Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, is available for pre-order with a 40% discount with code OLBA26! There's a ton of brilliant writing in here. Please buy it and encourage your library to buy copies too!

Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social and me, is available for pre-order with a 40% discount with code OLBA26! There's a ton of brilliant writing in here. Please buy it and encourage your library to buy copies too!

#Adequate is ready for pre-order now at @upcolorado.bsky.social.

It’s gonna be so miserable to fly this holiday season for everyone but those with the means and questionable ethics to fly privately.

Tell me again how Newsome is our guy? 😑

SNAP is a wage issue, not an issue of individual failures. It is a government subsidy for businesses for when wages are insufficient for buy food. Without SNAP businesses (grocery stores) will likely make up income with higher prices. If wages remain low, *food* will be out of reach for millions.

Political sectarianism in America: A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization poses a threat to democracy pcl.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

This is really good. Thanks @andreapitzer.bsky.social youtu.be/yVS10nrdWu8?...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

The NFL is wild. They won't let players kneel for social justice but they'll troll their primary audience w a Bad Bunny super bowl concert.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Portland sees the steepest DROP in homicides in major cities and Trump wants to send troops to do what exactly? More performative nonsense wasting taxpayer dollars from a weak dictator.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

This is wrong and should not happen.

"I'm declaring war on my own country." #fixed

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

Here's what we know as of Saturday morning. If White House figures are to be believed, the U.S. has killed 17 people on ships in the Caribbean this month.

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv

Personally I don't think we should let the president make the entire country a safe space for himself

This must be stop.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

I think this #Emmys is worse than the 1989 #Oscars. At least we can laugh at the 1989 Academy Awards show.

Cristin Milioti’s speech is why I watch award shows. It’s the speeches that keep us watching not the results. I hate that her expression of joy and gratitude costs a charity precious resources #Emmys this was not a good bit.

“Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine” - Hannah Einbinder during her #EMMYs speech

I move to call time out on the word "divisive" in any description of political figures until we all get in the habit of saying what we mean. Charlie Kirk was a bigot--racist, antisemitic, anti-trans, misogynistic, queer-hating--through and through.

How dare anyone equate contempt for Charlie Kirk and all he stood for with celebrating his murder. Such thinking is unfair, unkind, and disingenuous at the very best. He spent his life narrowing who deserves an unencumbered life. The people I admire and respect do the exact opposite.

Texas A&M, ENGL 361: Young Adult Literature, the official course description reads, “Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Survey of historical and contemporary literature for adolescents, including such forms as fantasy, domestic fiction, and the problem novel. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification.”

Make it make sense 😑 This SCOTUS ruling is wrong and harmful.

It’s wasteful and stupid. It should be mocked. The name change isn’t necessary.

Early Modernist? Come work with us at UMass Boston! Circulate, friends! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Coming early 2026, Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition co-edited with my favorite grump, @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social #Adequate #Rhetoric #WritingStudies #RhetComp

‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.

Critics call the federal takeover of Washington, DC, a ‘manufactured crisis’ aimed at political gain.

James Dobson is dead. He no doubt lived a very comfortable life surrounded by those who loved and cared for him. He was, though, a cruel and contemptible man who was the direct intellectual force for the abuse of countless. His death brings me no sadness. May his legacy of terror also die with him.

We've finally got some hard numbers on AI's energy demand from a major tech company: Google says a median prompt to Gemini uses 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. 🧵 @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

Most folks can’t imagine what actual slavery was like. I can’t. Butler’s Kindred comes close. US slavery was among humanity’s worst acts. The ancestors of slave owners should spend their lives attoning & repairing it. To call description of it “woke” should always be mocked.

Important: if you're under 65 and don't have a high-risk pre-existing condition re: COVID, Your Local Epidemiologist recommends getting boosted RIGHT NOW, like today, because you may not be able to after Friday.

The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter They’re lies Don’t buy into their narrative They’re normalizing military takeovers That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation WE should steer it What they’re doing is unacceptable Period

Here’s hoping he stands by his word. This is a reasonable response to fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

Friends in Rhetoric, Communication, and Writing Studies! Please consider submitting a proposal for my edited collection on Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership, and share widely. Full CFP is here (apologies for the poor formatting on the Penn CFP site): call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

This is wrong. It is wrong. Trump should not be doing this. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.

who could have predicted this

Take a look #TeamRhetoric the report on the CCCC Virtual Institute is live. @writesantonio.bsky.social and I created it to archive the event and share survey data and analysis. cccc.ncte.org/wp-content/u...

It’s just such a beautiful thing to spend time with: youtu.be/Z4i3zJ1f-hg?...

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...