Coleman Allums
@colemanallums.net
Geographer at Allegheny College | Neo-Classical Luddite
For the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
The South got something to say.
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For the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
The South got something to say.
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Coleman Allums
@colemanallums.net
· Feb 2
Alright, I’ve got the flu and I’m tired of doomscrolling.
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
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Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
We really do live in hell
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We really do live in hell
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
I, personally, will never forget or forgive the careless terrorism of this exercise.
I know too many whose personal and professional lives were mutilated by a handful of incurious ideologues, saw too much good, careful, lifesaving work go up in smoke.
I know too many whose personal and professional lives were mutilated by a handful of incurious ideologues, saw too much good, careful, lifesaving work go up in smoke.
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I, personally, will never forget or forgive the careless terrorism of this exercise.
I know too many whose personal and professional lives were mutilated by a handful of incurious ideologues, saw too much good, careful, lifesaving work go up in smoke.
I know too many whose personal and professional lives were mutilated by a handful of incurious ideologues, saw too much good, careful, lifesaving work go up in smoke.
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If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite books:
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite books:
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If I could solve one ubiquitous problem, it’d be the public’s manifestly inadequate understanding of what ‘politics’ is.
"Particularly prosaic were the visitors who told me they ❤️ national parks but shrugged over 'politics.' Here they were, enjoying one of the great benefits of their democratic republic, yet refusing to participate. 'The 🇺🇸 ppl need to think abt what they really want in a system of protected places."
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If I could solve one ubiquitous problem, it’d be the public’s manifestly inadequate understanding of what ‘politics’ is.
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On Hiking Without Maps
open.substack.com/pub/jaaronsi...
open.substack.com/pub/jaaronsi...
On Hiking Without Maps
Or, Why Liberal Arts Education Is the Best Hope for Our Future
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
On Hiking Without Maps
open.substack.com/pub/jaaronsi...
open.substack.com/pub/jaaronsi...
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Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
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A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
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If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
Death cult. There’s nothing else to say. Utter madness.
September 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Death cult. There’s nothing else to say. Utter madness.
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This. America is, if anything, a dramatically stifled society because everyone is afraid to engage in acts of human goodwill lest they be torted into oblivion.
I think selling government regulations not as an alternative to "freedom!" but as an alternative to "everyone constantly sues each other over everything" would be a good idea bsky.app/profile/mich...
the balance rn is that you can sell whatever you want and buy whatever you want but you might kill your family with what you buy and then the person selling it might lose all their property as punishment and then it keeps going like that
it's not a great solution tbf
it's not a great solution tbf
August 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This. America is, if anything, a dramatically stifled society because everyone is afraid to engage in acts of human goodwill lest they be torted into oblivion.
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Two things can be true:
1) I hope Cristian Roldan starts next to Tyler Adams in the USMNT's pair of friendlies this month.
2) It's hilarious that the tenure of the USMNT's highest-profile, highest-paid foreign manager is actively being defined by his love for MLS players.
1) I hope Cristian Roldan starts next to Tyler Adams in the USMNT's pair of friendlies this month.
2) It's hilarious that the tenure of the USMNT's highest-profile, highest-paid foreign manager is actively being defined by his love for MLS players.
TEAM NEWS: Cristian Roldan has been added to the #USMNT roster for September camp.
📰 ussoc.cr/9a7042
📰 ussoc.cr/9a7042
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Two things can be true:
1) I hope Cristian Roldan starts next to Tyler Adams in the USMNT's pair of friendlies this month.
2) It's hilarious that the tenure of the USMNT's highest-profile, highest-paid foreign manager is actively being defined by his love for MLS players.
1) I hope Cristian Roldan starts next to Tyler Adams in the USMNT's pair of friendlies this month.
2) It's hilarious that the tenure of the USMNT's highest-profile, highest-paid foreign manager is actively being defined by his love for MLS players.
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thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
August 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
Paul Virilio has that devastating line about how the invention of the ship implies the invention of the shipwreck, how the latter—as “accidental”—betrays the true substance of the former.
I can’t stop thinking about guns and school shootings through the same schema.
I can’t stop thinking about guns and school shootings through the same schema.
August 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Paul Virilio has that devastating line about how the invention of the ship implies the invention of the shipwreck, how the latter—as “accidental”—betrays the true substance of the former.
I can’t stop thinking about guns and school shootings through the same schema.
I can’t stop thinking about guns and school shootings through the same schema.
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You know it’s back to school season in America because we are back to having school shootings.
August 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You know it’s back to school season in America because we are back to having school shootings.
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The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
August 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
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Great charts from the Atlanta Fed showing small businesses are getting hit hardest by the trade war (largely because they are more exposed to Chinese imports and have less ability to borrow money while they shift supply chains)
www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macrob...
www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macrob...
August 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Great charts from the Atlanta Fed showing small businesses are getting hit hardest by the trade war (largely because they are more exposed to Chinese imports and have less ability to borrow money while they shift supply chains)
www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macrob...
www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macrob...