Dave Zeglen
@culturemarxist.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Studies, University of Michigan
LEO - AFT Local 6244 Union Steward, Social Sciences
no gods, no masters
Views my own, not my employer.
LEO - AFT Local 6244 Union Steward, Social Sciences
no gods, no masters
Views my own, not my employer.
Happy Halloween from Twin Peaks!
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Happy Halloween from Twin Peaks!
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October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I understand the irony of me saying this but I tbelieve this is actually true of Michigan. Being surrounded by three Great Lakes does shit
"If you don't like the weather in [INSERT STATE HERE], wait 5 minutes, it'll change" - People from every state
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I understand the irony of me saying this but I tbelieve this is actually true of Michigan. Being surrounded by three Great Lakes does shit
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The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.
October 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.
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My best organizing tip for academic workers (& all workers, but academics esp. can struggle to internalize this IME) is to go to campus workers with less power than you as the *first* step of any campaign. Going to deans etc w/ more power cedes your own power to the boss & shrinks your coalition.
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My best organizing tip for academic workers (& all workers, but academics esp. can struggle to internalize this IME) is to go to campus workers with less power than you as the *first* step of any campaign. Going to deans etc w/ more power cedes your own power to the boss & shrinks your coalition.
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So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
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Trump offers universities funding in exchange for segregation. That’s the clearer way to talk about his “deal.“
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Trump offers universities funding in exchange for segregation. That’s the clearer way to talk about his “deal.“
This is part of what that doc No Other Land was about too - a thriving non violent civil disobedience movement in a small Palestinian town and it was ethnically cleansed
There was the Great March of Return protest of 2018-2019. Peaceful resistance and what did they get for their troubles, shot in their lower extremities
also worthwhile to set the calls for peaceful resistance next to the insistence of the Israeli right and its regime allies on labeling just about all protest and dissent "terrorism" or "terrorist sympathizing" regardless of their actual tactics
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is part of what that doc No Other Land was about too - a thriving non violent civil disobedience movement in a small Palestinian town and it was ethnically cleansed
"Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain."
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...
canadiandimension.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain."
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.
September 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.
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I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
In response to Trump's auto tariffs GM is reshoring by spending $4 billion in expanding production at factories in Michigan, Kansas, and Tennessee. But this isn't going to produce a return to the glory days that MAGA envisions for a couple reasons: (1/3)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
GM Profit Falls as Trump Tariffs Add $1.1 Billion in Costs
General Motors Co. said it suffered a $1.1 billion profit hit from Donald Trump’s tariffs and revealed no plan for a near-term fix to return to pre-tariff profit levels.
www.bloomberg.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In response to Trump's auto tariffs GM is reshoring by spending $4 billion in expanding production at factories in Michigan, Kansas, and Tennessee. But this isn't going to produce a return to the glory days that MAGA envisions for a couple reasons: (1/3)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Can’t stress the importance of labor and community organizing in this moment as shit is about to get qualitatively worse than it is now. If you aren’t a part of a social movement, mutual aid network, or union I would join up as it’s going to be critical in the coming years for social survival
July 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Can’t stress the importance of labor and community organizing in this moment as shit is about to get qualitatively worse than it is now. If you aren’t a part of a social movement, mutual aid network, or union I would join up as it’s going to be critical in the coming years for social survival
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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This week the Dem Party leaders/electeds have:
- helped MAGA pass a shady crypto bill in the Sen enriching Trump
- rallied around an alleged sex pest to be NYC’s mayor
- offered milquetoast responses as the regime unleashed an illegal strike in the ME
And people wonder why the party’s brand is 💩
- helped MAGA pass a shady crypto bill in the Sen enriching Trump
- rallied around an alleged sex pest to be NYC’s mayor
- offered milquetoast responses as the regime unleashed an illegal strike in the ME
And people wonder why the party’s brand is 💩
June 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This week the Dem Party leaders/electeds have:
- helped MAGA pass a shady crypto bill in the Sen enriching Trump
- rallied around an alleged sex pest to be NYC’s mayor
- offered milquetoast responses as the regime unleashed an illegal strike in the ME
And people wonder why the party’s brand is 💩
- helped MAGA pass a shady crypto bill in the Sen enriching Trump
- rallied around an alleged sex pest to be NYC’s mayor
- offered milquetoast responses as the regime unleashed an illegal strike in the ME
And people wonder why the party’s brand is 💩
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Mahmoud Khalil is free.
June 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
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I have never felt so gaslit.
June 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I have never felt so gaslit.
Old Mission Peninsula - Lake Michigan
June 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Old Mission Peninsula - Lake Michigan
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Any Democrat who can’t stand up and speak out now against the Trump-Netanyahu regime change war should not even consider running in 2028. You’re not who this country needs.
June 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Any Democrat who can’t stand up and speak out now against the Trump-Netanyahu regime change war should not even consider running in 2028. You’re not who this country needs.
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Thinking about him again
June 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thinking about him again
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Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”
June 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”