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Update: NCSU AAUP, UE-150, and student government reps delivered this petition to the office of Chancellor Kevin Howell this morning. A staffer received us at the door to Holladay Hall. We were not allowed to enter the building.
Next: We push for a response. In the meantime, please keep signing!
Next: We push for a response. In the meantime, please keep signing!
NCSU chapter and allies are making real progress in this campaign. NC community members, show them your support: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
Reinstate Jae Edwards Now!
Mr. Jae Edwards was separated from his position as the assistant director at NC State’s LGBTQ Pride Center less than 24 hours after the right-wing group, Accuracy in Media (AiM), posted a heavily edit...
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February 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Update: NCSU AAUP, UE-150, and student government reps delivered this petition to the office of Chancellor Kevin Howell this morning. A staffer received us at the door to Holladay Hall. We were not allowed to enter the building.
Next: We push for a response. In the meantime, please keep signing!
Next: We push for a response. In the meantime, please keep signing!
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This is very good. We are wary of completely declaring victory because the DoJ has a parallel policy to the Dear Colleague letter from DOE. We will keep fighting. We can win, but we will not win just with folks who are already political. We need everyone.
February 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This is very good. We are wary of completely declaring victory because the DoJ has a parallel policy to the Dear Colleague letter from DOE. We will keep fighting. We can win, but we will not win just with folks who are already political. We need everyone.
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My three-year-old was listening to her favorite podcast when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice man with the froggy voice who eats bears and doggies talking about potty seats?" And when I told her "To stop big pharma from giving you autism," she started crying.
February 19, 2026 at 2:25 AM
My three-year-old was listening to her favorite podcast when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice man with the froggy voice who eats bears and doggies talking about potty seats?" And when I told her "To stop big pharma from giving you autism," she started crying.
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We're getting the first indications that my/our fears were correct: ICE—according to an elected Georgia rep—"conducted a high-speed chase during rush hour" for a suspect who didn't qualify for such treatment under ICE SOPs.
The result: the death of a beloved teacher. www.11alive.com/article/news...
The result: the death of a beloved teacher. www.11alive.com/article/news...
Political outcry follows Georgia teacher's death in crash caused by man fleeing ICE
Dr. Linda Davis was identified Monday as a woman killed in a crash by a man fleeing ICE in the Savannah area.
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February 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
We're getting the first indications that my/our fears were correct: ICE—according to an elected Georgia rep—"conducted a high-speed chase during rush hour" for a suspect who didn't qualify for such treatment under ICE SOPs.
The result: the death of a beloved teacher. www.11alive.com/article/news...
The result: the death of a beloved teacher. www.11alive.com/article/news...
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Your blue state Board of Regents wants to do everything that Texas universities are doing and would do so in an instant if they thought they had enough political cover.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
February 19, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Your blue state Board of Regents wants to do everything that Texas universities are doing and would do so in an instant if they thought they had enough political cover.
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We’re not against Christmas, puppies or ice cream.
We’re against the government picking religious winners and losers, whether that’s promoting Christianity in public schools or funneling taxpayer dollars to religious education.
We’re against the government picking religious winners and losers, whether that’s promoting Christianity in public schools or funneling taxpayer dollars to religious education.
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We’re not against Christmas, puppies or ice cream.
We’re against the government picking religious winners and losers, whether that’s promoting Christianity in public schools or funneling taxpayer dollars to religious education.
We’re against the government picking religious winners and losers, whether that’s promoting Christianity in public schools or funneling taxpayer dollars to religious education.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made some questionable statements about the United States' supposed roots in "Christian civilization" during a recent conference in Munich.
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February 17, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made some questionable statements about the United States' supposed roots in "Christian civilization" during a recent conference in Munich.
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“Dawkins makes the broad charge that “philosophy and the subjects known as ‘humanities’ are still taught almost as if Darwin never lived.” Since by his own admission Dawkins doesn’t know much about philosophy, one need not take this allegation too seriously…”. /7
February 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM
“Dawkins makes the broad charge that “philosophy and the subjects known as ‘humanities’ are still taught almost as if Darwin never lived.” Since by his own admission Dawkins doesn’t know much about philosophy, one need not take this allegation too seriously…”. /7
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Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/analilia_mejia_new_jersey_congress_aipac
Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza
In a surprise victory, progressive candidate Analilia Mejía won the Democratic primary to fill the House seat left vacant by New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill. Mejía served as 2020 national political...
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February 18, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/analilia_mejia_new_jersey_congress_aipac
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RIP filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. "Missile" is one of my favorite documentaries
February 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
RIP filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. "Missile" is one of my favorite documentaries
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and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...
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February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
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All while educators were also often home schooling, caring for people with COVID, some taught through having COVID themselves, coping with isolation, quarantine. We all know the toll of those times.
Everyone was trying their best. Was it good enough? But it was often the best they could do.
Everyone was trying their best. Was it good enough? But it was often the best they could do.
February 17, 2026 at 10:10 AM
All while educators were also often home schooling, caring for people with COVID, some taught through having COVID themselves, coping with isolation, quarantine. We all know the toll of those times.
Everyone was trying their best. Was it good enough? But it was often the best they could do.
Everyone was trying their best. Was it good enough? But it was often the best they could do.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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Damn. RIP to a guy who.. on top of all his accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement.. ran basically the campaigns in 1984 and 1988 that Bernie Sanders ran 3 decades later and became the first black man to run a Presidential Campaign and win primaries and caucuses.
Massively ahead of his time.
Massively ahead of his time.
February 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Damn. RIP to a guy who.. on top of all his accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement.. ran basically the campaigns in 1984 and 1988 that Bernie Sanders ran 3 decades later and became the first black man to run a Presidential Campaign and win primaries and caucuses.
Massively ahead of his time.
Massively ahead of his time.
This is a good way in to teach everything from gender in U.S. history to segregation in the South to current rules for “ladylike” decorum in the White House. Thank you!
Just before dawn on Oct. 6, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a 19-car train at Union Station and set off on a high-risk political mission: take the administration’s message straight into the Deep South.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This is a good way in to teach everything from gender in U.S. history to segregation in the South to current rules for “ladylike” decorum in the White House. Thank you!
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This is a really fascinating article — and if you teach university English in North America, helpful for understanding where early undergrads' preoccupation with "themes" and focus on characters comes from.
While I remember the books themselves, I seem to have memory-holed what I actually did in+
While I remember the books themselves, I seem to have memory-holed what I actually did in+
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
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February 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This is a really fascinating article — and if you teach university English in North America, helpful for understanding where early undergrads' preoccupation with "themes" and focus on characters comes from.
While I remember the books themselves, I seem to have memory-holed what I actually did in+
While I remember the books themselves, I seem to have memory-holed what I actually did in+
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Reading MIDDLEMEN as an ARC: it's sensational. As riveting as it is brilliant. Read it if you want to know how literature gets made now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
February 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Reading MIDDLEMEN as an ARC: it's sensational. As riveting as it is brilliant. Read it if you want to know how literature gets made now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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In the newest installment of ALH Review I got to write about the new “authoritative” edition of Puddn’head Wilson, drawn from the previously unpublished Morgan Manuscript.
This is quietly the most important thing to happen to Twain Studies during the recent “revival” period
doi.org/10.1093/alh/...
This is quietly the most important thing to happen to Twain Studies during the recent “revival” period
doi.org/10.1093/alh/...
February 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
In the newest installment of ALH Review I got to write about the new “authoritative” edition of Puddn’head Wilson, drawn from the previously unpublished Morgan Manuscript.
This is quietly the most important thing to happen to Twain Studies during the recent “revival” period
doi.org/10.1093/alh/...
This is quietly the most important thing to happen to Twain Studies during the recent “revival” period
doi.org/10.1093/alh/...
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Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
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Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.
What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.
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"cutting edge technology"
Not satisfied with rolling back vaccines and climate crisis prevention, the Trump administration has invested $80 billion in KNIFE CLOUD, a cloud that throws knives at humans. It's the invention of tech bros who fund Trump & his allies' campaigns. Getting sky-stabbed is the future, let's embrace it
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
"cutting edge technology"
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“here’s my stance as a serious and dedicated educator” should work just as well but doesn’t, of course
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
“here’s my stance as a serious and dedicated educator” should work just as well but doesn’t, of course
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@anthonymoser.com thx yet again for writing that AI hater piece. i’m a TA in anthropology and my uni’s teaching support center has been totally taken over by microsoft salespeople. it’s been nice to tell other academics “well here’s my stance as a technologist,” and link your piece
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
@anthonymoser.com thx yet again for writing that AI hater piece. i’m a TA in anthropology and my uni’s teaching support center has been totally taken over by microsoft salespeople. it’s been nice to tell other academics “well here’s my stance as a technologist,” and link your piece