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dispatch from my job "budgets are direct expressions of an institution’s values, so an unwillingness to meet cost, still astonishingly fucking low, is as good as declaring that working-class kids do not deserve an education of as high a caliber as that of their whiter and wealthier peers"

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“Who will pay for the literature of the future?!” I muse, angling as ever for the position of poet laureate of the Curtis Yarvin-Taco Bell Fiefdom of Greater Lake Erie.

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A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry: 1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

huge congrats to all the reasonable & evenhanded university presidents who set new records for advance compliance on this, since nobody even had to ask before they all lined up to make dissent into a crime

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Erik Prince reacting to his recent fall in the “worst person alive” power rankings

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It’s axiomatic to say fascism is imperialism come home to roost. Whether that’s always true is another story, it does certainly feel like the top-down asset-stripping shock-therapy by oligarchs - what the US inflicts on other nations - we are experiencing in its late and most toxic phase here

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Reading about cuts to the FAA amidst increasing airplane disasters is a reminder that some in power now looked at COVID, looked at the 3000 dead a week that we not only put up with but ignored, and wondered how much more destruction they could get away with in order to make more money.

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So any acknowledgment of race in public life is now a violation of equality regardless of intent or material effects (according to the Trump admin)? About as expansive and individualistic a theory of rights as you can get.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

needs more candy hearts

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Basically every time I unlock my phone

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Takes a special kind of sicko to mount a call for “depoliticizing” the university after the intensely violent repression pro-Palestine students have faced over the last year and a half

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

When we were in grad school, I recall that he in all sincerity wrote a seminar paper whose argument turned the "fact" that gay men cannot look at each other's faces when they have sex

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

submitted 30 days ago • 145 comments

Arundhati Roy famously described the pandemic “a portal” thru which we’d emerge one kind of society or another: one w a broad safety net & an ethic of care & public health, or one that increasingly viewed all life disposable in the name of capital accumulation. She was right.

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Very sad news that Michael Burawoy was killed in a hit and run. Just awful. I just watched an excellent series of lectures he offered about Du Bois a few months ago. Terrible. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

"Ethnic cleansing" sounds so sanitary for a racist, brutal, and, ultimately, genocidal process.

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more 🔥analysis from Buffalo. we know this stuff, because it's where a lot of the ruling class's dreams/projects are manifested in their stupidest forms, where they're clearly just cash grabs, the endless transfer of public $ to private hands.

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Diné artist Demian DinéYazhi, “my ancestors will not forget this.”

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Great metaphor

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Welp…so a couple weeks after this happened to @nkalamb.bsky.social my NEXUS was just revoked by DHS. It’s not a coincidence. Sorry American friends and colleagues, looks like I won’t be at events in the US any time soon.

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

"What can academic leaders do to restore declining faith in their institutions?" How about oh, I dunno, not endorsing the very technologies that are helping to destroy them and deskill their workers

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely not, leave me alone, lose this number.

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I think they’ll get around to eliminating or politicizing the NEH & NEA but these are such a small drop in the budget that they’re prioritizing gutting elsewhere first.

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I dunno man I'd have given that a first

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Waited for the all22 before speaking on this play Doesn’t excuse the drop (which looks brutal from the endzone angle), & there’s not a complete guarantee Shakir gets the first down, but I’m surprised Allen didn’t look for Shakir on the orbit return

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

Pain

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Current vibe: Stress-eating Buffalo Chicken Dip while pacing the house.

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

For everything that you can say is terrible about the current moment, and it is terrible, there is at least clarity. It is clear we need real resistance to Trump and it is equally clear that the democratic party, major media outlets, and other institutions such as the university are not it.

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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

never forget that Satan started out as a microinfluencer

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

my friend who’s been part of his legal team can’t stop crying

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

🦬

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I was supposed to discuss our book The End of College Football tonight in Washington, DC. I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States. They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

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The American Medical Association did a study showing encampment sweeps that forcibly relocate people lead to big increases in: overdose deaths, hospitalizations, life-threatening infections, and more. And yesterday, a man was run over with a bulldozer in an Atlanta sweep.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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MLA25 was my first in-person experience of the conference. I had a great time. I will not be back until the Executive Council changes course and we vote for a BDS resolution.

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More and more former members of the #MLA Executive Council are publicly condemning the current EC’s decision to prohibit a vote on #BDS. Eight former MLA presidents have as well. Yet the MLA will not change course. Fraudulent corporation peddling its wares.

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I have no idea how the AHA membership breaks down on this issue but I will say that refusing to adopt a position specifically because you fear the wrath of a political party is not “staying apolitical,” it is making an explicitly political calculation and basing your organization’s position on that.

submitted 62 days ago • 7 comments

Sign this open letter against repression at NYU. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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What's crazy about universities is that there's none of them left in Gaza

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Total brutality by cops invited by Emory University today against students. Atl Press Collective reporting pepper bullets, tazing, tear gas. Many arrests. Horrific.

submitted 317 days ago • 1 comment

extremely yes and more of this please

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Looks like “whoops we characterized the student protestors for Palestine as violent in order to justify cracking down on them and now we can’t substantiate that but it doesn’t matter because we got our crackdown” is THE university administrator move of the year

submitted 319 days ago • 9 comments

I’m heartened by the conviction and bravery of our colleagues at CU (untenured/contingent ppl denouncing admin’s repression in writing) and NYU (tenured faculty facing arrest to protect students) and elsewhere. You have provided a model for those of us at other institutions.

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