Ed Kazarian
@kazedkaz.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Rowan. Teaching Faculty Coordinator for AFT Local 2373. Plays guitar for cats. Remembers the Cold War, the NEA four, and the Hartford Whalers. Opinions my own.
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
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Wait WHAT
The Renee Richards factoid that keeps poking my brain, is that the guy who outed her as trans, who previously outed Elizabeth Carmichael as trans, was Dick Carlson - Tucker's dad.
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Wait WHAT
Anyone who wants to financialize everything is a sociopath, but financializing *difference of opinion* is straight-up nihilism.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Anyone who wants to financialize everything is a sociopath, but financializing *difference of opinion* is straight-up nihilism.
If ever you doubted that MattY is basically, at bottom, a troll. (Now go ahead and block him like you do with trolls.)
“It’s bad politics to raise turnout for your side in an election” has the exact same vibe as “hey fellas is it gay to have sex with a woman?”
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If ever you doubted that MattY is basically, at bottom, a troll. (Now go ahead and block him like you do with trolls.)
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
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The only silver lining is that all the attacks on higher education go to show how important it is. Would rather recognition was given in the form of proper funding though.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The only silver lining is that all the attacks on higher education go to show how important it is. Would rather recognition was given in the form of proper funding though.
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After watching the film, there are two main problems here.
The first is his approach - you need to cover half the distance to the ball after your jab step so that way your body weight is forward through the motion and you aren’t lunging at the plant spot.
The first is his approach - you need to cover half the distance to the ball after your jab step so that way your body weight is forward through the motion and you aren’t lunging at the plant spot.
Ok @chriswarcraft.bsky.social what went wrong here 🤣🤣
Younghoe Koo completely missed the ball and kicked the turf, Jaxson Dart can't believe it
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
After watching the film, there are two main problems here.
The first is his approach - you need to cover half the distance to the ball after your jab step so that way your body weight is forward through the motion and you aren’t lunging at the plant spot.
The first is his approach - you need to cover half the distance to the ball after your jab step so that way your body weight is forward through the motion and you aren’t lunging at the plant spot.
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This is…dystopian.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is…dystopian.
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There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
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I know it’s hard to believe—it is for me, too—but they did this because they *wanted* to.
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I know it’s hard to believe—it is for me, too—but they did this because they *wanted* to.
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Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
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The Enrollment Cliff is a Miff
We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Enrollment Cliff is a Miff
The administrative response in the OU situation is grossly incompetent. There is no university on Earth that doesn't have a process for grade disputes, which every university should insist be followed. Arbitrary administrative action just exposes everyone, including admin, to more demands.
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The administrative response in the OU situation is grossly incompetent. There is no university on Earth that doesn't have a process for grade disputes, which every university should insist be followed. Arbitrary administrative action just exposes everyone, including admin, to more demands.
Did get sick though.
please forgive me, I did not get caught up during the break
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Did get sick though.
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It is the lack of a ceiling which is destroying the floor.
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It is the lack of a ceiling which is destroying the floor.
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And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
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It’s a slogan for political operatives who think campaigns are won and lost based on placards and stump speeches.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s a slogan for political operatives who think campaigns are won and lost based on placards and stump speeches.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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there’s this accompanying fantasy, too, that if we can just remove Trump then everything people imagine the rule of law consists of will be a) repaired b) normal c) fine or all of the above
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
there’s this accompanying fantasy, too, that if we can just remove Trump then everything people imagine the rule of law consists of will be a) repaired b) normal c) fine or all of the above
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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...Gen X is to movies what boomers are to music, both have transformed some initial successes in a genre to a dominance that overstays its welcome, weighing down like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
...Gen X is to movies what boomers are to music, both have transformed some initial successes in a genre to a dominance that overstays its welcome, weighing down like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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Predator and The Running Man were both released in 1987, thirty eight years ago. The last two movies I have seen in theaters were a Predator sequel and a Running Man reboot.,,
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Predator and The Running Man were both released in 1987, thirty eight years ago. The last two movies I have seen in theaters were a Predator sequel and a Running Man reboot.,,
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Instead, in ten years 1/3 of academic budgets are gonna end up in the hands of five or six people in the world who own AI corporations. 
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Instead, in ten years 1/3 of academic budgets are gonna end up in the hands of five or six people in the world who own AI corporations.