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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"My family's always been in meat." "The Legacy of Leatherface" traces 50 years of the Sawyer clan and their BBQ-lovin' lifestyle. Ed @shanehw.bsky.social w/ @realtopekapeople.com @jacobbabb.bsky.social and other contributors. New from @mcfarland.bsky.social. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

The cover of the book "The Legacy of Leatherface: Essays on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series" featuring Leatherface himself with his dirty and degraded mask of human skin and wielding a big chainsaw.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/12/2025

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hey, look at this great book! I bet smart people worked on this one.

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Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Happy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day to all those who celebrate 🍖

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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Thank goodness we’re simultaneously experimenting on millions of students. This is a very good way to generate reliable data. A large language model would have a hard time detecting the sarcasm in that previous sentence, but I hope it’s clear to my human readers."

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Wrote a thing because I want to yell at writers and anyone who works sitting down to take care of themselves. Thanks for reading! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/basic-fitn...

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Basic fitness for writers

No, seriously!

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So excited about this book! I just heard @kashana.bsky.social describe student loans as a way to punish the working class for trying to better themselves. Which is, obviously, why we need to do heists to get rid of student debt!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/05/2025

History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."

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Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools

A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Republicans are stealing a North Carolina judicial race. They won't stop there.

It's January 6 without the insurrection.

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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Education is under attack. All who stand for the freedom and flourishing of the US postsecondary education system can sign on to a statement affirming and committing to core values that shape education. Read: bit.ly/DemocracyAnd... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #DisabilityStudies #DisabledInAcademia

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Schumer a few weeks down the road, probably: “Okay, so he defied the Supreme Court. Big deal.”

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Which is why they want to destroy it.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Good time to remember that an executive order is not a law and that multiple other EOs of this corrupt regime have already been blocked by the courts.

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“Because what we are witnessing is not just an attack on academia or a set of fiscal reforms or a painful political rebalancing. It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist. We may not yet know its full cost, but we will feel its consequences for decades.”

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

After I literally just said I wasn’t giving a dime to the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future, this text arrives. The nerve to ask for money after 10 Dem senators voted yes on cloture today.

Image of a text message where the No Surrender Fund asks for a donation to retake the House majority in 2026.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/03/2025

We want Democrats to play hardball and use their leverage to stop the Trump-Musk coup.

Blake Allen on Twitter: “Be prepared for an eruption in base anger that Democrats have not really experienced in a long time if they give Republicans the votes for cloture. They are not happy with the direction the party is going, and it will be seen as a surrender to Trump’s impounding of funds/DOGE”

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Eli Savit @esavit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Department of Education is (was?) responsible for: ✅Distributing & monitoring spending for special-ed & low-income students; ✅Facilitating postsecondary financial aid; & ✅Civil rights enforcement Impossible to see how dismantling it will do anything but hurt kids & students.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/03/2025

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“Unusual governing arrangement” is an interesting way to characterize illegal pillaging of the federal government and the American people.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Regime just cut off $400 million worth of federal funding for Columbia University in NYC because of the Gaza protests that took place there in 2023. This is an incredibly sinister attack on first amendment rights. MAGA despises universities as much as anything else. This is an egregious attack.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's good to see some institutions standing up.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/03/2025

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:

Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests.
Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm glad to see that the National Council of Teachers of English has signed onto a letter urging that Congress immediately reverse the DOE's cancellation of teacher preparation and development grants. ncte.org/blog/2025/03... #4C25 Read the letter here: aacte.org/.../02/Grant...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/03/2025

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/02/2025

One of my most reliable heuristics is that anyone who mentions IQ on the internet in anything but an ironic context is almost certainly a creep.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This has been my sense for the past couple of days as well, and I'm glad to see someone who literally wrote the book on this agrees with what I thought might just be my own tiny little hope.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Last night, my wife and I went to see MJ: The Musical. Spending a couple of hours with Michael Jackson’s music was a lot of fun. The dancing and the stagecraft were both especially impressive.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled

Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yes this is exactly the correct way to behave in bookstores

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/02/2025

Helpful explainer about why university endowments aren’t a substitute for indirect costs ⬇️☀️

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Composition Studies @compstudiesjrnl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Join us in welcoming our new FEN Blog co-editors, Emily Brier and Daniel Libertz!🎉 And with this new leadership comes a fresh #CFP! Any proposals about #composition, from #PublicRhetoric, #CollaborativeWriting, #Assessment, and more, are encouraged. Read more at bit.ly/3QleGcv. Please share widely❣️

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We at FEN Blog welcome submissions from any one with a stake in writing education and the scholarship of writing education –– students, contingent or tenure track faculty, high school educators, an…

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Free Caledonia @freecaledonia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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