Amber Buck

Book cover of Composing with AI, featuring a robot with text and images of documents in the background

We're excited to launch our latest book, Composing with AI, edited by Nupoor Ranade and Douglas Eyman. This collection provides educators with frameworks & strategies to integrate AI responsibly into composition practices, emphasizing critical literacy. ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...

Via Andrea Tinker: Alabama’s two Democratic U.S. representatives want the University of Alabama to reinstate two student magazines suspended earlier this month. https://ow.ly/sOi350XKBro

On Dec. 1, university officials told student journalists at Nineteen Fifty-Six, a magazine celebrating Black student culture, and Alice, a magazine centered on women’s fashion and lifestyle, that their publications would be shuttered immediately.

Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.

Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.

We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

X (RIP Twitter) is "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Study: Racial voter turnout gap in Alabama in 2024 was highest in two decades | Alabama Reflector Restrictive voting laws that were introduced in many Republican-led states such as Alabama may be to blame for the divide.

60% of eligible Black voters turned out in Alabama for Obama in 2012, and it hasn't been that high ever since.

Here's an earlier story from @rchapoco.bsky.social at @alabamareflector.com with the data and potential reasons.

alabamareflector.com/2025/03/18/s...

How Alabama Power kept bills up and foes out to become one of the nation's most powerful utilities | Alabama Reflector Lax to nonexistent regulation by Alabama state authorities has meant Alabama Power customers pay some of the highest bills in the nation.

"Among households with extremely low incomes, Alabamians pay nearly a quarter of their earnings for electricity—the highest percentage in the country." alabamareflector.com/2025/11/04/h...

There are so many terrible things about SNAP funding being willfully throttled, and just one of them is being an org trying to figure out how to help without being overwhelmed.

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Our ability to comprehend daily events has been corrupted by a toxic info environment where political & attentional dynamics distort & manipulate our “collective sensemaking” processes. Our “official” sources are now products of that same environment. Reality fractures, along with the social fabric.

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."

As a historian of computing, can confirm, this is exactly what happened

🔥 “If I’m willing to drive three hours to come here and talk, I’m gonna ask you to get off your phone and listen to what I have to say.”

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

"As a college professor, watching the dismantling of America’s education system has been among the most discouraging events of my life."
We agree
@aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Things I have searched for in the past week:
1. How do you get children to sleep in their own beds?
2. Are all 5 year olds sociopaths?
3. How to manage time out effectively
4. How to treat poison ivy

It’s been quite a summer.

If you have the means, can I also recommend setting up a recurring donation? Clinics like WAWC need steady funding that they can rely on, and the attention economy tends to provide funds in surges that then dry up as attention shifts. Recurring donations can help to cover the leaner times.

With all of the chaos brought upon us from this administration, remember: We are the Revolution.

We, the people, deserve better. And, we must fight to get it. Together.

#PoliticalRevolution #WeThePeople #FiftyFiftyOne #ThePeoplesMovement #Grassroots

@50501movement.bsky.social

How to Win a Fight These days it feels like the next fight is always just around the corner. What matters is picking your battles—and knowing how to win.

Everyone's on edge—fighting Trump, Congress, Elon Musk, even each other.

Meanwhile, millions are hitting the streets, standing up for rights under threat. In our latest package, we’ve put together guides to help you stay safe and fight back—wherever you are.

How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

There are not, generally speaking, magic thresholds in social systems. Engaging 3.5 percent of the population in protests does not make change inevitable. The sustained work involved in making so many people turn out can make change much more likely.

I'm seeing a lot of blue state/red state discourse today. This is a reminder that Sarah is right: we're all purple like a bruise. The large protests in states run by the GOP prove that. They're not red, they're hurting.

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Demonstrators gathered at the Federal Building and Courthouse in Tuscaloosa as part of the nationwide 'No Kings' protests on Saturday, June 14, 2025. In one photo, a motorist can be seen shouting at protesters.

More: https://www.al.com/galleries/YI42GPDVTJA2JF6HKOSJC447PI/ 

📸: Ben Flanagan

Photo from Carlin Stiehl from the LA Times. Dozens of people holding American flags on the streets of LA are in frame, with a massive cloud of tear gas billowing in front of them. One protester holds a sign that reads Immigrants Make Us Great.

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

#JournoRequest Hoping I can find #Alabama college students from these countries who have been banned/restricted. Signal: wmorris.07.

Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos. Sierra Leone

Int’l students make America stronger and shape our world. Trump’s attacks on‬ @harvard.edu don’t just threaten one school. They deprive our country of influential‬ leaders for generations. If u came to the U.S. to study at schools under attack,‬ SHARE UR STORY:‬‭ forms.gle/pNpThs2wtSzX1

Tuscaloosa friends, I hope you will join us on June 14th at 6PM. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Think Trump and his band of cronies have gone too far? Want to say enough is enough? This event is for you.

Our event will be happening DURING his $45 million parade
#NoKings @indivisible.org

A large proportion of these canceled awards are focused on broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM, which NSF was mandated to do by Congress. At what point does Congress plan to act to restore the balance of power?