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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝

@wetherbeephd.bsky.social
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❄ English prof & WPA, Northern Michigan U ❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film ❄ review ed., enculturation ❄ aspiring Yooper ❄ union thug ❄ he/him #teamrhetoric

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this video from the brilliant GPat (@yourweirdofriend.bsky.social )
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I'm J. Doe: From Cornell to Kent State
Universities Routinely Sexually Humiliate Title IX Whistleblowers, Including Faculty
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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 · 11/10/2026
Age yourself with a childhood crush.
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Dana Scully: Sure. Fine. Whatever. (The X-Files)
ALT: Dana Scully: Sure. Fine. Whatever. (The X-Files)
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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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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Photo of a book cover which features an illustration of a man and woman meditating aside a chakra map and inside a translucent pyramid which is flying over the desert. Copy and title read

It’s happening again 

WHITE PEOPLE
UP TO
NO GOOD

by John D. Nuagape
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Moonstruck Cher
ALT: Moonstruck Cher
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love the space physics and spectacular but infrequent combat sequences. I also love Camina Drummer. I wish the Rocinante crew were better written. (I like Amos though.)
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I remember that part.
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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 · 16/09/2026
well said
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think I'm going because I live close to Milwaukee and I want to support @donniejsackey.bsky.social's organizing efforts. This is still the first Cs in a long while where I'm excited by the theme.
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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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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars poster, featuring a grotesque green space rabbit and his chums
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
my password isn't led zeppelin ii, why would you say that
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
sorry, I saw "name a[n] ... album" and got excited
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
led zeppelin ii
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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
YEP
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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 · 24/08/2026
Alien High and Low The Third Man Army of Shadows Barry Lyndon
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
me IRL
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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 · 23/08/2026
guy clearly didn't read the book
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That's actually pretty dope
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dire Straits Miles Davis Gillian Welch
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Coming along!
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Build your own like me
Room with bookshelves in progress on three walls
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That's my senator
A young Abdul Al-Sayed posing in his hockey goalie pads.
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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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ericthing can happen on halloween @ericd.site · 06/08/2026
“You’ve Dead” in Dark Souls death font.
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
that's right, I've dead
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googamp32.bsky.social @googamp32.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Centrists when a Progressive wins.
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Monty Python: Black Knight Draw
ALT: Monty Python: Black Knight Draw
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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
BUT ... it's apropos a version of The Odyssey should inspired so much paratextual discussion about the essence of the character and the challenges of adaptation. The Odyssey is all about (mis)understanding and mutable identities. I enjoy the discourse more than the film itself.
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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I agree pretty much completely with Emily Wilson's now (in?)famous critique, and I was especially disappointed with the erasure of Odysseus' wily, performative, sophistic character traits that make him captivating in the epic, even if he's otherwise largely odious.
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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
#15: The Unsleeping Eye, D.G. Compton (1974) Amazing novel about sensationalistic reality TV and the commodification of death. Originally published as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (a better title) in the UK.
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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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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
More on @ncte.org’s betrayal of its membership and mission by dissolving CCCC: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
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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
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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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