Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
One again, I ask: if these conservative, "contrarian" academics are really being silenced, why don't they ever shut the fuck up?
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3h agoThe Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now
The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 4h agoChecking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 13h agoCalifornia governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
They don't believe that women have a right to bodily autonomy.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h agoSo many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy
All these people gleefully smiling and clapping like he just declared it was national cake and ice cream day or something. Fuck every one of these sadistic sacks of shit. I wish them nothing but abject misery for the rest of their lives.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 17h ago“Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, & interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan — all of whom are in the country w/ the federal govt’s permission”
There are a lot of institutions ill-served by their "leadership," but Harvard is at or near the top of that list. Good thing we have a public discourse that positions it as the stand-in for all of higher ed!
Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬@drkarenpinder.bsky.social · yesterdayHoly shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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P.S. Please revisit this mordant @brianphillips.lol essay about how the president of Cornell backed into students with his car and what that says about the politics and priorities of the higher-ed industrial complex. Absolutely brilliant piece www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n...
Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
PBS News@pbsnews.org · yesterdayUtah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 18h agoPress release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)
For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, "No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game." He sipped his wine. +
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
PBS News@pbsnews.org · yesterdayUtah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx
I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 17h agoJewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action https://aje.news/zjyo4q
"The AI-forward education platforms are expected to provide indispensable systems for surveilling and disciplining two despised populations - educators (especially unionized ones) and young people - who remain durably resistant to fascist propaganda".
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d ago“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”
Good read by @leifw.bsky.social on the problems of anthropomorphizing AI and obscuring human agency: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · yesterdayOne suit, filed against New York, Massachusetts, and California, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to end shield laws—which would allow the conservative states to extradite abortion providers (among other horrors).
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
"Today, I am establishing the thing I directed myself to establish"
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterdayHegseth: “Today, at my direction, I’m establishing the Office of Religious Affairs.”
The greasiest, sleaziest man with default authority syndrome would like to convince us all that he’s the expert on rape. Why does he care so much that the confirmed accused rapists have their privacy respected? Hmmmmmm
Every hacker in the world watching Trump put Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel in charge of the military and the FBI
Scarface: Tony Montana Laughing on Phone
ALT: Scarface: Tony Montana Laughing on Phone
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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · yesterdayThe Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
Why do all of the people in Trump's circle move like they're still learning how to use their feet and arms at the same time
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayHegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."
Wrote about the National Design Studio a while back, and two things worth noting. *It is led by a white nationalist *They do skins, not services. America.gov is a chatbot with a .gov skin. They are promising to make services work better but its all TBD.
I've seen lefty people on multiple websites sharing stuff by people who use the term "ZOG" seriously, it is endemic and it is very, very bad
neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 2d agoThe first three screenshots here are followed by leftist journalists & artists that i follow, the last is a post by an actual, committed Nazi, who posts enough plausibly deniable stuff aiming for distribution on the left that I've had to ping friends about their reposts before.
Sometimes* I wake up with a totally odd random-ass song playing in my head, and then I have to listen to the whole album because otherwise my brain will continue to play the same couple of lines over and over. Anyway, that's why I've been listening to Keel's "The Right to Rock" *lots of times
When you just string together a bunch of random clauses, you get Kyrsten Sinema's life.
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 2d agoLot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
