Big up to folks demanding justice for immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE detention center who have been on a hunger & labor strike for weeks! These community supporters have reportedly been attacked by ICE agents with batons & have endured NJ state police in riot gear launching tear gas at them
"An older friend ...turned to me and asked if I could help him remember all the verses to “Solidarity Forever.” Within minutes, all the cells up and down the hall were singing the full, original IWW version, with increasing gusto."
labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org.
Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”
"Uber and Lyft ... routinely charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, a monthslong Consumer Reports investigation has found. Across the routes we tested, the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings was about 50 percent."
One of the highlights of the AAUP meeting last week was this report on the org’s legal work. Read it!
An incredible snapshot showing that when we fight, we win ✊
Proposed White House regulations could kill thousands of NIH-funded clinical trials, analysis finds
www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...
"In any case, I do expect mass grant cancellations at NIH if this new OMB rule is passed. It will be very ugly," said one expert.
"Courts cannot build chapters. Courts cannot restore shared governance on campus. Courts cannot make a university president brave. Courts cannot save academic freedom. Courts cannot make a faculty organized enough to resist.
That is OUR work."
- @veenadubal.bsky.social
"This is the fourth consecutive year premiums would rise by double-digits for the 450,000 state, county and local workers who get their health care from the State Health Benefits Plan."
www.nj.com/politics/202...
"Geo asked that ICE remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state and local laws around the treatment of detainees...The company also asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
@aaup.org kicking it in the courts! academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...
@aaup.org kicking it in the courts! academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...
BY VEENA DUBAL The following report by AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine, was delivered to the AAUP’s biennial meeting in Chicago on…
BY VEENA DUBAL The following report by AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine, was delivered to the AAUP’s biennial meeting in Chicago on…
“The majority of the actions attributed to individuals involved in the alleged conspiracy are routine organizing activities, such as moderating a meeting, sharing a fundraising link, or posting to social media. Many, many times, the action is merely ‘sent a message’ a Signal group …”
I wrote about the astounding indictment of 15 people in Minnesota now charged with an alleged criminal conspiracy against ICE, and what federal prosecutors’ wild “who posted what on Signal when,” “who said what on the ‘Anarchist Speaking Tour’” claims are meant to do:
newrepublic.com
Melissa Gira Grant
Federal prosecutors just leveled sweeping charges against 15 Minnesotans for allegedly conspiring to stop ICE. The charges may not succeed, but a conviction isn’t what the feds are really after.
