Kye
@kyebarker.bsky.social
assistant professor of political theory | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
going to work at a local cafe during exam period as a faculty member is like being a cop sent to the same prison where he sent a bunch of inmates
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
going to work at a local cafe during exam period as a faculty member is like being a cop sent to the same prison where he sent a bunch of inmates
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The New School has long protected dissenting thought and critical scholarship. It is painful to watch an institution with such an intellectual lineage treated as a budgetary problem.
At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever!
#AcademicSky
At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever!
#AcademicSky
New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign.
Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
December 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The New School has long protected dissenting thought and critical scholarship. It is painful to watch an institution with such an intellectual lineage treated as a budgetary problem.
At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever!
#AcademicSky
At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever!
#AcademicSky
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
It fits with the fact that the project of Trump II is the overthrow of not only the social state of the New Deal, the regime of citizenship of Reconstruction, or even the republicanism of the Revolution, but even the legislative supremacy of the Glorious Revolution. It's Springtime for Stuarts.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It fits with the fact that the project of Trump II is the overthrow of not only the social state of the New Deal, the regime of citizenship of Reconstruction, or even the republicanism of the Revolution, but even the legislative supremacy of the Glorious Revolution. It's Springtime for Stuarts.
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what’s up Joyce hear me out on this…Joyce Carol x Goats…cd be very powerful collab…hmu
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
what’s up Joyce hear me out on this…Joyce Carol x Goats…cd be very powerful collab…hmu
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really cool article - "Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital" by Christina Chalmers
muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
Project MUSE - Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s <i>Capital</i>
muse.jhu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
really cool article - "Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital" by Christina Chalmers
muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
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NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
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There is a lot of news about the New School right now, and tuning in to facts can be tough. Here is @kmunro-econ.bsky.social with important ones:
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is a lot of news about the New School right now, and tuning in to facts can be tough. Here is @kmunro-econ.bsky.social with important ones:
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
The hatred that this sundowning degenerate has for the American people is shocking.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The hatred that this sundowning degenerate has for the American people is shocking.
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INFO REQUEST: if you work at a *private* university/college AND your institution defines academic freedom as applying to academic & professional staff (librarians, museum workers, instructional staff, athletic staff) can you please DM me with your institution & if possible a link to the policy?
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
INFO REQUEST: if you work at a *private* university/college AND your institution defines academic freedom as applying to academic & professional staff (librarians, museum workers, instructional staff, athletic staff) can you please DM me with your institution & if possible a link to the policy?
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“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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My book Injury Impoverished: Something Law Something Something Capitalism came out 5 (!) yrs ago so I figure it's already reached anyone interested. Most recent academic thing I did's an article using a famous legal case to argue labor historians should be marxister www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My book Injury Impoverished: Something Law Something Something Capitalism came out 5 (!) yrs ago so I figure it's already reached anyone interested. Most recent academic thing I did's an article using a famous legal case to argue labor historians should be marxister www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
What if, hear me out, we didn’t need insurance companies because we just had a nationalized health care system that didn’t waste enormous sums of money on insurance companies.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What if, hear me out, we didn’t need insurance companies because we just had a nationalized health care system that didn’t waste enormous sums of money on insurance companies.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org