Jennifer Proffitt 🖤💛#H2P
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phd, professor, critical political economist, fmr faculty union president, halloween connoisseur, horror and metal fan, and Pittsburgher. comments are my own.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Lawmakers: Floridians Oppose Anti-Worker SB 1296. Write one here: act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...
Tell Your Lawmakers: Floridians Oppose Anti-Worker SB 1296
SB 1296 is advancing through the Florida legislature and would make it harder for you to live and work in Florida. While working Floridians are struggling to make ends meet in the midst of an afforda...
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Editorial: New College is far from a success story www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/01/07/t...
Editorial: New College is far from a success story
A recent New York Times story painted a rosy picture at Florida’s New College in the wake of its hard-right turn. It left out a lot of details.
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Today is Giving Tuesday. Please consider donating to the School of Communication Research/Creative Fund (formerly the Student Excellence Fund) to help students complete their projects! spark.fsu.edu/Project/3139...
SCOM Student Research/Creative Fund | SPARK FSU
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Editorial: The poisoning of higher education job searches www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/03/t...
Editorial: The poisoning of higher education job searches
The interim president of the University of Florida said finding a permanent replacement has been “challenging.” Of course it is; those actually qualified for the job have every reason t…
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DeSantis vetoes bill aimed at limiting corruption in office url:https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/07/01/desantis-legislature-trump-bill-lobbyists-campaign-donations/
CFP Revised and Call Extended for DC Special Issue on Labor and Unionization!!
Check out this story from Tallahassee Democrat: The undoing of Florida’s academic integrity | Opinion The state’s colleges and universities are no longer centers of independent thought—they’ve become landing pads for Republican allies. www.tallahassee.com/story/opinio...
When politics trump merit: The undoing of Florida’s academic integrity | Opinion
The state’s colleges and universities are no longer centers of independent thought—they’ve become landing pads for Republican allies.
tallahassee.com
Editorial: Bosses of Florida's university system disgrace the University of Florida www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/07/e...
Editorial: Bosses of Florida’s university system disgrace the University of Florida
Santa Ono’s rejection as UF president, largely on the basis of his support of DEI initiatives, was a cowardly move by the Board of Governors of the state university system.
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This must stop. Not one more life, not one more school shooting.
Florida Education Association@floridaea.bsky.social · last yr.Our hearts are with everyone at FSU today. No one should have to face something like this. We’re checking on our campus communities and calling on lawmakers to do more than offer thoughts and prayers. Read the full @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social and FEA statement: bit.ly/4jiogtI
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
DeSantis says he tried to install Randy Fine at FAU because state lawmakers wanted to get rid of him www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/02/d...
DeSantis says he tried to install Randy Fine at FAU because state lawmakers wanted to get rid of him
Gov. Ron DeSantis says he tried to install Congressman-elect Randy Fine as president of Florida Atlantic University because members of the state Legislature, where Fine served at the time, disliked…
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So very sorry to hear this sad news. Such an influential role model and a giant in the field of political economy of media. And now more than ever we must continue Robert McChesney's fight for a truly free and democratic press.
John Nichols@nicholsuprising.bsky.social · last yr.The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won. Now, we must carry the fight forward.
Special Issue of Democratic Communiqué: Discourse about labor and unionization on digital media platforms in the new era of Musk and Trump 2.0. Deadline for full consideration is June 30, 2025
DeSantis wants his own DOGE? Here's where we really need to cut costs. Gov. Ron DeSantis, inspired by Elon Musk, creates his own Florida DOGE probe. He should start with the money his office wastes on political stunts. www.tallahassee.com/story/opinio...
DeSantis gets Washington FOMO, creates his own misery-spreading Florida DOGE | Opinion
Gov. Ron DeSantis, inspired by Elon Musk, creates his own Florida DOGE probe. He should start with the money his office wastes on political stunts.
tallahassee.com
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Jennifer Proffitt 🖤💛#H2P@iamapghfan.bsky.social · last yr.FSU's Great Give starts tomorrow morning. Please consider donating to the School of Communication Student Excellence Fund, which helps fund undergrad and grad research and creative projects: spark.fsu.edu/Project/3010...
FSU's Great Give starts tomorrow morning. Please consider donating to the School of Communication Student Excellence Fund, which helps fund undergrad and grad research and creative projects: spark.fsu.edu/Project/3010...
School of Communication Student Excellence Fund | SPARK FSU
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Jeff Bezos has decided to use the opinion section of The Washington Post to cheerlead for the billionaire class because he believes that oligarchy does not have enough defenders in American media.
Democracy Dies at “The Washington Post”
…and oligarchy lives.
thenation.com
Editorial: Stop the stampede of secrecy at Florida’s Capitol www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/02/25/s...
Editorial: Stop the stampede of secrecy at Florida’s Capitol
If there’s one thing Democrats and Republicans in Tallahassee seem to agree on, it’s hiding more public information from the public.
orlandosentinel.com
Today's the day! Get those submissions in for Union for Democratic Communications UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve
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A bipartisan group of Florida senators are going after one of Ron DeSantis' most controversial appointments: Scott Yenor, a far-right Claremont Institute fellow who recently became the chair of the University of West Florida Board of Trustees.
Shocker: Florida Atlantic University selected a former high-ranking state legislator as its new president Monday. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/e...
FAU names Adam Hasner, former legislator, private prison exec, as its new president
Florida Atlantic University selected a former high-ranking state legislator as its new president Monday.
palmbeachpost.com
An FIU board member "suggested Tovar find a way around state regulations requiring a formal presidential search, given the 'probable results of the search are already known.'" Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
FIU names Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez president in hasty board vote encouraged by DeSantis
She’s the interim president but a board member noted the search process for a permanent president seems ‘already known’
miamiherald.com
Commentary: DeSantis plucks a guy from Idaho with crass ideas for women’s education | Pat Beall www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/02/02/d...
Commentary: DeSantis plucks a guy from Idaho with crass ideas for women’s education | Pat Beall
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ positively Neanderthal pick for the University of West Florida Board of Trustees does not warrant Florida Senate approval, writes columnist Pat Beall.
orlandosentinel.com
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/01/28/e...
Editorial: Enough, already: FAU deserves a president, not a politician
While Florida has a distant history of ex-politicians becoming successful university presidents, in the DeSantis era, we cannot say the same. Under that dark cloud, Florida Atlantic University shou…
orlandosentinel.com
The late great Vincent Mosco’s memoir is now available open access and in print bit.ly/3CFBgJy Thanks to Dan Schiller for foreword & kind words of endorsers incl @fuchschristian.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @nicolecohen.bsky.social & enda-b.bsky.social #openaccess #criticalcommunications
Call for Submissions: Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) 2025 Conference Conference Theme: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve. Conference Dates: June 19 - 22, 2025. Abstract Submission Deadline: February 2, 2025. Location: University of Washington, Tacoma. www.democraticcomm.org
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Sorry, everyone, but the US is about to become Florida
