Michael Yarbrough (he/him)
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Interdisciplinary sociologist, law & society, transnational gender & sexuality. I research marriage, esp in S Africa. And I organize with colleagues to defend higher ed. Opinions mine not employer's.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
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TBH sometimes it's hilarious to me that they think they can erase LGBTQ+ people. Girl don't you know what we've ALREADY SURVIVED?
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Major part of my transit wishlist: I'd love to see NYC embrace a regional map of 🚇 and 🚊 services.
NYC is part of a regional economy and community-- it would be a major win if commuters could visualize PATH, HBLR and Newark City subway alongside the NYC subway system.
NYC is part of a regional economy and community-- it would be a major win if commuters could visualize PATH, HBLR and Newark City subway alongside the NYC subway system.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Major part of my transit wishlist: I'd love to see NYC embrace a regional map of 🚇 and 🚊 services.
NYC is part of a regional economy and community-- it would be a major win if commuters could visualize PATH, HBLR and Newark City subway alongside the NYC subway system.
NYC is part of a regional economy and community-- it would be a major win if commuters could visualize PATH, HBLR and Newark City subway alongside the NYC subway system.
Our Title VI training module at CUNY is misleading, confusing, and could have a chilling effect. Read at the link for details.
#CADHE Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression
#CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social
#CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social
Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression – The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Our Title VI training module at CUNY is misleading, confusing, and could have a chilling effect. Read at the link for details.
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Good things are better shared.
Tell a friend about CUNY ASAP...Advisors, support, and a clear path to graduation. 💚
📲 cuny.edu/joinASAP
Tell a friend about CUNY ASAP...Advisors, support, and a clear path to graduation. 💚
📲 cuny.edu/joinASAP
Join – The City University of New York
25 Colleges. One University.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Good things are better shared.
Tell a friend about CUNY ASAP...Advisors, support, and a clear path to graduation. 💚
📲 cuny.edu/joinASAP
Tell a friend about CUNY ASAP...Advisors, support, and a clear path to graduation. 💚
📲 cuny.edu/joinASAP
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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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 4:47 PM
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.
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America did mass higher education way earlier than any other country.
Americans were more likely to attend higher education than Europeans were in the 1950s. The British government explicitly cited the US as expanding mass higher education (as noted in the Robbins Report).
Americans were more likely to attend higher education than Europeans were in the 1950s. The British government explicitly cited the US as expanding mass higher education (as noted in the Robbins Report).
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
America did mass higher education way earlier than any other country.
Americans were more likely to attend higher education than Europeans were in the 1950s. The British government explicitly cited the US as expanding mass higher education (as noted in the Robbins Report).
Americans were more likely to attend higher education than Europeans were in the 1950s. The British government explicitly cited the US as expanding mass higher education (as noted in the Robbins Report).
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In the public speaking and advocacy that I’ve done nothing has made me happier than going to a non-flagship state college and meeting switched-on kids and faculty who are happy in their work, with SDSU, UTRGV and Mississippi College School of Law being standouts
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In the public speaking and advocacy that I’ve done nothing has made me happier than going to a non-flagship state college and meeting switched-on kids and faculty who are happy in their work, with SDSU, UTRGV and Mississippi College School of Law being standouts
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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 5:18 PM
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.
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A Texas A&M University appeals panel has unanimously ruled that the school was “not justified” when it fired a lecturer who had been accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders.
Texas A&M Wrong to Fire Professor Melissa McCoul Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A Texas A&M University appeals panel has unanimously ruled that the school was “not justified” when it fired a lecturer who had been accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders.
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Former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been under house arrest for plotting a coup and assassinations of the president, vice president and chief justice.
He used a soldering iron on his ankle monitor and lied about that. Burn marks on its circumference betrayed him.
Now, he's in custody.
He used a soldering iron on his ankle monitor and lied about that. Burn marks on its circumference betrayed him.
Now, he's in custody.
HE TRIED TO GET IT OFF USING A WELDER
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HE’S SO DUMB, HOW WAS HE ONCE PRESIDENT OMG
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HE’S SO DUMB, HOW WAS HE ONCE PRESIDENT OMG
O bagulho todo derretido, mas que várzea kkkkk
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been under house arrest for plotting a coup and assassinations of the president, vice president and chief justice.
He used a soldering iron on his ankle monitor and lied about that. Burn marks on its circumference betrayed him.
Now, he's in custody.
He used a soldering iron on his ankle monitor and lied about that. Burn marks on its circumference betrayed him.
Now, he's in custody.
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Just learned about this exhibition happening at the Print Center of NY until 12/20. I have to visit: www.printcenternewyork.org/data-conscio...
Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print — Print Center New York
www.printcenternewyork.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just learned about this exhibition happening at the Print Center of NY until 12/20. I have to visit: www.printcenternewyork.org/data-conscio...
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I love this man so much. He's been the soundtrack of most of my life.
Stevie Wonder releases “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” 60 yrs ago today.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
At 15, the child star was in danger of being a has-been. His voice was changing. Motown execs “would give assignments to the various producers,” said songwriter Sylvia Moy. “No one wanted Stevie.”
The song saved his career.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I love this man so much. He's been the soundtrack of most of my life.
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
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The interesting angle imo is that Mamdani was able to give Trump a photo op without it being more than a photo op: it wasn't "legitimizing" or "normalizing." He was able to do that because of the amount of political capital/goodwill he'd built with the left, which, idk, maybe more people should do?
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The interesting angle imo is that Mamdani was able to give Trump a photo op without it being more than a photo op: it wasn't "legitimizing" or "normalizing." He was able to do that because of the amount of political capital/goodwill he'd built with the left, which, idk, maybe more people should do?
When you teach in a major with almost 700 students and five full-time teaching faculty, you spend your time at the annual recruitment event telling prospective students how great all the OTHER programs are at your college and have they considered those?
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
When you teach in a major with almost 700 students and five full-time teaching faculty, you spend your time at the annual recruitment event telling prospective students how great all the OTHER programs are at your college and have they considered those?
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for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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I don't know who needs to hear this - time to launch campaign to pass the 28th Amendment: allow naturalized citizens to run for POTUS.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this - time to launch campaign to pass the 28th Amendment: allow naturalized citizens to run for POTUS.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
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We love to see it.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We love to see it.
imagine if you were so charming that whenever you needed something from someone you could confidently say how about I just go charm them
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
imagine if you were so charming that whenever you needed something from someone you could confidently say how about I just go charm them
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Even if Mamdani bought an extra 2-4 weeks to prep before the ICE onslaught comes, this will have been beyond worth it.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Even if Mamdani bought an extra 2-4 weeks to prep before the ICE onslaught comes, this will have been beyond worth it.
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This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
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KILMEADE: ”I think JD Vance is jealous. I think the president wants to use Zohran as a running mate.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
KILMEADE: ”I think JD Vance is jealous. I think the president wants to use Zohran as a running mate.”
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Of course. This may in fact happen by midnight. The thing is that Mamdani will be able to say 'well that's not what he said when I met with him' and keep it moving.
Thing is, when Mamdani does something early next year that challenges some Trump admin nonsense, you *know* that Trump is going be extra angry and suggest it's a backstabbing, noting how "nice" he was to him in the Oval Office as if that means Mamdani should now agree to all of Trump's demands.
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Of course. This may in fact happen by midnight. The thing is that Mamdani will be able to say 'well that's not what he said when I met with him' and keep it moving.
Also true. But it gives Mamdani more time to prepare, in office, before the retaliation.
Thing is, when Mamdani does something early next year that challenges some Trump admin nonsense, you *know* that Trump is going be extra angry and suggest it's a backstabbing, noting how "nice" he was to him in the Oval Office as if that means Mamdani should now agree to all of Trump's demands.
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Also true. But it gives Mamdani more time to prepare, in office, before the retaliation.
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Thing is, when Mamdani does something early next year that challenges some Trump admin nonsense, you *know* that Trump is going be extra angry and suggest it's a backstabbing, noting how "nice" he was to him in the Oval Office as if that means Mamdani should now agree to all of Trump's demands.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thing is, when Mamdani does something early next year that challenges some Trump admin nonsense, you *know* that Trump is going be extra angry and suggest it's a backstabbing, noting how "nice" he was to him in the Oval Office as if that means Mamdani should now agree to all of Trump's demands.