Dave J
@docjohnson.bsky.social
Classicist, union activist, university professor, saying nothing much but all in my private capacity.
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“A philosophy professor resigns in protest of the Trump administration's "brazen demands to indoctrinate, not educate."” #philsky #philosophy #academicfreedom #highered #academia #freespeech #insoctri
West Point Philosophy Professor Resigns After Trump’s Incursions on Academic Freedom (updated) - Daily Nous
"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ash...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“A philosophy professor resigns in protest of the Trump administration's "brazen demands to indoctrinate, not educate."” #philsky #philosophy #academicfreedom #highered #academia #freespeech #insoctri
Think of all the money we will save now that we don't need judges any more.
March 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Think of all the money we will save now that we don't need judges any more.
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Other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇨🇦
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇨🇦
A powerful account of a man who risked everything to oppose the KKK in the 1920s, suffered much, and ended up winning.
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
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February 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A powerful account of a man who risked everything to oppose the KKK in the 1920s, suffered much, and ended up winning.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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Check out what national unions representing higher ed workers and researchers are cooking up for next Wednesday! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social @highered-cb.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social
www.labor4highered.org
www.labor4highered.org
Labor for Higher Education
www.labor4highered.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Check out what national unions representing higher ed workers and researchers are cooking up for next Wednesday! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social @highered-cb.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social
www.labor4highered.org
www.labor4highered.org
Words and terms matter. Fort Bragg (a lousy general by any standard) and the "Gulf of America" are actually of a piece with 19th century plans to expand the US southwards in order to provide a common foe and avoid civil war.
www.ap.org/the-definiti...
www.ap.org/the-definiti...
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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February 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Words and terms matter. Fort Bragg (a lousy general by any standard) and the "Gulf of America" are actually of a piece with 19th century plans to expand the US southwards in order to provide a common foe and avoid civil war.
www.ap.org/the-definiti...
www.ap.org/the-definiti...
Money quote for schools like mine: “If you’re a school that is R2 or just creeping into R1, ... this could be a very difficult cut when you’re just starting to make progress in research the way you want to. Those are schools that I worry about a lot in this.”
www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
Research Universities Are Poised to Lose Billions Under Trump’s Sudden Cut
The NIH’s decision late Friday to drastically shrink its reimbursement of indirect costs, which help pay for facilities, equipment, and staff to support grants, will have an immediate impact on higher...
www.chronicle.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Money quote for schools like mine: “If you’re a school that is R2 or just creeping into R1, ... this could be a very difficult cut when you’re just starting to make progress in research the way you want to. Those are schools that I worry about a lot in this.”
www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
A good account of what people are doing to resist and how one can help.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A good account of what people are doing to resist and how one can help.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
This cynical line from Orson Welles' ev il character in the Third Man has been strangely comforting of late. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance . . . .
February 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This cynical line from Orson Welles' ev il character in the Third Man has been strangely comforting of late. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance . . . .
There's a very clear summary of the current shock & awe campaign here.
donmoynihan.substack.com?utm_source=n...
donmoynihan.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Can We Still Govern? | Don Moynihan | Substack
improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens. Click to read "Can We Still Govern?", by Don Moynihan, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There's a very clear summary of the current shock & awe campaign here.
donmoynihan.substack.com?utm_source=n...
donmoynihan.substack.com?utm_source=n...
NYT catches plenty of flak for not being clear enough about the current crisis. This is plenty clear. (Free link.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab (Gift Article)
In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NYT catches plenty of flak for not being clear enough about the current crisis. This is plenty clear. (Free link.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
God bless the Onion. It is America’s finest news source.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
God bless the Onion. It is America’s finest news source.
So the guy who couldn’t even make it in Atlantic City is going to do Gaza. I guess he figures genocide is good for business. (Disbursing Palestinians so as to destroy their identity counts under standard definitions.)
February 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So the guy who couldn’t even make it in Atlantic City is going to do Gaza. I guess he figures genocide is good for business. (Disbursing Palestinians so as to destroy their identity counts under standard definitions.)
It sure seems like Musk ought to be separable from Trump. That’s how things tend to work in autocracies: the leader is not touchable, but his henchmen are. Musk of course isn’t an average henchman; but he didn’t get any votes. So go after him, eh?
February 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
It sure seems like Musk ought to be separable from Trump. That’s how things tend to work in autocracies: the leader is not touchable, but his henchmen are. Musk of course isn’t an average henchman; but he didn’t get any votes. So go after him, eh?
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As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...
www.aaup.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
This one does rather say it all.
February 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This one does rather say it all.
I don't think journalists would even have asked any previous president to speculate on who was to blame for a crash the night before. But they knew Trump would toss out some ignorant nonsense that will harm people who had no responsibility at all for the crash.
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I don't think journalists would even have asked any previous president to speculate on who was to blame for a crash the night before. But they knew Trump would toss out some ignorant nonsense that will harm people who had no responsibility at all for the crash.
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No words.
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
No words.
The US is exceptional. I'm not an expert on authoritarianism, though we are all getting a crash course. But the two cases I know something about were much less efficient in their embrace of tyranny.
In 403 BCE Athens had lost a long grueling war, suffered a plague . . .
In 403 BCE Athens had lost a long grueling war, suffered a plague . . .
January 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The US is exceptional. I'm not an expert on authoritarianism, though we are all getting a crash course. But the two cases I know something about were much less efficient in their embrace of tyranny.
In 403 BCE Athens had lost a long grueling war, suffered a plague . . .
In 403 BCE Athens had lost a long grueling war, suffered a plague . . .
Another profound insight I would like to share.
Why does Trump want to buy Greenland? The Mercator Projection.
You're welcome.
Why does Trump want to buy Greenland? The Mercator Projection.
You're welcome.
December 23, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Another profound insight I would like to share.
Why does Trump want to buy Greenland? The Mercator Projection.
You're welcome.
Why does Trump want to buy Greenland? The Mercator Projection.
You're welcome.
Hot take for my audience of one. The newfound prevalence of the term kakistocracy will lead to a new golden age in the study of ancient Greek.
December 10, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Hot take for my audience of one. The newfound prevalence of the term kakistocracy will lead to a new golden age in the study of ancient Greek.
There may be a case for a pardon. It hasn’t changed since Joe promised not to pardon.
December 2, 2024 at 2:16 AM
There may be a case for a pardon. It hasn’t changed since Joe promised not to pardon.
Joe Biden was surprisingly effective as POTUS. If he had stuck to his plan to serve one term, he would have an impressive legacy. The dems could have beaten Trump. Or Trump may not even have won the primary. And Hunter may not have been prosecuted.
December 2, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Joe Biden was surprisingly effective as POTUS. If he had stuck to his plan to serve one term, he would have an impressive legacy. The dems could have beaten Trump. Or Trump may not even have won the primary. And Hunter may not have been prosecuted.