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I can see this is about to escape containment so let me just say, I was neither an anarchist or in a union back then but I was involved in the huge Melbourne 2000 anti-WEF protest. The biggest labor orgs hung back until thousands of people had already shown up (not for want of reaching out, either)

Yes, and not only bc of the presence of anarchosyndicalists/IWW etc -- way to erase the influence of the entire global south, Zapatistas, and transnational left World Social Forum networks which weren't exactly non-anarchist

The thread makes *what* very clear?

I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

It's clear that the student planted that paper as a trap. But I hate how knowing that turns into "Queer and trans profs, don't make political comments on students' papers." As if that will stop them! It's open season on us, no matter how we grade

There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.

the silence = death shirt is a nod to ACTUP & i’m in my office where in the background is a fan that’s rainbow & says END HIV

today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day

in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day

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Not only is this plain historically wrong, but labor unions were some of the most conservative and late to the party elements of counterglobalization movements. Then they claimed responsibility for the successes of the movement (and continue to do so lol)

1999 WTO is the single worst historical event to argue the anarchists were outside agitators creating chaos for a genuine and good movement. Like, they will try to argue it about every social movement but the anarchist role as mediators and movement-connectors in 99 was just so thoroughly documented

If I was working at OU, I would just start handing out 100's to every student and stop writing comments.

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

Attack on the Department of Education: What Black Borrowers Need to Know Black college students and Black borrowers could be impacted by the shuffling of agency responsibilities.

programs to be moved out of the Education Dept that affect Black students include Title I, which provides ~ $20B annually to low-income districts, and Title III, which supports and strengthens HBCUs. Both will be relocated to the Department of Labor. #BlackskyNews

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.

ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

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in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.

Northwestern and its Feinberg School of Medicine shall not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries, including but not limited to mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and/or any other procedure intended to alter an individual's sex characteristics, on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately upon the Effective Date of this Agreement. a. Northwestern shall revise all policies, protocols, and public-facing materials at Feinberg School of Medicine to reflect the commitment set forth in this paragraph on hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries to individuals under the age of 18 years old and ensure compliance with federal laws. b. Northwestern shall notify all faculty and administrators of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern's commitments set forth above regarding transgender surgeries on minors within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date.

the agreement finally forces the university to "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries" on minors.

Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.

I couldn’t possibly love this any more.

Took the toddler swimming today and when she got out of the pool, she said “Thanks you pool for swimming in the water!” She also thanked the door for opening earlier. Never knew “thank you” could become a toddler’s favorite word tbh

There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.

Also, any lawyer or university administrator who uses "socialize" this way deserves to be locked in a lecture hall with the ghost of Talcott Parsons reading out loud from "The Social Structure of the Family."

Regime stenographers

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed