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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Six of the tenured faculty that the president is firing are in history. (!) It’s arbitrary. None of the members of the committee that advised Bowie State’s president about “retrenchment” were elected by the faculty senate. That’s against USM policies. Here’s the resolution CUSF passed last May:

COUNCIL of UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM FACULTY
CUSF Resolution on Bowie State University Retrenchment and Shared Governance
Passed by the Council of University System Faculty (CUSF) on May 13, 2026
22 yea, 6 abstentions, 0 nay
Whereas, a year after a vote of no confidence in the Provost at Bowie State University, and a year after the Council of University System Faculty (CUSF) passed a resolution seeking to raise awareness of the concerns at Bowie State University, most are unresolved. An evaluation was commissioned as a result of the concerns that had been raised (the "Commodore Report" in July
2025). But nine months after the Commodore report on shared governance at BSU highlighted "a distressed working relationship exists between the faculty and Provost, with tense and at times hostile communications between parties and distrust and discord from the outset of the Provost's tenure," little has been done to address the problems. According to a survey of full-time faculty concluded on May 7, 2026, 61% of respondents* of BSU faculty reported that the President and Provost have not taken appropriate steps to restore faculty trust and confidence.
Whereas, the Commodore report repeatedly described the adverse effects of neglect of shared governance and provided recommendations intended to serve as a "foundation for strengthening shared governance practices at Bowie State University," these recommendations have not been effectively followed and to date, retrenchment is being initiated by the BSU administration without convening the relevant historical shared governance body, the Faculty Senate Committee on Budget and Retrenchment.
Whereas the Provost has repeatedly violated Appointment, Rank and Tenure policies and procedures and ignored faculty committees making decisions without justification;
Whereas 75% of BSU faculty respondents* reported "fear of retaliation when I consider sharing concerns with the BSU administration:"
Whereas the administrative dysfunction throughout the u…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In news that should surprise no one at all

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/09/2026

Like I hope Martins Navratilova and all the other TERFy cis lesbians who aligned themselves with the anti-trans movement are happy now

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/09/2026

Ok but in all seriousness I don’t feel like pitching this but if you’re an editor who actually wants a response to this that includes historical context, please get in touch. There’s so much here

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/09/2026

I have been looking for months and I might just suck at this, but does anyone know if there are digitized archives available of "She" magazine? Specifically the South Florida lesbian mag that published from 1999-2015?

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Portland soccer fans! Please join us on Sun., 20 Sept. at 2pm to talk soccer politics—from the FIFA greed machine to Portland soccer fans fighting for justice. We'll be at the lending library "Booked!"—in downtown #PDX right across the street from the soccer stadium. @107ist.org #RCTID #BAONPDX

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Join Booked! and local author Jules Boykoff for a discussion of his books Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine and Kicking, a memoir about his former life as a professional footballer and his current life as a critical academic of sport.

Together with Jules we'll discuss sportswashing, power, and corruption in the game we love, both internationally and right here in Portland. We'll also attempt to reconcile how we love this beautiful game in spite of these things.

Come to Legends on Sunday, September 20th at 2 p.m. Doors will open at 1:30 PM. This is an all-ages members-only event, and the beer garden will be open. Single-event memberships for the afternoon will be available for $5 at the door. There will be some light bites on hand, but we encourage you to bring snacks to enjoy or share!

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Disability grief effing sucks. The feeling of disappearing. being a shell of your former energetic, intellectually engaged self (which = masking, overworking) Some days I don’t know who I am anymore, beyond pain management, always 🤔: “can I do X today, tmrw, next month?” “What am I forgetting?!?”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Whether we want to admit it or not, every NFL game is a snuff film. It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous. This year, turn off the NFL. Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.

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CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching

A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I read stuff like this, and I think of @endofsportpod.bsky.social on college athletes + capitalism.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 03/09/2026

NEW: wrote about why it’s so problematic that many of the new women’s basketball documentaries are erasing Black women’s names, greatness, labor, & contributions from the history of the sport.

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the basketball documentaries erasing black women from the sport

this trend is a real problem

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This has actually become a complete recalibration of what even matters and is at stake for all our classrooms. No matter what the field, what we teach, somehow we must all be part of the great AI push and prostrate ourselves at the feed of our tech gods, or be treated like children

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I just don't understand this push--otoh, they claim "AI is just a tool, and students need this tool" but otoh, administrators and some faculty are insistent that all professors, irrespective of field or interest or method, MUST use this tool because they say so. its so ludicrous.

Deming identified “AI use policies” as a priority for the academic year in the Wednesday message, saying he hoped to roll out College-wide advisory guidelines on AI by the end of the year and proposing “AI acceptance or even encouragement” in writing- and project- heavy classes.

He added that the approach would help affiliates avoid “the AI-detection business because it damages trust between faculty and students.” The message also linked to a Substack article by Colorado State University professor Kyle Saunders arguing that students need AI skills to meet the demands of a modern workforce — an issue Deming has emphasized in previous remarks.

In interviews and written statements, most faculty in writing-intensive fields agreed that they wanted to avoid policing student AI use but remained divided on Deming’s broader proposal for “AI acceptance, or even encouragement.”

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 27/08/2026

I just interviewed Susan Cahn, one of the academics whose work has been foundational to my own, and she knew who I was and had read my book and thanked me for my work and I am kind of dumbstruck? I cite her book COMING ON STRONG all the time!! 😭😭😭

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...

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Dolly Parton Never Wavered

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 26/08/2026

I’m on All Things Considered today talking about right-wing extremism & the WNBA. I believe it airs again at 6:30 PM ET

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If any faculty members would be willing to chat about how they navigated the process of getting disability accommodations for their adhd at their institution, please lmk. I feel like my soul is shriveling with all the barriers at my school. There’s no mentors I’ve found who have done it.

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Will share more about this tomorrow!! TY Sean and Eleven Named People 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling @jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports. open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...

SCOTUS ANTI-TRANS BIGOTRY

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It was an honor to be in conversation with @reveleth.com and @johannamellis.bsky.social on this episode of @endofsportpod.bsky.social about transphobia in and beyond sports and the necessity for solidarity among so many linked struggles over gender, race, and disability. youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...

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The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

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Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves

Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Revealing and predictable that the very same people who were frothing at the mouth with determination to dehumanise and ban black and brown intersex sportswomen react with an indifferent shrug to the idea of athletes representing a mass-murdering invader country being allowed.

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After watching Ladybugs, Little Giants, Sandlot, & She’s the Man in the last week I’m finally getting around to watching Code of Misconduct. How apt after these & the 🤮 SCOTUS ruling affirming states’ rights to ban trans people from sport It’s always cover for sexual predators, I’ll keep 📣 it.

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How have I never watched She’s the Man before. Wow

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Divesting from imperial nationalism and patriotism is hard. And so necc. The govt is inflicting so many genocides. Idk yall, every day is sickening. Cheer for individual players who aren’t predators or bigots, if you must

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We have been collecting DVDs! Trying to reduce our reliance on streaming 🙏🏿 Funny how capitalism and bosses are the villains in many of the movies we’ve been (re)watching 😂

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This could be a great job: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@austinmccoy.bsky.social and I have been building our dvd collection. I’ve got quite a group of 1990s sports films I laughed a lot at Ladybugs as a kid, and goodness is it a rough film at times! In rewatching, the real villains are capitalism and the boss. & Chester’s constant sexual harassing

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Stay tuned, because there’s just as much coverage to come, including a livestream with Sean Jacobs this Sunday at 10am ET before Canada-South Africa. www.youtube.com/live/2ROynmO...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We kicked the whole thing off with an amazing conversation with @zeets.bsky.social about the politics of the World Cup. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxp...

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The Politics of the 2026 MAGA World Cup with Zito Madu

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Close friend of the pod @julesboykoff.bsky.social joined to discuss the pressing issues of the tournament. m.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_T...

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LIVESTREAM: MAGA World Cup Preview with Jules Boykoff

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We talked to @karimzidan.com about authoritarianism and the history of the World Cup. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrc1...

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FIFA's World Cup and Authoritarianism with Karim Zidan

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sina Rahmani joined for a cathartic session on Iran’s participation in the World Cup. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MagG...

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MAGA WORLD CUP LIVESTREAM: Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast)

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We talked to Adnan Husain about both the politics of Iran at the World Cup and the geopolitics of the MOU between the US and Iran. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOJa...

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US-Iran and the World Cup with Adnan Husain

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Chen Chen and @karachikhatmal.bsky.social came on for the World Cup conversation you didn’t know you needed: why aren’t China and South Asia at the tournament? m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlq...

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LIVESTREAM: MAGA World Cup with Ahmer Naqvi x Chen Chen

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thomas Ross Griffin joined us to re-examine the ‘sportswashing’ controversies of the Qatar World Cup in light of the current host’s myriad depravities. Turns out 2022 was a paradigmatic case of Orientalism. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZCU...

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Revisiting the 2022 Qatar World Cup

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today, we were joined by the brilliant @nihalist.bsky.social to discuss the profound significance of football to Egyptian culture and politics. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR2...

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How Football Explains Egypt

YouTube video by The End of Sport

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I’m really proud of the work we have done so far in our coverage of the World Cup. So proud that I’m going to indulge in a thread (in reverse order) sharing our episodes, since I can’t imagine most people have been able to keep up.

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I need community with other disabled ppl irl. Seeing ppl I respect for their anti-racist, feminist, pro-trans, etc work, then the looks, silence, etc I get when I bring up my needs & discrimination The labor to educate, “not ask for too much” etc worsens my conditions 😭 (Not every1, but most)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/06/2026

People really forget the way that the visibility fight Laverne Cox won was being able to portray a trans woman as a whole fucking human being instead of dead hooker number 5 in CSI Miami.

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Dr. Donna J. Drucker @histofsex.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Instead of that New York Times article, please have a look at my @mitpress.bsky.social book _Contraception_, which details the benefits of having access to technologies to control one's reproductive capacity and bodily autonomy. #contraception mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

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Contraception

The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this ...

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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Grateful to have been able to read and discuss this fascinating (and troubling) analysis, @profligategrace.bsky.social new book with @annaposbergh.bsky.social for @endofsportpod.bsky.social today!! Geez I just love learning from such a kind person like Amy Laura ❤️❤️❤️

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