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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

Hard not to come away with a sense that (however they might vote) many a university's leadership agrees with the Tr*mpist vision on some visceral level. They think they have erred in allowing *those people* access to any level of power, say or attention, and they're only too happy to course correct.

kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.

Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.

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Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books

Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d

These are amazing bits of governmental communication.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939.
www.ssa.gov/history/puba...

Poster from 1936 says: Join the March to Old Age Security, with a long line of happy people

Poster with picture of old man holding pipe: More Security for the American Family (1939)

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939.
www.ssa.gov/history/puba...

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 8d

Zek. I can’t believe I never realized.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 8d

How am I only learning this now?

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 8d

These are good people be like them.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 8d

As a principle, we try negotiate starting salary on behalf of the candidate before making an offer and max out the band. Like if they say up to X, I always want to start at X because not everybody negotiates as well, and I want my new colleague to get the most money possible.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 8d

As a principle, we try negotiate starting salary on behalf of the candidate before making an offer and max out the band. Like if they say up to X, I always want to start at X because not everybody negotiates as well, and I want my new colleague to get the most money possible.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 12d

Just reading about how a 1987 episode of Crossfire, a serious news program, was titled "Does Rock Music Cause AIDS?"

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

Time to work on my music censorship lecture and that means revisiting one of my favorite 1980s censorship books. I always wonder if Tippers daughter ever throws on Prince today just to see her mom’s reaction.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

My version of this is "cite that dude that wrote that paper on the thing."

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

Reminds me of 2016 aftermath and a colleague said that Clinton spent too much time on trans issues. I asked them to show me evidence that she spent any time on trans issues. It then transitions to "well people believer she did." And I wept a bit that a political science colleague could be duped

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13d

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.

i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 13d

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

Fake ABC ad: At the request of the president, Abbott Elementary is white now

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13d

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.

i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 14d

Well this is concerning. The fact that it was divided at the panel is already nuts but continuing this easy case is ridiculous.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit decided that it will be rehearing the case over West Texas A&M's effort to ban a charity drag show from campus. The panel, on a 2-1 vote, sided with the student group.

The Fifth Circuit decided to go en banc even after the school didn't seek en banc review.

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
No. 23-10994
United Slates Circtif Appeals
FILED
October 27, 2025
Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
SPECTRUM WT; BARRETT BRIGHT; LAUREN STOVALL,
Plaintiffs- Appellants,
versus
WALTER WENDLER; DR. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS; JOHN SHARP;
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON; JAMES R. BROOKS; JAY GRAHAM; TIM LEACH; BILL MAHOMES; ELAINE MENDOZA; MICHAEL J.
PLANK; CLIFF THOMAS; DEMETRIUS L. HARRELL, JR.;
MICHAEL A. HERNANDEz, Ill,
Defendants- Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 2:23-CV-48
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
(Opinion August 18, 2025, 5 CIR., 2025, 151 F.4th 714)
Before ELROD, Chief Judge, and JONES, SMITH, STEWART, RICHMAN, SOUTHWICK, HAYNES, GRAVES, HIGGINSON, DOUGETS, Hout JuGs, ENGELHARDT, OLDHAM, WILSON, and

PER CURIAM:
A majority of the circuit judges in regular active service and not disqualified having voted in favor, on the Court's own motion, to rehear this case en banc,
IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs. Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 41.3, the panel opinion in this case dated August 18, 2025, is
VACATED.
*Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez, did not participate in the consideration of the rehearing en banc.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit decided that it will be rehearing the case over West Texas A&M's effort to ban a charity drag show from campus. The panel, on a 2-1 vote, sided with the student group.

The Fifth Circuit decided to go en banc even after the school didn't seek en banc review.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 14d

Trying to actual finish my guest lecture for tomorrow because I'm a responsible guest and I am well-prepared and love this image from the Mapplethorpe obscenity trial fight in Cincinnati.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 15d

Wait a sec. Noted war criminal John Yoo who thinks presidents have a divine right to commit crimes against humanity thinks this is the line. Wow.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15d

yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

As an official in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, I was at my desk on Sept. 11, 2001. I advised that the U.S. could wage war against al-Qaeda without blurring the distinction between crime and war. After 9/11, the U.S. declared that it would wage war for the first time against an organization, rather than a nation. But the drug cartels alone do not present
a similar challenge that rises to the level of war.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15d

yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 16d

Another on my pile of depressing things I should read.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16d

Finished copies are here and they are *stunning*

Finished copies of WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime by Sarah Weinman (Ecco, November 11, 2025) arranged with the spine visible for all but one, whose green front cover is displayed in the center

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16d

Finished copies are here and they are *stunning*

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 16d

It’s hard to communicate how pissed I was at this boring fucking mess. Once Rebecca Ferguson left the screen there was no longer a reason to watch. Just repetitive bullshit trying to be tense and profound.

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 17d

A House of Dynamite is a gripping nuclear thriller... that makes no sense?

Here, finally, is my piece about what experts have to say about the movie (short 🧵 and then I'll do another 🧵 on what I think about it)....

www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war

Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true.

www.npr.org

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 17d

Me wondering if my sabbatical request for next Fall is more or less likely to be granted given my fights with admin recently. On the one hand, some of them really hate me. On the other, I won't be paying close attention to terrible things they do.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 17d

If the story was he had covered it up and owned the mistake years ago, I'd be inclined to not care. Even if he was actually a Nazi because I have to believe people can change and ex-Nazis do happen - though I'd want more evidence in that case of change. This shit is absurd.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 17d

WTF is this shit?! I'm sorry but I'm happy to say that my tent is not big enough for fucking Nazi tattoos because the people who get fucking Nazi tattoos are typically FUCKING NAZIS. If this was a mistake, then one would hope he would have taken care of it a decade ago when it happened.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17d

This fuckin guy again

The Atlantic

Headline: How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go?

Subhed: Many in the party say it needs a wider range of candidates to run. Does that include people with Nazi tattoos?

By Tyler Austin Harper

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17d

This fuckin guy again

kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17d

Surprise–Utah just quietly banned its 19th book from *every single public school* in the state.

THIRTEEN REASONS WHY was banned yesterday. It must be removed from every public school statewide.

bookriot.com/utah-bans-th...

Utah Quietly Bans Its 19th Book from All State Public Schools

Utah just quietly banned THIRTEEN REASONS WHY from all public schools across the state. It's their 19th state-sanctioned book ban.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 17d

A House of Dynamite is a gripping nuclear thriller... that makes no sense?

Here, finally, is my piece about what experts have to say about the movie (short 🧵 and then I'll do another 🧵 on what I think about it)....

www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war

Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true.

www.npr.org

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 18d

I also like when he publicly outed gay students using files he allegedly stole from Dartmouths Gay and lesbian student group.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19d

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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