The best takes this week are like "I knew Trump would win when I saw a 'Please recycle' sign for bottles... liberals still don't understand how the recycling sign became a type of swastika to ordinary Americans"
If I get my teaching sorted this morning, and my emails done after lunch, I'll hopefully have just enough time to complete my 3 years of unfinished writing
Nothing to see here folks just Musk, a top incoming Trump administration advisor, using his massive communication platform to vilify academia.
Pretty soon this stuff will have to be considered outright state propaganda, if it isn’t already
somehow ive found myself in a position where folks come to chuck in times of strife for encouragement. lets get the big part of this conversation out of the way LOVE IS STILL REAL and that is the thing to remember. that north star remains. today there is more to talk about though
NEW — Another scoop and an interesting update on the Elon Musk's voter turnout operation in Michigan.
The entire group of Black, mostly out-of-state door knockers got fired with hours of the @WIRED U-Haul article dropping on Wednesday. New story includes:
- One of the door knockers from Florida going on the record about her experience
- A harrowing escape
- The first on-the-record acknowledgement of the seatless vans from the subcontractor
- Door knockers left stranded in Michigan & without pay, until... (read all the way to the end, trust me)
https://t.co/NNFY3Ejz8O
It might interest NYT readers to know that a text influential among university managers and boards views democratic “governance” bodies not as redoubts of a “Uniquely Powerful” faculty, but as useful “structural garbage cans” for their dissent.
The text was published in 1988.
🧵As a scholar of the systems behind genocidal violence, who's accurately forecasted major events (from 2008 crash to mainstreaming of far-right), I believe the Musk-Trump economic plan is a blueprint for total social, political & economic collapse /1 https://t.co/XaSeNjEVi1
The idea of traveling internationally in order to BE PREVENTED from even discussing this resolution is stomach-churning. An entire K-PhD ed system has been destroyed, 1000s of students & fac killed, students & fac who oppose this disciplined/fired/prosecuted—but we can’t discuss?
Soooooo, I'm terrible / hate doing this but I have a book out next year, 'The Ecogothic Werewolf'. Probably not a stocking filler but I think a pretty good read - I was brutal in the edit. https://t.co/PEYwJPuUkH
@RGibsongirl Stir fry it with some velveted chicken or tofu and a little broth. Also good slow cooked with potatoes and carrots. I usually only use half a head at a time, but it keeps forever in the fridge.