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Stephanie Weaver @weaverbosity.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I started a Substack because @wetherbeephd.bsky.social doesn't deserve to bear the burden of being the only outlet for my random thoughts about pop culture and current events. The first post combines two of my interests: submarine movies and trying to figure out how Pete Hegseth got the way he is.

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Crimson Tide and Hegseth's Warrior Fantasy

Crimson Tide tells us that it doesn’t matter if you want to commit a war crime, so long as you’re doing it because you think its the best thing to do.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They're coming to Marquette. First time I've been actually excited about a political rally in like (checks watch) 18 years

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@ncte.org and Emily Kirkpatrick have A LOT to answer for. I have said all along that NCTE's arguments have been wafer-thin. Now they look downright duplicitous. This is why I don't support the transition. We cannot be in league with people so committed to unaccountability.

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The Organization Formerly Known as CCCC

Visit the post for more.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have been accepted to the Last CCCC™.

CCCC acceptance email for the paper "Furnishing the Collective Mind: Grant Writing, Organizational Memory, and Joseph Priestley’s 'Recollection.'"

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Antero Garcia, Holly Hassel, and I have come to an agreement that will allow the 2027 CCCC Annual Convention to take place. 1/

Announcement to host the CCCC 2027 annual convention.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It will be fun to rhetorically examine NCTE's latest announcement about CCCC in my first-year comp class later this term.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NCTE can't share good news without playing the beleaguered martyr card ... lol

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Those Chinese sprinter robots careening full-speed into gym mats are so f-ing funny. That's how my brother-in-law broke both his arms in high school.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dumbest presidency ever, exhibit # 1 million

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The untold hell of trying to access a PST file from one's previous institution

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Stephanie is watching Wednesday, aka goth Harry Potter

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Abdul will carry the UP if he comes up here and plays goalie at drop-in hockey.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/07/2026

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

ENDORSEMENT:
DR. ABDUL EL-SAYED
2026 MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I saw Nolan's Odyssey at a wonderful little independent theater in Nashville. I didn't like it very much (I'm usually a Christopher Nolan detractor -- I don't even like Memento or Inception), but I still enjoyed the moviegoing experience, if that makes sense.

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rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

very disappointed Nolan's movie did not include WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Never confuse the will of the majority god with the will of

A cheugy Christian sign with bad kerning and alignment

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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"The purpose of NCTE is ... to encourage research, experimentation, and investigation in the teaching of English and literacy; to facilitate professional cooperation of the members; to hold public discussions and programs ..." ncte.org/wp-content/u... Well ... oops

ncte.org

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Disability Studies Standing Group of Cs also put out a statement

Statement reading: The Disability Studies Standing Group (DSSG) of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) joins our colleagues across the field in expressing our deep concern regarding NCTE leadership’s reported plans to dissolve CCCC and integrate its work into NCTE’s College Section. While the exact status and future of CCCC remain unclear, we are alarmed by the lack of transparency surrounding this decision-making process and by the absence of meaningful communication and consultation with CCCC officers, Committees and Committee chairs, Standing Groups, Task forces, and the broader CCCC membership.

For DSSG in particular, CCCC has provided an essential scholarly home for researchers, teachers, and activists working at the intersections of critical disability studies, disability rhetoric, and composition studies. Through CCCC’s support of Standing Groups, DSSG has developed and sustained mentoring relationships, maintained shared resources, coordinated disability-focused panels and workshops, advocated for access, and built a community for scholars whose work has historically been marginalized within academic institutions.

The proposal to dissolve CCCC’s - especially without the communication and collaboration necessary to safeguard and sustain the organization’s long history of knowledge- and resource-building - threatens the relationships and intellectual networks cultivated through DSSG’s operations. For early-career scholars and graduate students, the community built through DSSG and other CCCC’s standing groups provides an introduction to the field and supportive mentorship. We are deeply saddened by the thought that future generations of rhetoric and composition scholars and students will not be able to benefit from all that CCCC offers. CCCC plays a critical role in pedagogical knowledge production in composition and writing studies and beyond, and the loss of disability and accessibility position statements written by composition…

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Erin Doran @edoran.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I will not be renewing my membership with @NCTE.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Oh ok NCTE are quislings. Got it.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

planting flowers and listening to Billy Joel

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Find someone who looks at you the way my dad looks at a bottle of Titebond II Premium Wood Glue

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm an only child, and I think I would be bad at not existing

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/07/2026

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Lest trans people feel hopeless and that nothing will ever get better, there was a time when Jamie Raskin was one of the few Democrats willing to go to bat for same-sex marriage when he ran for state legislature.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If Sweden wins, I will shamelessly debauch myself with aquavit and licorice ice cream. Here is one of the best meals I've ever eaten -- rooster meatballs from the Kulturen open-air museum restaurant in Lund.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is now a random vintage sf paperback appreciation account. Entry #1: Joanna Russ, Picnic on Paradise (1986)

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Finally completed the covert mission of citing a @contrapoints.bsky.social video in an academic paper

Endnote from an academic paper:

I recently heard a terrific explanation and example of this rhetorical tactic from the trans YouTuber and cultural critic Natalie Wynn (2018): “Intellectually, I don’t think [essential womanhood] makes any sense. I think it’s heartwarming gibberish. But there’s also, I think, a legitimate role in the discourse for heartwarming gibberish. Sometimes you have to explain what it means to be trans to a person who believes that dogs go to heaven. And, in most circumstances, saying, ‘I’m a female soul in a male body,’ gets the point across” (15:57–16:18). Exactly.

Bibliographic citation for the ContraPoints video "Autogyephelia."

Paragraph citing the ContraPoints "Autogynephilia" essay, attached to the sentence, "God-term, for example, is a better expression than, say, entelechial zenith, offering the efficient, tangible feeling of godly authority and hierarchy that Burke knew well from his youth and Western audiences in general intuit through their familiarity with monotheistic culture."

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My article "Toward Logological Skepticism: Kenneth Burke, Edward Said, and the Question of Atheism" is up in the Journal for the History of Rhetoric. This paper has been the works for many a year, and I'm glad to see it live. Free access for 90 days here: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

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Toward Logological Skepticism: Kenneth Burke, Edward Said, and the Question of Atheism

Abstract. This article configures Kenneth Burke as an atheistic thinker, aligning Burkean logology—the study of symbolic hierarchies—with Edward Said’s project of “secular criticism” in opposition to ...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There's an article out there by someone who works in AI about how Area X and the Southern Reach is about AI and they can fuck right off.

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Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

U of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026. Exciting diversity of perspectives + topics: astrology, Christopher Rufo, ancient Egypt, QAnon, + “Afterwards” dialogue of 4 scholars + a journalist. Pre-order + ask library: upittpress.org/books/978082... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #PostTruth

Book cover of forthcoming edited collection titled "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth."

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Hallucination" is already a gross euphemism.

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I feel like I was sort of a bad teacher this semester (took forever to return work, offered far less written feedback than I like to, monologued too much, was off-kilter in facilitating discussion, etc.). Of course, the evals are GLOWING 🤷

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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

God bless the Journal for the History of Rhetoric for publishing this thing I've been trying to finish and circulate since 2018 or so. After these proofs go to press, I'll finally attain the mantle of Annoying Person™ who has published about atheism. #teamrhetoric

Fist page of my article "Toward Logological Skepticism: Kenneth Burke, Edward Said, and the Question of Atheism."

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