Citizen of Somewhere Else
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this one's personal: governance wonk; rural regional public prof; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-pitcher/point guard/union goon (still HELU/CAHE); newly empty nester; mostly harmless Hawthornist; “radical, hate-mongering hater”
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This Manhattan Institute proposal isn’t reform — it’s a power grab. It strips faculty governance, weakens academic freedom, & puts political control over teaching, hiring, and curriculum. As
@aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...
@aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...
Model Legislation to Reform Faculty Accountability in Higher Education
In an interview for the 2022 documentary What Is a Woman,[1] psychologist and women’s studies scholar Patrick Grzanka told conservative commentator and provocateur Matt Walsh that he was “really uncom...
manhattan.institute
February 19, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This Manhattan Institute proposal isn’t reform — it’s a power grab. It strips faculty governance, weakens academic freedom, & puts political control over teaching, hiring, and curriculum. As
@aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...
@aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...
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Lots of mentions of the @aaup.org, as well as references to our survey and chapter president, Dr. Indigo Koslicki!
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Professors claim academic freedom is under threat. What is it?
As state and federal government leaders seek to reform higher education, it has reignited a debate about the constitutionality of these efforts.
www.indystar.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Lots of mentions of the @aaup.org, as well as references to our survey and chapter president, Dr. Indigo Koslicki!
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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The Epstein files revealed new details of multiple meetings over several years between convicted pedophile Epstein, Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and his Apollo co-founder and former CEO Leon Black. The AAUP & AFT are demanding that the Securities & Exchange Commission open an investigation.
@aft.org
@aft.org
SEC urged to investigate Apollo over Epstein ties
Teachers’ unions say regulators should look at private equity giant’s apparent ‘lack of candour’
www.ft.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The Epstein files revealed new details of multiple meetings over several years between convicted pedophile Epstein, Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and his Apollo co-founder and former CEO Leon Black. The AAUP & AFT are demanding that the Securities & Exchange Commission open an investigation.
@aft.org
@aft.org
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Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus.
Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses.
@swcolumbia.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus.
Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses.
@swcolumbia.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Following faculty pushback to Customs and Border Protection recruitment listing, SPS removes all external postings from career opportunities website
Following faculty pushback for listing an external Customs and Border Protection recruitment event on its career opportunities <a href="https://careerdesignlab.sps.columbia.edu/events/" rel="">web pag...
www.columbiaspectator.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus.
Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses.
@swcolumbia.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus.
Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses.
@swcolumbia.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
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Union membership is on the rise — and our ranks in AAUP are growing as part of this trend.
Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.
See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:
Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.
See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:
February 19, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Union membership is on the rise — and our ranks in AAUP are growing as part of this trend.
Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.
See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:
Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.
See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:
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A major step forward for this community!
@governor.ny.gov announced approval of a key construction contract advancing the $1.1 billion modernization of SUNY Downstate Hospital. The project includes demolition of a parking garage to clear the way for a new hospital annex featuring
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@governor.ny.gov announced approval of a key construction contract advancing the $1.1 billion modernization of SUNY Downstate Hospital. The project includes demolition of a parking garage to clear the way for a new hospital annex featuring
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February 19, 2026 at 1:12 AM
A major step forward for this community!
@governor.ny.gov announced approval of a key construction contract advancing the $1.1 billion modernization of SUNY Downstate Hospital. The project includes demolition of a parking garage to clear the way for a new hospital annex featuring
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@governor.ny.gov announced approval of a key construction contract advancing the $1.1 billion modernization of SUNY Downstate Hospital. The project includes demolition of a parking garage to clear the way for a new hospital annex featuring
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NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts
Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.
boltsmag.org
February 19, 2026 at 3:55 PM
NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
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Yale AAUP launches campaign to enshrine academic freedom protections in their faculty handbook.
“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
yaledailynews.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Yale AAUP launches campaign to enshrine academic freedom protections in their faculty handbook.
“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
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NEW: AAUP President Todd Wolfson & council member Chenjerai Kumanyika sat down with the hosts of the excellent Citations Needed podcast to discuss the acceleration of Trump's assaults on American higher education & how the AAUP is fighting back.
Check it out here:
Check it out here:
Citations Needed: News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago
In this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous...
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February 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
NEW: AAUP President Todd Wolfson & council member Chenjerai Kumanyika sat down with the hosts of the excellent Citations Needed podcast to discuss the acceleration of Trump's assaults on American higher education & how the AAUP is fighting back.
Check it out here:
Check it out here:
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I will say that antisemitism on campus is a genuine problem, that the Biden admin's Dept of Education provided self-contradictory guidance, but the Trump admin's approach has been far worse: unlawful, unconstitutional, and destructive. My written testimony, minus footnotes, is on the blog. 👇
www.dorfonlaw.org
February 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I will say that antisemitism on campus is a genuine problem, that the Biden admin's Dept of Education provided self-contradictory guidance, but the Trump admin's approach has been far worse: unlawful, unconstitutional, and destructive. My written testimony, minus footnotes, is on the blog. 👇
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So you're saying Provinzino reads @ballsandstrikes.org 🤔 ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
How Federal Judges Can Bring Down the Hammer On ICE
Federal judges have plenty of tools at their disposal for punishing ICE’s lawlessness—if they feel like using them.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 19, 2026 at 2:50 AM
So you're saying Provinzino reads @ballsandstrikes.org 🤔 ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the UK’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged, the BBC said.
Get the latest: bloom.bg/4rqF1ah
Get the latest: bloom.bg/4rqF1ah
February 19, 2026 at 10:47 AM
I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
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Join us Monday, 23rd February at 1 PM for Lunch Talks: Kings of Privateering, where we’ll explore how Spanish privateers in the 18th-century Caribbean were vital instruments of imperial power—driving war, trade, smuggling, and the trade with enslaved people with remarkable agency.
February 17, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Join us Monday, 23rd February at 1 PM for Lunch Talks: Kings of Privateering, where we’ll explore how Spanish privateers in the 18th-century Caribbean were vital instruments of imperial power—driving war, trade, smuggling, and the trade with enslaved people with remarkable agency.
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Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
February 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...
The possibility that pre-Elon Twitter was limiting the reach of conservative tweets was the greatest story in the history of journalism, while a vast network of sex trafficking pedophiles that included billionaires, celebrities and two presidents is just a big yawn.
Sure, sure. Story checks out.
February 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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also wrote about Soderbergh's Solaris and why a cheap copy is very much in the spirit of Tarkovsky's original. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
The True Solaris Is the Fake Solaris
We have seen the other and it’s George Clooney. || Noah Berlatsky
www.splicetoday.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:46 PM
also wrote about Soderbergh's Solaris and why a cheap copy is very much in the spirit of Tarkovsky's original. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
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UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
February 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
Stayed up way too late in hopes the US men’s curling team could reenact the American Revolution in its 250th. Somehow that feels like a metaphor for something.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say. n.pr/4tPnjPo
Former Prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office: reports
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say.
n.pr
February 19, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Stayed up way too late in hopes the US men’s curling team could reenact the American Revolution in its 250th. Somehow that feels like a metaphor for something.
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Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
February 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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We filed a brief urging an appeals court to uphold the ban on Act 573, a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in all Arkansas public school classrooms.
Public school educators shouldn’t be forced into religious debates that risk coercion or interference with families’ religious beliefs.
Public school educators shouldn’t be forced into religious debates that risk coercion or interference with families’ religious beliefs.
Education Associations Urge Court of Appeals to Keep Freedom of Religion and Uphold the First Amendment in Arkansas Classrooms
St. Louis, Mo. — The National Education Association (NEA) and the Arkansas Education Association (AEA) have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit…
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February 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
We filed a brief urging an appeals court to uphold the ban on Act 573, a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in all Arkansas public school classrooms.
Public school educators shouldn’t be forced into religious debates that risk coercion or interference with families’ religious beliefs.
Public school educators shouldn’t be forced into religious debates that risk coercion or interference with families’ religious beliefs.
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Yes! And also... the number of our founders who were slaveowners also means elite impunity for sexual violence is bedrock in our history, too.
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
February 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Yes! And also... the number of our founders who were slaveowners also means elite impunity for sexual violence is bedrock in our history, too.
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I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Black History Month Is Radical Now
A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Teaching Mark Twain's 1905 King Leopold's Soliloquy today, reread this bit about a despot suppressing published criticism of him, thought I'd share #NoKings #NoKingLeopold
February 19, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Teaching Mark Twain's 1905 King Leopold's Soliloquy today, reread this bit about a despot suppressing published criticism of him, thought I'd share #NoKings #NoKingLeopold
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New from @luminafoundation.bsky.social: New baseline shows 43.6% of U.S. adults in the labor force have degrees or other credentials with economic value (defined as earning at least a 15% wage premium); the goal is 75% by 2040. www.luminafoundation.org/our-work/str...
A Stronger Nation: Learning Beyond High School Builds American Talent
The nation faces an urgent need for talent. To meet that need, many more people must earn college degrees and high-quality credentials.
www.luminafoundation.org
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM
New from @luminafoundation.bsky.social: New baseline shows 43.6% of U.S. adults in the labor force have degrees or other credentials with economic value (defined as earning at least a 15% wage premium); the goal is 75% by 2040. www.luminafoundation.org/our-work/str...