Trevor Griffey
@trevorgriffey.bsky.social
Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine & UCLA. VP of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. LAWCHA Board. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Higher Ed blog: https://campuslabor.blogspot.com/
For all those @aft.org members who disagree with your national union's decision to accept tens of millions of dollars from @microsoft.com, OpenAI, and @anthropic.com, you're not alone.
@cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us.
www.cft.org/resolution/e...
@cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us.
www.cft.org/resolution/e...
Education Technology Companies and AFT/CFT
Education Technology Companies and AFT/CFT
Submitted by the Labor and Climate Justice Education Committee and the Higher ...
www.cft.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For all those @aft.org members who disagree with your national union's decision to accept tens of millions of dollars from @microsoft.com, OpenAI, and @anthropic.com, you're not alone.
@cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us.
www.cft.org/resolution/e...
@cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us.
www.cft.org/resolution/e...
It's helpful to have Twitter so you can watch fascists cry over the fact that they are a political minority.
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's helpful to have Twitter so you can watch fascists cry over the fact that they are a political minority.
"with plans to eventually offer microcredentials and a minicertification in AI in the future"!!
This summer, the AFT and the UFT announced a $23 million partnership with Microsoft, Open AI and Anthropic to forge a first-of-its-kind teacher institute for artificial intelligence: the National Academy for AI Instruction. Read: https://www.uft.org/news/news-stories/news-stories/ai-academy-launches
AI academy launches
This summer, the AFT and the UFT announced a $23 million partnership with Microsoft, Open AI and Anthropic to forge a first-of-its-kind teacher institute for artificial intelligence: the National Acad...
www.uft.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"with plans to eventually offer microcredentials and a minicertification in AI in the future"!!
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Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*
Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”
This Congressman’s office:
How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...
The Storm is Coming (1932)
A campaign speech by Joseph Goebbels from 9 July 1932.
research.calvin.edu
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...
Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.
At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses.
dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...
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UC Irvine IMPACT Program | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
dtei.uci.edu
September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses.
dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...
dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...
The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social won't sue to stop Trump's extortion but campus labor unions will.
democracyforward.org/updates/titl...
democracyforward.org/updates/titl...
Broad Coalition of Faculty, Staff, Students, and Unions Unite to Defend University of California System From Trump-Vance Administration Assault - Democracy Forward
democracyforward.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social won't sue to stop Trump's extortion but campus labor unions will.
democracyforward.org/updates/titl...
democracyforward.org/updates/titl...
. @cnewf.bsky.social on the December 2024 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social deal with the lame duck Biden admin to obligate the UC to coordinate its enforcement of civil rights law on UC campuses with the incoming Trump administration.
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
. @cnewf.bsky.social on the December 2024 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social deal with the lame duck Biden admin to obligate the UC to coordinate its enforcement of civil rights law on UC campuses with the incoming Trump administration.
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...
This is exactly why @ucla.edu must not settle with the Trump administration. It will only set a precedent for shaking down the whole system, then for going after other public research 1 universities after that.
The University of California receives $17 billion annually in federal funds. Its president is warning of a possible Trump push across the system, making current federal cuts at UCLA and elsewhere seem “minor in comparison to the threat that looms”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
It's not just UCLA. UC president warns of Trump push into all campuses and hospitals
President James B. Milliken said current federal cuts are "minor in comparison to the threat that looms." Cuts, he said, could go far beyond UCLA and hit all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals.
www.latimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is exactly why @ucla.edu must not settle with the Trump administration. It will only set a precedent for shaking down the whole system, then for going after other public research 1 universities after that.
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The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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. @ucirvine.bsky.social tooling up for its repression of demonstrations in 2025-26.
The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.
regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25
The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.
regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25
September 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
. @ucirvine.bsky.social tooling up for its repression of demonstrations in 2025-26.
The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.
regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25
The only reason to get an LRAD for UCI Health is to put down labor actions.
regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25
My US higher ed labor list. bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My US higher ed labor list. bsky.app/profile/did:...
By 1966 the New Left already felt old and cliched to people who were part of it. The conclusion of much longer critique of the limits of immediacy and moralism.
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
By 1966 the New Left already felt old and cliched to people who were part of it. The conclusion of much longer critique of the limits of immediacy and moralism.
Ideology test for public school teachers in Oklahoma. How long until it goes national? www.latimes.com/california/s...
This red state fears Californians bringing 'radical, leftist ideology.' It's targeting teachers
In Oklahoma, education officials are requiring teachers from California and New York to take an exam aimed at guarding against 'radical leftist ideology.'
www.latimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ideology test for public school teachers in Oklahoma. How long until it goes national? www.latimes.com/california/s...
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🚨 Faculty, heads up! This fall brings hidden challenges & admin power plays. Hear Nolan Higdon, Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel break it down. youtu.be/sOHw91P9Qvg @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaft-riverside.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social @aaup.org
Faculty Under Fire: Administrative Power Plays and the Challenges of This School Year
YouTube video by The Disinfo Detox
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August 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
🚨 Faculty, heads up! This fall brings hidden challenges & admin power plays. Hear Nolan Higdon, Trevor Griffey & Christina Ceisel break it down. youtu.be/sOHw91P9Qvg @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaft-riverside.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social @aaup.org
The @californialabor.bsky.social Unionize California t-shirts are awesome. stores.inksoft.com/unionize_cal...
California Labor Federation
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August 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The @californialabor.bsky.social Unionize California t-shirts are awesome. stores.inksoft.com/unionize_cal...
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My contacts at U of Oregon have asked to circulate this to-do list + this list of contacts to call and write to speak against the proposed evisceration of several programs (and termination of affiliated tenure-track, tenured, and career faculty).
August 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
My contacts at U of Oregon have asked to circulate this to-do list + this list of contacts to call and write to speak against the proposed evisceration of several programs (and termination of affiliated tenure-track, tenured, and career faculty).
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Tell the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents and Present: HOLD THE LINE against the Trump administration! No concessions whatsoever. Exhaust all legal remedies in fighting back. Draw on deep and wide support for public higher education in California. We can win.
actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
HOLD THE LINE: Stand Strong Against Attacks on Education
Last week, the Trump administration made it official: they are coming after the University of California. It is imperative that in their response to this attack, UC leaders negotiate with the knowle...
actionnetwork.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Tell the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents and Present: HOLD THE LINE against the Trump administration! No concessions whatsoever. Exhaust all legal remedies in fighting back. Draw on deep and wide support for public higher education in California. We can win.
actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
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Let’s make sure UC faculty and staff know we have their backs! Sign and share, please! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social
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UC Stand Up
Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup
Click here for news updates
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Let’s make sure UC faculty and staff know we have their backs! Sign and share, please! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social
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I wrote a recent history of @aft.org's partnerships with education technology companies, including @microsoft.com. I hope that it can help AFT members across the U.S. seek greater transparency and accountability from their elected officers.
campuslabor.blogspot.com/2025/08/AFT-...
campuslabor.blogspot.com/2025/08/AFT-...
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Partnerships with Ed Tech Companies, 2022-25: What We Know So Far
Short history of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) partnerships with Microsoft, NewsGuard, GPT-Zero, KhanAcademy, OpenAI, and Anthropic
campuslabor.blogspot.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wrote a recent history of @aft.org's partnerships with education technology companies, including @microsoft.com. I hope that it can help AFT members across the U.S. seek greater transparency and accountability from their elected officers.
campuslabor.blogspot.com/2025/08/AFT-...
campuslabor.blogspot.com/2025/08/AFT-...