@mrkenshell
Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University, Social Justice Advocate, Counselor Educator, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, former School Counselor. Posts/RPs my own. Pronouns: He/Him/His
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
"Faculty have long faced harassment from people on and off-campus, Maki said, but these days they are increasingly being surveilled and targeted. Fatal attacks – like recent campus shootings at Brown University and UNC-Chapel Hill – have more than doubled in the past four years."
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"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.
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Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
"Hospital care accounted for nearly one-third of national health expenditures in 2024, and more than doubled in nominal terms over the preceding two decades, making hospitals a major driver of health spending growth over time."
“Important reminder: talking about race isn’t radical: it’s responsible, academic, & necessary!”
#BlackHistoryMonth
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”
How convenient for ICE
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
I will never forget saying that Rittenhouse’s valorization was a sign that white men had been deputized in precisely this way. I believe it got me almost banned on Twitter. Anyway.
Some of the reason I just cannot these days is I feel like I already did.
So a lot of these people were really radicalized during BLM. I think they are trying to create a do-over. This is very much a first person player game for them. Yes there’s some electoral interference shaping up & creating slave labor but more than a little bit of a BLM redo.
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
Exactly what we expected
The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort?
Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
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i think a lot about how the new school was formed in response to nazi tyranny and now faces pressures to become an academic mill
"In other words, once the four AI tools locked onto a person’s age, race, or gender, those factors would form the backbone of the tissue analysis. In effect, AI would go on to replicate bias resulting from gaps in AI training data."
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Ding ding ding
More whitewashing of American history: "Most notably, the Black Abolition, Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights quarters were replaced with quarters that instead commemorate the Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address." theconversation.com/trump-admini...
This is why I say that the p*lice are defunding YOU
One more time, here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread. Please share to get all this great work to all the folks, thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
“Reading became a means to a standardized (and fundable) end, not the magical mana that makes us more fully human.”
When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week.
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
That Time article on how K12 education is "failing" boys bugged me.
- why is it framed around 'competition' with other boys vs competing with girls? Yes, gender segregation begins early, but why is the focus on competition, rather than developing academic & soft skills?
The National Guard should never have been deployed to DC. They are being used to carry out an entirely political agenda that has no grounding in reality and now two members have been severely wounded. President Trump is ultimately responsible for creating this situation. This blood is on his hands.