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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC

@mrkenshell.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University, Social Justice Advocate, Counselor Educator, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, former School Counselor. Posts/RPs my own. Pronouns: He/Him/His

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I really struggle with the idea that all we need is love and the internet to build community. I don’t know how we failed the next generation so badly on this but yall materiality matters. Very much.
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC @mrkenshell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Protect trans kids.
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC @mrkenshell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Protect Black Kids Protect Black Trans Kids Protect Black Hood Kids Protect Black Queer Kids Protect Black Poor Kids Protect Black Weird Kids And most importantly protect Black Kids.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC @mrkenshell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Somebody said about exercise that one should ask oneself, "If I knew with 100% certainty this would not change what my body looks like, would I still do it?" That headspace is a goal for a healthy perspective about exercise. *with caveats, of course...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Faculty have long faced harassment from people on and off-campus, Maki said, but these days they are increasingly being surveilled and targeted. Fatal attacks – like recent campus shootings at Brown University and UNC-Chapel Hill – have more than doubled in the past four years."
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Faculty Under Attack: How the public syllabus policy is seen as the latest weapon against academia
Faculty across the UNC System are expressing increased concerns that their safety is at risk following the new UNC System policy that all class syllabi be posted in an online database.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/02/2026
Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Hospital care accounted for nearly one-third of national health expenditures in 2024, and more than doubled in nominal terms over the preceding two decades, making hospitals a major driver of health spending growth over time."
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Hospital Spending Accounted for 40% of the Growth in National Health Spending Between 2022 and 2024 | KFF
This data note analyzes the extent to which hospital spending has contributed to the growth in national health expenditures in recent years and over the long term using data from the Centers for Medic...
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC @mrkenshell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“Important reminder: talking about race isn’t radical: it’s responsible, academic, & necessary!” #BlackHistoryMonth
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera” How convenient for ICE
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Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I will never forget saying that Rittenhouse’s valorization was a sign that white men had been deputized in precisely this way. I believe it got me almost banned on Twitter. Anyway. Some of the reason I just cannot these days is I feel like I already did.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So a lot of these people were really radicalized during BLM. I think they are trying to create a do-over. This is very much a first person player game for them. Yes there’s some electoral interference shaping up & creating slave labor but more than a little bit of a BLM redo.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Exactly what we expected
Screenshot of article which reads: According to a report by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, minority-serving institution programs are unlawful because they award money to colleges and universities based on the percentage of students of a certain race. The report said such programs “effectively [employ] a racial quota by limiting institutional eligibility to schools with a certain racial composition” and should no longer be funded.

The report also deemed it unconstitutional that two scholarship providers, the United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, both of which award scholarships to students of a specific race, are given access to Free Application for Federal Student Aid data.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort? Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain: www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
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Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms | TechPolicy.Press
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
i think a lot about how the new school was formed in response to nazi tyranny and now faces pressures to become an academic mill
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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"In other words, once the four AI tools locked onto a person’s age, race, or gender, those factors would form the backbone of the tissue analysis. In effect, AI would go on to replicate bias resulting from gaps in AI training data."
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ding ding ding
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
More whitewashing of American history: "Most notably, the Black Abolition, Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights quarters were replaced with quarters that instead commemorate the Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address." theconversation.com/trump-admini...
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Trump administration replaces America 250 quarters honoring abolition and women’s suffrage with Mayflower and Gettysburg designs
US coins showcase American identity and public memory through their designs. The America 250 coins just unveiled reflect the nation’s divided politics and history.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is why I say that the p*lice are defunding YOU
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One more time, here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread. Please share to get all this great work to all the folks, thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Reading became a means to a standardized (and fundable) end, not the magical mana that makes us more fully human.” When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week. adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/the-sancti...
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The Sanctity of Literacy
Reading is a magical, communal experience
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
That Time article on how K12 education is "failing" boys bugged me. - why is it framed around 'competition' with other boys vs competing with girls? Yes, gender segregation begins early, but why is the focus on competition, rather than developing academic & soft skills?
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The National Guard should never have been deployed to DC. They are being used to carry out an entirely political agenda that has no grounding in reality and now two members have been severely wounded. President Trump is ultimately responsible for creating this situation. This blood is on his hands.
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coffeetumbler.bsky.social @coffeetumbler.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I think it can happen pretty quickly building off of existing programs. gothamist.com/news/zohran-...
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Zohran Mamdani is calling for city-owned grocery stores. NYC already has them.
The idea has broad support from progressives, while some critics warn against “radical socialism.” But New York already has city-owned grocery stores.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025
Alcohol is legal in every state
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Bingo
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I really enjoyed this conversation hosted by @dblight.bsky.social about the current state of the historical profession and its role/responsibility in light of the Trump administration's attack on public history and history education. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eUA...
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Trump vs. History II: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are
YouTube video by The New Republic
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"CHCs play an important role in helping patients get health insurance coverage through both the ACA marketplaces & Medicaid. The coverage expansions have fueled health center growth: between 2013 & 2024, CHC capacity grew by 50%, from 21 million people served in 2013 to more than 32 million by 2024"
commonwealthfund.org
Millions of CHC Patients to Lose Coverage When Tax Credits Expire
CHCs serve community residents regardless of ability to pay; loss of revenue from private insurance and Medicaid will put a strain on CHCs’ finances and capacity.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Here’s today’s thread once more for the evening crowd. Please share all this great public scholarship widely, thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Hahaha "a promise to vote on the ACA subsidies" in Dec. I mean.... Just.... Gullible shit
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Here's today's #ScholarSunday thread for the brunch crowd. If your work is featured, if you've benefited from being connected to any of the public scholarship in these threads, or if you just feel so inclined, please share as widely as possible, thanks! @sifill.bsky.social 🗃️
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So let's game some shit out... 1. 50 year mortgage - IF you can even save for the down payment which is the core issue still 2. 7-year car loan (becoming normalized) for a $50k+ new car 3. 25 year repayment on IDR w/ Tax Bomb. Never catch up, the banks and government owns all of your money.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Anonymous Deportees
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The Trump Administration's War on African-American History is a Lost Cause 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The Trump Administration's War on African-American History is a Lost Cause
Today I learned that the American Battle Monuments Commission has removed two memorial panels honoring Black World War II soldiers from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 06/11/2025
Good morning, beloved. It is difficult to change what we will not confront. Be courageous. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
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