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Diane Davis

@d3davis.bsky.social

Professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy

Gift.

17.09.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How’s your Saturday goin’?

13.09.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Former UT President Jay Hartzell initiated a review of the program in February, warning faculty that Republican legislators were scrutinizing it. Two months later, the program was suddenly dropped, effective immediately." I ran that program for 23 years. It taught students to write.

27.07.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Attorney General Alerted Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

Gift article. BYOPopcorn.

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We’re hiring ! The Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the theory/history of rhetoric to begin in Fall of academic year 2026-27. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167807

24.05.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

Gift article for you.

15.05.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Full weekend.

10.02.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All these β€” rat a rat

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Congrats, hot shot!

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There have been 426 school shootings since Columbine The Washington Post for years has tracked the number of students affected by school shootings. Since 1999, over 300,000 children have experienced gun violence during school hours.

Gift Article. Yesterday in Wisconsin, it was a 2nd grader who called 911.

17.12.2024 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Get your PhD in rhetoric at UT!

Flier: utexas.box.com/v/drw-flier-...
Further particulars: liberalarts.utexas.edu/rhetoric/gra...
PhD Career Outcomes: liberalarts.utexas.edu/rhetoric/gra...

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These people will absolutely try to topple the 14th amendment, which is the keystone on which Brown v Board rests. Remains to be seen whether SCOTUS goes along but I don’t feel hopeful about American freedom and equality. This has been a long project by the Federalist Society and their ilk.

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β€œI’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

05.12.2024 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 28258    πŸ” 5145    πŸ’¬ 304    πŸ“Œ 224

Same with women at hotels attending conferences?

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πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

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Is there any way to keep TFG from following us?

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Trump Picks Stanford Physician Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to Head N.I.H. As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $47 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.

Breaking News: Donald Trump has picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an author of a pandemic-era anti-lockdown treatise, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

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puke

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meanwhile.... Trump....Musk....and on and on. This is not a real argument.

25.11.2024 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh...good... 🫠

23.11.2024 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why nobody likes you. Miss the big picture much?

18.11.2024 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an β€œecho chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

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awww...

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Leeeeeeak the repooooooooort....

15.11.2024 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

of course he did...

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Trump picks and why he picked them:

L - Loyalty
R - Retribution
D - Deal made in exchange for support
Ru - Russia wanted it
C - competency/expertise

Chief of staff: Susie Wiles (L, D)
Secretary of state: Marco Rubio (L, Ru)
Attorney general: Matt Gaetz (R)
Deputy AG: Todd Blanche (L)

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WATCH @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump testing Senate Republicans with his Matt Gaetz pick: "He basically wants them to crawl through the Capitol in their underwear and eat dog food out of a can in front of everyone like some fraternity hazing ritual. This is a humiliation exercise."

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Both democrat and republican senators are calling for the House Ethics committee to release the Gaetz report.

15.11.2024 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6149    πŸ” 850    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 53

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