Bougie St. Toast
@bougiesttoast.bsky.social
Researcher, contingent faculty, and ADHD executive function coach in the glorious PNW. Strong opinions about evidentiary standards in criminal law. Bob's Burgers expert. Amateur baker and sewist.
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this headline is what happens when you have no ability to talk about race: “US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries“
What a totally tortured way to say “global south” lol
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
What a totally tortured way to say “global south” lol
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries
The pause applies to people from 19 countries that were already subjected to a partial travel ban in June, placing further restrictions on immigration - a core feature of Trump's political platform.
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
this headline is what happens when you have no ability to talk about race: “US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries“
What a totally tortured way to say “global south” lol
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
What a totally tortured way to say “global south” lol
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
All of this would have helped!!
This is a terrible story--both because of the trap that was set (either in advance or ret-conned to seize a moment) for this graduate student but also because the student's department failed her. The 1st problem is easy to see, but I want to explain the 2nd one. 1/x
btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
All of this would have helped!!
Documentary rec: The Stringer. I was absolutely hooked from moment 1.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Documentary rec: The Stringer. I was absolutely hooked from moment 1.
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If you can't embrace and understand differences--inc gender differences--and you can't fully support the basic human rights of all individuals, or you are too cowardly to speak out against attacks on transgender people, Black, Brown, and immigrant or other vulnerable communities, don't run as a Dem.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you can't embrace and understand differences--inc gender differences--and you can't fully support the basic human rights of all individuals, or you are too cowardly to speak out against attacks on transgender people, Black, Brown, and immigrant or other vulnerable communities, don't run as a Dem.
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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I vastly prefer this genre of posting to the people who write tragedy porn about us going to death camps because they need to quote dunk on some marginally annoying cis person.
Show some real spirit, people.
Show some real spirit, people.
I hope Woke 2 means we get to dispense with the fear of exercising power and the glorification of being an underdog in itself. Because no, I don't want to be the underdog forever. I don't want to constantly fight the establishment. I want cultural hegemony. I want the reactionaries trembling.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I vastly prefer this genre of posting to the people who write tragedy porn about us going to death camps because they need to quote dunk on some marginally annoying cis person.
Show some real spirit, people.
Show some real spirit, people.
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When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When I talk about crowdsourcing bigotry, this is what I mean. The OU case is an anti-trans campaign, full-stop. Confected outrage generated by a well-funded group of elites (far-right GOP) applying pressure to other elites (university admin).
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This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
This should never fall on the TA. Every single department should have a mechanism for dealing with this and protecting their extremely vulnerable grad students--people who are doing the labor that carries entire universities and who get paid absolute shit wages.
the actual merits of the grade are mostly beside the point, but i do think it’s worth thinking about how to insulate yourself a bit from bad faith actors if you’re a professor or TA. this M.O. (on a smaller scale) is common on the right.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This should never fall on the TA. Every single department should have a mechanism for dealing with this and protecting their extremely vulnerable grad students--people who are doing the labor that carries entire universities and who get paid absolute shit wages.
Oh my God, I guess I now have to ask literally everyone if they have a police state machine before I accept a dinner invitation.
Find an alternative. Ring is helping create a dystopian surveillance state, especially now that it's incorporating AI tech and facial recognition.
remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh my God, I guess I now have to ask literally everyone if they have a police state machine before I accept a dinner invitation.
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Trans people are fed up with your shit
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trans people are fed up with your shit
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Like I don't think we're talking enough about how this assault on academia is making the extremely precarious situation for grad instructors virtually untenable. Especially for those who are trans, poor, racially marginalized, etc.
When I was doing fieldwork for my PhD, I got into some, let's say, political stickiness in the country where I was researching. My department mobilized to get me extra emergency funding to pay a fine and were ready to get me a plane ticket should I be deported. OU failed this TA spectacularly.
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Like I don't think we're talking enough about how this assault on academia is making the extremely precarious situation for grad instructors virtually untenable. Especially for those who are trans, poor, racially marginalized, etc.
When I was doing fieldwork for my PhD, I got into some, let's say, political stickiness in the country where I was researching. My department mobilized to get me extra emergency funding to pay a fine and were ready to get me a plane ticket should I be deported. OU failed this TA spectacularly.
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When I was doing fieldwork for my PhD, I got into some, let's say, political stickiness in the country where I was researching. My department mobilized to get me extra emergency funding to pay a fine and were ready to get me a plane ticket should I be deported. OU failed this TA spectacularly.
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We don’t see people ride in to defend their free speech principles in these cases, this is how you know some contrarianism and some sophistry may be at play.
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We don’t see people ride in to defend their free speech principles in these cases, this is how you know some contrarianism and some sophistry may be at play.
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It's almost a familiar storyline by now.
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's almost a familiar storyline by now.
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
1. An "egregious" violation of a students' rights by a teacher.
2. It turns out to be run of the mill bad work by the student.
3. It turns out to have been provoked or amplified by a huge network of right wingers.
4. Targeting trans people
Missing anything?
I cackled.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I cackled.
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I think this falls in line with a growing push to recognize actionable harms when christian conservatives face things in public life they don’t like generally.
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It feels surreal, and like a new even darker turn has been taken in the anti-intellectual part of rightwing populism
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I think this falls in line with a growing push to recognize actionable harms when christian conservatives face things in public life they don’t like generally.
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
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Doin’ war crimes to own the libs. Well Pete, you got me. I’m triggered by you murdering people in my name. How embarrassing for me.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Doin’ war crimes to own the libs. Well Pete, you got me. I’m triggered by you murdering people in my name. How embarrassing for me.
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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I get being annoyed by the consumerist frenzy that accompanies Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday, but believe when I tell you, gang: it makes all the difference in the world to small businesses and independent creatives.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I get being annoyed by the consumerist frenzy that accompanies Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday, but believe when I tell you, gang: it makes all the difference in the world to small businesses and independent creatives.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
Now is the perfect time to support them.