Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.
I miss properly seasoned seafood
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Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
Hey @democrats.org yet another story for your ad campaign that I’m really sure you’re going to start any second now.
I used to get v annoyed at accommodation letters that would ask for things that just would not work with the way the class was -it would require redesigning the class. But then I talked to the disabilities office and was told that means it’s an unreasonable accommodation and I don’t have to do it.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I used to get v annoyed at accommodation letters that would ask for things that just would not work with the way the class was -it would require redesigning the class. But then I talked to the disabilities office and was told that means it’s an unreasonable accommodation and I don’t have to do it.
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The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
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btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
I think we need to start pointing out that these people aren’t just fighting against us secularists. This guy requires every Protestant— and possibly Orthodox to submit to a version of Catholicism that most Catholics don’t recognize. And don’t worry. Most Protestant Dominionist require the same.
I mean, it just keeps going: "In a chapter about politics, McCall wrote that separation of the Catholic Church from the state was “reaping its bitter fruits” and that the only solution to the ills of modern government was Catholicism." #whatIsThisCrap
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I think we need to start pointing out that these people aren’t just fighting against us secularists. This guy requires every Protestant— and possibly Orthodox to submit to a version of Catholicism that most Catholics don’t recognize. And don’t worry. Most Protestant Dominionist require the same.
So I’m not going to read this but if it is talking about enlisted, those are the same dudes that were taking 25% loans out on Dodge Chargers so like…. Bad decisions ahoy yo.
U.S. troops have become top gun traders, swapping investment tips from cockpits and the decks of aircraft carriers and making fortunes.
Top Gun Traders: Stock Bets and Crypto Culture Take Over the Military
Troops are hooked on investing. They’re trading tips from cockpits and the decks of aircraft carriers, and making fortunes.
on.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So I’m not going to read this but if it is talking about enlisted, those are the same dudes that were taking 25% loans out on Dodge Chargers so like…. Bad decisions ahoy yo.
So not a single OU tenures professor is showing up to work tomorrow right? Also every person in that class should protest. Why do you have to follow the rules but she doesn’t?
I’d also be pissed if I was a Christian- you’re telling me you think this is the best intellectual argument they can make?
I’d also be pissed if I was a Christian- you’re telling me you think this is the best intellectual argument they can make?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So not a single OU tenures professor is showing up to work tomorrow right? Also every person in that class should protest. Why do you have to follow the rules but she doesn’t?
I’d also be pissed if I was a Christian- you’re telling me you think this is the best intellectual argument they can make?
I’d also be pissed if I was a Christian- you’re telling me you think this is the best intellectual argument they can make?
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
Warning: Some of this doesn’t hold up (we’re now both ICE/CBP must be disbanded and rebuilt as something else), but I still think there’s value in dividing and conquering.
Also- this advice is not for everyone! Use what’s useful, forget what isn’t.
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Also- this advice is not for everyone! Use what’s useful, forget what isn’t.
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Warning: Some of this doesn’t hold up (we’re now both ICE/CBP must be disbanded and rebuilt as something else), but I still think there’s value in dividing and conquering.
Also- this advice is not for everyone! Use what’s useful, forget what isn’t.
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Also- this advice is not for everyone! Use what’s useful, forget what isn’t.
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Look up what HSI is supposed to be doing. If MAGA actually cared about the things the claim to, they’d be livid these folks are being pulled into being street cops.
While always talking tough on law and order, Trump has been diverting crime fighting resources from combatting drug cartels & child traffickers to pursuing his favorite cause—undocumented immigrants with no prior criminal record.
Trump—more bluster, less safety for American families.
Trump—more bluster, less safety for American families.
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Look up what HSI is supposed to be doing. If MAGA actually cared about the things the claim to, they’d be livid these folks are being pulled into being street cops.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Go join your local Democratic board.
That’s how you get to this.
That’s how you get to this.
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Go join your local Democratic board.
That’s how you get to this.
That’s how you get to this.
Soooo… if there’s a strike fund lmk.
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Soooo… if there’s a strike fund lmk.
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Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
Trump administration says it is halting all asylum decisions after National Guard shooting
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
It’s bullshit because what the chicken shit university is hoping is that it’ll be overturned or they’ll get the money back in 4 years after a new administration is in.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It’s bullshit because what the chicken shit university is hoping is that it’ll be overturned or they’ll get the money back in 4 years after a new administration is in.
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Amazing article. two things stand out, as usual with Trumpists: their intense vindictiveness and their underlying weakness
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Amazing article. two things stand out, as usual with Trumpists: their intense vindictiveness and their underlying weakness
I have no idea if this is real but you should show your students 90’s drug commercials and the marines fighting the lava demon because their reactions are hilarious.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I have no idea if this is real but you should show your students 90’s drug commercials and the marines fighting the lava demon because their reactions are hilarious.
I just came on and all I have to say is when speaking English I use American because there isn’t an equivalent of Estadounidense in English. But, as always, the real problem is the Asian western peninsula deciding it’s a whole continent. C’mon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I just came on and all I have to say is when speaking English I use American because there isn’t an equivalent of Estadounidense in English. But, as always, the real problem is the Asian western peninsula deciding it’s a whole continent. C’mon.
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FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Also the headline is wrong, Kristi Noem said it.
I know this is a super pedantic thing but the President isn’t the one that makes decisions about TPS, by law it’s the DHS Secretary.
I know this is a super pedantic thing but the President isn’t the one that makes decisions about TPS, by law it’s the DHS Secretary.
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Also the headline is wrong, Kristi Noem said it.
I know this is a super pedantic thing but the President isn’t the one that makes decisions about TPS, by law it’s the DHS Secretary.
I know this is a super pedantic thing but the President isn’t the one that makes decisions about TPS, by law it’s the DHS Secretary.
The idea of someone calling me a yankee is so offensive my brain refuses to think up how that scenario might play out. And I’d probably react worse to someone from the upper South doing it. I’d burn them like Sherman should of. (The Yankees were right btw)
the Union should have hung every evil Confederate general and burned way more of the South and also how dare you associate me with New England Puritans
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The idea of someone calling me a yankee is so offensive my brain refuses to think up how that scenario might play out. And I’d probably react worse to someone from the upper South doing it. I’d burn them like Sherman should of. (The Yankees were right btw)
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training Nov. 25
With the Trump regime deploying hundreds of ICE agents and CBP paramilitary units in the New Orleans area as part of its anti-immigrant campaign, activists and attorneys will host a
www.nola.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Oh no my partner is being sweet on their main.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oh no my partner is being sweet on their main.
We do not have to accept them pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
Abuse of power extending beyond Senator Kelly
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We do not have to accept them pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.