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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nice to receive a broadly positive review of the book

Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Revolutions have begun following the occupation of resistant cities by armed forces, an imperial power’s defeat in war, the attempted curtailment of political rights or representative institutions, widespread recognition of the corruption or moral turpitude of a ruler, and attempted coups.

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hybrid Event: Join @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social's UK launch of Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways, w Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent). All welcome! 📆 Friday 13 March 5-7pm Register: tinyurl.com/3fc6des8 Dates provided🌙 @soasuni.bsky.social

poster for the event with the details and portraits of Mattie and Aparajita and the book cover

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We’ve got a stellar lineup for this term’s Modern British History Seminar in Oxford. Do come along if you’re around! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Synopsis of the second book project, Laboring in Public. Would love feedback and reading suggestions: mattiearmstrongprice.com/wp-content/u...

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

New professional site: www.mattiearmstrongprice.com

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I have a book cover!

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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal

At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our elders shouldn’t have to deal with this bullshit.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

Picture of quote from W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America.

"When the Confederates returned to domination, the public schools, which had attained a degree of efficiency never before reached in the South, were greatly curtailed. One hundred and ten of the teachers, many of them native-born, were dismissed at once, and their places were filled with intolerate Confederates."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The NEA language is honestly so chilling

“The applicant will not operate any programs promoting "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) that violate any
applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws, in accordance with Executive Order No. 14173.”

“The applicant understands that federal funds shall not be used to promote
gender ideology, pursuant to Executive Order No. 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Anybody who gets an NEA grant now sure had better use it to advance trans liberation.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

King Leopold of Mar-a-Lago.

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

please share widely!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/02/2025

Incredible news. After immense pressure and threats of protest, Children's Wisconsin has reinstated treatment for at least one trans teen under its care. Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.

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UPDATE: Children’s Wisconsin hospital reinstates gender-affirming care for trans teen after canceling in wake of Trump’s executive order

The order is being challenged in court as illegal and unconstitutional.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/02/2025

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

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Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones

Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 07/02/2025

been asked several times if student protesters have responded to Trump. an encampment is up at Bowdoin right now, according to a statement from Bowdoin SJP www.instagram.com/p/DFv9lH8Mkk...

From Bowdoin SJP statement:

This encampment is the first of its kind since
the start of the Trump administration. Trump has vowed his unequivocal support for Israel's genocide, most recently calling for the United States to ethnically cleanse and annex Gaza. Today, we say enough. It is unacceptable that our endowment and our tax payer money bankrolls the elimination of Palestinian life. As Israeli aggression obliterates Palestinian homes and guns down children in Jenin, as unspeakable suffering continues in Gaza, and as America slides farther into fascism every day, we ask - what type of institution does Bowdoin want to be?

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If algorithmic capitalism targets ads to individuals, algorithmic authoritarianism would seem to involve the targeted withholding of funds from individuals and institutions.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Trump's cutting of funding for university-based research could put thousands of people out of work very quickly, especially since universities are relatively hamstrung in their capacity to raise tuition at this historical moment. (A thread) 1/6

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Last time federal funding for universities dropped precipitously (when the stimulus funds ran out in 2011), occupy movements shook the campuses. Could we see another upsurge on campuses this year?

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The #AHA25 vote showing people's private views is an example of what sociologists call "pluralistic ignorance." Zeynep Tufekci talks about the "desire to belong, reflecting what a person perceives to be the views of the majority, is also used by those in power to control large numbers of people."

However, that desire to belong, reflecting what a person perceives to be the views of the majority, is also used by those in power to control large numbers of people, especially if it is paired with heavy punishments for the visible troublemakers who might set a different example to follow. In fact, for many repressive governments, fostering a sense of loneliness among dissidents while making an example of them to scare off everyone else has long been a trusted method of ruling. Social scientists refer to the feeling of imagining oneself to be a lonely minority when in fact there are many people who agree with you, maybe even a majority, as “pluralistic ignorance.” Pluralistic ignorance is thinking that one is the only person bored at a class lecture and not knowing that the sentiment is shared, or that dissent and discontent are rare feelings in a country when in fact they are common but remain unspoken.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The AHA overwhelmingly stands against scholasticide in Gaza.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

if you are in NYC for the American Historical Association conference, i'll be on a panel Friday afternoon about teaching trans history. would love to see you there!

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

For years the debate in front of me was "Democrats are feckless weak compromising losers without principles or imagination, interested only in their own paychecks and the donor class" versus "Democrats are the only thing between us and the abyss" and I am deeply concerned everyone was right.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Defending progressive organizations in this moment will help ensure the protection of civil liberties and democratic institutions over the coming months and years. We are living through a historically dangerous moment. It is also a moment for clarity and courage.

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Now Is the Time to Protect Progressive Organizations | Common Dreams

Defending progressive organizations in this moment will help ensure the protection of civil liberties and democratic institutions over the coming months and years.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

there is no need to organize your political commitments according to the positions you think democratic party politicians should adopt to win elections. they are institutional actors; those of us on the outside, through concerted action, can change the terrain politicians encounter.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Leftist politics won’t happen in a vacuum in the coming years but will happen in a period defined by an authoritarian turn and opposition to this turn. The task will be to articulate or link one’s primary political program with an opposition to authoritarianism.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

At their best, liberals have organized against arbitrary and violent authority. Leftists often have fought alongside liberals in these campaigns, while also challenging liberals for not going far enough by not attacking the authority of colonial officials or capitalist managers.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The right has already devised a detailed roadmap for using measures like the "nonprofit killer bill" to shut down facets of left & progressive organizing. @neginowl.bsky.social and I wrote about the right's plans--and how we can all work to combat these attacks. truthout.org/articles/the...

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The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society

Attacks on Palestine solidarity are the opening salvo in the right’s stated plan to suppress social justice groups.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As reported today in Truthout, we now have evidence of a right-wing plan to use the pretext of fighting terrorism to shut down more than 100 progressive organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace, Black Lives Matter, Students for Justice in P@lestine, and the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Mattie Armstrong-Price @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

we've had a lot of strategic political interventions in the form of election analyses. but what are the contexts into which these analyses are intervening? are we imagining and in some sense trying to speak into existence a party that doesn't exist?

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