions are still up in the air. NYC released preliminary AI school guidelines, but advocates and members of the city’s AI task force say key issues like privacy and oversight remain unresolved.

"The guidance was written by the Ed Dept’s AI Task Force, and informed by the city’s external AI Advisory Council, which includes education technology partners from Google, OpenAI, and other companies hoping to contract with the city’s roughly 800,000 K12 students"

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

At the rally, PSC members delivered 5000 letters demanding reinstatement of the Fired Fourth to @cuny.edu Execs. The letters were also sent to @brooklyncollege.bsky.social President Anderson, Provost Bedford, @cunychancellor.bsky.social Félix Matos Rodríguez & Board Chairperson William Thompson

This question and essays like this aren't in good faith. Also if the Atlantic wants answers about what students are currently doing across the country, why doesn't it devote a special issue of their magazine to the issue and hire students to write the pieces?

N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

NYC! Don't let the chancellor and DOE impose this careless and under-informed "AI guidance" on our city's schools. See below & spread the word 👇

A picture with Christy Thornton, Francesca Fiorentini, and Cori Bush

It was great to join @franifio.bsky.social to talk about my recent trip to Cuba, what the US is doing there, and why the right-wing influencer set is freaking out. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/JpjOlRA...

“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.”

—Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP

AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!

CFU IS ON STRIKE!

The AAUP is standing with Contract Faculty United - UAW 7902 on the picket line today.

CFU is on strike to fight for a fair contract.

Faculty at NYU deserve fair wages and dignity.

New York is a union town!

AAUP President Todd Wolfson joined striking non-tenure faculty at NYU today.

The AAUP stands in solidarity to CFU-UAW!!!

#FairContractNow

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live!

This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more.

Read here: hammerandhope.org

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services.

Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26.

Details here:

The war on Iran YouTube video by Equator Media

I was in conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi and the Equator's Jonathan Shainin about the US-Israeli war on Iran. We cover a lot in the one hour discussion

This is what solidarity looks like.

@psc-cuny.org stands shoulder to shoulder with St. John’s University in their fight to maintain faculty union representation and collective bargaining rights on campus.

St. John's University says it no longer recognizes faculty unions after 56 years St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university since 1970.

"I'm just tremendously disappointed in the university's response. We're ready to get back to bargaining. That's what our goal has been, to get a good, fair contract. We do it to make the university stronger."

—Fred Cocozzelli, St. John's University AAUP President

New issue of the @lrb.co.uk has my piece on “Thought Control”—Trump’s censorial effort to deport pro-Palestinian protesters, disinformation researchers, fact-checkers, and anyone whom Marco Rubio thinks has a “hostile attitude” towards the United States. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

90% of NYU’s contract faculty (full-time faculty who are not on a tenure-line) voted to authorize a strike — after trying to negotiate a first contract with the NYU administration for more than a year. They’re represented by Contract Faculty United-UAW