I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

I saw Goody Smith talking to a Chinese international student at the old wishing well. www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

This is the state of higher education under fascist authoritarianism. #UnderHisEye www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Slightly diminish a book The Gentleman of the Rings

We told you. Hell, they told you.

Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.

None of what's happening at the US Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is surprising. I don't know what those 52 Republican senators who confirmed RFK Jr. were thinking, but this is on them.

Doctors I trust more than RFK Junior...

I agree with Ezra Klein--this is not normal because this is fascist authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Happy to announce that @cubouldercha.bsky.social will be hosting @tenuredradical.bsky.social in Spring 2026 as the annual Cox Family Process speaker, where she will talk about her book "Political Junkie" and Dr Potter also has a podcast--check it out: youtu.be/MH6IUlwXGsM?...

What ICE is doing right now is historically illegal, immoral, and inhumane. If you voted for Donald Trump and you don’t support it, you cannot remain silent or your regret is cowardly and useless. If you do support it, your humanity is busted.

The Carolina Way used to mean something far different from repressing art and dissent and protesting of genocide. Yet here we are. @uncchapelhill.bsky.social #HarkTheSound #UnderHisEye #ComplianceWillNotSaveYou www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

I'm not sure where this originated but I absolutely do not have confidence in the federal administration because I believe we are experiencing fascist authoritarianism in the US apps.docusign.com/webforms/us/...

I just published a piece about Vincent Chin and the new street sign in Detroit in @us.theconversation.com. His death reminds me that people will come together from different identities to protest injustice. We need this reminder now more than ever. theconversation.com/a-detroit-st...

First @cubouldercha.bsky.social newsletter of the 2025-26 academic year is out view.com.cu.edu?qs=2b42c8091...

It'd be interesting to know if anyone would be fired or jailed for putting up a flag that said "Make America Great Again" -- my guess is that there's a serious double standard at play because there is a serious double standard at play in the US government right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

Make America White Again. That's gotta be the slogan of this intentional community, right? #WhiteSupermacyAliveAndWell www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Those of us who teach humanities in colleges and universities do not have to comply with adopting AI -- there is resistance against-a-i.com

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

Fascist authoritarianism is happening in the US youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g?...

Congratulations to Dr Karen Seto for being named a @bostonu.bsky.social distinguished alum. Karen and I were doing our PhDs at the same time at BU--she's one of my BFF's in the world, and a brilliant and kind person--so well deserved! www.bu.edu/cas/seeing-t...

Yellow Peril/Anti-Asian racism is an evergreen topic in the US and the GOP knows this--which is why they're doubling down on it, facts be damned. But it's also important to call out the racism and white supremacy--because that's what this admin is all about. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/06/t...

Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.

Peak white supremacy--this administration will not be satisfied until our universities and colleges resemble country clubs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

For any BlueSky friends engaged in Digital Humanities projects, here's a place to apply for seed money www.acls.org/programs/acl...

Penguin’s reaction when her favorite human comes to check up on her... 🥹 #bluesky

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?

I don't assign essays to have 30 finished reports on the same topic. I assign them so the students will go through the process of researching, writing, editing, and thinking about a topic. The struggle and the work is where the value is found and where learning happens.

Do you have a banana pudding recipe? Will you share it with me? I'm writing an essay on banana pudding for a book "The Southern Table" --feel free to reply to this thread or drop me a DM. Thanks in advance--I'm also making my own banana pudding recipe that I'd be happy to share.

This, too, is part of the fascist authoritarian playbook. Silence the critics, the comedians, the artists: anyone who tells the truth and names what is happening as part of our reality. #UnderHisEye www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

If you live near Boulder and want some theater balm for your weary soul, I highly recommend "Richard II" at @colorado.edu by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. It may even resonate with things happening now--a narcissist leader who lines his own pockets. cupresents.org/series/shake...

So proud to call @phaedra.bsky.social my friend and colleague -- her research is deeply connected to making the world a better place, and we are all better for her being in the world! www.colorado.edu/coloradan/20...

You’d be mistaken if you think this can’t happen to you or someone you love. Under fascist authoritarianism this could be any of us www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The Bad Billionaire's bill has passed. People will suffer and die under this fascist authoritarian regime. What will I do? What will you do? What will WE THE PEOPLE do?!!! youtu.be/vjFL-cBcjKc?...

A lot of the worst videos coming out of LA in recent weeks haven't been ICE, they've been Border Patrol, under El Centro Sector Chief Bovino, who responded to Mayor Bass with "The federal government is not leaving L.A ... Better get used to us now, because this is gonna be normal very soon."

not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

The US is a Death Cult.

My friend and colleague @colorado.edu Erika Randall was just interviewed about her debut novel "Music for Leaving" -- give a listen and then if you are intrigued, please order. Full disclosure: I blurb the book and think very highly of it (and of Erika!) /1 theampersand.podbean.com/e/music-for-...

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

I know these comparisons are tiring but: Imagine if the Secret Service and FBi wrestled Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley to the ground and cuffed them for interrupting Sec. Mayorkas speaking at a press conference?! The impeachment articles would fly! And in fact, they DID impeach Mayorkas for less….

At the 4 min mark, @padilla.senate.gov says that if he can be treated this way by Homeland Security, just imagine how ICE is treating farmworkers, cooks, and others they are rounding up. The whole segment is worth watching because we aren't sliding into fascism--we're there youtu.be/7if99iz88Zo?...

Immigrants and refugees have been vilified throughout time and space, as these contemporary actors illustrate performing the speech "The Stranger" delivered in the persona of Sir Thomas More attributed to Shakespeare. #NoHumanIsIllegal youtu.be/oVOyX4pHDro?...

Want help finding a protest to attend on Saturday, June 14 where other people believe what you believe: that fascist authoritarianism is happening in the US? This website can locate one. Because we need to say loudly and clearly: the US is a fascist authoritarian state. www.nokings.org

Bravo to @bostonu.bsky.social my PhD alma mater for creating a flow chart for international students to figure out if they should travel outside the US given the fascist authoritarianism of this regime www.bu.edu/isso/files/2...

Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps. It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight. That is all it is. There is no other side.

True then and true now. THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY. DON'T LET THE BIG MEN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU.

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Not all heroes wear capes. Here’s a real life American Hero... not hiding behind a mask. Get involved in the peaceful protest occurring on June 14. Go to nokings.org & find an event near you.