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Sam Galloway

@srgalloway.bsky.social

political theorist | they/them | "for hope is a faithless steersman."

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Jay Troyer@gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · last mo.

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Politics, Groups and Identities@pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hummel et al. explore why some transgender people in Florida received name changes quickly while others faced steep administrative burdens. They use the racialized and gendered administrative burdens framework to explore how supposed neutral rules incur costs on applicants.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."

Susan Stryker@susanstryker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

AAUP@aaup.org · 4mo ago

"The AI-centrist framing of 'responsible use' does not constitute a legitimate plan to protect the university and its students against the potential harms of this technology. Nor does it address the social and environmental impacts of creating and operating large language models."

Paying the Costs of AI Centrism: CSU Re-Ups ChatGPT

BY MARTHA LINCOLN AND MARTHA KENNEY Earlier this spring, we published an essay in Academe about the California State University’s secretive and costly initiative to provide ChatGPT Edu, a general-p…

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Academe@academemagazine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New on Academe Blog: @heavyredaction.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

Screenshot of article which reads: This is how you end up with an elite university where the president can drive his car into a group of students and be lauded by the board. The president and the trustees are on the same team. The students are on the other team. The trustees know Kotlikoff will reliably enforce their agenda, including cracking down on protests that might be bad for cashflow. It almost doesn’t matter what he does; if there’s any conceivable defense, they’ll keep him in place. (If not, they’ll replace him with someone else who can talk about loving free speech while moving to crush it in practice.) Kotlikoff, after all, has already proved his worth: It was on his watch that Cornell agreed to pay $60 million to the U.S. government to get Trump to unfreeze its research grants.
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 5mo ago

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

tfw democrats are an opposition party in the sense that mixers are the opposition party to vodka in a human beings descent into terminal alcoholism

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo ago

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Truthout@truthout.org · 5mo ago

The EU's decision to impose sanctions on violent settlers was received with outrage from Israel. The Foreign Minister called the decision “arbitrary and political,” while Israel’s National Security Minister, Ben-Gvir, who himself comes from the violent settler movement, called the EU “antisemitic.”

EU Approves Sanctions on Violent Israeli Settlers. Critics Say It’s Not Enough.

Europe continues to hold partnership agreements with Israel, including in military and academic cooperation.

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 5mo ago

Artificial intelligence is "incredibly unpopular technology" that is essentially being forced on people, says writer @astra.bsky.social. New data centers are now facing stiff resistance, providing "local chokepoints where people can come together and push back on the billionaire Big Tech agenda."

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We can be glib, but the fact is the Supreme Court destroyed the America the Civil Rights Movement built today. And I have no confidence whatsoever that the Dems will react w/ urgency to curb the return of Jim Crow voting. It is a dark day. And requires serious reflection on what is to be done.