Marshelle Woodward
@mwoodward.bsky.social
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
Teach us to sit still.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds?
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds?
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.
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Chicago - blizzard of 79
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Chicago - blizzard of 79
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I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
I also want people to think about the load bearing institutions of post-WWII culture and what we have done to them over the past 40 years, but especially since the Great Recession.
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I also want people to think about the load bearing institutions of post-WWII culture and what we have done to them over the past 40 years, but especially since the Great Recession.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
Thanksgiving has never been my favorite holiday, but living in Canada I do miss the two days off.
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thanksgiving has never been my favorite holiday, but living in Canada I do miss the two days off.
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Sierra de montaña.
Gordon Mortensen. Americano, nacido en 1938
Gordon Mortensen. Americano, nacido en 1938
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sierra de montaña.
Gordon Mortensen. Americano, nacido en 1938
Gordon Mortensen. Americano, nacido en 1938
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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Come for the zingers, stay for the very clarifying feminist reading of Trumpism and MTG's place in it.
(And something tells me @tressiemcphd.bsky.social paused to admire some of the zingers in here as she wrote them. I sure did as I read them.)
(And something tells me @tressiemcphd.bsky.social paused to admire some of the zingers in here as she wrote them. I sure did as I read them.)
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Come for the zingers, stay for the very clarifying feminist reading of Trumpism and MTG's place in it.
(And something tells me @tressiemcphd.bsky.social paused to admire some of the zingers in here as she wrote them. I sure did as I read them.)
(And something tells me @tressiemcphd.bsky.social paused to admire some of the zingers in here as she wrote them. I sure did as I read them.)
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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What if the real “great replacement” was the human obsolescence project behind the AI systems produced by the reactionary tech oligarchs who have used their social media platforms to get the public to buy into the racist and Islamophobic “great replacement theory?”
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What if the real “great replacement” was the human obsolescence project behind the AI systems produced by the reactionary tech oligarchs who have used their social media platforms to get the public to buy into the racist and Islamophobic “great replacement theory?”
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To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
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I think some of this elite radicalization in fields like academia might be a reaction to the relative status loss across all non-tech non-finance fields since the Great Recession. Academics, doctors, media, arts/ entertainment, law, fields w diminishing prestige/relative material rewards
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think some of this elite radicalization in fields like academia might be a reaction to the relative status loss across all non-tech non-finance fields since the Great Recession. Academics, doctors, media, arts/ entertainment, law, fields w diminishing prestige/relative material rewards
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"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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To be clear, there is no university administration in America who respects, values, or trusts its faculty expertise.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
To be clear, there is no university administration in America who respects, values, or trusts its faculty expertise.
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This is a yikes too. He gets dogwalked by Susan Collins even though Generic Dem has a 9 pt margin.
What I find funny is that the median Maine voter sees his tattoo and comments about sexual assault as a non-starter but we had how many people defending that shit here on Bluesky?
What I find funny is that the median Maine voter sees his tattoo and comments about sexual assault as a non-starter but we had how many people defending that shit here on Bluesky?
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is a yikes too. He gets dogwalked by Susan Collins even though Generic Dem has a 9 pt margin.
What I find funny is that the median Maine voter sees his tattoo and comments about sexual assault as a non-starter but we had how many people defending that shit here on Bluesky?
What I find funny is that the median Maine voter sees his tattoo and comments about sexual assault as a non-starter but we had how many people defending that shit here on Bluesky?
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
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This is great news. AAUP's arbitration win and our adjunct union's unfair labor practice victory will hopefully force Portland State's administration to back down from its anti-labor agenda www.opb.org/article/2025...
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is great news. AAUP's arbitration win and our adjunct union's unfair labor practice victory will hopefully force Portland State's administration to back down from its anti-labor agenda www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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