Carrie Tirado Bramen

Prof of English, author of American. Niceness: A Cultural History, Uses of Variety. Tweets = my opinion. she/her

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of between 70 and 80%, thanks to her progressive policies which have lifted over 8 million people out of poverty.

So of course the @NYTimes finds some reason to attack her.

They hate her because she shows what can be done.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Britain’s higher education system, one of the finest in the world, is being slowly, relentlessly, destroyed

[Carrie Tirado Bramen @CBramen]

Please consider helping out an old friend and her son (and two dogs and two cats) keep their new home, after a Dutch court ruled that she must pay her abusive ex-husband €100,000. (He kept their home) https://t.co/fUYpzaNrTN

[Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs]

Scripps College is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of American Studies. Review of applications will begin 9/11/26. Full ad below. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position. And please share widely!

[Carrie Tirado Bramen @CBramen]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Reject the Development of an AI Data Center on Cayuga Lake. Sign here: https://t.co/hyc7g5h8Ht

[Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb]

In today's @nytimes, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.

[Siddharth Khurana @SidKhurana3607]

Counties where the majority of adults (25 and up) have a bachelor's degree or higher:

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

So, my university is wiping out all Humanities teaching.

[Erik Baker @erikmbaker]

Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S.

[Nate Mills @natemillssports]

Refugee women in Buffalo are able to earn more money by creating hats because of the Sabres playoff run!

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

A true example of academic integrity. Solidarity with Professor Derek Peterson.

[Christopher Newfield @cnewf]

Yale isn't pausing grad programs like Chicago, but it's cutting them very badly. @yaledailynews

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

This is wild.

All sorts of programs getting the axe at various Ohio universities: chemistry, physics, geography, psychology, data analytics.

Sheesh.

[Carrie Tirado Bramen @CBramen]

In 1967 the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the Feinberg Law was unconstitutional. Justice Brennan wrote: “Our nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us, and not merely to the teachers concerned.”

[Carrie Tirado Bramen @CBramen]

Harry Keyishian, one of five U at Buffalo faculty members who were dismissed in the early 1960s for refusing to sign NY's loyalty oath (Feinberg Law), a vestige of anti-Communist witch hunts, died on April 4 at 93.
https://t.co/NLvgprvlxU

[Mike Prysner @MikePrysner]

Phone has been ringing off the hook. A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about…

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

🚨: February 28, 2026 — Before the world wakes, six planets gather in the morning sky. 🌅✨

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will appear along the pre-dawn ecliptic in a rare multi-planet grouping.

Moments like this don’t come often — and won’t return in a similar configuration until around 2040.

[J. Dale Shoemaker @JDale_Shoemaker]

Breaking: We've obtained video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the Buffalo refugee.

Border Patrol claimed the shop was open. The doors, however were locked. Agents never notified family or lawyers. Shah Alam died 5 days later.

TIMELINE:
https://t.co/mHwgHEobhP