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Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast explores critical approaches to teaching and learning, in conversation with leading teachers, scholars, and activists. Co-hosted by Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin.
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later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
(from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
(from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)
what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire • Read A Little Poetry
"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"
readalittlepoetry.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
(from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
(from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)
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someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
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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 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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.
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Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.
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Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...
Resist transactional education, resist fascism: “Authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds (unless you let them). … You are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this.” ⬇️
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Resist transactional education, resist fascism: “Authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds (unless you let them). … You are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this.” ⬇️
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📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle.
#BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social
#BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy | Home
Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School
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November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle.
#BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social
#BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social
Everybody should read this book by friend of the pod David Backer!
my book is officially out! you can get it here! www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools | David Backer
Education expert David I. Backer argues for radically expanding the "public" in public schools. Discover a concrete set of policies to provide a truly public education for all, regardless of wealth an...
www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Everybody should read this book by friend of the pod David Backer!
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AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.
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historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/
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This scholasticide was intentional. The world lost astounding minds. I'm so grateful for this tribute, but it could be an hour long & still not include everyone--philosophers, poets, literary scholars of all periods in world literature , physicists, biologists, mathematicians,1/
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This scholasticide was intentional. The world lost astounding minds. I'm so grateful for this tribute, but it could be an hour long & still not include everyone--philosophers, poets, literary scholars of all periods in world literature , physicists, biologists, mathematicians,1/
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AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
“We will serve New York State and anyone who cannot get to their library due to age or disability,” said Madlyn Schneider, [Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book] coordinator.
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
www.qchron.com/editions/que...
Special delivery: QPL Mail-A-Book turns 50
For the past five decades, the Queens Public Library’s Mail-A-Book program has bridged the gap between homebound New Yorkers and the world of reading, delivering books and other materials directly
www.qchron.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...
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Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors.
Stop ethics-washing this guy.
Stop ethics-washing this guy.
"There's enough indoctrination going on at universities already. We should eliminate it, not mimic it from the other side," says Robert P. George. https://chroni.cl/3LTZjcn
Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
www.chronicle.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors.
Stop ethics-washing this guy.
Stop ethics-washing this guy.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
Is the “strange and wicked problem” for colleges so-called grade inflation, or is the issue the widespread cultish (and creepily punitive) insistence that grades have any place in learning whatsoever?
IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL…
#edsky #pedagogy #edusky
IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL…
#edsky #pedagogy #edusky
On the surface, grade inflation might seem simple to address, @ibogost.com writes. But it’s a strange and wicked problem on campus, with no single cause or obvious solution:
Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’
Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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organizing is not concierge service.
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
organizing is not concierge service.
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back?
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal
Podcast Episode · Nothing Never Happens · 11/01/2025 · 1h 20m
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November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back?
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
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Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”
September 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”
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snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.