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Racing Louisville FC @racingloufc.com · 25/04/2026

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RACING LOUISVILLE DUB 😤 #LOUvORL

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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I should say (as I do in the essay) that both Vladimir and Rooster have a lot going for them, and that accurately representing university life isn’t their main purpose. But at a time when higher ed is in the culture warrior crosshairs, it’d help if our pop culture were more plugged-in to reality.

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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Like a lot of other TV critics, I couldn’t help but notice that we got two shows set at colleges this month. As someone who spends a lot of time around teachers and students, I found these shows’ cliched approach to modern higher education frustrating, so I wrote about why for the AVC.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

They didn’t give the man a turkey leg and he never forgot.

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Peter Bukowski @peterbukowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Toyotathon Jordan Love plus Thanksgiving Jordan Love is like the powers combining for Captain Planet.

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Racing Louisville FC @racingloufc.com · 19/11/2025

She is simply 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙎𝙏!!! 😤 In just her 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 as a head coach, #RacingLou’s Bev Yanez has been named the 2025 NWSL Coach of the Year! This makes Bev the 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 American and 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 former NWSL player to win this award! 🥇

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Racing Louisville FC @racingloufc.com · 19/11/2025

GO ON GIRL 👏 Emma Sears has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

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Racing Louisville FC @racingloufc.com · 19/11/2025

The Queen of the midfield has 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 👸 Taylor Flint has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

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Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📚 BIG NEWS! "Introduction to Sociology" is here! Available now in print & e-book formats. Whether you prefer the feel of paper or the convenience of digital, dive into the fascinating world of society, culture, and human behavior. Get your copy today! #Sociology #NewRelease sociologycoach.com/books/

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh, and after all the millions of dollars spent on advertising, the harmful policies and all the demagoguery... Stop. Picking. On. Trans. Kids. The Rs lost to me four times in six years. That should've been a hint. But apparently it wasn't, so the voters made their thoughts crystal clear tonight.

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

History! Racing Louisville in the playoffs for the first time ever! LFG!

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Love the Milwaukee Public Market!

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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This, on teaching as opposed to research in higher ed, made me smile:

A highlighted quotation: "Like sex among the British, teaching has remained in the realm of the private, the unspoken and the amateur."

Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025

Poor and working class students of color ALSO face the bullshit racism from people like Andreessen who use their existence as a shield from a real discussion about social inequality in society and as a mechanism for distributing the psychological wages of whiteness that white solidarity depends on.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025

Of course Andreessen's position is racist as fuck but I wanted to directly address what he's avoiding discussing: the actual barriers poor and working class students face to accessing higher education -- including the white ones. Of course poor and working class students of color face the same ones+

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/05/2025

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It’s the same reason colleges have academic deans.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The central premise of Trumpism is that white guys are inherently the most capable and qualified people for any meaningful position. As a white guy who spends a lot of time with white guys, I can assure everyone that premise is fundamentally wrong

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello new followers! I'm the co-editor of The Teaching Sociology Playbook. It's a free e-book from Sage. You can read the first chapter, "Where Do Good Teaching Ideas Come From?" at tinyurl.com/39nryrwt #socsky @gkordsmeier.bsky.social

Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

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Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

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Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Curious about getting students involved in community-engaged research? Check out "Incorporating the Community Into Sociology Courses Through Community-Engaged Research" by Julia Waity and Jennifer Vanderminden in The Sociology Playbook at tinyurl.com/39nryrwt #socsky @gkordsmeier.bsky.social

Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

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/2 There is an ethos fashionable in America that if YOU think foreigners should be detained in camps and I think you are a shit for thinking so, that makes ME the intolerant person. It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.

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Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

In "Small Changes - Big Impact," Celeste Atkins provides numerous examples of how small changes chan create a truly inclusive learning environment in The Sociology Playbook. @gkordsmeier.bsky.social #socsky tinyurl.com/39nryrwt

Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

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Have a good teaching idea, but need some help on transforming it into practice? Check out "Where Do Good Teaching Ideas Come From?" in The Sociology Playbook by @gkordsmeier.bsky.social and @smedleyrath.bsky.social tinyurl.com/39nryrwt #socsky

Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

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In "Alignment and Assessment," May Takeuchi and Alexander Takeuchi guide readers on how to align your great teaching ideas with your assessments in The Sociology Playbook. @gkordsmeier.bsky.social #socsky tinyurl.com/39nryrwt

🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

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Bluey is a delight but sometimes makes children ... Too Playful

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.)
We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told!
Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.

But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world.
Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”
“But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on!
Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.

Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know.
I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so.

That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

You will get ready for it, but you will not BE ready for it.

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Explain your WIP badly: You know podcasts? The things one of my students called "radio for old people"? What if we had college students listen to them for class? Could we make that work?

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Stephanie Medley-Rath @smedleyrath.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Hello new followers! Check out the first chapter ("Where Do Good Teaching Ideas Come From?") in the free ebook from SAGE: The Sociology Playbook by @gkordsmeier.bsky.social and @smedleyrath.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/39nryrwt

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

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I'm extremely basic and I love ALL of my friends' family photos at a pumpkin patch. Hell yeah, pose that baby on top of that pumpkin.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The Haitian blood libel is activating my basest "love it or leave it" tendencies. Like if you want to live under an authoritarian ethnostate, there are plenty of options out there for you, but in THIS country we're trying to do a multiracial creedal republic.

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,111,899!

Black text on a gray background: Celebrating 10M users, #1,111,899

Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

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[P] Happy Bell Riots Weekend to all who celebrate

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

This is true: If elected as Vice President, Tim Walz will have the highest office ever held by a sitcom neighbor who gives advice in the third act

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Me turning on canoe slalom: What the heck is this sport? Me thirty seconds later: That dude really needs to work on his hairpin turns.

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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Project Community is a model of creating a transformative student experience through community-based learning. Find out how it works in “Sociology in Action: The Experiential Pedagogy of Project Community” by Rebecca D. Christensen in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sociology in Action: The Experiential Pedagogy of Project Community

Established by student activists in the 1960s, Project Community in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor, is one of the longest-running community-engaged learn...