BREAKING: 550 post-doc researchers at USC are forming a union as USC Researchers and Fellows United - UAW and joining UAW. They follow 1,000 post-docs at princeton who unionized yesterday (@PUPostdocs).

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A CNN investigation confirms testimony from released Palestinians of conditions inside Israeli torture camps

cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…

Someone should write about this

Why are small trucks a 'safety hazard,' but motorcycles are not? And why do the same regulators allow increasingly giant American trucks? F-250's these days are about twice the size of '77 my father had, and they aren't capable of more. providencejournal.com/story/news/pol…

Volkswagen workers just moved a mountain.

Mercedes workers got next.

#StandUpUAW

There’s no way

USC, like Columbia, canceled commencement — first preemptively barred their valedictorian from speaking and then nixed the entire ceremony.

See her reception among her peers.

Maybe folks can take a break from competitive sneering at young people and question those in charge.

Technically speaking 19c never ended, just took a lil breather from c1970 to c2000

What are underappreciated books of literary criticism that comment on the current debates about the discipline? Looking for things about to be published or published in the last few years. The comment could be direct or oblique. Bonus points for early-career folks.

lol Columbia U president Minouche Shafik denounces her faculty to the US gov, calls the police on her students, then sets herself up as a pioneer of civility Bruce Robbins reclaim UC Charmaine Chua 🇵🇸 Daniela Gabor ft.com/content/18432b… via @ft

At this point I really just need him to write a different article

I am extremely frustrated and shocked that today the University of Pennsylvania decided to employ a militarized police force to clear the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and I will always support the rights of our constituents to protest.

“I’m a professor at the university, and I am asking, am I under arrest?”

A Penn faculty member is led away from the encampment:

Snipers and machine guns on our campuses. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Peaceful protest is a human right. #FreeGaza

this was the New School this afternoon, after the president’s assurances that there were no longer cops on campus