iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

18619

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

And not to mention that we have a media that has done everything in its power to undermine public trust in higher ed over the last couple of years. Even our industry newsletters hate us. bsky.app/profile/hule...

1646

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

How quickly we've forgotten how many of these university leaders sent the police to beat up peaceful student, faculty, and staff protestors! Start there if you want to talk about "trust."

111312

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?

213122

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

6427109

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

University leaders seem to forget that "the public" includes students, faculty, and staff who study and work at the institutions they lead. The "public" is not some external, amorphous thing to the university. If you can't treat the people on your campus with decency, then yeah, they won't trust you

114626

Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 18h

This, all of this, and always and forever this

010

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

They wouldn't be building plantations if they weren't counting on having slaves to work them.

235872

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

You can't build a massive, multi-billion-dollar network of private detention camps and state-contracted prisons without a projected market that justifies the investment. Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.

340881

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison

15918293

Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My friend teaches middle school in New York and is a generally good dude who needs help with some vet bills for his cat. If folks can share and/or pitch in, that would be awesome! gofund.me/f92b9f414

gofund.me

Donate to Urgent Vet Care for My Cat, organized by Timothy O’Brien

My cat needs immediate veterinary care, and I’m asking for help because I can’t afford the … Timothy O’Brien needs your support for Urgent Vet Care for My Cat

000

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

423239

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so tired of this take. ask some conservatives if they want to make adjunct salaries and see how eager they are. gosh, i wonder why lots of left-leaning folks choose professions like teaching, counseling, and care work? must be indoctrination! no, we just give a shit about others and our world.

28715

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They always say the problem is “training” so they can ask for more money to do what they’re already doing

07722

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

for too long, Republicans have been able to do everything—up to trying to overthrow the government!—and still get invited to the parties they want to get invited to. nothing changes for them and all I'm saying is that it should. you shouldn't keep getting invited to the party.

116725

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck

9560105

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a threat to free and fair elections. Cartoonish levels of supervillainy here.

03312

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah, i never asked for an endorsement. was not something i was seeking nor was it something i was excited about. it’s true i do have litmus tests. one of those is police accountability with teeth

717823

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it

1118765

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

newrepublic.com

MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

373185781

Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Portland must demand that Lars Larson eat his own shit

031

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

348160734128

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

435233709

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights

493558358

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my husband just looked up from his phone and said, the daily mail is mad about some portland city councilor who tweeted about hating cops. and i said, that rocks, how can i support him? luckily mitch’s haters put up a billboard with a link where you can do just that!

18824114

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

17842811279

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

159167354691

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most loathesome and greedy people in Portland *hate* Mitch Green and are spending big money to try to take him out. That should tell you a lot about what the stakes are even before you hear about the good stuff he’s fought for.

28320

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

693225255

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.

333177252

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

430103771920

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

thread

211738

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Genderless Robotic Rodent 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That Mitch Green billboard is gonna play real well for Clackamas county folks.

4312

Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's right and good to mistrust the armed enforcers of state violence. Mitch Green has nothing to apologize for.

0220

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 17/09/2026

I know cops don't actually read or know the law so let me help you out: Bob Day is in violation of Portland City Policy # HRAR-4.06 (www.portland.gov/policies/hum...) I'd say it's a disappointment or a disgrace but the bar is so low you couldn't avoid violating some law if you stayed silent

portland.gov

HRAR-4.06 - Political Activity

083

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

💀

371969

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

amb @amb.fyi · 16/09/2026

summer 2020 the cops beat up my 64 year old dad walking away from a protest wearing a "friends of trees" hoodie. all this to say i personally have trouble getting worked up over questions of appropriate social media decorum from private citizens contemporaneously responding to cop brutality

10963135

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 12/09/2026

i guess here's my deal nobody on earth who cares about trans rights and justice needs to or would be arguing about whether James Talarico supports trans people, unless James Talarico made it a question and dude made it a question and he sure the fuck didn't have to

49516

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And what did the US military do with all those patriotic, newly joined up recruits?

The meme from untitled goose game has the goose asking "What did the US military do next?"

330148

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Overwhelmed? We organized our IC resources into handy dandy curricula on criminalization, abolition journalism, transformative justice, and labor & abolition, complete with assignments for each semester, just in time for back to school season! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

interruptingcriminalization.com

Interrupting Criminalization Curriculum — Interrupting Criminalization

As we mobilize to stop ongoing genocides in Gaza, the West Bank, the Sudan and beyond, as well as corporate and state-sponsored violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and navigate increasingly ...

11914

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

16953021518

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remember, the smol bean CEO of Flock was out here last week talking about how we need to turn the temperature down and how everybody's got Flock all wrong, and that that's actually rain on your head... Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters www.404media.co/flock-taught...

404media.co

Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters

A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.

5218104

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

8157211152

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this story is a wild ride

920145

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026

Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.

592603829

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don’t vote for candidates who platform and use their position to legitimize this fraudster and thief who steals from poor people.

White man and woman. Sharon for Chair is in old town Chinatown, Portland, OR “Sharon toured Old Town with Kevin Dahlgren today talking with folks on the group about”
“Especially when it comes to ending the homeless”

44911

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Again, I am just a man standing in front of the Democratic Party, begging them to make a bigger deal of this deeply unlikeable racist billionaire asshole who is constantly pushing things everyone loathes.

1203020785

Reposted by Matt Chorpenning, MSW

Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works · 04/09/2026

• This includes deregulating the Oregon Health Authority in favor of promoting “business friendly” policies for corporations that don’t want to spend the money to properly regulate their own food manufacturing processes to ensure Oregonians can safely consume their food.

0102