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Furiously tapping the “this happened because we all continue playing dumb to protect the feelings of conservative white folks” sign.
I guess I’m tired of our culture of incredulity & all we have to pretend is complicated when it’s plain & all the wrongs we’re forced into complicit silence about so the powerful won’t be held to account & I really feel when Bambara asked “What are we pretending not to know today?”
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Furiously tapping the “this happened because we all continue playing dumb to protect the feelings of conservative white folks” sign.
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„Tell an 18-year-old whose financial aid, scholarship, visa depends on GPA to develop ‘personal AI ethics‘ while you profit from the very technology designed to undermine their learning. It’s classic neoliberal jiu-jitsu: reframe erosion of institutional norms as a character-building opportunity.“
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
„Tell an 18-year-old whose financial aid, scholarship, visa depends on GPA to develop ‘personal AI ethics‘ while you profit from the very technology designed to undermine their learning. It’s classic neoliberal jiu-jitsu: reframe erosion of institutional norms as a character-building opportunity.“
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„Unis now risk creating bullshit degrees. AI threatens to professionalize meaningless activity, widening the gap between education’s public mission & its hollow routines. In Graeber’s words, such systems inflict ‘psychological violence,‘ the dissonance of knowing one’s labor serves no purpose.“
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
„Unis now risk creating bullshit degrees. AI threatens to professionalize meaningless activity, widening the gap between education’s public mission & its hollow routines. In Graeber’s words, such systems inflict ‘psychological violence,‘ the dissonance of knowing one’s labor serves no purpose.“
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“Uni administrators understand exactly what’s happening, and proceed anyway. As long as enrollment holds and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty manage the educational carnage in their classes.“
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Uni administrators understand exactly what’s happening, and proceed anyway. As long as enrollment holds and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty manage the educational carnage in their classes.“
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“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
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This this this
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This this this
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"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
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maybe we shouldn’t even say mutual aid and just start saying this isn’t anything special—this is community.
this is actually what being in community means. helping each other, realizing our fates are intertwined.
we are building community while the bad guys are trying to tear it down.
this is actually what being in community means. helping each other, realizing our fates are intertwined.
we are building community while the bad guys are trying to tear it down.
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid'
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
maybe we shouldn’t even say mutual aid and just start saying this isn’t anything special—this is community.
this is actually what being in community means. helping each other, realizing our fates are intertwined.
we are building community while the bad guys are trying to tear it down.
this is actually what being in community means. helping each other, realizing our fates are intertwined.
we are building community while the bad guys are trying to tear it down.
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and again, this attack on trans identity has been withering, brutal, and extended. if you are concerned about free speech, you need to be very concerned about a university firing a trans grad student for trying to do her job!
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
and again, this attack on trans identity has been withering, brutal, and extended. if you are concerned about free speech, you need to be very concerned about a university firing a trans grad student for trying to do her job!
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one of the single most controversial and dangerous opinions you can have right now is "trans people exist and I am one of them."
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
one of the single most controversial and dangerous opinions you can have right now is "trans people exist and I am one of them."
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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Another reason not to follow illegal orders is that an administration willing to give illegal orders will also happily throw you under the bus for following them.
Reporter: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order
Leavitt: The latter is true
Leavitt: The latter is true
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Another reason not to follow illegal orders is that an administration willing to give illegal orders will also happily throw you under the bus for following them.
Peter isn’t wrong. And also, the way we insulate ourselves from bad actors is to refuse to entertain their bullshit, society wide. The fact that we all know what is happening here, but everyone is going to pretend it ISN’T that, is How We Got Here. Stop protecting bad faith white people.
the actual merits of the grade are mostly beside the point, but i do think it’s worth thinking about how to insulate yourself a bit from bad faith actors if you’re a professor or TA. this M.O. (on a smaller scale) is common on the right.
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Peter isn’t wrong. And also, the way we insulate ourselves from bad actors is to refuse to entertain their bullshit, society wide. The fact that we all know what is happening here, but everyone is going to pretend it ISN’T that, is How We Got Here. Stop protecting bad faith white people.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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But it requires not only a willingness to flunk students, but also a willingness to construct your course—and your pedagogy, and your professional persona—around an overt, articulated, emphatic set of ethical commitments.
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
But it requires not only a willingness to flunk students, but also a willingness to construct your course—and your pedagogy, and your professional persona—around an overt, articulated, emphatic set of ethical commitments.
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Reporters don’t push back because they’ll lose access and then they won’t have jobs anymore and there are virtually no middle class jobs and no social safety net
Fascism isn’t just a charismatic strongman talking it’s also manufacturing ground conditions
Fascism isn’t just a charismatic strongman talking it’s also manufacturing ground conditions
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reporters don’t push back because they’ll lose access and then they won’t have jobs anymore and there are virtually no middle class jobs and no social safety net
Fascism isn’t just a charismatic strongman talking it’s also manufacturing ground conditions
Fascism isn’t just a charismatic strongman talking it’s also manufacturing ground conditions
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Unfortunately, yes they did.
ICE raids are still his most popular policy.
It's late November, 2025, and 89% of GOP still approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
52% of white people approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
He said what he was going to do, and he's doing it.
ICE raids are still his most popular policy.
It's late November, 2025, and 89% of GOP still approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
52% of white people approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
He said what he was going to do, and he's doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Unfortunately, yes they did.
ICE raids are still his most popular policy.
It's late November, 2025, and 89% of GOP still approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
52% of white people approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
He said what he was going to do, and he's doing it.
ICE raids are still his most popular policy.
It's late November, 2025, and 89% of GOP still approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
52% of white people approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿♂️
He said what he was going to do, and he's doing it.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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I've had this bubbling angrily inside of me ever since the dissent in the SCOTUS praying football coach case included a picture that put the lie to the majority opinion, and it didn't matter at all.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I've had this bubbling angrily inside of me ever since the dissent in the SCOTUS praying football coach case included a picture that put the lie to the majority opinion, and it didn't matter at all.
100% this. My approach to governance is usually “like I could do any better”. Now I am fully at “Jesus Christ, could we just let a normal person not ACTIVELY fuck this up? Even I could outperform this by a MILE.”
The extent to which literally everyone in this administration is a fucking moron with no idea what they’re doing is, I would say, unprecedented. In Trump 1 you at least had a couple vain, amoral careerists. Now I think I would personally be able to do a better job than any given cabinet appointee
Brooke Rollins: "The farm economy -- we do have a package, a bridge package, we're finalizing ... it's just a bridge to get us to next year per the president's promise that he wasn't gonna leave any of our farmers behind."
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
100% this. My approach to governance is usually “like I could do any better”. Now I am fully at “Jesus Christ, could we just let a normal person not ACTIVELY fuck this up? Even I could outperform this by a MILE.”