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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2h

I said something to this effect to a colleague yesterday about the push for faculty to use AI in teaching and research. Thinking about stuff is supposed to be the main thing, isn’t it?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“The New School has once again placed itself at the cutting edge of a new age in higher education: the dismantling of tenure,” the suit says. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/n...

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Professor Sues New School, Claiming Tenure Has Been Dismantled (Gift Article)

The lawsuit was filed by one of 19 educators laid off in June amid a reorganization of the Manhattan university to address its financial problems.

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a chapter coming out about Black autofiction that could have just been about Zami but thinks about the genre through @jstheater.bsky.social’s Annotations and Alison Millls Newman’s Francisco. There’s so much to talk about beyond Heti and Cusk.

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re someone who stands up as soon as a flight arrives at the gate, could you walk me through your thought process? 🧐🤔

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My God, I just remembered that we die. But---me too? --Clarice Lispector

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I need men to stop wearing flip-flops.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You know what never hacked another company or had a 10% chance to kill humanity? A goddamn book.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the old Norton Critical Editions were endearingly ugly

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a take I saw that rang true for me today is that the GOP, which spends the other 364 days of the year talking shit about NY (and they did this back then, too, lest they peddle some "we loved it then" story), wants, once a year, to front like they love New York. Nah man. Everybody already heard you

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You could say I’m having a great time in the Bay Area.

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The ways in which I miss my beautiful, perfect, stinky baby…

Marzipan the dog, a black and tan Shiba Inu, in front of pink and green flowers

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026

if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Never again going to take on new writing projects when I’m getting ready for a cross-country move and in the midst of grief. Two pieces down, two more to go. 😭

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i’m dying. i’m dead

zohran holding a the power broker book up in front of his face. caption reads “but robert moses is another video entirely)

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What standards of scholarship made it possible for Dr Nathan Cofnas to be awarded a doctorate? Just asking?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

varsity.co.uk

Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ghouls. Racists. Transphobes. No forgiveness.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

next faculty activity report I have to submit I'm just going to write 'here to be brown on campus'

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Am I the last person to read about how really fucking weird Jean Toomer was?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2026

Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?

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Save Queens College: deep cuts hurting campus - PSC CUNY

Devastating cuts at Queens College are impacting workloads, services and education. PSC members are fighting back.

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Inspired by the reissue of Greg Tate’s "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" and New Eyes Collective, a new group of Black culture writers, we invited nine artists and writers to reflect on how the erudite critic influenced them. hammerandhope.org/forums/greg-...

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Introduction | Hammer & Hope

Hammer & Hope — Nine artists and writers, including Joan Morgan and dream hampton, reflect on how the legendary critic and musician inspired them.

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My friend has been using my likeness in the promotional material for her CrossFit gym and I have to say these really tickle me

“RACE-DAY READY STARTS HERE

HYROX MEMBERSHIPS AT CHAKA CROSSFIT”

Omari wears an orange hat, glasses, a chain and green shorts as he pushes a sled in a hyrox competition

“HYROX MEMBERSHIPS AT CHAKA CROSSFIT

RACE-DAY READY STARTS HERE”

Omari wearing an orange hat, glasses, and green shorts on a rowing machine at a hyrox competition

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

today in journal special issues received! CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social

white and green hard copies of the journal special issue

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ICE killed another person.

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You really just could have said nothing. That was an option.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

2 years ago, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was arrested at @ucirvine.bsky.social as UCI chose to repress its Palestine encampment & fail its constitutional obligations. Her disciplinary case now rests w/the Chancellor. Let's ensure he knows what's right, sign/share! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Pisses me off to no end that they’ll consume our art while denigrating our humanity. You should be trapped in the digital hell of the politics you choose.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I can eat a limp chicken sandwich in my car while I telework.

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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Serena Williams steps on court to play her first singles match in 1428 days at Wimbledon. Almost 4 years have gone by. But here she stands again. Undoubtedly one of the greatest athlete of all time… the Queen is back. Chills. 🥹👑

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We do not have competent leaders

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A guy who stood on Fordham Rd 18 months ago & literally could not get people to look at him is now the biggest power broker NY has seen in a long time.

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