Nate Holdren
@nhold.bsky.social
Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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Nate Holdren
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· May 29
harrumph. harrumph, I say!
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy
The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.
www.kswo.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
hell yeah Rockford!
This simple composition caught my eye yesterday as I was driving through farmland west of Rockford #naturephotography #tree
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
hell yeah Rockford!
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This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...
Elenco Alfabetico Fanzine Anni 80
Società per la Bonifica Multimediale delle Paludi Mentali
paolopalmacci.it
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...
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ICE just took a father from his car in Richfield and left his kids in the back of the fucking car.
December 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ICE just took a father from his car in Richfield and left his kids in the back of the fucking car.
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I am suffering from seasonal AHHHHHHH disorder
December 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I am suffering from seasonal AHHHHHHH disorder
thread
a story of a proletarian, workers control iteration of workplace safety/environmentalism and its confrontation with the state, and a critique of OHS legislation as corporatist and technocratic while public health measures divert the struggles in the following decade
Tomorrow I am giving a talk “no toxic jobs: working class environmentalism and proletarian health in the fight against capitalist toxicity at port Kembla”. I’ll be talking about workers health centres, a strike, deindustrialisation & the state. It’s 9am in Sydney & can share zoom if u are interested
December 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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All I'm asking is for every point of tension in my life to resolve neatly and immediately. Is that really so hard?
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
All I'm asking is for every point of tension in my life to resolve neatly and immediately. Is that really so hard?
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Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Spending on consultants.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
There is nothing more pointless yet more dangerous than the consultant class—they know nothing about anything yet they proclaim expertise on everything. Their only purpose is eviscerating labor, enabling the right, and destroying academic freedoms.
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I never travel far without a little
December 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I never travel far without a little
feeling this bigly, hoo boy
it feels somewhat facile to just repeat over and over that things are bleak or that those kinds of deteriorating environments are truly heartbreaking – but it's no less true :\
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
feeling this bigly, hoo boy
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Impossible to understand the tech leader zeal for humanoid robots unless you realize their homes are filled with human staff whose presence makes them, in a basic way, uncomfortable. They want servants without the trace of subjectivity.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Impossible to understand the tech leader zeal for humanoid robots unless you realize their homes are filled with human staff whose presence makes them, in a basic way, uncomfortable. They want servants without the trace of subjectivity.
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At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...
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Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
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December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
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There is a connection between “all the orthobiologic therapies on her website are unapproved by FDA” and “now she’s in charge of CDER.” (The branch of FDA that regulates those types of therapies.) They’re quacks with a golden opportunity to use the federal health bureaucracy for self-dealing.
Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.
Tracy Hoeg: Voting to stop universally vaccinating newborns against hep B vaccine would "put us in line with peer countries."
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
There is a connection between “all the orthobiologic therapies on her website are unapproved by FDA” and “now she’s in charge of CDER.” (The branch of FDA that regulates those types of therapies.) They’re quacks with a golden opportunity to use the federal health bureaucracy for self-dealing.
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Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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even in this batshit timeline this stands out as particularly unhinged and sick
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
even in this batshit timeline this stands out as particularly unhinged and sick
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This extra long semester that started in March of 2020 is a real bummer
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This extra long semester that started in March of 2020 is a real bummer
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“An instructor's freedom to teach includes the right to assess student academic performance. We are gravely concerned that a climate of escalating authoritarian assaults on academic freedom is normalizing politicized interference in classroom teaching & learning.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Oklahoma college student’s failing grade on gender essay dropped amid outcry
A University of Oklahoma student alleged religious discrimination after receiving a zero on an essay that rejected the concept of multiple genders.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“An instructor's freedom to teach includes the right to assess student academic performance. We are gravely concerned that a climate of escalating authoritarian assaults on academic freedom is normalizing politicized interference in classroom teaching & learning.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Thread. I think this is a very important point in three respects. 1. Medicalized gatekeeping to accommodation is expensive to access in time and money, so the self-identity requirement (rather than universal design) skews who gets access. 2. as the thread indicates disabiltity is stigmatized so a
Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thread. I think this is a very important point in three respects. 1. Medicalized gatekeeping to accommodation is expensive to access in time and money, so the self-identity requirement (rather than universal design) skews who gets access. 2. as the thread indicates disabiltity is stigmatized so a
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In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
Political Imagination and Appeals to the Law w/ Nate Holdren (12/01/25) | The Death Panel
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December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
www.patreon.com/posts/144753...
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!