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alisonhearn.bsky.social
Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice. Exhausted but still feisty.
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 9 hours ago • 67 comments

Couldn’t the coup leaders be at least a little bit clever or charismatic? Do they have to be so puerile and stupid?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why not just send them the broken lives and families of unemployed workers, doctors and scientists?

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Jesus these Charlie Brown senators are dummer than a bag of hammers.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

sic semper tyrannis

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Trump dismisses Zelensky as a ‘former TV star’ with no business running a country….

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪 Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Lindsey Graham crawls out of Trump’s ass, sees his shadow, and declares 6 more weeks of fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When I think about the small, mean, stupid, venal idiots fucking up life for the rest of us, I am flooded with rage. And then I hate them even more for making me feel hate so much…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In this interregnum, as the US fully transforms, we will see who emerges as appeaser, accommodationist, Vichyist. And who will risk it all to resist.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The United States of America is a fascist state.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“Gee, nice country you have there, it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Idiots all the way down.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.” David Graeber RIP

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Great Shakedown

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Close up view of Jupiter Credit:NASA

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

feels similar to how the Soviet dictatorship was set up. the nominal presidency is quickly becoming meaningless, while dictatorial power accumulates at DOGE by planting commissars in every agency talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-h...

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

The myth of Canadian ‘niceness’ theconversation.com/why-annexing...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"unexpectedly." Lol

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"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

submitted 11 days ago • 2374 comments

I love it when celebrity commentators decide they’ve discovered a whole new thing and write a best seller about it with zero acknowledgement of the scholars who’ve worked on the issue for years.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Americans don’t know anything about Canada. They never have. Fact is they don’t care to know. Like so many other places, Canada has never seemed significant enough to them. This, perversely, has shaped a Canadian identity organized entirely around (happily) NOT being American.

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www.realtor.com/news/unique-...

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This guy is out of his mind and he is gunning to kill auto (in principle not a terrible idea) but if done this way will decimate the lives of millions on both sides of the border.

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I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

submitted 12 days ago • 268 comments

Can people just get past the denial phase and get to the anger phase already? This is just batshit…

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is the 5th air accident in the US in less than 4 weeks. But I’m sure Elon, “big balls,” and crew will put a stop to it…

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It’s ok to punch Nazis. Give it a listen. You won’t regret it.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Karma no longer her boyfriend.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry Americans, I just can’t hang out with you anymore.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 13 days ago • 203 comments

Not to minimize what catastrophic damage is happening in science and medicine with funding, but your humanities colleagues have been in this defund and delegitimize spiral for a decade or more. We have lost tenure lines despite increased enrollment. When they attack higher ed, it’s an attack

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

First they came for immigrants, trans and lgbtq people, people of colour, women, civil servants, Greenlanders, Canadians, Panamians, research scientists…

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

submitted 15 days ago • 107 comments

higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states and in over 60% of the 100 largest cities. destruction of federal research funds is economic sabotage.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments