Yo, Teach
@madwomanhighered.bsky.social
coming at you undead from a midwestern R1, proudly destroying the humanities & beta-testing the corporate-state model for authoritarian rule
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@madwomanhighered.bsky.social
· Oct 15
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS
Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.
www.idsnews.com
👀 In addition to this firing, IU admin cancelled the print editions of the student paper (IDS)
What these absolute ghouls don't realize is that these intrepid fucking nerds are just going to build an independent structure (w/ faculty/staff/community) for making & distributing the paper
SUCK IT 👻
What these absolute ghouls don't realize is that these intrepid fucking nerds are just going to build an independent structure (w/ faculty/staff/community) for making & distributing the paper
SUCK IT 👻
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"[T]hese universities are just corporations, hedge funds, capital pools ... weaponiz[ing] the idea that they're interested at all with knowledge and humanity. We can see that they're not, but they are full of human beings like you and me and that's where the potential is."
Graduate student workers are facing unprecedented repression — from mass suspensions & arrests to FBI raids & crackdowns on academic freedom.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social of Working People Podcast reports on how they are fighting back, despite Trump's assault on higher ed.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social of Working People Podcast reports on how they are fighting back, despite Trump's assault on higher ed.
Graduate Student Workers Find Unity Amid Intense Repression
Amid Trump’s attacks on higher education and academic freedom, labor leaders are fighting back.
inthesetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"[T]hese universities are just corporations, hedge funds, capital pools ... weaponiz[ing] the idea that they're interested at all with knowledge and humanity. We can see that they're not, but they are full of human beings like you and me and that's where the potential is."
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Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
November 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
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"Open, affordable, meaning-seeking education once flourished in public unis. Now it is nearly extinct. It doesn’t 'scale.' It doesn’t fit into the strategic plan. It doesn’t compute–which is why the Chatversity wants to eliminate it. But it also shows things can be different. They once were."
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"Open, affordable, meaning-seeking education once flourished in public unis. Now it is nearly extinct. It doesn’t 'scale.' It doesn’t fit into the strategic plan. It doesn’t compute–which is why the Chatversity wants to eliminate it. But it also shows things can be different. They once were."
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👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
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People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed.
A pox on all of their houses.
A pox on all of their houses.
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed.
A pox on all of their houses.
A pox on all of their houses.
academics, especially anti-capitalists, I beg of you:
understand that your university is not a functioning educational institution but a hedge fund that offers classes. you have been trained to be complicit in a system of corporate fascism. your administration is never acting in good faith. NEVER.
understand that your university is not a functioning educational institution but a hedge fund that offers classes. you have been trained to be complicit in a system of corporate fascism. your administration is never acting in good faith. NEVER.
While it's tempting to look at each university's failure as separate incidents they all start in the same place: the financialization of academia. context.center/topics/acade...
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
academics, especially anti-capitalists, I beg of you:
understand that your university is not a functioning educational institution but a hedge fund that offers classes. you have been trained to be complicit in a system of corporate fascism. your administration is never acting in good faith. NEVER.
understand that your university is not a functioning educational institution but a hedge fund that offers classes. you have been trained to be complicit in a system of corporate fascism. your administration is never acting in good faith. NEVER.
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I wonder why criticism of Israel is an exception to the First Amendment in America, almost as if you're attacking God or the King, and why it's always women, nonwhite people, or (most often) nonwhite women who get harassed or lose their jobs?
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I wonder why criticism of Israel is an exception to the First Amendment in America, almost as if you're attacking God or the King, and why it's always women, nonwhite people, or (most often) nonwhite women who get harassed or lose their jobs?
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I wrote about the right wing push to repeal the 19th Amendment, and the mainstreaming of forms of misogyny that were once confined to the political fringe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I wrote about the right wing push to repeal the 19th Amendment, and the mainstreaming of forms of misogyny that were once confined to the political fringe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A+
Fascinating stuff (and yeah, obligatory note that AI is a stupid label, this isn't an LLM etc)
But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science
But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A+
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The AAUP chapter at The New School is fighting back against the university's unilaterally imposed austerity measures!
“We are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together,”
- AAUP The New School
“We are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together,”
- AAUP The New School
The New School Full-Time Faculty Union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council release a joint statement about the administration’s austerity measures - The New School Free Press
The New School Full-Time Faculty Union (FTF), a group of full-time faculty organizing to create a union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council denounced President Joel Towers’ restructuring in a released joi...
www.newschoolfreepress.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The AAUP chapter at The New School is fighting back against the university's unilaterally imposed austerity measures!
“We are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together,”
- AAUP The New School
“We are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together,”
- AAUP The New School
the part about the special-ed teacher who let her create a fake newspaper and write a play 🥲
I was kinda nervous about giving this speech TBH. I don't usually get nervous about public speaking but going to a fancy Washington DC event and talking about fascism and why AI sucks felt like a lot honestly. I was so relieved people seemed to like it.
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
the part about the special-ed teacher who let her create a fake newspaper and write a play 🥲
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I'd like our allies to remember that silence is complicit to the violence against Trans people if witnessing mockery, abuse & threatening behavior
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I'd like our allies to remember that silence is complicit to the violence against Trans people if witnessing mockery, abuse & threatening behavior
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
this doesn't seem like an issue at all no worries no worries
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
this doesn't seem like an issue at all no worries no worries
👀
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
👀
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One of the most enraging parts of this whole fiasco are Corporate Democrats screaming at MAGAs for denying healthcare access—while themselves denying legislation to enshrine healthcare as a human right.
It's like, "How dare you abandon ALL access and not just MOST access like us civilized people??"
It's like, "How dare you abandon ALL access and not just MOST access like us civilized people??"
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the most enraging parts of this whole fiasco are Corporate Democrats screaming at MAGAs for denying healthcare access—while themselves denying legislation to enshrine healthcare as a human right.
It's like, "How dare you abandon ALL access and not just MOST access like us civilized people??"
It's like, "How dare you abandon ALL access and not just MOST access like us civilized people??"
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Yeah because if you eradicate child care workers you destroy infrastructures of care, and you can push more women out of the workforce and into their homes
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yeah because if you eradicate child care workers you destroy infrastructures of care, and you can push more women out of the workforce and into their homes
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This is accurate.
Here is a serious and rigorous analysis in @thelancet.com, backing up the claim. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Here is a serious and rigorous analysis in @thelancet.com, backing up the claim. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is accurate.
Here is a serious and rigorous analysis in @thelancet.com, backing up the claim. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Here is a serious and rigorous analysis in @thelancet.com, backing up the claim. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
👀
The sentences before that reminder are also worth considering: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..."
I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
👀
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I'm not sure I can think of anything funnier than using the term "point-blank range" to refer to the throwing of a sandwich.
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm not sure I can think of anything funnier than using the term "point-blank range" to refer to the throwing of a sandwich.
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fixed it for you:
"From laundering far-right ideas through science journalism to justifying inequality with data, shared delusion is how elites coordinate. Some fucking guy explains to Nature how hubris and neoliberalism work."
"From laundering far-right ideas through science journalism to justifying inequality with data, shared delusion is how elites coordinate. Some fucking guy explains to Nature how hubris and neoliberalism work."
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
fixed it for you:
"From laundering far-right ideas through science journalism to justifying inequality with data, shared delusion is how elites coordinate. Some fucking guy explains to Nature how hubris and neoliberalism work."
"From laundering far-right ideas through science journalism to justifying inequality with data, shared delusion is how elites coordinate. Some fucking guy explains to Nature how hubris and neoliberalism work."
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"Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer ... They just don't. And you can't use riot control weapons against them."
"Mom, it really smells weird out here."
"[T]he wind had picked up the tear gas and was spreading its irritants throughout the neighborhood."
"Why do I have to explain to my 4-year-old why he can't play baseball in the backyard? Why ICE is doing this?"
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[T]he wind had picked up the tear gas and was spreading its irritants throughout the neighborhood."
"Why do I have to explain to my 4-year-old why he can't play baseball in the backyard? Why ICE is doing this?"
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
After Halloween Parade Ruined By Federal Agents, Old Irving Park Neighbors Furious
Old Irving Park welcomes thousands of trick-or-treaters from across the city every Halloween. This year, neighbors are making plans to protect each other from federal agents after Saturday’s violent…
blockclubchicago.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer ... They just don't. And you can't use riot control weapons against them."
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My children have set up a box from which to spy on the brown cuckoo-doves. The cuckoo-doves are suspicious of the giggling box but not enough to pass up the offer of seeds.
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
My children have set up a box from which to spy on the brown cuckoo-doves. The cuckoo-doves are suspicious of the giggling box but not enough to pass up the offer of seeds.
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Studies show that when families who receive SNAP benefits have an able bodied adult, 89% of the time this person is employed
Which indicates many corporations don’t pay workers a living wage-and are thus subsidized by SNAP-yet somehow Republicans never mention this when they cry about “socialism”
Which indicates many corporations don’t pay workers a living wage-and are thus subsidized by SNAP-yet somehow Republicans never mention this when they cry about “socialism”
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Studies show that when families who receive SNAP benefits have an able bodied adult, 89% of the time this person is employed
Which indicates many corporations don’t pay workers a living wage-and are thus subsidized by SNAP-yet somehow Republicans never mention this when they cry about “socialism”
Which indicates many corporations don’t pay workers a living wage-and are thus subsidized by SNAP-yet somehow Republicans never mention this when they cry about “socialism”
composition pedagogy 🤝 civic philosophy
somewhere a comp instructor taught him how to turn a quote into a question & a question into an argument. how to use evidence from texts & think systematically to engage in and contribute to a living idea.
writing (and reading) teaches a democracy to think
somewhere a comp instructor taught him how to turn a quote into a question & a question into an argument. how to use evidence from texts & think systematically to engage in and contribute to a living idea.
writing (and reading) teaches a democracy to think
As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked.
Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.
Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.
October 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
composition pedagogy 🤝 civic philosophy
somewhere a comp instructor taught him how to turn a quote into a question & a question into an argument. how to use evidence from texts & think systematically to engage in and contribute to a living idea.
writing (and reading) teaches a democracy to think
somewhere a comp instructor taught him how to turn a quote into a question & a question into an argument. how to use evidence from texts & think systematically to engage in and contribute to a living idea.
writing (and reading) teaches a democracy to think