Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckEddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 4hInsane. These jobs typically have a hundred or more applicants for every open role. 726351
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16hSomething unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 20039961807
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12hUS households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study findstheguardian.comUS households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study findsFor-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says 411372
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21hI don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.idahopress.comThreats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiryA private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio... 11481126
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 18hNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:science.org‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences researchAgency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year 6553435
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 13h“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images. 6766208
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17hinteresting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 18965661029
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 15hthe tech industry is about to invent books 525191473780
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18hOne thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6252801148
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckTahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 17hMy latest work dropped this week @newrepublic.com. It's an invitation for us to start thinking and talking more consistently about this emerging community safety ecosystem. If you'll indulge me, let me say a bit more about what I mean. 1137
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE 1343537283
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckCiara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 20hlook up how he made his money. 👀💰 5287
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckFlatwater Free Press @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · 21hWe spent a year investigating Omaha’s lead clean-up with @propublica.org. Now we want to walk you through what we found, exactly where it originated. Join us for free walking tours at the RiverFront on October 18. Learn more 🔗 flatwaterfreepress.org/events/burie... 25320
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026chat is this good 6753661215
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists. 60173121800
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026The analysis focused on the One Big Beautiful Bill that slashed funding for clean energy tax credits, environmental rollbacks, the loosening of fuel economy standards and federal actions to stop wind, solar and hydrogen projects. buff.ly/7tKf5r4buff.lyMississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank SaysHouseholds in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday. 12418
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...militarytimes.comHegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academiesMilitary academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.” 22572261
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... 9525341150
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/10/2026Basically, you know society has gone to sh*t when we've fully disinvested from skills that are primarily useful for making life more meaningful, comfortable, or enjoyable--like haircutting, interior decorating, and fashion design. 2433
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability 512309838
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/... 961988569
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckUniversity of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Out now! 'Horror and Disability' by @drdarrengray.bsky.social is the first study of disability in modern horror film and television, demonstrating how the genre turns bodies, vulnerability and difference into sites of fear and resistance. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-... @xaldanareyes.bsky.social 0137
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckElizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Once again elite university prof has opinions. Last paragraph that quickly brushes aside issues of workload, deans, requirements, etc, tells you everything you need to know about the disconnect between his world and the world where most of us labor in #highered www.chronicle.com/article/the-...chronicle.comOpinion | The Humanities Need to Do More to Reach Non-MajorsWhat we can learn from the “service departments.” 56412
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6162622411
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us. 26160242233
Dr. Colleen Kadleck @ckadleck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not sure if it was the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz or the Orca from…Orca. I remember swimming lessons where I was convinced there was a whale in the pool, waiting for us (in the suburbs of Cleveland, a place just filled with whales of all kinds…) 000
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Billionaires ain’t broke, but they’re broken. 161050186
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMI-Forest @mi-forest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Knit yourself a Blue Wave hat!! #knitting #crochet #bluewave www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...ravelry.comBlue Wave Secret Message Hat pattern by Lake and Prairie KnitsBlue Wave Hat with Optional Secret Messages 15482108
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)feministing.com Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schoolsAccording to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva... 10901287
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders. propublica.orgHow Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School ClassroomsJust three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch... 24448222
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from University at Albany professor Shawn Bushway." "the decline is driven mainly by generational change."phys.orgNew research shows steep and continuing decline in prison population in the USThe U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from Universi... 13305100
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckNBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/10/2026NBC News gathered nine volunteers to check the same StubHub ticket at the same time for Harry Styles’ Oct. 30 concert. They saw eight different prices. nbcnews.toFor the same ticket on StubHub, different prices for different peopleNBC News volunteers saw eight different prices for the exact same Harry Styles ticket on StubHub. The company said it’s running random price experiments. 712254
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 36853101825
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 04/10/2026"He reviewed what he knew about the Haitians in Springfield, which had mostly come from his mother, via a friend of hers who lived there, and had little good to say; Jack had seen a video she’d circulated purporting to show Haitians eating cats and dogs." 29521
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013146641
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... 9489305
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.propublica.orgThis White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans VoteA new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr... 34900511
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 181551425
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 377120833486
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...404media.coFederal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and UnconstitutionalFlock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. 141521489
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026also, doing that work is fucking hard. My body is irreparably damaged. I suffer from mild to severe chronic pain problems because of it. There are few safety nets for manual labourers, and if we want more of them how do we change the environment for workers so many deem as less than? 343459
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list. 1042664736
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered. 371010246
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026Soon you could buy a gun online and have it shipped to your door without ever setting foot in a gun store—if a Trump administration proposal is finalized. Donald Trump Jr. is a shareholder and board member of a company that says it’s “uniquely positioned” to capitalize on the opportunity. 23234151
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckNebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 02/10/2026To celebrate Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, we'll be featuring a dog for every day of the month! First up is Chaos, one of our longest-term residents! Don't be fooled by his name—this guy is the opposite of chaotic. He loves a nice leisurely stroll and snuggling up on the couch. 22913
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckC.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Monday: a $15b Iowa steel plant that has "already started building." No permits, no land purchase, no financing. Wednesday: a $50b Korean pipeline investment. Seoul says it only agreed to start talking. Two deals in one week that exist as announcements. The press event is the product. 2229094
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner 20327125
Reposted by Dr. Colleen Kadleckjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561391143
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Meta is lying to the IRS in order to claim billions in tax breaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal TaxesMeta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 815570
Reposted by Dr. Colleen KadleckMay-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will...wsj.comWill America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It.To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food. 3268