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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know @lilymasonphd.bsky.social (who I just followed), but this is the most THANK [DEITY/ICON OF YOUR CHOICE] SOMEBODY SAID THIS BECAUSE IT CLICKS ALL THE THINGS piece I've read in years. If you need pull quotes to convince you to read it, @bakerdphd.bsky.social has already done that too.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That, and the arrogance to believe that he's the decider about who "deserves" to live anywhere. VP Vance, you don't own the country, you dipshit. It's not yours to grant access to or withhold it.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have timed out for a bit while we talk about the consequences of Donnie Johnson Sackey's resignation. We need to decide whether this changes our need to be on the ground in MKE, and that's going to take a little while.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The dude never ever stops talking about himself, so this is kind of another own goal.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The word of the day is "parasitic." Used in a sentence: Rahm Emanuel and the DC political pundit class have a parasitic relationship. They get easy access to an "insider," and he gets elevated into relevance he has only because he's bullied people into believing he's relevant. Time to go, Rahm.

paulwaldman.substack.com

Stop Trying to Make Rahm Emanuel Happen

Elite political reporters are eager to boost his presidential bid. But there has seldom been a candidate more poorly suited to a historical moment.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We heard him say 4-6 weeks because he said it on camera about a dozen times. Given his mental degradation, I could almost believe he has no idea he said it, but that doesn't mean he didn't.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October 1! Don't forget to pay the rent. Change your contacts. Give the doc/cat their flea treatment. Pay the mortgage. Change your passwords. Smash the patriarchy. Usual stuff.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yesterday was a banner day for PA public higher ed. An overwhelming majority of institutions sent students, workers, or both to stand together for funding that lets our systems do what we're here for instead of just hoping to survive. I'll live with my name being misspelled. :)

fox43.com

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning's Letters from an American explains why Dr Roger Marshall opposes single-payer healthcare so fiercely. He charges 18% interest on unpaid bills and sues impoverished patients for it. Just like Hippocrates intended.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

September 28, 2026

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today! Buses are leaving! If you can't be there, make noise with us between 12-1 anyway wherever you are.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really don't like the Miami MLS team. A bunch of faded superstars used to getting their way about everything and they just.can't.hack.it when it doesn't happen now. That couldn't have been a clearer foul, and it took the ref longer to card Casemiro for being a disphit than for the VAR review.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Am I glad the Phillies made the playoffs? Sure. Am I glad they're not celebrating right now as if they'd done something spectacular? Yes. Saw earlier that they were last or second to last in every major offensive category this month. How do professional hitters even do that???? But yay, onwards.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Social scientists (and lots of other people) tell controversial truths at great professional cost every day. I don't want a million dollars. I just want people like Ackman and his cronies to STFU.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WOW! OLD MAN WALKS DOWN HALLWAY! Why the everliving hell did somebody think this was worth paying for? And that's before we talk about the stolen tax money to pay for it. Of course I care about that, but I'm more gobsmacked by the decision to make and run it. WHY????????

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reposted with alt-text. Also, "corporate loyalty" is an oxymoron at best. Corporations don't have feelings. What you want is fealty to owners, and you can bleep that bleeping bullbleep.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spurs Women > Spurs Men, but this morning they're a little bit off. Still 0-0 v Villa, but they're not especially sharp.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mastriano makes up dissertation, gets nailed, sues everyone who ever read it for conspiracysomethingblahblahblah and keeps losing because the lawsuit is loonytoons. I feel bad for the grad student who seems to be the last person standing as a defendant for exposing the fraud.

cbc.ca

UNB dropped from lawsuit by U.S. politician over release of his widely criticized PhD thesis | CBC News

The University of New Brunswick has been removed from a lawsuit in the United States by a Republican politician who alleged the school leaked his doctoral thesis and was part of a scheme to discredit ...

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did the @philadelphiaunion.com get away with one? Yes. Was the foul on Iloski a PK? Also yes. I'm not above a lucky break now and again. #DOOP

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Secretary of If I Never Heard His Name Again That Would Still Be Too Soon. Another narcissistic bully whose sole qualification is telling people how smart he is.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICYMI, every single thing that fascist bigot does is fascist and bigoty. He wouldn't recognize "operating in good faith" if it punched him in his fascist bigoty face. Not that I'm advocating violence, Big Brother.

politico.com

Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress

Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What service is the "public service announcement" performing besides stroking the ego of a narcissistic bigoted whiner who can't understand why he's widely reviled by everyone but his biggest fans?

alternet.org

Washington warned us about men like this —and even Republicans are appalled

Turn on Fox “News” at night this week and you’ll see something no American has ever seen before but Russians would immediately recognize.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For Writing Studies/Rhet/Comp friends. I put this on FB yesterday and hope it will circulate. It's an FYI about a forthcoming CFP for alt/counter-programming during CCCC 2027. I'm part of a planning group of about 50 people working on it. Hoping to have the CFP out this coming week.

facebook.com

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're in PA and give AF about public higher ed in any way, you should be there!

apscuf.org

Sept. 28 rally — Affordable College Now! | APSCUF

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Full day of union thuggery: training new dept reps, making signs for Monday's Affordable College Now Rally, Mobilization Committee meeting. Then a full day of rallying on Monday. It's @apscuf.org time!

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear WH: Blithering 22 hours a day on social media ≠ transparency.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My blended (synch/asynch) composition courses are in an asynch segment, and 1x/wk I'm doing "optional in-class work days" for people who like the routine. In yesterday's class, 11 people showed up! I was shocked. Curious to see how it goes today.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying to get my stomach ready to go spend 75 minutes talking about anti-union rhetoric. We need to talk about it in the class, but it's really hard to do without just seething.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's OK to murder brown people for oil, but it's not OK to refer to teenagers by their preferred pronouns. Just think about how messed up that is. And that's before we talk about Gaetz's obsession with children's bodies.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ever since a crowd member yelled "Let 'em die!" during a GOP presidential debate in 2011 and nobody responded, it's been clear that the GOP is a fully eugenicist party. All their fake Social Darwinist BS is rationalization for wanting "weak" people to get cleaned out of the gene pool.

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

JD Vance doesn't want you to have healthcare - Lawyers, Guns & Money

While the Trump administration has decriminalized historic levels of political corruption — much of it their own — it does still use fraud as a pretext for some matters. Most notably, trying to strip ...

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jeebus wept, does this guy ever stop???????????? [Of course he won't.] Once again, I'm struggling to understand how any of fans find this whinging nonsense "tough" or "strong" or "leadership" or anything but the howling rage of a 3-year old not getting his way.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I didn't wake up with this in my head, but now that it's here, it'll stay for a while. One of my very favorite songs of all time.

youtube.com

Anxious - The Housemartins

YouTube video by NewWaveAlternative

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks, @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social, for this analysis. I'd love to know more about how you see perverse incentives of the current system contributing to problems like shortages of PC docs.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

Medicare for All: Separating the slogan from the substance

People are fed up with the U.S.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A day of IRB apps and a diss proposal meeting; Affordable College rally planning; CCCC counter/alt program planning (more on that soon!); then bell hooks and Ira Shor in the Critical Pedagogy course. One of those things is not like the others!

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way this post talks about teaching is *appalling*. I don't like the rest of it much either, but if people think so little of teaching that its materials are "collateral" and it's something to be "freed" from, they really shouldn't work at places where we do it.

academeblog.org

You Already Work at Two Universities

BY D.J. HOPKINS AND ZACH JUSTUS It’s time for your department to produce its annual assessment report. You and your colleagues have agreed on the learning outcomes to measure, and you have the data…

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jeebus wept, he's at it again. "We can't do anything (I don't want), and the best way to ensure that is to make sure one dipshit is the deciding vote who can ruin everything."

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | A true independent could shake Congress from its slumber

Americans should consider voting independent in November. Here’s why.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm giving 2 weeks of class in the Labor Rhetoric seminar to anti-union stuff. The 1st day is about theories of propaganda and demagoguery. Gee, am I tipping my hand about what I think of anti-union rhetoric or what?

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#sportsball OK, I admit it, I'm a bad fan. Turned off the Union game last night after they gave up a 3rd goal in the first 15 minutes in favor of reading my book. Woke up this morning to see that they scored 4 in the second half. Mea culpa! Watching the rest now.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"I'm anti-anti-racism and no, I have no idea why anyone thinks I'm racist."

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Somebody in another setting asked why the authors aren't named, I don't blame them for a second. I wouldn't trust NCTE not to sue me. And I wouldn't ask anyone to volunteer themselves to get shat on, again, by the org that did this in the first place.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you work anywhere in PA public higher ed (PASSHE, state-related, community college) in any position, come join the rally on Monday, September 28. Upwards of 20 orgs/unions are rallying together to tell the legislature and governor that we stand together on this.

apscuf.org

Sept. 28 rally — Affordable College Now! | APSCUF

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Um, hi, Southerner here, and FYI, this bleeping bigot doesn't speak for me or many millions of us. I moved north of the Mason-Dixon Line in 1998 and have spent many hours pushing on back on stereotypes about "dumb Southerners." This mofo is just reinforcing them. Thanks for nothing, bigot.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

These vultures have been selling us utopia for years They were full of it the whole time. If they want to slow down AI development, just... do that. If they're such geniuses and visionaries, they should be able to handle it. But no, this makes them sound heroic for covering up their BS.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

September 13, 2026

On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's people we disagree with, and then there's sleazy criminals with no actual job in the govt except being Trump's son In law and stealing other people's money.

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