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Amber Buck

@ambuck.bsky.social
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Writing Prof | Digital Rhetoric Scholar | Senior Editor, Computers & Composition Digital Press | Midwesterner living in the South My opinions here are just mine, not my employer’s

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE's De-Chartering of CCCC
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
TIL the Treasurer for the state of Alabama is named Young Boozer, and he's 77 years old.
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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Has your new semester been filled with stress about a punitive new post-tenure review program we never asked for and don't need? Come join colleagues who are concerned like you are. Together, we can make sure UA remains a university for everyone. #aaup #protecthighered #tenure #academicfreedom
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thanks to our members for this clear articulation of what's happening with post-tenure review here at UA and why PTR undermines the integrity of academic work and our students' educations. Read the column at: www.al.com/education/2026/08/a-university-for-alabama-a-university-for-everyone-op-ed.html
al.com
A university for Alabama, a university for everyone: op-ed
A university for Alabama, means putting community and public interest ahead of the interests of any political agenda.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.
Map of the world, with the 75 countries impacted highlighted in yellow. They include countries in South America like Brazil and Venezuela, about half of all African countries, and most Middle Eastern countries.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time."
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Crisis in College Composition and Communication (opinion)
The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. 

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This man is going to let ChatGPT run the whole state of Alabama.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mya Poe and Dylan Dryer on the problem of AI-written literature reviews: "Gen-AI literature reviews reamplify a few already significant sources, with devastating effects for early and mid-career researchers who need to be cited to advance their careers." www.chronicle.com/article/ai-i...
chronicle.com
AI Is Ruining Scholarship
When we outsource literature review to algorithms, we lose entire sectors of knowledge.
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...
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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
22 years vegan today! It feels good.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Write a horror story for academics in two words: It’s August.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is a great reading list in this article!
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jesus fucking Christ. The hits keep coming for compositionists.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sadly true.
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marie @mariej55.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@votesaveamerica.crooked.com is hosting a book club featuring @benwikler.bsky.social new book This is the Plan. This is the most amazing book I have read. Ben is joining us for the last book session. Come join us for a great book and discussions www.mobilize.us/vsa/event/98...
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Vote Save America Summer Book Club: "This Is The Plan" by Ben Wikler · Vote Save America PAC
The VSA book club is back! Come read and discuss **“This is the Plan”** by former Wisconsin state party chair **Ben Wikler**. We’ve got a lot of elections to win this year, and there is no better orga...
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...
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NCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive Committee
The following is a message from the NCTE Executive Committee.
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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Email and request refunds: customer-service@ncte.org #NCTE I can’t this weekend. But I’ll develop my email and do it first thing and then I’ll share folks who allow me to share their refund requests and we’ll divest.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
About NCTE's vote today to dissolve CCCCs: This is absolutely DOGE-style politics. I am infuriated for everyone who poured their hard work & energy into this org & worked to make it better. What disrespectful, cowardly action.
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."
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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23
Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've sent some letters! Here's some info so you can too.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The CCCCs organization is the center of our discipline. Absolutely horrible decision by NCTE with no consideration or care for the community or anyone who has put their work into the organization, an org that is needed more than ever.
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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Many thanks to @williesha.bsky.social for covering this important issue. Public comment on the proposed changes to federal grants rules are due TONIGHT! Please submit comments if you haven't done so yet. www.al.com/news/2026/07...
al.com
Alabama university professors, researchers oppose proposed federal grant overhaul
The Office of Management and Budget proposal calls for senior appointees to evaluate funding proposals and banning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The proposed OMB rules changes will radically alter the future of research and federal funding. Make your voice heard through a public comment before Monday, July 13! Submit comments at: regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001 or join the UA AAUP Comment-a-Thon via Zoom Thursday 2:30-5.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For anyone teaching courses in digital studies, digital rhetoric, the internet, what have you....check out this (open access!) glossary of 28 keyword to think through the internet vis-a-vis imagination. I contributed "Rhetoric." 🤩 #AcademicSky #TeamRhetoric networkcultures.org/wp-content/u...
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Alabama Democrats @aldemocrats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Public Service Commission seats that were stolen from you by the Legislature are filled. It’s more control of our state by a certain utility company and the legislators on both sides that voted for it. Remember, If they can’t beat you in an election, they’ll just take the election from you…
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Computers and Composition Digital Press @ccdigitalpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Check out this article in the latest issue of Computers and Composition: An International Journal from our Senior Editor Tim Lockridge, on the future of digital publishing in the field. Our most recent title, Visualizing Captions and Subtitles by Janine Butler, enacts the model Tim describes here.
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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In a few minutes, Auburn's Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal to dissolve our Faculty Senate and revamp our Core Curriculum. Faculty weren't given any notice and have had zero input on these changes.
chronicle.com
Auburn U. Is Upending Faculty Governance and Curriculum Even Though It’s Not Required
Despite an exemption in state law, Auburn University’s board will consider proposals Friday to eliminate the central faculty-governance body and grant trustees authority over course decisions.
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tengrrl @tengrrl.com · 27/05/2026
Be sure to check out Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, from the WAC Clearinghouse. I had the privilege of writing the Afterword! wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
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Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication - The WAC Clearinghouse
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Also someone tell the AFT and their ill-considered AI partnerships.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/05/2026
“They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social in Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 17/05/2026
Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: “The recent Supreme Court rulings demand our presence,” Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. told over 5,000 people in Montgomery on Saturday. “It was not only a legal decision, it is a moral disgrace and a shameless assault on Black political power.”
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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector
Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.
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Vote Save America @votesaveamerica.crooked.com · 14/05/2026
If you’re in Arizona (or know someone who is), sign the petition to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot protecting mail voting, early voting, common-sense voter ID, and Election Day access. Our friends need around 384K signatures by July 2 to qualify for the 2026 ballot.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is so fucked up. People already have absentee ballots and the primary election is next Tuesday.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Pay attention to what is happening in Alabama and throughout the south.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/05/2026
Conservative “civic centers” are being embedded in public universities to normalize a right-wing version of U.S. history & political thought in order to produce the kinds of knowledge that some politicians & ideologues would prefer. “This civics curriculum is really just propaganda.” #AcademicSky
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Florida uses public universities to build conservative civics pipeline ahead of ‘America 250’
Several civics centers opened in Florida as part of the Department of Education’s America 250 Civics Education Coalition to “renew patriotism”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”
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Alabama Democrats @aldemocrats.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We are proud of the Alabamians that showed up to let the ALGOP know that Alabama Democrats will not stand by quietly as they attempt to take us back a century, and that We Dare Defend Our Rights!
Alabama Democratic Party chairman Randy Kelley and Weiss share minority fairs Joe Reed speak to protesters outside the Alabama LegislatureProtesters at the Alabama states houseProtesters at the Alabama state houseProtesters at the state house
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Protesters are singing civil rights songs in the Tennessee Senate State and Local Government Committee.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Alabama officials are done pretending. 11 hours. That’s all it took from when SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act until Alabama officials began doing what should have been expected.
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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
theatlantic.com
For a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy
A requiem for the Voting Rights Act
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Zephyr Scalzetti @zephsays.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Alabama is wasting no time trying to get back into the gerrymandering business.
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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Talking with friend and redistricting expert @zephsays.bsky.social about what this Supreme Court decision means and how to articulate to people why it's important. My colleagues at @al.com are covering breaking news on it. Gov. Ivey now wants to bring back the lege. www.al.com/news/2026/05...
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey reverses course, calls special session in wake of Supreme Court ruling
Previously, Ivey said she would wait for the Supreme Court to settle the state’s pending legal arguments.
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