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Higher Ed is cooked, faculty. You can either start looking for an alternative profession, or unionize to save it. No amount of effort to appeal to morality or utility is going to save us

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“Sports betting is a billion-dollar industry, but domestic violence is a trillion-dollar problem.” New research shows legalizing sports betting is linked to increased rates of DV/IPV. How can legislators ensure gambling revenue helps more than it harms? ⬇️ minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/20/m...

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This week @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social join in to talk 1993’s The Program, NIL, and the human cost of college football. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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In case you were wondering how ESPN is trafficking harm these days.

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There’s no off-season at HATM. Talking today with @derekcrim.bsky.social & @nkalamb.bsky.social about the human cost on athletes playing college football and their new book from @uncpress.bsky.social jasonherbert.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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Might I suggest "The End of College Football" 😉 uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Meanwhile, in Chicago… www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social Dudes, feel like you have me well ahead of the curve -- keep bumping into news articles where I have to say, yeah, I already read an in-depth analysis of this problem in The End of Football www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

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my qualify of life has improved since getting off twitter

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Reminder: the Ontario government provides the lowest per student funding in Canada. After decades of slashing provincial funding and austerity, the province will gladly see it gut important programs.

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Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

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“The End of College Football is a necessary provocation of the collegiate athletic system and exploitative sport systems in general. Implications from this book will be realized for years to come.” Amazing review in SSJ by John Howe. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

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Literally everything we knew to be true through simply existing and the dems acted like we were nuts. This + genocide. Tell me why they lost the election?

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I cannot overstate how damning this data is: although Dems gaslit us all about the 'robust' state of the economy, in fact, as WE ALL KNOW BASED ON LIVING IN THE WORLD, economic conditions are bleak af. For instance, 24% of the population is FUNCTIONALLY UNEMPLOYED. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Great coverage by WUNC of the spate of politically-motivated acts of book talk censorship featuring @uncpress.bsky.social authors. www.wunc.org/education/20...

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In case you were under the misguided impression that the Canadian government would prove in any way useful to its citizens who have been arbitrarily denied access to the United States.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

maybe it's the nazism

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Surprise, Nathan is a radical Marxist.

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yo wtf why didn’t I watch this

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A timely piece with tonight’s big game re: an alarming number of hazing cases reported on high school football teams this season. My latest for @the74.bsky.social on hazing prevention in high school sports, cw sexual violence, racially motivated violence www.the74million.org/article/supe...

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I’ve had lots of car time recently which has meant listening to lots of @mattseybold.bsky.social’s American Vandal, incl the recent ep w/ @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social talking abt their book, The End of College Football. A must listen! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-first-...

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Friends!! If you are a cis woman were/are an athlete and/or think of yourself as physically active in SOME way And you think that the ban on trans people in sports is harmful I’d like to hear from you. Respond below/DM me to share your thoughts. we’re not loud enough & trans ppl need us!

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

Sports media manufacturing consent to cap worker wages for 1000, Alex. commish out here just reading random fan emails lmfao

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Sports are never "just sports." They are laden with politics, and that is clear with Trump 2.0's attack on trans inclusion in sport. It's literally deadly. An important piece from @julesboykoff.bsky.social & Satoko Itani (Bluesky?) for @commondreams.org. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

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RIP to a legend in sociology. Incredibly sad and horrifying.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

muting the "the world is burning, but here is a picture of my cat" crowd

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@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social Gents, I am about halfway through the book. On one hand, it is a depressing read, but OTOH you two have done a great job here -- I love that it's athletes' voices to large extent + notes/bibliography give basis to dive deeper. Chapter 3 is key

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a lot of canadians for the first time feeling .01% of the fear other folks have felt daily for decades at the hands of empire

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The support we have received from @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social is nothing short of incredible. If you’re an author with a book project, this group is where you need to take it.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This is what these executive orders have wrought: snitch campaigns with potentially serious material consequences.

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

Universities have proven they will gladly rat out students and faculty to keep a couple tents off their lawns. This is an abomination indeed.

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The red flag for me in this abomination is the section below calling for universities to snitch on non-US students and faculty who have engaged in protest of Israeli genocide so that they can be deported. These institutions will do so with relish. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

This is deeply disturbing. I also wonder if they’re going to start messing with the passports of Americans who have said stuff Elon Musk doesn’t like.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

huge s/o to all the folks who have reached out to me with some good advice -- very much appreciate it SOLIDARITY

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say it with me...GENERAL STRIKE

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Critique of genocide has become a formally deportable offense.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

A second Canadian academic seems to have been targeted by DHS -- most likely for advocacy on Gaza. Academic societies should be having a good long think about where they're hosting annual meetings over the next four years.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

So uhhhh, the US is apparently targeting Canadian academics for their political views now. bsky.app/profile/dere...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If they're revoking NEXUS passes, the chances that many of us will no longer be able to cross the border for failing to meet whatever ideological purity test is being applied is disturbingly high. Reconsidering all future visits.

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