"A crucial first step to defunding UC police is figuring out how much money they have." Our in-depth look at the budgets of the University of California's own police departments, with shout-outs to @prisonculture, @cnewf, and @LoneberryWang. https://t.co/rXLHiOr3nI

new international student enrollment has declined by 17% since last fall. this change is being driven by graduate students.

"Berkeley helps run a nuclear weapons lab. If you walked into a student on the quad, likewise, they would not know that. So, they're accelerating that. And also, the pipeline from engineering students into the weapons industry."

"Johns Hopkins gets a billion dollars a year to work on things like ballistic missiles, but the average student there wouldn’t know it. The lab is 40 miles away. They’re occupied with other things. Berkeley helps run a nuclear weapons lab."

"[T]his move towards AI and advanced tech means they need the university folks more because Lockheed Martin doesn’t have those kind of people. They’re prized now. And so, they’re doing much more recruiting, sending much more money."

“Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor.”

“Today, we’re being excluded from housing assistance that UC gives to its wealthiest employees; being told to accept wages that offer less purchasing power than we had seven or eight years ago, and being told that we should pay twice as much for our health insurance...”

"The nurses’ union had planned to strike Monday and Tuesday in solidarity with a third union, AFSCME 3299…The nurses association said thousands of its members still planned to join AFSCME picket lines 'while not on work time.'" 😐

"…none of these policies would hold up in court. But, then again, very little of what goes on in the University’s disciplinary proceedings would."

"If the phrase 'kangaroo court' comes to mind, that’s for good reason. The violation of the statute of limitations, the confidentiality agreement, hearings held without the defendant, the fact that OSA doesn’t tell students what they’re being charged with—"

some the best reporting i've seen on the punitive restructuring of student conduct/university disciplinary procedures in the service of repressing the palestine solidarity movement

"The net cost of the many new senior administrators and their staffs will be huge, and annual. The President has said that this massive transfer of governance and expenditures to the administration will 'set the precedent' for the rest of our university."

"The Schools…have provisional names like 'School of Human Behavior and Well-Being,' 'Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies & Services' and, in some cases, wave-of-the-hand placeholders like 'Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures).'"

"A large public university [Montair State University] is wiping out all of its humanities departments" and replacing them with "no fewer than four new Schools and three new Institutes, to be run by a new pantheon of senior administrators"

Full details of the detention of international law professor (and former UN special rapporteur) Richard Falk and his wife Hilal Elver in Canada, on their way to contribute to the tribunal on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.

Boasting of "record immigration raids" over footage of someone's door being bashed in. This hateful politics won't repair your existential unpopularity but may succeed in ruining some people's lives

History lesson: every single job you now think of as union-coded (mining, factory work, etc) was, prior to be unionized, broadly seen as inherently transient, precarious and for unmarried young people. The only reason they stopped being coded that way is because…they unionized

Impossible to understand our moment in history without grasping that for many people reality is increasingly a marginal phenomenon that happens around the edges of screen time.

"The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Coalition counted the 2,080 graduate student votes Thursday in Harrisburg, and 1,882 of them — or about 90% — voted 'yes'"

In a functioning society - hell, in a non-functioning one - the Epstein files would cause the downfall of the individuals and a collapse of the party structures that allowed this man to commit such heinous crimes. Like...Italy with Tangentopoli

Chuck Schumer has long been a leading enabler of Israeli war crimes. He has publicly said there is no peace in Palestine because Palestinians “don’t believe in the Torah” and has even attacked Donald Trump from the right on issues of war and peace. https://t.co/1TMPInSQhR