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There. Is. No. Constitutional. Prohibition. On. DC. Statehood. These are bad-faith arguments in service of keeping a majority Black city unrepresented in Congress. A mini-thread. /1https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1386072911719505922

Students did NOT experience "learning loss." Students absolutely learned during Covid: how to navigate new and shifting learning environments, persisting when all society's institutions failed them, responding to adversity, on

Of course Prager misquotes Jefferson. The actual quote is "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,

Where are the admins who've been trumpeting their institutions' "commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion?" Why no public stands against this clear threat to both academic freedom and free speech?

A #ScholarStrike thread in anticipation of tomorrow and Wednesday's action. #ScholarStrike is, first and foremost a disruption of the everyday routine in academe, an action by folx in higher ed

Sure, this is amusing, but the Reagan years, and the people who brought them to you, are Trumpism's origin story. They helped build this. Don't let them get away with

Harper's letter signees: we must live in a society where people are free to speak out in a liberal marketplace of ideas and have their voice heardUs: ok some of

So with Hamilton being available to stream, there's been a good deal of discussion on here about how the musical (and be extension Chernow's biography) tries to dodge and/or whitewash

So, this happened today, which was fairly amusing, desperate, and pathetic all wrapped into one fun-sized rhetorical nugget: https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1101224095801196544But I want to say a few things about my university that

So even though Iowa hasn't had a stay-at-home order and only select businesses had closed, apparently enough Iowans "have done the right thing" for our governor to "reopen" the state.

Brooklyn dirtbag brocialists are the fucking worst. "Liberatory praxis is making fun of other lefties' appearance to enhance my snark-cred" *masturbates to Jacobin* Not my joke, but the best label