Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade Professor: Communication of Science & Tech Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database www.buildersanddefenders.org www.AngelaSutton.info Old man yells at clouds. My views are my own.
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom this November! 📚 A powerful new contribution to the history of slavery, resistance and the Atlantic world. Congratulations, Chloe! 👏 shorturl.at/TsSpH
Plotting for Freedom: New book by Chloe L. Ireton
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton, Associate Professor in the History of the Iberian World, 1500–1800, on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom in November 2026.
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The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterdayIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
Haitians used our model to become independent, and we've been punishing them for it ever since. "No, not like that!"
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · yesterdayTargetingHaitians is a centuries old American playbook And yes that includes folks who refuse to have a memory longer than ten minutes outside of writing . Because when people ask how are you going to make protecting Black people a part of all platforms We get lectures and avoidance
I miss when WWE SecEd was being suplexed for outrage on live television. www.highereddive.com/news/mcmahon...
McMahon calls on college leaders to commit to policy reforms by end of year
Her "Call to Action" repeats many themes from the 2025 proposed higher ed compact, such as viewpoint diversity and campus protest rules.
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I don't take offense when someone, white or not, complains about "white people" because as a group, there are PROBLEMS. I know they don't mean me just because I'm white...unless I did the white people thing and deserve the insult. In which case, I'll take it. Why is this so hard for people?
Feeling bad for all those Gen X and millennial kids who slept on The House of Dies Drear. That book taught me more about America than all of middle school combined.
Aidwork to Digital Colonialism pipeline
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
Word to the wise: any president or board that responds to this letter without formally consulting their faculty and staff through established governance bodies and after a public comment period is abdicating their fiduciary responsibility. #MakeSharedGovernanceMatterMore www.ed.gov/media/docume...
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So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
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Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
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Love each other more than ever.
It's Going Down@igd.bsky.social · 2d agoHundreds turned out in Ohio to oppose racist round-ups of working-class Haitian neighbors who recently lost TPS status. People were forced to report to an ICE office and fit with an ankle monitor tracking devices. Fascist sick shit. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...
Loved this. White parents, this is how you share in the work of keeping your child's Black friends safe.
DogOnABone@dog-on-a-bone111.bsky.social · last wk.A critical read for EVERYONE because TRUTH and reality. www.instagram.com/p/DbR0NLAkVL...
I still cannot wrap my brain around this far right strain of needing to relitigate 1848.
Nied@nied.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's right!
Making laws with the intent to selectively enforce is an American tradition. This is why some people think it'll never happen *to them*.
It's shortsighted to pummel the arts and humanities at a time right before artists and humanists will be in high demand to de-contaminate, salvage, and clean what AI enshittified.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 5d agoDisgraceful actions by @harvard.edu - destroying their writing program at a time when it's needed more than ever as "A.i." undermines everything. Deepest shame on this institution and all the best to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Syracuse University is closing or halting enrollment in about 20% of its academic programs, most humanities or fine arts, to create a university that would be “more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand.” nyti.ms/417PWKt www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...
Syracuse Drops 84 Majors Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian
In all, 93 of the 460 academic programs at the university will be closed or paused. No students were majoring in 55 of the programs that are ending.
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They use FOIA to pull syllabi and check for scary things like "Indigenous" and "Queer," and universities largely don't stand up for faculty because there are 100 PhDs for every teaching job. www.rawstory.com/teacher-hara...
Red flags fly after conservative harassment network targeting teachers exposed: 'Chilling'
A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college profes...
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This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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If you see this, it is your reminder to redirect an outraged person so they can learn to transform feelings into sustainable action.
Anthropic and OpenAI want you to have a grand conversation about AI's theoretical economic impact, all to distract you from the fact that they cannot afford their $1.1 trillion in commitments, and are both unsustainable and unprofitable. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-is-getting-way-too-expensive/
Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power
What does a power-shifting agenda look like?
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Ah the people famous for firing experienced people because they "cost too much" and replacing them with people who know too little to do the job. What could go wrong?
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
