Andrew J Douglas

United Academics of KU Secures Historic First Collective Bargaining Agreement for All Faculty and Academic Staff LAWRENCE, Kan.—Today, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced that they have reached a tentative first contract a...

Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...

The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
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Israel is using the ‘Gaza doctrine’ in Lebanon and Iran For years, Israel used the “Dahiya doctrine” in Gaza. Now it’s using the “Gaza doctrine” in Dahiya — and Tehran.

READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing.

This is one of the most important things you'll read today: mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...

Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says Footage shared by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman purportedly shows destruction in Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran.

Another school.

“Friday, UNICEF said that of the more than 1,300 people killed in the strikes on Iran so far, at least 181 were children.”

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Virginia State University ignored tenure & procedural protections when they abruptly fired 6 faculty from the university's Agricultural Research Station.

In this episode of AAUP TV, @chenjerai.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social speak with two of VSU's Fired Six about this egregious decision.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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There’s a story to be told if we track Iran’s bombs of the fiction of the idea of national sovereignty & the international legal order based on it. The US physical empire is revealed by the fact that all of these countries host US bases. And of course these are just the ones in the SWANA region.

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go” Israel issued a sweeping displacement order for the entire region south of Litani River as it escalated its bombing campaign across Lebanon.

“You should have seen the exodus in the darkness. It was devastating—some people on motorcycles, others on foot,” [Um Mahmoud] said. “Farmers without trucks herded their sheep on the shoulders of the road.”

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How long before we see iron dome technology factored into the cost of every new data center?

Just stumbled upon a felled Flock camera. These days we find beauty where we can.

Stand with the VSU Fired Six!!!

The collapse of the tragedy/farce dialectic - everything is now already both

Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.

I have nothing helpful to say, I just feel incredibly sad for 90 million Iranians now living in fear

Weeks ago, when I scheduled a colleague’s guest lecture on Grenada and the legacy of “Operation Urgent Fury,” I couldn’t have imagined that the US would be maniacally flailing its way through “Operation Epic Fury.”

Faculty Blog: Morehouse and the Academic Labor Movement Once upon a time a Morehouse professor tried to unionize the faculty. Walter Chivers, the current namesake of the school’s cafeteria, was a professor of sociology at Morehouse College from 1925 until ...

A short 2023 piece on some of the unsung labor history at Morehouse and other HBCUs. And a reminder that the AFT's entree into higher ed organizing began at Howard in 1918, under the leadership of Mary Church Terrell.

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Map showing HELU member unions and orgs, with Morehouse College AAUP highlighted.

Wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast has to include HBCUs, the “testing ground” for so many assaults on higher ed. Proud that my coworkers and I at Morehouse AAUP have joined @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Hard to overstate just how thoroughly Netanyahu played Trump on all of this

✨ MotL 88 is live! ✨

We speak with Khush Vachhrajani about the systemic dismantling of India's rural job guarantee program & the growing movement of workers, unions & activists who refuse to let it die.

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A journalist asked me today if the war would make the middle east more safe, given the Iranian regime's belligerence.

I explained that until the root causes of conflict - Israeli warfare & occupation, and Arab authoritarianism - are addressed, even (unlikely) regime change in Iran won't do much.

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

USATF has issued a statement regarding the finish of the women's race at the USATF Half Marathon Championships in Atlanta this morning, where Jess McClain, Edna Kurgat and Emma Hurley were leading the race but were directed off course by the lead vehicle.

Protest denied. Results will stand.

Molly Born: "I don't really feel like the U.S. champion" YouTube video by Fast Women

Here's what Molly Born had to say after finishing crossing the line first at the USATF Half Marathon Championships after the four runners in front of her were led off course for varying lengths of time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVnH...

Finishers medal for the 2026 Atlanta Marathon. 20th anniversary of the race.

My finisher’s badge. 3:08:47.

Atlanta Marathon. Wasn’t sure about this one. Been sick for weeks. Had to tap into deep wells of anger at the state of the world to get through those last miles.

B-race. Back to the grind. Seven weeks til Boston. #Running

Israel closing all crossings into Gaza

Last time US’s fiction-based belligerence killed 1 million real people, loved people displaced millions more. Isis was created in its prisons. Domestic surveillance went bezerk in the name of the “war on terror.”

I’m not a praying person but what is left? My heart is with our Iranian siblings.

The actual reason for the illegal assault on Iran by the US and Israel is the simple fact that they feel entitled to engage in genocide, imperialism, and apartheid with impunity.

They cannot countenance any authentic threat to that project, which is what Iran—not international law—represents.