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John Stehlin
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Urban/economic geographer focused on the political economy of urban sustainability and transportation, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, UNC Greensboro
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.

Let us know what you hear.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I hope this is clearly legible to everybody as a cultural expression of fascism
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I can only think of one person for whom this is true and it’s Stephen Miller, who for some reason will not rest till the US reproduces the violent xenophobia that made his and my ancestors flee eastern Europe. The rest of his family seems normal, though
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“is this platform massively against subprime mortgage-backed securities or has it moved more towards acceptance”
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Impeach, convict, remove.

And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
rules against filling food with sawdust and antifreeze also “hurt affordability“
Why am I not surprised. “Senate Republicans in January plan to criticize requirements for safety technology, arguing they are ineffective and will unnecessarily drive up the cost of cars, according to people familiar with the situation.” Pedestrian lives, on the other hand, are cheap
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
a tier above Guy You Love To See: Guy You Delight In Glimpsing
i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
almost everything about how our technological landscape is designed and described is intended to prevent our understanding it
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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DHS fascists are apparently coming to Durham, NC today.

I hate this so fucking much.

Much love to the beautiful people of Durham.

www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
these people are completely feral and we need a concrete plan for demobilizing them when Trump, Vance, and Miller are removed from office
This is bullshit! What are the charges?

📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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INTRODUCING: The Atlas of Inner-City Highway Impacts.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"people are made at us for sitting on emails that revealed a relationship between Trump and Epstein, what should we should write about the newly released ones?"

"idk, something elegiac about the good old days of New York when glamorous rich people could traffic underage girls they met at the club"
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Portland State University AAUP won their arbitration regarding the layoffs of 10 non-tenure track faculty!✊

An arbitrator ruled the university bypassed shared governance protocols required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All 10 laid-off faculty must be reinstated!

@psuaaup.bsky.social
PSU AAUP | PSU-AAUP wins NTTF arbitration judgment
psuaaup.net
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is why the “businessman” discourse about Trump was so absurd. Instead of the executive committee managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie, for Trump the state exists to distribute favors to loyalists and insiders, which perfectly matches his experience of the state as a *developer*
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM