Nathan Gale | UncannyOntology
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Rhetoric, Composition, and the Nonhuman || Associate Prof. || Opinions are mine || he/him/his
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UT-Dallas fired the editor of the student paper, then fired the staff when they went on strike to object, then banned their independent newspaper from campus, and now are trying to discipline the former student editor for fact-checking a letter to the editor? Glad @thefireorg.bsky.social is on this.
UT Dallas is Trying to Punish a Student Editor for Editing
UT Dallas has consistently been accused of free speech violations in recent years.
www.dallasobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
UT-Dallas fired the editor of the student paper, then fired the staff when they went on strike to object, then banned their independent newspaper from campus, and now are trying to discipline the former student editor for fact-checking a letter to the editor? Glad @thefireorg.bsky.social is on this.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
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No one is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
No one is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer.
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I hope to write about this at more length soon, but here’s a synopsis of my thoughts (from “Against Technofeudal Education” essay).
July 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I hope to write about this at more length soon, but here’s a synopsis of my thoughts (from “Against Technofeudal Education” essay).
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I was a guest on Pods Against Tomorrow. Many thanks to Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush for a fun conversation about After Dark, My Sweet.
open.spotify.com/episode/2YsD...
open.spotify.com/episode/2YsD...
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) with Ron Brooks
Pods Against Tomorrow: Reinvestigating Film Noir · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I was a guest on Pods Against Tomorrow. Many thanks to Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush for a fun conversation about After Dark, My Sweet.
open.spotify.com/episode/2YsD...
open.spotify.com/episode/2YsD...
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Salt Lake City library employees have voted to form a union, the first in the Beehive State for library workers.
Utah has its first union of library workers, capping big week for public-sector labor groups
Salt Lake City library employees have voted to form a union, the first in the Beehive State for library workers.
www.sltrib.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Salt Lake City library employees have voted to form a union, the first in the Beehive State for library workers.
This is seriously the funniest way to weaponize your position to go after your perceived "enemies." Imagine (in 2025) writing a blog-post on a made-up conspiracy that blames everyone involved but you (the person in charge).
April 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is seriously the funniest way to weaponize your position to go after your perceived "enemies." Imagine (in 2025) writing a blog-post on a made-up conspiracy that blames everyone involved but you (the person in charge).
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So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19
THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak
covid.gov
April 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
* Attacks on universities
* Pulled student visas
* Slashed research funding
* Huge budget cuts
* Changes to Utah general education
* Attacks on free speech and academic freedom
* Hiring freezes
* End-of-the-semester student evaluations
* Pulled student visas
* Slashed research funding
* Huge budget cuts
* Changes to Utah general education
* Attacks on free speech and academic freedom
* Hiring freezes
* End-of-the-semester student evaluations
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
* Attacks on universities
* Pulled student visas
* Slashed research funding
* Huge budget cuts
* Changes to Utah general education
* Attacks on free speech and academic freedom
* Hiring freezes
* End-of-the-semester student evaluations
* Pulled student visas
* Slashed research funding
* Huge budget cuts
* Changes to Utah general education
* Attacks on free speech and academic freedom
* Hiring freezes
* End-of-the-semester student evaluations
Jesus Christ…it won’t be long before we are told smoking is good for you and you only need to bathe once a month.
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Jesus Christ…it won’t be long before we are told smoking is good for you and you only need to bathe once a month.
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Learning the value of a stable government via living through a counterexample is a hell of a thing.
April 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Learning the value of a stable government via living through a counterexample is a hell of a thing.
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
Hands Off Utah!
April 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hands Off Utah!
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The most important thing you must share today.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The most important thing you must share today.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family.
Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
This is the John Curtis “townhall” right now. Everything is locked down. No public chat. It’s just him talking at us — coward.
April 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is the John Curtis “townhall” right now. Everything is locked down. No public chat. It’s just him talking at us — coward.
Profile in Cowardice. John Curtis refuses to meet with his constituents face-to-face and instead says a paltry 2 hour online session with only a select few of the 3.5 million Utahns he represents is going to suffice. As expected, the spaces are sold-out and unavailable. Fucking coward!
Utah Sen. John Curtis: “If your real goal is to scream, cause a ruckus and get your picture in the paper, then what you want isn’t a town hall. It’s a stage.”
John Curtis: It’s time to reimagine what a town hall could be
Utah Sen. John Curtis: “If your real goal is to scream, cause a ruckus and get your picture in the paper, then what you want isn’t a town hall. It’s a stage.”
www.sltrib.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Profile in Cowardice. John Curtis refuses to meet with his constituents face-to-face and instead says a paltry 2 hour online session with only a select few of the 3.5 million Utahns he represents is going to suffice. As expected, the spaces are sold-out and unavailable. Fucking coward!
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Ppl in power are thinking WAY too small about what Trump is doing.
Even pundits are reaching back no further than the Civil Rights era or the Gilded Age for analogies...but you've gotta go WAY farther back, at least to the 18thC--prob the 17thC--to grasp his neo-colonialist, anti-Enlightenment aims.
Even pundits are reaching back no further than the Civil Rights era or the Gilded Age for analogies...but you've gotta go WAY farther back, at least to the 18thC--prob the 17thC--to grasp his neo-colonialist, anti-Enlightenment aims.
When will folks get it? These dark maga fascist freaks don’t want to “bring back segregation”.. Black people had too many rights for their liking during segregation. Yes, you read that correctly. They want something far worse: to end the constitition, along with civil and human rights of all kind.
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ppl in power are thinking WAY too small about what Trump is doing.
Even pundits are reaching back no further than the Civil Rights era or the Gilded Age for analogies...but you've gotta go WAY farther back, at least to the 18thC--prob the 17thC--to grasp his neo-colonialist, anti-Enlightenment aims.
Even pundits are reaching back no further than the Civil Rights era or the Gilded Age for analogies...but you've gotta go WAY farther back, at least to the 18thC--prob the 17thC--to grasp his neo-colonialist, anti-Enlightenment aims.
Yup. Our Governor just said that he hopes he can cut public sector jobs in Utah “with a level of compassion.”
"Cutting is hard. People losing their jobs is hard," he says. "I hope we can do that with a level of compassion."
He says he has instructed the Utah Dept. of Workforce Services to help and get laid off federal employees new work.
He says he has instructed the Utah Dept. of Workforce Services to help and get laid off federal employees new work.
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yup. Our Governor just said that he hopes he can cut public sector jobs in Utah “with a level of compassion.”
Who knew the war on Christmas was going this well?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations.
March 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Who knew the war on Christmas was going this well?
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at an academic conference in columbus OH now. few hundred registered participants, 20% are not presenters. they are social service providers, endocrinologists, amazon wearhouse workers, here to soak up knowledge.
people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness.
fight for the freedom to learn!
people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness.
fight for the freedom to learn!
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
March 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
at an academic conference in columbus OH now. few hundred registered participants, 20% are not presenters. they are social service providers, endocrinologists, amazon wearhouse workers, here to soak up knowledge.
people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness.
fight for the freedom to learn!
people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness.
fight for the freedom to learn!