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These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students

NEXT MONDAY, I'll be in Minneapolis with my dear friend @cassiusa.bsky.social! I'm SO hyped to chat with Cass, a SCHOLAR of trans media, about kind of the least scholarly things imaginable. I hope u can join us!! RSVP required, limited space: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...

Big VA-2 news as former Rep. Elaine Luria might jump in Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018 The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008

reading this immediately met my entire quota of "devastating things I can absorb on Wednesday" so logging off

"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household." Public power is inevitable.

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

Woke up early and jumped on grindr to message the girls that Dick Cheney is dead so that they learn in the funniest possible way

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

They are just fucking freaking out over Mamdani and it’s incredible, from, like, an anthropological perspective.

If you are a Minneapolis-area transsexual, please join @cassiusa.bsky.social and I for a (free) discussion of trans media and heterosexual mating rituals and irreversible damage, followed by optional Hanging Out With Other Hot Queer People. RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...

Twin Cities transsexuals and you know, other weird folks, go see @tuck.bsky.social and @cassiusa.bsky.social being smart nerds on November 10

The best possible outcome for Trump on compacts is a record of 1-1-7. Relegation numbers in the fascism league table.

On Mon, Nov 10, I'll be at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis, chatting about Sex Change and the City with @cassiusa.bsky.social. Cass has never seen SATC but he has a PhD in trans books or something so that's fine right? RSVP here: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...

Hey at what point were you going to reveal that the woman who the story is based on is the Chief Marketing Office at a VC firm that is invested in a bunch of AI firms?????? www.canvas.vc/portfolio

friends without kids: what's that magazine rack thing he's on parent: it's called a Pikler it's for falling off of and crying

FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

⁉️ Why? ⁉️ Retaliation and conflictual relationships with management drove tech co employees to see themselves as workers with the need to organize for stronger protections and better working conditions (2/2) Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)

NEW: The Supreme Court will not hear a case over a Colorado school district’s alleged actions discouraging disclosure of students’ gender identity to the students’ parents. The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects: 1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE 2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

I am very happy to rarely use the internet for work at this point but I am collecting sample research proposals for my MA methods students! If anyone has any laying around, especially if they are Media Studies -adjacent, I'd be super stoked to receive them. Thank you!

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

100% fucking true

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget. There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

genuinely so funny to see this and have been alive in 2007

Proud to be part of AAUP. Running for a leadership role right now to help reinvigorate our chapter in these critical times.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

The book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, from the chapter “Surveillance Vigilantes, Property, Porch Pirates and Paranoia on Nextdoor”

Given how trans and autistic populations overlap, it's less moving on than doubling down

Taking a non-story and making it into a new moral panic

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Y'all meed to know that today is the final day for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's extensive archives of public media. Getting deleted forever. Frfr fuck this fascist regime

Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96 www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...

i know it’s pointless to ask where the fuck were these people when college kids were getting expelled and doxxed and beaten by police for daring to oppose a genocide but seeing them all line up for mediocre rich white comedian is really sending me

Hey Bluesky it's my birthday next week. I'm turning 50. Officially turning into an old leftist. If you'd like to celebrate with me, help me raise funds for the Sameer Project. If 50 people contribute $20 for every year I've been alive, that's $1000! chuffed.org/project/1132...

Teamsters are on strike at the U of M. Don’t let anyone fool you, this is all about fairness. All are welcome at tonight’s rally, 5:30 on the East Bank at Northrop.

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

Even omitting that, far-right and neo-Nazi militias were engaged in guerilla conflict with the US government for the first half of the 90s culminating in the deadliest act of domestic terror in American history