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Cathy Day

@daycathy.bsky.social
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The kind of Hoosier who leaves--but then I came back. Liberal Arts evangelist. Daylily enthusiast. Cool, wine aunt. Rescue-dog mom. Recovering workaholic.

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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Studying English has value beyond ROI, of course, but I want our majors to earn more than this. It's why I created a career class for English majors. I teach at a regional public; many of our majors are low-income, first-gen from small towns and rural areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t (Gift Article)
College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My dog Jackson is Prince of the Village at Ball State, and now mommy gets to wear the crown.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Am I the only person who, when they see that there's a 75% chance of rain, thinks that it's going to rain 75% of the day, not that there's a 75% chance that it could rain for 10 minutes of the entire day?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's been exactly 200 years.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
For years, I rewatched the HBO's JOHN ADAMS in the days before the 4th. But I just can't bear to do it anymore. I picture John and Abigail, looking down sadly at *waves hands* all this. Ever built something amazing and then had to watch it all fall apart? I have. Multiply that grief by a million.
Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams in period garb.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
No shit, Jack Smith.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/06/2026
As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2026
Peter Navarro on Maria Bartiromo's show lies with impunity that "it's an indisputable fact" that Fauci "created that virus" and "killed people"
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My first Ruby Spider daylily ever! And the first bloom this year on a Zelmira lily tree (which smells like jasmine perfume). These are HUGE lilies--see second pics for scale. #garden #daylily #lily I'm seriously becoming a lily freak.
Red daylily with yellow throat. Same daylily with hand for scale. Cream Lily with peachy pink hue and green throat. Same lily with my face and hand for scale.
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Helene Meyers @helenemeyers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A Father’s Day piece that is also part of the back story to my forthcoming ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS lilith.org/2026/06/me-m...
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Me, My Dad, and the Book Closet
Our epic arguments, I now understand, were a symptom of how much he worried about me.
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David Bloomberg #BB28 #Survivor #TheTraitors @davidbloomberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
But Indiana legislators can give a billion tax dollars (literally) to the Bears to move there…
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Trickle down economics."
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I was alive in 1976 and my memory of it is that we had like a whole year of flags and history and patriotism. Not really getting that vibe for 250.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Dream job, anyone?
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It will never make sense to me that universities give more credence to tech billionaires, many of whom very pointedly did not finish college, than they give to their own faculty.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Dog days.
Black and white dog laying on a deck with flowers in the background.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The kids are alright.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
When I read about shit like this, all I can think about is Jimmy's peanut farm.
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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The news about Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund has left me absolutely ENRAGED! So I made some art about it. Here are some ideas for other places where we could put that money to much better use. Click the link to read the whole comic! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/trumps-18-...
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
An important read for anyone in higher education or considering grad school. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
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How the Higher-Ed Workplace Fuels Addiction
Career pressures and culture fosters substance abuse that can stay hidden.
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Churchill @lost-in-surreality.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
YES!!! “My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...
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Opinion | The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My colleague @audiosand.bsky.social has long named Tennessee as the frontline of fascism, ahead of even Florida and Texas.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I mostly try not to think about what's happening in my homestate re: higher education, but it's pretty hard to ignore it since I teach in higher ed in my homestate. The fact that it's both my home and my job just makes it all the more heartbreaking to me. www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/p...
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Indiana’s ‘intellectual diversity’ mandate impacts higher-ed instruction
Recent changes in Indiana law have affected higher education throughout the state. This article was written by The Indiana Citizen and re-published by The Exponent as part of a joint project.
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The Cut @thecut.com · 12/05/2026
A University of Central Florida graduation speaker named Gloria Caulfield was booed by students after calling the AI boom ‘the next Industrial Revolution.’
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Maybe Don’t Praise AI in Your Commencement Speech
A University of Central Florida graduation speaker named Gloria Caulfield was booed by students after calling the AI boom ‘the next Industrial Revolution.’
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
University administrators take note!
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Roe V. Wade
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I read at the home of Hoosier author Meredith Nicholson today. It's the current home of Indiana's largest humanities nonprofit. That shelf of books by Indiana writers includes Dreiser, Tarkington, Gene Stratton Porter, etc. Today meant a lot to me.
Old brick two story house with black shutters and white trim. Sign in front says Indiana Humanities. Sign reads: Meredith Nicholson. Nicholson became politically active in progressive era issues and by 1911 he and his wife Eugenie advocated for women's suffrage and equality. In the 1920s he denounced Ku Klux Klan influence in Indiana politics. In the 1930s, he served as US minister to Paraguay, Venezuela and Nicaragua to further President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policyBookshelf with old books by Indiana authors and historical photographs.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell Sarah Fitzpatrick.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
C'mon, university library. Get your shit together.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
i just can't stress enough how getting your foot in the door at DOJ used to be a knife fight against the best knife fighters in the country and now they're begging people to join
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026
The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
You know what to do, Ohio friends.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The word for this is "coup."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"The Fox News contributor is the founder of a supplement business that develops 'clean, thoughtfully crafted tinctures'... "Her Instagram account is peppered with dubious wellness claims such as 'rosemary and sage decrease Alzheimer’s risk'...” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general
Trump lashes out at Cassidy while announcing his new nomination.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The math only adds up if you're trying to build a police state." Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, tells Rachel Maddow that the system of immigration prisons that Donald Trump wants to assemble is much bigger than the stated purpose of the prisons; unless Trump has some other use in mind.
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's the last day of teaching for this academic year and I feel like crying, but I don't know if it's bc I'm happy or sad or if I'm just fucking relieved or if it's bc my house and my yard are both disaster areas. All of it?
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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
From our EdTech overlords.
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