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Niels @niels12.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did a quick calculation to find out what the actual unweighted result of the poll was. #ward4 #ParkdaleHighPark McNally 31.3% Guerrera 30% King 12.5%

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Again, free public college is essential but it doesn’t address the curricular issue. Free public college where you can only take humanities classes through a civic center is a problem. bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Exactly. The left is not resource poor. It just doesn’t invest in higher ed. It doesn’t invest using public funds. It doesn’t invest using private funds. It just doesn’t seem to care.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

All the trends in public higher education are going in the reverse direction, it seems: demands to increase enrollments and majors without increasing faculty lines, the invasion of ed tech, seemingly permanent austerity conditions

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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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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Democrats do not only need to "go all in" on higher education. The party needs a genuine reset on its understanding of it. The last three Democratic administrations contributed to creating the crisis that higher ed is facing today.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/09/2026

Everyone (including many humanists) assumes we need to be doing something different to reverse this, when the answer is (1) universities should spend more money on the humanities; (2) the media and politicians should stop attacking us

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/09/2026

Could the relentless demonization of the humanities as woke, useless, and esoteric; systemic underfunding of humanities disciplines; and the STEM & AP-ification of high school have anything to do with this?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this was the exact outcome that the "the economy under Biden (when unemployment was 3% and wages for lower-income workers were increasing rapidly) sucks" push was meant to engineer and it worked.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026

the other strange thing about this is that the 2024 election result was exceptionally narrow and yet commentators left and right talk about it like it was 1984

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Moulton repeated this smear every day for the last month. 3 days ago he even told a teenager this. The student of course found out that it was false. For close to a year he has lied about and attacked a trusted public servant with no positive message of his own. I look forward to his irrelevance.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

that "Woke" is a silly academic nonsense that went too far is one of the baseline truths you're supposed to accept without poking at it if you want to be considered Serious. I think of Ta-Nehisi Coates with Klein; Black thinkers keep making themselves inconvenient to that politely empty conversation

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Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"But as a community, what should worry us most is that many uses of AI deprive students of the opportunity to learn."

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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That any public service should be run like a business.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I still believe that there is a labor movement that could change that. At least in some states. I do not believe there is a culture of labor among well employed faculty that’s even close to being willing to do that.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The mass layoffs and program closures began at small liberal arts colleges and R2 public universities over a decade ago. Alarm bells were rung. Many canaries breathed their last. No coordinated opposition has been mounted.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/08/2026

A few things: (1) AI should not be used to assist writing. Cognitive outsourcing is bad. (2) The college essay is on the decline because of labor as much as AI. Learning to write well requires a lot of personal contact which neoliberal logics of higher ed work against www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

THIS. They want us to plagiarize. So we can "save time for the important stuff." Whatever the fuck that is supposed to be instead of teaching, writing & thinking authentically. And it only matters when the guilty party is a Black scholar who is not cheering for AI.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Let’s not forget who led the charge. Arday was a fraud but there are many kinds of scholarly fraud. bsky.app/profile/kohn...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This debate—using the term ‘woke’— is literally happening in MAGA speak. It’s loser talk and it’s actually pretty pathetic.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

a pretty heated debate over "woke 1.0" is taking place on X (and maybe here?). no one asked, but I’m officially registering my dislike of the phrase. i hope it has its moment and fades for the following reasons. ultimately, i think its just going to muddle otherwise important conversations…🧵

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What’s killing me is all these grown adults acting like brand new baby humans at discovering gambling isn’t polling. We literally call them different things for a reason. And we have known this for a very long time.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"well-intentioned?" [shrug] The bad stuff attracted bad actors, because humans are gonna human. Ordinary human motivations of ressentiment, malice, power-seeking, and ambition were part of this like they were everything. But Michael's 2nd graf is the very important part. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just noting that Trump looks terrible here.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you think you were a token in academia, just wait until you figure out why you are on the anti-woke beat at The Atlantic.

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Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There was some annoying rhetoric and the Twitter mobs sucked, but were largely a function of that platform, so take it up with Jack Dorsey. We've let right wingers and reactionary centrists rewrite the narrative on one of the most transformative & electorally successful eras for the left in decades.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

I think one reason the public has such a shallow understanding of the extent of the damage Trump is doing is that *US political & media elites* have such a shallow understanding. Douthat's pleasant upper-middle-class life hasn't been unduly disturbed, so really, what's the big deal?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social 100% this piece. Ken Martin epitomizes the old, broken digital fundraising strategy, while Ben Wikler is the organizer. It was a disaster to choose Martin over Wikler. Why haven't the Dems changed horses? Wikler clearly wants the job.

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Opinion | Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Organizers?

Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.

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