Kevin Coogan

Kevin Coogan is a graduate of NC A&T State University (2022) where he studied English, Critical Pedagogies, and Rhetoric and Composition.
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[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

NEW TOXINS IDENTIFIED—“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” said Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist. Rail company Norfolk Southern is paying just $25k to the town, or ~$5 per resident.🧵

HT @therecount

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.

https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

That Starbucks is offering reproductive healthcare for its employees but warning it will not do so for unionized employees shows employer-provided healthcare for what it is, which is a labor disciplining device.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

And Justice Thomas calls for it explicitly in his concurring opinion: He wants to use this new precedent to overturn laws protecting the rights to contraception and same-sex marriage.

[josh ackerman @joshuaackerman]

i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

It costs just $44 billion to algorithmically suppress stories like this
https://t.co/64jOo2HMmo

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Remember, if local authorities in Georgia had their way, no one would have ever been charged for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

It took weeks of protest before charges were even brought in the case, 74 days after Arbery was shot and killed in February 2020.

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

When a student sits down in my office hours for the first time

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

The r/antiwork subreddit, where you can find stories of people resigning because of abusive working conditions, is the top growing subreddit today.

Good.

There is no "labor shortage," there are only people who are tired of being exploited.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Striking John Deere workers are furious about the company’s contract offer which would give them only a $2-3 raise over 3 years.

Deere’s CEO made $15.6 million in 2020 — a 160% raise.

“John Deere made billions and threw us peanut shells...We’re supposed to scoop them up?”

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

"I feel, therefore I can be free." — Audre Lorde

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

Got cut off earlier by another car with a NC A&T sticker on the back, who then forgot to turn off their blinker. How you gonna cut off another Aggie and then leave your blinker on?

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

Received my first "I'm not coming to class today" email -- I have ascended.

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

"Without theory, the moveable mountain of injustice and oppression seems too big and immobile, but theory helps us understand that our job is not to move mountains but to outmaneuver them." -- Bettina Love, We Want to do More Than Survive

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Sorry to breakdown Biology 101 on national TV, but since Gov. Abbott doesn’t seem to know, six-weeks pregnant means your period is 2 weeks late.

No rape survivor truly has 6 weeks to get an abortion. Nor do many report their assaults ever. The Governor’s remarks are disgusting.

[Kevin Coogan @KPCoog]

@novusluna Hoping to see someone knock Yummy out tonight.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

When injustice runs deep, progress takes time. But if we can turn words into action and action into meaningful reform, we will, in the words of James Baldwin, “cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.”

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

A bill to ban the teaching of ‘critical race theory’ in our public schools just passed the state House.

Let me tell you what’s really going on here, because it doesn’t have anything to do with ‘critical race theory.’

/thread/ #ncpol