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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Musk and the other tech CEOs who are bankrolling the right wing today began a crusade against DEI because it represented a modicum of control they didn’t have over their employees. And they are winning that control back by a campaign for seizing total power...over all of us."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now." me for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump

It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Imo this is the more informative framing of today's development - Israel is limiting access to potable water in Gaza

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

to the question “who will pay for the literature of the future," we might begin by asking who donated the $100 million anonymously in the name of "free speech" that likely helped fund this event

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

3.) What advice does the head of the Forum For Free Inquiry & Expressions have to offer to students who want to practice civil dissent the Chicago Way? “The big problem today is there's too much speech and not enough listening.”

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Parrhesia is the carrot. The same people who administer it revised the disciplinary code which is now the stick. 2.) Parrhesia is funded by & embedded within one of those Free Free Freedom Free Derp Freedom Free academic centers endowed by a pair of hedge fund managers.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry: 1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

7 years ago, I described the exact same situation that Coviello describes here, happening in my own dept, in an article that The Chronicle decided to call “My University Is Dying.” But as I tried to explain in that essay, it wasn’t just my university or dept — it was, and is, all of them.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

Picture of quote from W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America.

"When the Confederates returned to domination, the public schools, which had attained a degree of efficiency never before reached in the South, were greatly curtailed. One hundred and ten of the teachers, many of them native-born, were dismissed at once, and their places were filled with intolerate Confederates."

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Your organizing matters infinitely more to the future of higher ed than your research. Happy to talk with anyone about how.

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