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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Bro they lobotomized your aunt

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hello republican, May I introduce you to Pieter van den Toorn? You guys will really hit it off…

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"I shouldn’t have to dredge up a passage from the Babylonian Talmud in order to prove that neurodivergent people are not moral defectives and that we deserve to have the support we need." Check out my piece on neurodivergence, MAHA, and moral stigma in @nursingclio.bsky.social:

nursingclio.org

Neurodivergence is Not a Moral Defect

Mere hours after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 13, the White House released an Executive Order entitled “Establishing the Preside…

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Please take a couple of minutes to read this piece. It's important. "We have ignored the perspectives, stories & voices of disabled people for so long that their actual needs, feelings and experiences are hardly acknowledged."

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I've Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3. Here's Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think

Editors Note: This is a boldly honest look at how people with paralysis have to deal with "overly kind" (well-meaning) offers of help. It's a uniquely

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

i got a musicology degree which i guess you could quibble about the usefulness of but people are going to be denied education in STEM, in medicine, in law, etc. bc of lack of funding. There's just not going to be a way if the bottom of the job market goes out again

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's hardly the worst part here, but the "Shalom" here, by an administration dominated by non-Jews, is getting to me. If Jews do not speak up against this, our tradition is going to be deeply harmed by allowing it to be exploited this way.

"SHALOM, MAHMOUD.

"ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of
@Columbia
University. This is the first arrest of many to come." –President Donald J. Trump"

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Posting this again, in case anyone thinks deportation has any place in any conversation about Jewish safety. It's an absolute disgrace to see universities cooperating with this kind of abomination.

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Or hear me out… STOP EQUATING AUTISM WITH GETTING MEASLES *nd rage activated*

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

So very this this morning. There may be a few more wrong notes than usual today… oopsies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🔥 Meirav Solomon KILLS IT, placing responsibility for antisemitism exactly where it belongs: "it is not student protesters, but the bloody legacy of Pittsburgh and Poway, Charlottesville and the Capitol riots... Trump has highlighted and platformed neo-Nazis and white supremacists."

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J Street U Vice President Meirav Solomon's Testimony in the Senate Judiciary Hearing on Antisemitism

YouTube video by J Street

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"But humanities PhDs aren't worth anything in industry..." WE TEACH EVERY SINGLE GEN ED CLASS IN LIBERAL ARTS. PAY US LIKE WE'RE THE FOUNDATION OF THE INSTITUTION, BECAUSE WE LITERALLY ARE.

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m saving this segment for the next time I teach Rite of Spring. What I want to know is the backstory of the researcher/writer who came up with that tangent.

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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

seeing lots of sad posts from scholars—mostly scientists, rn—whose talks have been canceled & that sucks, a lot, bc fascism sucks but also? come off perceived prestige find a local library, bar, elks club. do your talk. put it on zoom.

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Which also makes me wonder if we could see this as an example of @lnakamura.bsky.social’s conception of woke “AI”.

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fascinating to see “AI” methodologies being used in reporting as a way of sifting through mass data sets put out by Sen. Cruz a few weeks ago:

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Dear artists, comedians, and satirists: None of us can do the work we're doing without y'all helping to keep us sane. Please keep bringing the laughter amidst the pain. I am so grateful to you.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It is one thing to see the insane numbers of government jobs being cut. It's another thing to read the testimonies of civil servants who were axed. Check this out. And if you've been knifed in the back, add your story: trumpcostsamerica.com

trumpcostsamerica.com

Trump Costs America

Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m sorry but life is actually a group project please act accordingly

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Or read them against your will (I’m guessing)

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

How, pray tell, (asking for a friend) does one cultivate enjoying academic texts?

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

blocking everyone who calls the Kennedy center thing “a distraction.” If you can’t realize that this kind of thing impacts real people’s lives as much as anything else going on, like I don’t even know what to say.

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Good news! Turns out I’m an influencer and didn’t even know it 🎉

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I wonder if the tech divide is somehow supposed to mirror/contradict the supposed naturalism that they “belong to” to get well. Like the potential predatory/risk of the jungle vs the unassuming risk of tech… idk I’m still not over the sibling scene 🤯

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hear you on that skip intro button but the amount of memes that emerged about the intro music has to mean they thought about it in some way…

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Also I’m mad too, I hyped up the opening credits and the person I watched with thought I was coo coo for Cocoa Puffs (is this is in DSM-V?)

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I like that you think I don’t curse in the classroom. I attempt not to, but inevitably I refer to historical figures as “asshats.”

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Lmao this is the academia the world needs rn

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I’ve been listening to the Tiësto remix all day

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Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I’m so here for this 🧵. I may or may not try to work this into my class tomorrow 😇(with the proper attribution of course)

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