They’re literally closing a prison because the male guards REFUSE TO STOP raping the women.

And no one is losing their jobs.

The total weaponization of student safety discourse by the right

Get ready for the American Association of University Professors national day of action for higher ed with newly released talks from Vineeta Singh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò , Donna Murch and Davarian L. Baldwin from Universities and Democracy symposium, which I organized with Dennis M. Hogan

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…

It’s shocking how much we’ve shut down campus compared to 2022. Campus is visibly emptied out. This is due both to IGWC #IUONSTRIKE24 4/17-4/19 organizing and impressive levels of faculty solidarity. Whitten’s arrogance certainly helps too.

BREAKING: Columbia Uni reps have entered the camp & have warned that if students do not evacuate by 11 AM, all students will be SUSPENDED. YOUR SOLIDARITY IS NEEDED. Columbia is funding genocide in Palestine & threatening to suspend students with no hearings for calling them out!

BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Settlements like these have cost the city millions over the past few years. So much that a discussion of settlements was part of the fiscal conditions listed in last year's budget (see page 32 below).

I think we all can agree this is not a responsible way to spend public…

You would never know that it was police throwing the projectiles. And by throwing I mean shooting.

One of the best tech-hype takedowns I've read in a while... snake oil all the way down

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Columbia campus is once again closed to the public and is surrounded by cops and multiple NYPD corrections buses — fully prepared to send its own students to jail if they dare to gather, chant, hold up a sign. Lower lows every day!

the 'antisemitism on campus' moral panic is successfully folding liberals into reactionary politics of the CRT/gender studies bans and the broader project to smash higher education

The coming crash of the 'AI' hype wave is gonna be historic and brutal. really can't recommend Ed Zitron 's newsletter enough

wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/

Columbia
Hired private investigators to pursue pro-Palestine students; still has open case into 88-day-old chemical attack

Vanderbilt
Canceled divestment vote
Expelled students after they protested

Pomona
Sent dozens of riot police to arrest 20 students
theintercept.com/2024/04/15/col…

Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Sign the Petition! chng.it/LR7rk4G8 via Change.org

And once again:

This is a historic tech action.

A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.

🚨 - IU faculty have voted no confidence in President Whitten by the widest margin yet.
Faculty now join graduate and undergraduate students in unanimous condemnation of her opaque, craven, paranoid, and unethical leadership.

(888 voting, 827 yes, 29 no, 32 abstain)

For those of you wondering 'what the hell is USC's problem?' today I highly recommend this Piper French classic in The Drift thedriftmag.com/college-debt/

all eyes on indiana university, where faculty are voting no confidence in the administration and graduate workers go on strike tomorrow