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Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Professor, @WoodsonUVA Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
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Harvard says publicly that it’s ‘committed to protecting the rights of its students’ …but it’s still hell-bent on censoring them. theintercept.com/2025/06/20/h...

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Federal judge sides with Harvard—blocks Trump’s ban on international students. Harvard wins a legal reprieve while Trump teases a ‘mind‑bogglingly historic’ deal. Drama, leverage, high stakes. If everything is “historic” and “mind boggling,” as he always claims…then nothing would be. #BS

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

I also find this interesting. Like the guy who discovered that there isn’t any fraud at social security etc.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

The judges keep issuing orders, which the felon and his posse keep ignoring. Can you legal experts explain to me in kindergarten language how they can keep showing contempt for the courts with both alacrity and impunity?

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

struck yet again by how painlessly efficient most labor is when the people who think their job is to make things painfully efficient aren’t around

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I believe that there is an educators frequency. Just when you feel like an absolute useless sack of %#!? a former student finds you. I was LIVID and pissed and exhausted and spoiling for a fight when this found me today.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

“Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it – just to stand one minute on God’s earth a free woman – I would.” Sharing 'Mum Bett' Elizabeth Freeman’s words on Juneteenth.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

We are thrilled that pro-housing candidates did well in Tuesday elections: Juandiego Wade, Jen Fleisher, Sally Duncan, and Ghazala Hashmi all support the kinds of housing policies Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the Commonwealth of Virginia need!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

glad to see SPLC going back to their roots - the best work they ever did was bankrupting hate groups in the courts. it's about time someone made GDL answer for their harassment campaigns.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Thunder, lightning, rain. Grandma Edie visits to say: “turn off the ‘lectrics.” I say, “yes, ma’am,” then prepare to “be still,” as was her injunction when I was a child.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

I am in my mattress with my cash because this global crypto crime ring will break democratic institutions, steal whatever isn’t nailed down and buy all the water we will be working in the mines to buy after the company Apple Store takes its credits for the air we breathe.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments