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TheProfCase

@kevcase.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, college writing prof (proudly unionized), father of the year for 13 of the last 16 years, 2x rescue dog dad (6 yo pittie and 7-month pom.) Still figuring out what I want to be when I grow up.

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Duke Faculty Union @dukefacultyunion.bsky.social · 8h
Cool event alert! Our very own Jim Haverkamp with be introducing the screening. And: FREE PIZZA. 🍕🍕🍕✊✊✊ RSVP: QRCO.DE/BH21LU
Flyer for "What Power Do We Have As Workers?" film screening and discussion on 10/22 from 12-1pm at Duke University. RSVP" QRCO.DE./BH21LU
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 12h
Christine Brennan Has Not Fully Lost It, According To Christine Brennan In Two Baffling Phone Calls - defector.com/christine-br...
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Christine Brennan Has Not Fully Lost It, According To Christine Brennan In Two Baffling Phone Calls | Defector
This past Friday, Christine Brennan asked to speak with an editor at Defector. The USA Today columnist’s request was somewhat expected, since Giri Nathan had written about her in an article published ...
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
These are indeed the right questions. We have empirical evidence that strongly suggests the immediate impact of AI is seriously harmful to learning, and since learning is cumulative, likely will have long-term harmful consequences. (That purple area is the direct measure of harm)
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Duke Faculty Union @dukefacultyunion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Another recommended read: Reclaiming a Vision of Humane Schooling by @aliciastoller.bsky.social via @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
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Reclaiming a Vision of Humane Schooling
Guest essay by Alicia Stoller, educator and writer of Notes on Hope
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Finishing: Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (I wanted to try these series and chose math because it gave me fits as a student — surprised myself at how much I understood/remembered) #booksky Starting: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2858-a...
haymarketbooks.org
Against Tech Oligarchy
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
recommend read
open.substack.com
American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Recommended read: Reclaiming a Vision of Humane Schooling
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
Reclaiming a Vision of Humane Schooling
Guest essay by Alicia Stoller, educator and writer of Notes on Hope
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just finished: Smash & Grab, by Mark Anthony Jarman. www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction... Short story collection. My fave: The December Astronauts (Moonbase Horse Code) #booksky
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Smash & Grab - Biblioasis
“A Canadian master of the form.”—Gregory Cowles, New York Times One of Kirkus Reviews‘ 5 Collections that Short Story Fans Shouldn’t Miss A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I want to be Jack Smith when I grow up.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't see how any decent human being could still support the death penalty after this one: abcnews.com/US/execution...
abcnews.com
Christa Pike appears to survive botched execution attempt in Tennessee, witnesses say
Christa Pike, 50, was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just finished: Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber (read it!) #booksky Up next: Smash & Grab, by Mark Anthony Jarman (new-ish short story collection)
Cover of the book Smash & Grab by Mark Anthony Jarman
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New to @booksky.club. I’m a reader, writer, and college prof and just began sharing current/recent reads. Would to connect; happy to follow. #booksky
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reading now: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social (Re)reading now, with my classes: American War by Omar el Akkad (1/2)
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gas is $4.19 where I live in semi-rural NC, in the backyard of three top-tier R1 universities. Diesel? $6.44/gallon. When do Americans start protesting?
nytimes.com
Rising Fuel Prices Set Off Anger and Protests Around the World
From Indonesia to Guatemala to Syria, shortages and price increases are leading to protests and blackouts.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I currently teach a course in Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Lit and read this piece by with, um, great interest. 👀 "These are not prophecies. They are inventories of possibility, weighted by current data and expert projections."
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The 5 Places In America You DON’T Want To Be When Society Begins To Collapse
Between the moment a system begins to crack and the moment people realize something has broken beyond repair exists a window of delusion.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICYMI, like I did: www.joannejacobs.com/post/400k-fo...
joannejacobs.com
$400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?
Non-Ivy universities are charging $100,000 a year. Will parents pay?
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Duke Faculty Union @dukefacultyunion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Be sure to check your email for a welcome message from our co-chairs. Of note: Our first social of the year will be at Common Market next Wednesday, September 9 at 5pm. RSVP link in the email.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Stop defending bigotry, @wnba.com Atlanta Dream And WNBA Embrace Anti-Trans Losers - defector.com/atlanta-drea...
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Atlanta Dream And WNBA Embrace Anti-Trans Losers | Defector
Some transphobic dickheads were again wearing XX-XY shirts at Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and Atlanta Dream. Everyone knows what the XX-XY shirt—a truly ugly piece of merchandise made by a...
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
H/t to @thesundaylongread.bsky.social for the gift link
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Why I Quit the Tenure Track
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
45 percent?! (I'm not actually surprised. But JFC.)
wsj.com
If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won’t Pay
Auto insurers didn’t pay out on 45% of auto liability and medical claims they resolved last year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These depraved fuckers should be in prison.
futurism.com
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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"RFK" 🎤: Rory Scovel | Full Video on our Channel!
YouTube video by Don't Tell Comedy
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I started watching Snowden last nite on Netflix...
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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners (Gift Article)
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Oops
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Dan @dansparano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The U.S. should not be allowed to host another World Cup for 100 years.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is such an embarrassment for the U.S.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Opinion | My Son Was Killed by ICE. I Want Accountability. (Gift Article)
I deserve accountability and transparency, and so does the public.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Good for them. Money talks, etc.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
David Brouillette should be arrested, read his rights, and charged. Credit to AP for its coverage here.
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/07/2026
His big speech was a dud. But that doesn’t mean it can’t still reverberate in chilling, Constitution-torching ways. trib.al/OZM3z9q
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No President Has Embarrassed This Country the Way Trump Did Last Night
His big speech was a dud. But that doesn’t mean it can’t still reverberate in chilling, Constitution-torching ways.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Lebowski Believe
ALT: Lebowski Believe
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE murders another person. Democratic Senators: “Lindsey Graham was a real a hoot and I’ll miss him dearly!”
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Yes, please.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
BALOGUN let’s go!!!! #USMNT
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
ICYMI: "They were lazy, and the report is slop. And now that’s attached to the Vanderbilt name."
vanderbilthustler.com
Vanderbilt- and WashU-commissioned report on politicization of humanities fields sparks controversy among faculty, cited professors
The report claims political motives have decreased the quality of scholarship within the humanities, interfering with the pursuit of objective and quality research.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The USMNT Suffered In Style - defector.com/the-usmnt-su...
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The USMNT Suffered In Style | Defector
It is said, probably more often than is necessary, that a team that loses a player to a red card must be prepared to suffer. This is particularly true when the team that has gone down a man has a lead...
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
💔 Senegal. Can't believe a match ended like that.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 01/07/2026
Here's Cade Cavalli striking out Willson Contreras and screaming "sit down boy!" at him. Really nice and a great week for it. Does Manfred 1) do the obvious thing or 2) do nothing because he doesn't want a Turning Point spokesman to do a viral tweet about how he won't watch baseball anymore
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Poch is right: Soccer media/pundits acting like US got knocked out. They won their group and go to the knockout stage healthy and with no card-related suspensions, fresh legs for key guys, and -- most important of all, perhaps -- key test out of the way for Pulisic. (1/4)
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Great goal from Trusty but fans he looks unplayable in the back
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Friendly reminder: @bookshop.org is offering free shiipping on all orders for Anti-Prime Day 👍 📚 💙 bookshop.org/info/anti-pr...
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Anti-Prime-Day
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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TheProfCase @kevcase.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That is a red card if ever I saw one.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/06/2026
ok, I'm taking a fucking nap
the opening sentence of a much-longer Bill Ackman tweet that simply reads "One of the things that makes @SpaceX so valuable is how valuable it is"
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
agri-pulse.com
Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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