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Dr. Megan Faragher

@meganfaragher.bsky.social
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Prof., English, opinions own. Pres., AAUP-AFT Wright St Chapter, OH 1900-1950 scholar of literature, sociology, & propaganda; roller derby; cats; book on polling/ prediction. Books: Psychographic Turn (OUP, 2021); Midcentury Women's Writing (MUP, 2024)

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 2h
There's still time to support @osuaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org in our petition for better working contracts and conditions for OSU's non-tenure track faculty - please read and sign! @aft.org actionnetwork.org/petitions/fa...
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Faculty Equity and Educational Excellence: A Petition on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Working Conditions
Ohio State's non-tenure track faculty teach a growing share of our students, on short-term contracts, without a living wage, and without a voice in the conditions they work under. AAUP-OSU is petition...
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Even if you hate these people you’re gonna vote for them.” What a closing message here in Ohio.
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Alicia Souza: You Inspire Me In Ways You Don't Even Realise
ALT: Alicia Souza: You Inspire Me In Ways You Don't Even Realise
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A story of a morning run in three photos.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A story of a morning run in three photos.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m seeing things coming from this private system that are starting to distress me. People who show up with peers wildly underprepared in ways that confuse me. Bright but not able to do basic skills. And I realized this is what’s happening here too. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If all this shuts up maybe I can just pull a Huxley/Heard and start my own school.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What are Civics Centers? They are think tank-sponsored academic units whose goal is not the expansion of truth and knowledge. They’re propaganda units to serve wealthy donors. And they’re taking over every red state and big grants (at your ‘blue st’ uni). Read more: www.uncivilcollective.org
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UNCIVIL | Exposing the Civility Industrial Complex
Billionaire funders and extremist politicians are funneling millions into campus dialogue programs and civics centers. They claim to be reducing “polarization” and promoting “pluralism,” but their rea...
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Godspeed.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I realized he’s probably gonna win when I saw the ad he put out of just a minute straight of data center noise. Brilliant.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit
an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, talk to any cowboy historian. Honestly, they exist. They're cool.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is moving. And a version of this is happening in every sector of public service work. Horrors and violations of basic principles of my sector that we’ve seen by accident, maybe, once a year. Now it’s all the time. It’s endless. It’s a big shell game, authoritarianism. Heartbreaking.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, that's a them problem. You don't get rewards for doing the right thing like a karmic prize machine. Grow up.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think the most important thing we can do - after seeing everything going on at universities these days - is get rid of gender studies programs. That's the real problem, obviously.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, I am tired of being water boarded by spooky ads in Ohio. I’m just trying to live. But I am starting to go mad with the phrase “the extremes he goes are just too much.” It makes no sense.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wish I could vote already. I’m running to the first week of early voting like I am on fire and the election is a firehouse. If you can vote now I’m jealous, and why haven’t you voted already?
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As they always say, there are PLENTY OF ASA ALLOYS. We all always say that.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Omg! 2000s heartthrob Jared Leto is involved in this heated exchange about Lookout Mountain Airforce Stattion.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think I’m in an email exchange entirely produced by AI with imaginary people having workplace fights.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026
I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We watch in Ohio with trepidation
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know someone who did suicide prevention in the military and now no longer does so because they very much did not like what they were noticing in the research.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The fact of two 30-40 yos texting about "what is whiskey like?" as if they are 17 is so humiliating for them.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Flynn trial is the only thing in my feed and the whole thing makes me distracted with concern over our public education system and the insularity we allow some people. It’s not healthy.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an actual crime that happened in this city. Someone I know is covering it and I’m so glad other people are learning the details of this crime. Bring back public education in Ohio.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would like if maybe 15% more of my working life was pleasant. It's so strange to love your job so much on so many levels and then there's just this icky sticky bit you can't shake. I guess that's basically exactly what post 2024 life is, isn't it?
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The number of people who were willing to yap and yap and yap about the ills of neoliberalism who now can't be bothered to do anything about actual fascism makes me so annoyed. But they have books making them look like *real radicals*, so that's all that matters, end of the day.
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Michelle Tanner: Cool Swag Look
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The legislators are threatening to make space portals behind my campus.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Men with trucks are being completely broken.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Funniest example of hackneyed racism in this gubernatorial in E Ohio campaign stop. Free perogis for the Polish!!! Oof!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/09/2026
There are roughly 35 journalists in the first cohort of the Freedom Media Innovation Lab, a program launched this year by American University’s Kogod School of Business to help former VOA staffers build sustainable media ventures of their own.
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After losing their Voice of America jobs, journalists pitch their second acts
American University set up a program to help VOA staffers. Now they’re set on becoming entrepreneurs.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone in the community chat is trying to start the purge.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My shoulder after the last game of the skating season:
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Woody's Arm Falls Off in Toy Story
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seeing our next governor 🙏 next to our faculty contract negotiator and knowing we might have something other than disrespect to look forward to again from our electeds if we can just hold on.
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Cute Cat Begging with Pleading Eyes
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m not all into football but what Josh Allen did last night makes me believe we can achieve great things as a species still. Shivering with flu the man shoves smelling salts in his mouth and runs for a touchdown on the first drive.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not only are students interested in these programs, many actually flock to them. I suspect there are numerous teachers in these programs who heard numerous students ask “Why wasn’t I taught this before?” When Congressman John Lewis Skyped into my class to discuss the two different versions of 1/
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes I think I’m overreacting then I talk to any other human. And I’m not. We all are like this.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mr. Allen decided he would make the touchdown himself.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting betting market money on the Buccees.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With diesel breaking 6 I am actually afraid burly men will storm a gas station in Ohio
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And area studies are dead at UT Austin. Just heartbreaking.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Put the propaganda center on the campus or we will defund the university.” “Put my name on the center or I’ll tear the building down.” I cannot see any difference between these two.
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phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Many people think that the new edition of They Say / I Say _____________. But what they don't see is _________.
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