Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere
opinions mine, mostly bad
site: andyjcarr.com
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305
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Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence
The resurgence of far-right extremist groups—like “sovereign” militias, white supremacists, and avowedly fascist gangs—has exposed the First Amendment’s vulnerabilities to the “leaderless resistance” ...
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu
given how infrequently I’ve published in recent years, let me be a bit selfish and indulgent as I share “Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence” – plus a thread elaborating its arc and aims.
(both the article and the thread are LONG – sorry!!!)
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol31/i...
(both the article and the thread are LONG – sorry!!!)
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol31/i...
finally have my comprehensive 2026 in/out list, with < 4 hours to spare.
in: naps and little snacks
out: misdirected emotions
in: naps and little snacks
out: misdirected emotions
one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM
finally have my comprehensive 2026 in/out list, with < 4 hours to spare.
in: naps and little snacks
out: misdirected emotions
in: naps and little snacks
out: misdirected emotions
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The Union Bug podcast premieres this coming Friday, so there's plenty to support by subscribing to my newsletter, as well. Any little bit helps.
Words About Work
Dispatches from the shop floor.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Union Bug podcast premieres this coming Friday, so there's plenty to support by subscribing to my newsletter, as well. Any little bit helps.
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Oof, okay. This one's a weird, uncomfortable ask. December was an extremely lean month, with half my shit on going on Flex loans, and I'm staring down the barrel of not being able to pay my rent this month. If you dug my work this year and are feeling generous, I could use a leg up.
Mel Buer is creating independent journalism
LA-based independent multimedia journalist. Union member.Covering labor, media, and movements at my newsletter, Words About Work
buymeacoffee.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Oof, okay. This one's a weird, uncomfortable ask. December was an extremely lean month, with half my shit on going on Flex loans, and I'm staring down the barrel of not being able to pay my rent this month. If you dug my work this year and are feeling generous, I could use a leg up.
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Increasingly, I've been interested in understanding the ideas and beliefs that have shaped Silicon Valley and its technologies. "Engagement" is one of them. Far from merely a base economic impulse, the concept did--and continues to do--important ideological work for the high-tech industry
New article out from me and Angèle Christin in the Annals of the AAPSS! In "The Politics of Engagement in Platform Governance," we unpack and historicize the concept of "social media engagement," an idea that has dominated debate over platform politics in recent years.
doi.org/10.1177/0002...
doi.org/10.1177/0002...
The Politics of Engagement in Platform Governance - Becca Lewis, Angèle Christin, 2024
In recent years, the concept of user engagement has dominated debate over the governance of online platforms, and critics use the term to assign crass commercia...
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Increasingly, I've been interested in understanding the ideas and beliefs that have shaped Silicon Valley and its technologies. "Engagement" is one of them. Far from merely a base economic impulse, the concept did--and continues to do--important ideological work for the high-tech industry
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"By the way, if you're looking for a nice explainer/analysis of how "free speech" is weaponized in higher ed, @andycarr.bsky.social has an excellent chapter in our forthcoming book on campus crises that does exactly that in an accessible, yet thorough, fashion. (it's available for pre-order now! 😁)
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"By the way, if you're looking for a nice explainer/analysis of how "free speech" is weaponized in higher ed, @andycarr.bsky.social has an excellent chapter in our forthcoming book on campus crises that does exactly that in an accessible, yet thorough, fashion. (it's available for pre-order now! 😁)
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Meanwhile, my state of NC is making it mandatory for faculty to submit their syllabi to a central collection site for public access. And a scouring of FIRE's website shows absolutely no mention of this existential threat to academic freedom whatsoever.
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Meanwhile, my state of NC is making it mandatory for faculty to submit their syllabi to a central collection site for public access. And a scouring of FIRE's website shows absolutely no mention of this existential threat to academic freedom whatsoever.
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Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
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Looking for a postdoc in American politics? Come work with us in Ann Arbor! No obligations other than research. Preference for institutions-focused work, but we’re open to a wide range of substantive interests (including local politics!). Happy to answer any questions: apply.interfolio.com/178829
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Looking for a postdoc in American politics? Come work with us in Ann Arbor! No obligations other than research. Preference for institutions-focused work, but we’re open to a wide range of substantive interests (including local politics!). Happy to answer any questions: apply.interfolio.com/178829
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A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the interior.
(also: FOURTEEN HUNDRED? DOLLARS?? PER SQUARE FOOT??? unhinged 😵💫)
(also: FOURTEEN HUNDRED? DOLLARS?? PER SQUARE FOOT??? unhinged 😵💫)
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the interior.
(also: FOURTEEN HUNDRED? DOLLARS?? PER SQUARE FOOT??? unhinged 😵💫)
(also: FOURTEEN HUNDRED? DOLLARS?? PER SQUARE FOOT??? unhinged 😵💫)
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Samwise made an appearance in the background of today's new CMD YouTube video.
For every like on this YouTube Short, Sam gets ear scritches. For every comment, he gets belly rubs.
youtube.com/shorts/nSktL...
For every like on this YouTube Short, Sam gets ear scritches. For every comment, he gets belly rubs.
youtube.com/shorts/nSktL...
When your producer is a CAT and he’s had enough
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy
youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Samwise made an appearance in the background of today's new CMD YouTube video.
For every like on this YouTube Short, Sam gets ear scritches. For every comment, he gets belly rubs.
youtube.com/shorts/nSktL...
For every like on this YouTube Short, Sam gets ear scritches. For every comment, he gets belly rubs.
youtube.com/shorts/nSktL...
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"LLMs have amplified the problem dramatically, but there was already tremendous pressure to [produce output] ... higher education has been organized around the production of knowledge-shaped objects, measured in citations, conferences, and grants” – via Anthony Moser, quoted in this (great) account
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"LLMs have amplified the problem dramatically, but there was already tremendous pressure to [produce output] ... higher education has been organized around the production of knowledge-shaped objects, measured in citations, conferences, and grants” – via Anthony Moser, quoted in this (great) account
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DEI isn't why you didn't get a job. THERE ARE NO JOBS. YOU DIDN'T GET A JOB BECAUSE THERE ARE NO JOBS. If all the older professors retired? You still wouldn't get a job! Not in the humanities! Because they'll replace at best half of those lines! There will still be no jobs! None!
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
DEI isn't why you didn't get a job. THERE ARE NO JOBS. YOU DIDN'T GET A JOB BECAUSE THERE ARE NO JOBS. If all the older professors retired? You still wouldn't get a job! Not in the humanities! Because they'll replace at best half of those lines! There will still be no jobs! None!
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Further down thread it says 170 fac have been given offers (buyouts, retirements). If not enough take them there will be “involuntary separations.” 170! Think of the collective yrs of training, specialization, teaching, the number of students taught, advised, mentored, the wealth of KNOWLEDGE.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Further down thread it says 170 fac have been given offers (buyouts, retirements). If not enough take them there will be “involuntary separations.” 170! Think of the collective yrs of training, specialization, teaching, the number of students taught, advised, mentored, the wealth of KNOWLEDGE.
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Action alert: UVA's board is meeting today and reportedly intends to name a new president, despite calls to pause the search until a fair process can be put into place. Students, UVA workers, union members, concerned community--please come out & tell the BoV to stop the search.
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Action alert: UVA's board is meeting today and reportedly intends to name a new president, despite calls to pause the search until a fair process can be put into place. Students, UVA workers, union members, concerned community--please come out & tell the BoV to stop the search.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
so incredibly proud to know Danielle, who has been a tireless organizer, advocate, and a moral compass for our community, and a great friend — no one better to be the face of our outcry.
so incredibly proud to know Danielle, who has been a tireless organizer, advocate, and a moral compass for our community, and a great friend — no one better to be the face of our outcry.
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
so incredibly proud to know Danielle, who has been a tireless organizer, advocate, and a moral compass for our community, and a great friend — no one better to be the face of our outcry.
so incredibly proud to know Danielle, who has been a tireless organizer, advocate, and a moral compass for our community, and a great friend — no one better to be the face of our outcry.
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You gotta link, Jake! Some of us will eventually(?) find the time to read the whole thing! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...
www.dropbox.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You gotta link, Jake! Some of us will eventually(?) find the time to read the whole thing! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...
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No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
back on my bullshit (prowling newspapers dot com for sources) and there was this jarring little find: the single-payer plan was killed in the Senate 16 years ago today (Dec. 16, 2009).
![header of a newspaper reading: "[page] 4 A – Thursday, December 17, 2009"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreibhcyhmnx2t7cygfnhaodxndn2xaknopjatjwv5wii4v3gjnhipqy@jpeg)
![Partial clip of an article titled "Single-payer plan dies in Senate"
Article text reads in part:
"David Espo [byline]
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday [December 16] in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies 'are no longer needed.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreice5dgb3utuajdfzgofnpe33tv6yfd7grrkhamjm2juw7qnutjfre@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
back on my bullshit (prowling newspapers dot com for sources) and there was this jarring little find: the single-payer plan was killed in the Senate 16 years ago today (Dec. 16, 2009).
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🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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In a transparent move to balance its budget on workers' backs, BU has moved to hire underpaid UK adjuncts to teach on the College of General Studies' London summer program. For the BU faculty who usually do this work, this means losing nearly half their income.
Petition for allies to sign:
Petition for allies to sign:
A Message to the Boston University Community
Don’t Break Up a Winning Team! Protect Team Teaching at CGS.
We the undersigned oppose the systematic hiring of temporary gig employees to replace experienced full time faculty at CGS in 2026. Thi...
docs.google.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In a transparent move to balance its budget on workers' backs, BU has moved to hire underpaid UK adjuncts to teach on the College of General Studies' London summer program. For the BU faculty who usually do this work, this means losing nearly half their income.
Petition for allies to sign:
Petition for allies to sign:
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The world’s most ineffective paralegal
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The world’s most ineffective paralegal
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Reposted on the anniversary of Antonio Negri's passing.
www.e-flux.com/notes/583571...
www.e-flux.com/notes/583571...
Our Anomaly: On Antonio Negri - Notes - e-flux
Jason Read remembers Antonio Negri
www.e-flux.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted on the anniversary of Antonio Negri's passing.
www.e-flux.com/notes/583571...
www.e-flux.com/notes/583571...
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The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.