AAUP Purdue is calling for the resignation of the University's provost. “Provost Wolfe’s conduct has negatively impacted the careers of faculty and staff who are here to serve the student population, with devastating consequences for student learning and campus governance." —AAUP Purdue

The US extracted the wealth from Puerto Rico through sugar/tobacco plantations for decades while paying farm laborers almost nothing. The Jones act has taxed Puerto Ricans to prop up a US shipping cartel for a century. The only parasites are the wealthy Americans extracting wealth from the island.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

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The San Andreas fault has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time

Get ready for 365-day Nicki Minaj residencies (opening act Kid Rock)

"Check out our whites-only manel on diversity"

There was a particularly annoying episode of What’s Left of Philosophy where one of the Chibber bros was like “citing Arendt is a reason for me to not take someone seriously” and for me that statement had a boomerang effect

Hannah Arendt stopping me in my tracks in her essay "On Lying and Politics".

This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read. By the late Tony Judt

goddamn

The Boss is PISSED and it comes across in every line.

guess we'll see who joins bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

I know these numbers are bad for Trump and bad for MAGA but some part of me is still flabbergasted that 1 in 3 18-29 year olds think he’s doing a good job. And 1 in 3 women! Imagine these people!!!

The piece, which doesn't mention Rowling's toxic politics at all, is by a conservative anti-trans opinion writer, because who else would the NYT tap to write about Potter?

While this shift from calling Good and Pretti “domestic terrorists” to lamenting their death is a win for brave Minnesotans, notice that they do not include undocumented immigrants who have been killed both on the streets and in concentration camps. We must reject this continued dehumanization.

dont let a few ICE agents leaving mn fool you. nothing on the ground has changed yet. this is a way for them to distract and give a scapegoat so the rest of the world will turn a blind eye.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Breaking news: The leaders of the University of Virginia’s board resigned Friday after Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) asked them and at least three other appointees of her Republican predecessor to step down.

They didn’t want a university without cancel culture. They didn’t want to be criticized for their retrograde views so they created a pretend school funding by their rich friends. The only people surprised that this failed were credulous enough to believe the fairy tales these folks told.

So viewpoint diversity. Much campus speech. Very marketplace of ideas. Coming soon, to a "university" near you.

besides all the obvious things to say, my hot take is that this is also time to retire the Nobel Prize as this whole thing is too embarrassing for words

It whips that not only is this guy absolutely going to get reinstated with back pay thanks to UNIONS but he’s already made nearly $1mil in a GFM which means many, many people are now incentivized to scream at Trump that he’s a pedophile

i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Always a good time to revisit @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social's delightfully excoriating deconstruction of this particular bullshit artist and his signature text...

My latest book, Analysing Environmental Discourse, takes a much-needed critical approach to the politics of the earth based on bringing critical discourse analysis into conversation with political ecology. #openaccess soon! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

🥁Glad to have received by my first publication of 2026. Here are some of its ideas: ◾️Why the cognitive dimension has to be acknowledged in the analysis of conflictual discourse ◾️A description of construal operations & linguistic cues ◾️Applied examples taken from Northern Irish political discourse.

Cancelled and they did ask me if it was about ICE and I said yes. Not the hugest traveler but I used Hilton often. Every person who calls, no matter how small their hotels counts. They will be having panicked meetings this week if the trickle turns into a flood.

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

And mine arrived today! Such a pleasure working with @bloomsburyling.bsky.social on my second monograph, Analysing Environmental Discourse. It is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Minneapolis ❤️‍🩹

“organized gangs of wine moms”

Been trying to tell y'all that the real antisemitic danger was white supremacists

Last year was quite busy for me — so another unboxing coming soon, when my new monograph (Analysing Environmental Discourse: A Critical Approach) arrives, hopefully next week!

Achtung-tied. @theonion.com

Paging Battlefield Linguistics authors: if you are on Bluesky please respond with your handle so I can follow you 😘

Unboxing day! Returned home yesterday to find that Battlefield Linguistics, over 3 years in the making, is finally here. A collection of timely and cutting-edge interventions in language, gender and sexuality edited by the lovely Francesca Vigo and myself. Thanks to our wonderful authors!

I've been watching this happen on the left and right for some time, and it always leaves a trail of harm impacting innocent people. Just stop.

As usual @sandraduffy.bsky.social is absolutely right. The UK state in Northern Ireland has quite the documented record of killing and torturing. See also: UK war crimes and similar in Kenya, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

This is the current front page of the Times. The Washington Post is even worse. Their headlines are privileging the accounts of the administration with a track record of lying as being as valid as eye witness accounts and videos.

I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.

Huge LOL at the WaPo’s banner and profile — reads to me as the commentary of an outgoing social media manager on their acquisition by the oligarchy. I mean “democracy skies in blueness”. Wtaf?

I'm in Chicago, so I was aware of 2 incidents here & knew a couple happened elsewhere. Trying to find a list. 32 more people died in ICE custody. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Melt, and no more be seen

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.