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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 7m

Watching them rebuild the Citgo sign, which is a block from my work, has been cool.

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 20h

The woman who checked me out at Wegman's was Congolese, and I had the most fun speaking with her in my bad Lingala and generally good French. She seemed happy to meet someone who had been to her country. The US is so much richer because of the diverse populations we have welcomed.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump's attack on international education continues. Among $1 billion items Trump cut in illegal rescissions yesterday were the program that was supposed to have replaced Title VI to fund foreign language and area studies education and the Fulbright-Hays program.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m getting an amazing number of donation requests from Adam Hamilton (2 or 3 a day), considering that it’s been 40 years since I lived in Kansas!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you live in a state where universities had Title VI NRCs, contact your congressional reps. This funding benefited schools in Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan, Texas, and Arizona, not just elite coastal schools. Congress needs to demand the DoE act as Congress instructed.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are absolutely determined to make America stupid again. That’s the only way they’ll win elections in the future.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The tag line “Paid for by the US government” at the end is the kicker. F Trump and his toadies. I don’t want my tax dollars paying for fascist propaganda.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If only the Trump administration really were going with super intelligence instead of super stupidity.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historians: Roger Taney’s Supreme Court was the worst in history, with the Dred Scott decision directly fueling the Civil War. John Roberts: Hold my beer🍺 …

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Use Social Security Info To Screen For Noncitizen Voters

The unsigned decision overrules lower court decisions that blocked the data-matching across government agencies.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember when conservatives complained about universities being too ideological and forcing a narrow set of ideas on students. Now they’re all in on promoting ideology and a narrow set of ideas, as long as it’s theirs.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I stepped outside my office to hop on my bike to ride my bike to go teach my class and then remembered I had driven today and had to jog to get to class on time. So yes, it’s that kind of week.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“[T]here are going to be people jumping off the Trump train and we should be careful not to assume that their maneuvering is a belated embrace of liberal democracy. They should be vetted.”

thebulwark.com

Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair

The fire rises.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On bizarre flying experiences: I was flying from Brussels to Kigali in January 2002, and somewhere over Libya, the captain announced there was a mechanical problem so we’d have to return to Brussels … which was like 6 hours away.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Trump's approval rating hits lowest level of his career, poll finds

Less than one-third of respondents approved of President Donald Trump's job performance, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is anyone surprised by this? The party that’s hyper focused on a fake threat posed by trans folks is full of people actively engaged in sexual harassment, sexual assault, pedophilia, and all sorts of actual dangers to the public.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is this real? Cause it sure reads like parody. Can somebody check on grandpa and make sure he’s okay?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always love when the zinnias and dahlias are in full bloom in my garden.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always love when the zinnias and dahlias are in full bloom in my garden.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Woke initiatives that went against Trump’s goals” by doing things like curing diseases and making people’s lives better. Definitely can’t allow that!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel bad once again asking something of the beleaguered people around DC, but we really do need to have the public prepared to create a human barricade around the Kennedy Center. You know that Trump would love nothing more than to tear it down if he can’t get his way.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because my husband works in the arts and so knows famous people, we’re at a private screening of Practical Magic 2 hosted by the author. (Alice Hoffman is lovely, by the way.) Will let you know what I think!

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Practical Magic: Witches Flying High

ALT: Practical Magic: Witches Flying High

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s astounding how in country after country, the strategy of appeasing the far right ends up bolstering their position. And yet center and left parties keep repeating this failed strategy rather than pushing back against reprehensible positions and standing for progressive principles.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think there is a special circle of hell for the people behind extremely complex logins to review journal manuscripts. I don't want to spend half an hour filling out forms to get to the MS to review. And God surely smiles on those whose emails say, "Click here to access the MS directly."

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I graduated from the same high school as Roger Marshall (a few years after him), and people who knew him then say he was a jerk back in high school too.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why does the media constantly report Trump's pronouncements as though they matter? He gives an endless, rambling, incoherent speech and they dutifully pull out the one potentially appealing thing: $500 checks! $5K checks! Even though they will never happen, because Trump never follows through.

yahoo.com

Trump announces $500 checks for Americans for alleged overcharge under Obamacare

Trump announced the administration would refund $500 to nearly 1 million people who were allegedly overcharged for health insurance under Obamacare.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There was one of these parked on the street by my office, and I had to google what it was. Clearly not one of the professors’ cars.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I listen to podcasts as I bike into work. A couple of my regulars have ended. So, I’m looking for recommendations for podcasts: public affairs, arts, international affairs. Prefer smart well informed people I can learn from not just opinion. Hour length max.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As the parent of two teenagers, I’m all for cellphone bans in schools. But is it really necessary that this be a state law? Not every problem requires legislation. School districts are perfectly capable of adopting their own policies.

bostonglobe.com

‘It’s not realistic’: School districts brace for impact as cellphone ban bill languishes on Beacon Hill - The Boston Globe

Language creating a statewide cellphone ban in schools is among a dozen proposals sitting in legislative purgatory on Beacon Hill.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How do I order a ticket and then not show up? Would love to help contribute to the empty arena!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The media is not sufficiently highlighting the blatant and unapologetic racism of MAGA and the Trump regime. The current US government’s disdain for Africa abroad and Blacks at home is having serious and dangerous consequences.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After attending a number of APSA panels, I would propose that in addition to chairs and discussants, we need to have a designated tech guru, because pretty much every panel has one person who queues up the slideshows and troubleshoots problems.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So perhaps being one of the worst people in the world doesn’t make you completely immune from consequences.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Black US population: 13.5% Black enrollment at elite schools: 6.2% Harvard 7.4% Yale 5.2% Columbia 4.0% UC Berkeley 4.5% Michigan 5.4% Chicago But somehow too many Black students at elite schools is a problem for these racist schmucks.

nytimes.com

Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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