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Ashley Rattner

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
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Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality

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Truthout @truthout.org · 3h
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h
It’s a record for a midterm in Georgia: roughly 185,000 people voted in person today, on Day 1 of early voting. The prior record was set in 2022, with roughly 130,000 voters.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h
"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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What’s Wrong With Civility?
Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 13h
I'm just happy automatons are trending
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print
Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The mass exodus of faculty and higher ed staff in Texas is not limited to just the land grant universities. Morale is low as every two seconds people are being lectured to about the law and what it demands.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Woke up to 2382938 emails from every contractor who has ever fixed any part of my house gleefully checking in about potential hurricane damage
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is what happens when you eliminate your Women’s and Gender Studies program.
Mizzou’s beats Texas A&M 27-6.
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Lucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Newly created digital copy available at Boston Public Library here: www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo... BPL also welcomes the public to view this (or other editions, including the one pub’d by Henry Highland Garnet) in person at BPL Special Collections: www.bpl.org/special-coll...
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Walker's appeal : in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world : but in particular and very expressly to those of the United States of America
An online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Giant golden tooth from Greed (1924)
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Tim Lockette @timlockette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Tell It True” is a book about a teen who witnesses an execution. Drawn from my own experiences as a reporter covering the death penalty. May be useful for teachers and parents who want to talk to kids about the horror that is coming. www.amazon.com/Tell-True-Ti...?
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Tell It True
Amazon.com: Tell It True: 9781644210826: Lockette, Tim: Books
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"As a parent investing hard-earned money into tuition for your child, would you feel more or less confident if someone who knows nothing about curriculum design and has no training in a content area–say, engineering–begins to dictate what an intro engineering course must cover?"
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Hey Montgomery: Let faculty do their job: op-ed
Elected leaders in Montgomery certainly do not possess the required expertise, nor do most appointed university trustees.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Need more apocalyptic content that recommends recipes I should cook today in case I lose power tomorrow
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Gabe Bullard @gbullard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great essay by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and what a powerful closing paragraph.
artnews.com
How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I sincerely believe that if I do not mute the TV before the Liberty Mutual commercial says "...and Doug" I will die
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Life's Whirlpool
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views
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Eelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"As a parent investing hard-earned money into tuition for your child, would you feel more or less confident if someone who knows nothing about curriculum design and has no training in a content area–say, engineering–begins to dictate what an intro engineering course must cover?"
al.com
Hey Montgomery: Let faculty do their job: op-ed
Elected leaders in Montgomery certainly do not possess the required expertise, nor do most appointed university trustees.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
human interest writers watch even one episode of the twilight zone challenge
Opinion       sherry turkle 

AI claims it can resurrect
the dead. I tried it.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This skeet sponsored by the observation that kids these days only know Lamb Chop as a dog toy and not a television star
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have so many more famous puppets as a society 
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Down with the data-harvesting-edtech-private-equitization of education.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Me every day since April in Alabama 
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
but will there be “shampooing”
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To me this is male continence
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This time next year at an ecovillage in Oregon, I believe!
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nobody is doing it like the Communal Studies Association
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social won an award tonight for her brilliant article about Benjamin Lundy in Early American Lit, but the real award was when she talked our septuagenarian & v cool tour guide into giving us a sneaky tour of the tunnels underneath the Oneida commune. He also let us into his apt.
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Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literature people: you WANT to work with Rattner.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is tenure track!
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also Rhet Comp:
careers.jsu.edu
Assistant Professor of English, (Rhetoric & Composition Studies) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Composition Studies Position Description The Department of English at Jacksonville State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Engl...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also Professional Writing: careers.jsu.edu/jobs/assista...
careers.jsu.edu
Assistant Professor, English (Professional Writing) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, Professional Writing Position Description The Department of English at Jacksonville State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English with a s...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My department is hiring in 20th-century American Literature! Happy to answer questions.
careers.jsu.edu
Assistant Professor of English (20th Century American Literature) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, 20th Century American Literature Position Description We invite applications for an Assistant Professor of English in 20th-Century and Contemporary American Literature,...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hello from Syracuse, the Birmingham of New York
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I learned who Riley Green is yesterday and now I can't stop saying "I wish every state had a Birmingham"
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could fix Raskolnikov
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol right? Has NYT opinion ever published a higher ed essay from a community college prof? Even one?
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I learn so much from my students
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOT TAKE: If your industry is impacted by this, you should pay workers with college degrees more.
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Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I live in Birmingham
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice for Sister Carrie
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop making Sense and Sensibility adaptations. No one has adapted McTeague for the screen since 1924
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