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David Shumway
@nearleft.bsky.social
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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Vote them all out.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is a Board of Dictators — ICE terror at home, cash for autocrats abroad, and Trump deciding who’s protected. That’s not peace. It’s a protection racket.

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THE BOARD OF DICTATORS
Trump’s Fake “Peace” Scheme Is a Global Protection Racket—With Terror at Home and Grift Abroad
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 3d
Hey beautiful losers, this week the books series has ed David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social talking new collection THE WORLD OF LEONARD COHEN w/ contribs @touchofallright.bsky.social, @eweisbard.bsky.social & Sarah Hill. Wed 5:30 pm ET, achieve satori here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
The cover of Cambridge University Press's The World of Leonard Cohen edited by David R. Shumway features a young Cohen in a black turtleneck writing with a ballpoint pen in a small notebook in his lap.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 6d
In the past year especially. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d
it is an incredible coincidence that the tech sector going all-in on AI is also owned by people that want to destroy the institutions of democratic life

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 7d
Bond drive for ICE Watch

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Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s…
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 11d
If you are a wealthy landlord.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18d
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.

Don’t miss it.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 18d
Primary!
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 19d
Apparently taking lessons from the NY Times.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 19d
His offense is looking pretty good at the end of 3.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 19d
No shit?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 20d
Replace Schumer now!

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 20d
Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 20d
If you haven’t canceled your subscription, now’s the time.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 20d
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
Yes, it really died ten years ago.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 24d
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 24d
Scallops with hazelnut brown butter; braised lamb shanks with port and four spice; wild mushroom risotto; chocolate banana bread pudding
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 26d
I have already given my answer.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 26d
1. Triumph of the French Will
2. Ma lutte
3. LePen is Great!
4. Vichy Forever
5. Slavery, Aristocracy, Purity
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 26d
There would have been fewer car chases.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 27d
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 27d
Familiarity breeds contempt. The media are used to the Dems being right, so it’s not news.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 28d
Was it ever away?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 29d
Before social media technologies, people knew how to read.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 29d
This is what they hold theologically, but they don’t believe in kindness to anyone they do not consider a Christian.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 29d
Are they learning how to interpret the Times’ sanewashing of Trump?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 29d
Can the Times reinvent itself as Fox News?