Kendall Gerdes
@kendalljoy.bsky.social
rhetoric · queer theory · feminism · ink · drafting with bluesky
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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If you still wear a mask at all, even just when sick or at the hospital or on public transit, THANK YOU!
If you still try to isolate or protect others when you are sick, THANK YOU.
If you still test for COVID when you have any symptoms, THANK YOU.
If you still try to isolate or protect others when you are sick, THANK YOU.
If you still test for COVID when you have any symptoms, THANK YOU.
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you still wear a mask at all, even just when sick or at the hospital or on public transit, THANK YOU!
If you still try to isolate or protect others when you are sick, THANK YOU.
If you still test for COVID when you have any symptoms, THANK YOU.
If you still try to isolate or protect others when you are sick, THANK YOU.
If you still test for COVID when you have any symptoms, THANK YOU.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
Tofu bahn mi at lunch with friend!
whats something thats not bad
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Tofu bahn mi at lunch with friend!
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
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A coalition of over 200 people came together today at the office of Marc Rowan in NYC, a private equity billionaire & architect of Trump’s university loyalty oath compact, to defend higher education!
Higher education belongs to the students, faculty, and staff—not to billionaires & authoritarians!
Higher education belongs to the students, faculty, and staff—not to billionaires & authoritarians!
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A coalition of over 200 people came together today at the office of Marc Rowan in NYC, a private equity billionaire & architect of Trump’s university loyalty oath compact, to defend higher education!
Higher education belongs to the students, faculty, and staff—not to billionaires & authoritarians!
Higher education belongs to the students, faculty, and staff—not to billionaires & authoritarians!
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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A Wednesday ICE arrest at Salt Lake City International Airport sparked debate about bystander action during detainments.
An ICE arrest at SLC airport sparked debate about bystander action. Here’s what Utah’s leading civil rights group says is allowed.
A Wednesday ICE arrest at Salt Lake City International Airport sparked debate about bystander action during detainments.
www.sltrib.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A Wednesday ICE arrest at Salt Lake City International Airport sparked debate about bystander action during detainments.
@sltrib.com Are y’all reporting on this?
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
@sltrib.com Are y’all reporting on this?
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Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
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The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing!
✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona
🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas
Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona
🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas
Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing!
✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona
🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas
Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona
🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas
Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
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House holds pro forma sessions every few days. Even today. It’s on their schedule! The purpose: meet Article I, Sec. 5 “three-day rule.” No gaps of more than 3 days are permitted without Senate OK. Two Florida Republicans were sworn in during pro forma earlier this year. So why not Adelita Grijalva?
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
House holds pro forma sessions every few days. Even today. It’s on their schedule! The purpose: meet Article I, Sec. 5 “three-day rule.” No gaps of more than 3 days are permitted without Senate OK. Two Florida Republicans were sworn in during pro forma earlier this year. So why not Adelita Grijalva?
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UVA out. UT the weakest remaining invitee, and they'll look like a store brand R1 if Abbot forces them to accept. Toasted O's lookin' state school. University of Choco-Puffs.
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
UVA out. UT the weakest remaining invitee, and they'll look like a store brand R1 if Abbot forces them to accept. Toasted O's lookin' state school. University of Choco-Puffs.
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
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University of Utah faculty: Get ready for Faculty Union Fridays! Wear your AAUP stickers, shirts, or pins today and every Friday!
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
University of Utah faculty: Get ready for Faculty Union Fridays! Wear your AAUP stickers, shirts, or pins today and every Friday!
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It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.
The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.
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🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
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Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.
Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.
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Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
🖤
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🖤
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Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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Incredible disorganization, I don't think they even HAVE a plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Incredible disorganization, I don't think they even HAVE a plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...