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Professor Steve
@profsteve.bsky.social
PhD Rhetoric and Politics, Professor, Writer, Gamer. Interested in institutional speech, political campaigns, and how idiosyncratic choices inform our future. Lifelong fan of the power to do things with words.
We wear Rebellion & Punisher logos, listen to Greenday, cheer for Star Trek, The Fellowship, Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, & the X-Men.

Aren't some of our actions, and who we're siding with, more like those of the Empire, Saurman & Sauron, the Klingons, Voldemort, The Sith, or The Capitol?
March 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Fellow educators: our students may not understand important terminology, and we shouldn't assume they interpret it uniformly. I put together a handout explaining a key term so I can print copies and leave them around campus, to prompt student reflection and discussion. Feel free to steal and adapt!
February 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Eggs prices DOUBLED since Trump was elected. Do presidents have direct control over the cost of commodities? No. But I hope everyone that voted this lunatic grifter into power over grocery bills sees they've sold out the country & everything we've built for a broken promise about cheap breakfast.
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The New Progress.
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Government grant funding that fueled the research making America a tech and innovation powerhouse for the last century? Yeah, say bye to that.
January 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We work tirelessly, day after day, to expose students to difference, perspective, otherness, and the broader world.
January 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I wonder what these guys are going to focus on = protecting billionaires or lowering the cost of eggs.
December 7, 2024 at 4:44 AM
At some point I'll have to face my sunk cost fallacy head on and admit Firefox is what it is, isn't getting better, and it's time to move all my bookmarks over to Chrome. Today is not that day, but it comes soon.
November 28, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Spending the weekend with a lot of smart people in New Orleans. My own meager contribution: Trump uses rhetoric and policy to operate like Negan, with public punishment of the unfaithful to warn others to stay in line. #NCA2024
November 22, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Car caught by dog.
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Apparently public schools are going to be revising their approach to fights on school grounds.
November 20, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Heading towards 20M users by Monday night, up from 200k last July. You can watch your new home grow at bsky-users.theo.io
November 18, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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