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Academic angst. Angry political re-posts. Religions from the margins. Theater in a Crowded Fire once upon a time. Kalapuya land.

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Pete Seeger – ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ (Live on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1968)
Pete Seeger – ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ (Live on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1968) YouTube video by Wil

"We're waste deep in the big muddy and the big fool said push on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg5...

13.03.2026 17:36 👍 68 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2

Scholars of religion and programs in the study of religion have to step up and speak out about the prevalence of religious bigotry in the US.

12.03.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the largest state university in ohio quite literally banned sidewalk chalk while one of epstein's biggest supporters still has his name all over half the buildings on campus

12.03.2026 23:25 👍 239 🔁 64 💬 5 📌 1

LLMs will not do what he imagines.

But he just made that case that if they do, we should take them away from him to make them into democratically accountable public utilities.

13.03.2026 01:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is a huge unforced error that shows extremely questionable judgment by the national SURJ leadership. WTH?

11.03.2026 21:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a huge unforced error that shows extremely questionable judgment by the national SURJ leadership. WTH? (& just as I was tiptoeing back into my local SURJ chapter, where I know & respect the leadership)

11.03.2026 21:29 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am gobsmacked by all my fellow college teachers who think they can Neville Chamberlain AI. Find some kind of compromise. They think it's just about cheating. They don't get it's about our *jobs.* They tell themselves they can't be replaced. Yes, that's why colleges are investing in teaching bots.

10.03.2026 22:28 👍 171 🔁 28 💬 9 📌 6

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

10.03.2026 20:00 👍 1971 🔁 335 💬 57 📌 0

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself.

Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

10.03.2026 23:56 👍 505 🔁 133 💬 9 📌 7

"Operation Lethally Fragile Masculinity"

11.03.2026 00:36 👍 150 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0

new from now that’s what I call music, it’s the greatest hits of post-9/11 discourse remastered for today!

10.03.2026 19:50 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve so often been disappointed in the CSU administration that this is most welcome surprise!

10.03.2026 02:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San José State University Sues Trump Admin Over Anti-Trans Threats—Refusing to Capitulate The Trump regime said San José State had to break state law to discriminate against trans students, but the university said it isn’t budging.

1. Major news out of San Jose State University.

The University has REJECTED Trump's demands to ban trans people from bathrooms, dorms, and other facilities.

This comes after Trump threatened them for once having a trans student athlete.

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09.03.2026 22:59 👍 1739 🔁 421 💬 14 📌 30

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, very complete is the beginning

09.03.2026 22:32 👍 217 🔁 48 💬 8 📌 0

Given how often I have been disappointed in the CSU (& SJSU) administration, consider me pleasantly surprised:

www.calstate.edu/csu-system/n...

07.03.2026 02:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 30364 🔁 7529 💬 223 📌 238

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

05.03.2026 03:02 👍 12738 🔁 3547 💬 255 📌 93

Yes. The adoption by higher ed institutions of AI is moral injury, as surely as if they asked me to permit in my classroom a student who had assaulted me.

05.03.2026 03:28 👍 94 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

05.03.2026 03:29 👍 1474 🔁 293 💬 17 📌 8

Religion in the U.S.

U.S. Foreign Policy
Christian Zionism.

04.03.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

23.02.2026 19:49 👍 1869 🔁 488 💬 48 📌 45

“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”

23.02.2026 21:56 👍 218 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 2
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK 
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

15.02.2026 17:47 👍 14959 🔁 5413 💬 24 📌 42

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 👍 41477 🔁 14042 💬 659 📌 594

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

15.02.2026 01:53 👍 4154 🔁 845 💬 170 📌 54
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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

12.02.2026 20:24 👍 331 🔁 124 💬 12 📌 18

I'm revoking the scientific finding that gravity keeps us anchored to the earth. See you losers later; I'm going gliding

12.02.2026 20:43 👍 84 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 👍 12095 🔁 4186 💬 86 📌 190

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

11.02.2026 03:49 👍 781 🔁 259 💬 6 📌 6