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Ann

@braithwaiteann.bsky.social
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Professor of Diversity and Social Justice Studies, 3M National Teaching Fellow, leftie dog-loving vegan, mostly optimistic ranter, she / elle / they

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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
massive shout out to the many student newspapers doing amazing work these days... and holding universities accountable in ways that their admins and boards don't appear able to do
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i really wish Mark Carney has more values than dollars...
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the thing with courage is that it really is contagious... an important thing to remember when one is hesitating about speaking up... you won't be alone
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
critical hope and imagining different futures
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
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Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel
There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
sigh... yup...
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"nation building" based on extraction and exploitation gets it completely backwards
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
beyond appalling... universities losing the plot here
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/07/2026
Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/if-w...
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‘If we don’t save Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, he will die in prison’: released detainees say they saw Gaza doctor tortured in Israeli custody
Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may…
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
universities continuing to comply in advance is not a good look...and this is friggin appalling! i want us to have a much stronger voice - and backbone!
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Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 06/06/2026
“I saw it in their eyes, the moment they realized their stories had value.” In Sudan, women displaced by war are creating intimate DIY films about rebuilding lives, teaching children, starting small businesses, and, as Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak reports, refusing to disappear.
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Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths
Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
friggin hell
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NDP PEI @ndppei.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
post advertising a meet and greet event on Saturday, June 6, 2-4pm, at the Tyne Valley Cafe in Tyne Valley, PE. Poster is two orange on the top half, and brown on the bottom, with white writing describing the event. There is a logo for the cafe on the bottom left hand side, and an image of a tea kettle and cup on the right hand side.
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
ha...love it!
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congratulations to the Honourable Louise Arbour, who will serve as Canada’s 31st Governor General.
Prime Minister Carney walks down a hallway with the Governor General-designate, the Honourable Louise Arbour, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I keep thinking of Leonardo diCaprio's character's last line in Don't Look Up...
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Wow that's bad. It's almost as if Trump wrote it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
the schadenfreude is high tonight... I love being off socials all day and tuning in to this
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 11/03/2026
"[M]ore than 200 Congolese miners were buried alive." "[M]onths after the United States entered a 'peace for minerals' pact with Congo and Rwanda." "[P]owering the evolution of technology within the U.S." #DRC #USA #Rwanda #Technology #Mining #Courts
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Congo Miners Keep Dying for Minerals That Power U.S. Tech
The mine feeding smartphones, data centers, and EVs became a mass grave, as a Trump‑era minerals accord moves ahead with little oversight.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Tim Houston made hundreds of thousands in cuts to tourism and culture, but had $300,000 to gift to mining developers, citing that “mineral exploration brings $35 to $50 million per year to Nova Scotia communities” Meanwhile tourism revenue in NS in 2025 was $3.7 billion, growing ~8% per year.
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Premier Promotes Critical Minerals Opportunities to Developers, Investors
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?
Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
there's no such thing as a "non-controversial" topic in a university... all knowledges, in any field, are the result of ongoing controversy and debate and disagreement... that university boards and admin aren't able or willing to make that argument really is appalling
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
There is no coherent historical legacy that directly links Athens and Rome to Christian Europe and the United States while leaving out the Islamic world. This is such ahistorical nonsense.
Tweet from the US Department of State: "The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America.  

Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline."
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
reminding the IOF that neutrality is just advocacy for the status quo.. and the whole notion that sports isn't political has always been bogus... (cause if that were the case, then they and others wouldn't be all concerned with regulating gender as they always have...)
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
i am so late to saying anything about this.. but that halftime show was both the world i know and the world i want to live in -- one that is multicultural and multiracial, with many genders and sexualities, where i don't speak all the languages and that's just fine... 1/2
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan
If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The structures that were demolished had been used to store aid for the West Bank and Gaza
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
classic example of liking the food but not the people... ICE thugs wanting Mexican food
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
many Canadians have close connections to people in the U.S. - family, friends, work... I lived there for many years, love and miss many people there... but f the federal government and everything it is doing...
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
the thing with courage is that it really is contagious... and we seem to be seeing some of that today... and hope is being added to fear and outrage
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is a dangerous and irresponsible response. Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong. Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
a useful starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
true in Canada and elsewhere too
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
the whole thread
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
hey PEI folks... do you know there's an NDP PEI bluesky account? go and follow us! bsky.app/profile/ndpp...
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
the whole thread... we've had plenty of pandemics etc before that disrupted education 'as usual'... (to say nothing of kids who spend years in war zones and refugee camps). All of this is awful - but not everything about the current situation on PSE can be blamed on 'this is the Covid generation'
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
woot... congrats, Bren!!
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
what a friggin farce
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Ann @braithwaiteann.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Why is the Trump administration so eager to strip people of food? Why do they want people to go hungry apnews.com/article/snap...
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Trump administration seeks to block full SNAP payments for November
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown.
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