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DN Michael, Prof de français

@madamednmichael.bsky.social
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Language educator & learner Views expressed are my own and not those of my employer or any brand I am associated with. Ohio University BA French '90 OSU MA/PhD (ABD) French Lit '93, '98 🇺🇸🇱🇧

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 1h
I was proud and privileged to interview Sophia Dasser, the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun and now a leader in the #IamJaneDoe movement. We talked about why safety on campus is not an optional extra—it’s an essential precondition of learning katemanne.substack.com/p/telling-th...
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Telling the Truth is an Act of Advocacy
A conversation with the Cornell Sun’s Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser about the Cornell case
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Does that area have the infrastructure to support the construction and growth? No, not at the moment. Does the Ohio GOP (which currently controls both the governor's mansion & legislature) sufficiently fund education here to produce the permanent employees once it opens? Also no.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right? Crazy ! The kickers are both amazing.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good God, what a wild ending to a game! NFL kickers are definitely earning their paychecks.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But wait!!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just switched from the OSU game to see the interception!
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He probably really appreciates you leaving that delightful snack out for him. And this right here is why I haven't put out suet again! I used to get the ones with pepper oil to try to deter the furry critters but they are so persistent!!
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Best of luck!!
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Hundreds of French schools stay closed ahead of nationwide day of student protests reut.rs/4jEnNVF
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Hundreds of French schools stay closed ahead of nationwide day of student protests
Hundreds of French high schools will begin a second week of closures on Monday as protests over dilapidated schools and classrooms, overcrowding and teacher shortages precede ​a nationwide day of demonstrations on Tuesday.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wordle 1,933 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I'm off my game lately. This wasn't a hard word. May need to rethink my starter word!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further.
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Stup.Media @stup.media · 03/10/2026
Ce vendredi 2 octobre 2026, alors qu'il couvrait les blocus étudiants à Montpellier, notre journaliste @valentin.stup.media se fait percuter par un policier en moto. Il a pu collecter des images interpellation violente par les force de l'ordre. Monté et raconté par @splinelnd.bsky.social
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tackling misogyny - what schools can do. @sarahmullin.bsky.social writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social. "Five research-informed tips to help schools take immediate action." I think this is excellent. www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
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6 ways to tackle misogyny in schools
New DfE data shows that schools cannot ignore the problem of misogynistic language - so here are research-informed strategies to address it, says Sarah Mullin
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
5. Look at that swag with the little hat. That's someone running the show.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The only message I'm interested in from Kotlikoff is his resignation.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna have to put 5 on Jeremiah Smith. Go Bucks!
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As a French speaker, I greatly appreciate these ridiculous Geico CROISSANT ads. I may have to show it to my students.
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Croissant Bakery
ALT: Croissant Bakery
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Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great column. And folks should read @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's piece (below). And then maybe if you want to see how this abusive behavior starts from high school, read my book. sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...
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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain
From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
Gaby Hinsliff
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
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AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
DOWN
75%
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An absolutely embarrassing amount of football. Both days. I take my autoimmune meds on the weekend so I feel like garbage and it gives me an excuse to watch sportsball for hours on end.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I second this! I picked one up at Aldi last year but I'm sure you could pick one up at Wasserstrom restaurant supply which isn't far from your part of the city.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I somehow managed to use a wrong letter twice after it was marked wrong! I'm tired and was inattentive.
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wordle 1,931 6/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Embarrassing to take this many tries!!
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some students at the HS where I teach who aren't even in my classes have started stopping by to say «Bonjour Madame ». It's always a compliment to collect stray students as a teacher.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
respectfully tapping the “talk to your boys, not me” sign again, with rapidly decreasing levels of respect
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/09/2026
Video appears to show students in Paris blocking classrooms during a protest. They say the demonstration was sparked by teacher shortages, worsening conditions and heavy class schedules.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote this yesterday, about sexual assault and the people who turn a blind eye. About the abject failure to teach our youth how to disrupt the group chat or protect the drink at the bar. And the need to do better. We need to teach our children. 1/ dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...
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The silent path from Cornell to Hope High
Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I struggled to finish reading this important and horrifying reporting www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"But we can't let everyone follow their dreams/interests, we can only have so many marine biologists or whatever" lads the ocean is taking the brunt of the climate crisis and that's a problem for all life on the planet, if more people were overeducated on that it would be great
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LET'S GO! UM had that coming since the WMU game.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
IOWA - on the final play of the game!
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For soup season
foodandwine.com
30 Fall Soup Recipes to Make as Soon as Sweater Weather Arrives
These fall soups will fill you with warmth when it gets chilly outside. Our favorite autumnal recipes include pumpkin soup, French onion soup, caldo verde, ramen, lentil soup, and more.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fan reaction to this Jeremiah Smith TD catch made it for me
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dear Mr. Illinois Defensive Coordinator, You're going to have to put at least 3 on Jeremiah Smith. #GoBucks 🏈
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Could you split the difference and only sleep for 500,000 years?
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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's exactly what people expected
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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