Professor Power
@powerofacademe.bsky.social
16thC after it was cool. Any pronouns except 'it.' Political theorist (ops =/= my employer's). Tired Jew. Solo parent. Curmudgeon extraordinaire.
Pinned
My summary of the 'torah' of gender, standing on one foot:
Gender can and should be a home, not a prison. That is the entire teaching. The rest is interpretation.
(inspiration: www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.31a....)
Gender can and should be a home, not a prison. That is the entire teaching. The rest is interpretation.
(inspiration: www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.31a....)
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10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Kennedy's HHS announces investigation into whether state health licensing rules require Christian providers to participate in trans health care or abortion in another apparent attempt at intimidation. This is the 5th such "conscience rights" investigation.
RFK Jr.’s health department is using religious freedom to strip transgender people of health care
“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Kennedy's HHS announces investigation into whether state health licensing rules require Christian providers to participate in trans health care or abortion in another apparent attempt at intimidation. This is the 5th such "conscience rights" investigation.
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I appreciate the header above the headline: "Still going"
Besides obvious health risks, consider the economic costs.
Currently: 254 unvaxxed & exposed ppl in quarantine, including 43 students
Quarantine period=21 days from exposure
Consider lost work for self/caring for child missing school.
Besides obvious health risks, consider the economic costs.
Currently: 254 unvaxxed & exposed ppl in quarantine, including 43 students
Quarantine period=21 days from exposure
Consider lost work for self/caring for child missing school.
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
flip.it
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I appreciate the header above the headline: "Still going"
Besides obvious health risks, consider the economic costs.
Currently: 254 unvaxxed & exposed ppl in quarantine, including 43 students
Quarantine period=21 days from exposure
Consider lost work for self/caring for child missing school.
Besides obvious health risks, consider the economic costs.
Currently: 254 unvaxxed & exposed ppl in quarantine, including 43 students
Quarantine period=21 days from exposure
Consider lost work for self/caring for child missing school.
Oh Gd, 30s into All the Empty Rooms doc on Netflix and I think maybe this was a bad choice for me & my already demoralized baseline state of being. My kiddo loves Spongebob.
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Oh Gd, 30s into All the Empty Rooms doc on Netflix and I think maybe this was a bad choice for me & my already demoralized baseline state of being. My kiddo loves Spongebob.
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HHS’s language, grouping “sex-rejecting procedures” with female genital mutilation, conflates transgender medical care with criminal acts, while the government shows little urgency about nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children, one health policy expert told me.
www.advocate.com/health/hhs-t...
www.advocate.com/health/hhs-t...
RFK Jr.’s health department is using religious freedom to strip transgender people of health care
“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
HHS’s language, grouping “sex-rejecting procedures” with female genital mutilation, conflates transgender medical care with criminal acts, while the government shows little urgency about nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children, one health policy expert told me.
www.advocate.com/health/hhs-t...
www.advocate.com/health/hhs-t...
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A major case was decided last week against a Georgia ban on gender affirming care for transgender people who are incarcerated.
The previous policy was cruel, forcing medical detransition.
S. Baum writes for EITM here.
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The previous policy was cruel, forcing medical detransition.
S. Baum writes for EITM here.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Federal Court Strikes Down Georgia’s Ban on GAC for Incarcerated Trans People
Georgia provided GAC to incarcerated trans people for a decade. When legislators tried to suddenly halt it, the courts intervened.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A major case was decided last week against a Georgia ban on gender affirming care for transgender people who are incarcerated.
The previous policy was cruel, forcing medical detransition.
S. Baum writes for EITM here.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The previous policy was cruel, forcing medical detransition.
S. Baum writes for EITM here.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Sure what could possibly go wrong
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sure what could possibly go wrong
The way that bisexuality still makes gay & straight people's lose their fecking minds is simply WILD. www.them.us/story/mitch-...
Pro Athlete Mitch Brown Confronted in Bathroom, Told to "Prove" He's Bi
The former Australian Football League athlete came out earlier this year.
www.them.us
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The way that bisexuality still makes gay & straight people's lose their fecking minds is simply WILD. www.them.us/story/mitch-...
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Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
JOB KLAXON!
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!
Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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This is a great podcast about women’s health, and not just because my thank you letter was read at the end. 😉
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is a great podcast about women’s health, and not just because my thank you letter was read at the end. 😉
My 'hood (again). 🙁 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...
Hate Crime Unit investigating after Jewish prayer scrolls removed from doorways of North York homes
Toronto police’s Hate Crime Unit is investigating after multiple Jewish prayer scrolls were removed from the doorways of units in a TCHC apartment building in North York.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My 'hood (again). 🙁 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...
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wow... it's almost like the HRT is a medication these people need
In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
wow... it's almost like the HRT is a medication these people need
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You Should Stop Texting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone Now
You Should Stop Texting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone Now
This week has changed the game for text messaging — in a bad way.
www.forbes.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You Should Stop Texting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone Now
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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I’m glad they’re saying this shit out loud, honestly. Let’s get the paper trail going, let’s collect the receipts.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’m glad they’re saying this shit out loud, honestly. Let’s get the paper trail going, let’s collect the receipts.
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
The challot became as one, but the cinnamon buns are more important anyway. Shabbat shalom!
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The challot became as one, but the cinnamon buns are more important anyway. Shabbat shalom!
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This new documentary about single working class men in China is compelling. But it attributes their hardship to the shortage of men, explained only as: "[China's] one-child policy left it with over 30 million more men than women." A one-child policy by itself does not affect the sex ratio...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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OMG it's titled HUNTER!! (I knew it!)
I mean, if I'm awake at midnight anyway, I may as well just watch the new episode of Heated Rivalry as soon as it drops, eh?
a close up of a man 's face with sweat coming out of his mouth
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with sweat coming out of his mouth
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
OMG it's titled HUNTER!! (I knew it!)