Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The attack and defunding of WGS at Harvard betrays the long tradition of wgs at Harvard’ with profound implications for the future of feminist scholarship @jennifercnash.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 320770
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Rob Hoadley @robhoadley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Only two episodes in and I’m addicted to the everydivebarinnewbrunswick Instagram feed 082
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. 405539978
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026www.byteseu.com/1712752/ "Canadian universities work so well that they are increasingly being treated as utilities or commodities, w a focus on price w/o considering quality. This is most severe in Ontario, where the government has frozen tuition since 2019, w only modest funding increases."byteseu.comCanada’s universities are in crisis as money gets tighter - Bytes EuropeThe St. George campus of the University of Toronto, in November, 2025. U of T admitted 17,758 first-year students last year.Wa Lone/Reuters 15417
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 10/01/2026The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking 263767678
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/12/2025We could teach more of all the kinds of history if we weren’t systematically defunding the humanities and the public universities 347468
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2025conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work. 11258861160
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/11/2025pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...thecrimson.com88 Days: The Unraveling of Claudine Gay’s Harvard Presidency | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Jan. 2, ending her tenure as the University's 30th president after it was clear the Harvard Corporation lost confidence in Gay's ability to lead amid mountin... 221989405
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice. 1031558
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc David Faroz Precht @davidprecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Every ceasefire the IDF fire never ceases 112575
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/10/2025@ryanenos.bsky.social and Steve Levitsky have been consistent voices against authoritarianism. Their latest: "American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHarvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy. 05015
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...texastribune.orgHow a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&MOfficials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated. 362023696
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 23/09/2025The Canadian government has finally recognized Palestinian statehood. But this symbolic gesture comes far too little and far too late. As @desmondcole.bsky.social and El Jones discuss, Mark Carney and establishment media remain complicit in Israel’s genocide. breachmedia.ca/canada-shift...breachmedia.caCanada shifts its tone on Gaza but not its complicity ⋆ The BreachEl Jones and Desmond Cole discuss why Mark Carney’s support for a Palestinian state rings hollow 22412
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 12/09/2025"Resolved: Debate is stupid" by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018 "Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid". theoutline.com/post/6709/de... 824972
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Please, no more debates!Debates elevate the worst aspects of our politics. Let’s try something else. 492367435
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them. 10611139
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025To paraphrase @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, if we want to rebuild democracy and society we have to make this kind of shameless lying politically and socially unacceptable. 4810173
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/08/2025Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either. ht @danhon.com 742688
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Excellent by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in--irony aside--the organ of that elite panic. "Elite capture is a way for those with power to accommodate social progress through the performance of diversity while keeping their hold on political hegemony." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani 210033
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025Tenant unions are coming (VERY complimentary). 112527
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social: 5456373477
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Starting to feel like most humans aren’t equipped to deal with something that confidently lies and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess 562041435
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025About 84% of students attend colleges that are considered “non selective”. If these dudes really wanted to improve access they would push to make public universities free. These dudes don't want more students attending public colleges. They want universities to keep certain people out. 111029
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon. 122214575
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research 8759701600
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/06/2025This is what we teach in the advanced political philosophy classes. 310013
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc AAUP @aaup.org · 28/06/2025“Campus leaders need to understand that their capitulations and concessions only further empower the greatest threat to higher education since the Red Scare, if not earlier.” (The AAUP contends that this moment is far worse.) Act Now. Never Cave. #DefendHigherEd 04725
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Samuel de Brouwer @sdebrouw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share 012
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc phil @philjamesson.com · 22/06/2025when do the checks and balances kick in 723322
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6263661211258
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry 132028496
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him 3354411197
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc 𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Fantastic interview with @davidrarmitage.bsky.social ! youtu.be/MaJmw8RVrOUyoutu.beHarvard professor hits back at Trump administration | LBCYouTube video by LBC 031
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.” 13974450310042
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers: @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social 1227
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I try to be really careful about judging my colleagues too harshly in public. I know some of you laugh at that assertion. Heh. But what concerns me is the uptake of AI among education professionals signals, how much bureaucratic control the administration has usurped from the profession. 332147
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/04/2025Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position 11199711662
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait! @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social 0209
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE. Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!tufts.eduUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür... 337087
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025jesus christ they want her dead 23784702238
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror. 1269208005141
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like. 484199047361
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Rob Hoadley @robhoadley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Canadian government needs to provide guidance to Canadian citizens living in, visiting, or considering visiting the United States of America if this is how they are going to run things down there. 0113
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22/03/2025so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck? 352551512
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I've been screaming it for years: the right in Canada is headed down an American-style path on almost every issue because the right-wing media plays that tune, and the right-wing pretend media plays that tune. It's headed in one direction, and we have never had a clearer view of where that leads. 45090491593
Reposted by Abbie LeBlanc Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I think people are mistaken when they say the chuds are "mistakenly" destroying real research in an attempt to target Marxist cultural anthropologists or whatever. Republicans are trying to destroy **universities** because they sustain communities where Democratic voters live. 191089277
