Preston Rudy
@pordy24.bsky.social
Sociologist, retired professor; interests - unions, democracy as action, history as context, Int’l comparisons, languages, multicultural living, a sociological imagination.
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Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.
"Christopher Newfield called for academics to 'seize the means of knowledge production' by working 'step by step ... toward direct control of universities.' ... I think the most imperative, but also the most apparent pressure point for academics looking to act upon his call is education technology."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.
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as a scholar of gender and sexuality, i continue to be horrified by the unending Pedo Era rightly linked here to the war machine. Third World feminists have always insisted that unbridled power is built on expanding militarism and sexual violence
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
as a scholar of gender and sexuality, i continue to be horrified by the unending Pedo Era rightly linked here to the war machine. Third World feminists have always insisted that unbridled power is built on expanding militarism and sexual violence
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“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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Once again, the AAUP takes the lead in defending higher education. If you teach or conduct research in higher education, join now @aaup.org
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Once again, the AAUP takes the lead in defending higher education. If you teach or conduct research in higher education, join now @aaup.org
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Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
The curious can exercise their curiosity
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The curious can exercise their curiosity
Corporations and billionaires rule the White House and Congress. Republicans in particular, whether Bush or Trump Republicans are servants of concentrated private wealth.
US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights reut.rs/4i0E0l2
US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights
President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it was formally withdrawing a plan by his predecessor to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when U.S. flight disruptions are caused by carriers.
reut.rs
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Corporations and billionaires rule the White House and Congress. Republicans in particular, whether Bush or Trump Republicans are servants of concentrated private wealth.
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📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
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What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Public schools are the enemy to this Republican Party that is in the pocket of elite billionaires and the corporations and Christian nationalists running charter schools.
This is what state sponsored segregation looks like in Texas. Racist radical Greg Abbott is starving kids in public schools of food, healthcare and education. His plan of cutting taxes will seal the deal. He’s ruined Texas. #FireGreg #FireKen #FireDan and for god’s sake don’t make Ken a senator.
Tomlinson: Abbott promises to starve public schools of tax revenues
Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to cut property taxes will starve public schools while he sends state money to private schools.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Public schools are the enemy to this Republican Party that is in the pocket of elite billionaires and the corporations and Christian nationalists running charter schools.
Avian flu is decimating the elephant seals thanks to the willful ignorance, explicit neglect and greed of petro-corporations and the money they spend to corrupt governments.
«Ils sont des milliers à cracher et tousser» : la grippe aviaire décime la population mondiale d’éléphants de mer
«Ils sont des milliers à cracher et tousser» : la grippe aviaire décime la population mondiale d’éléphants de mer
En Géorgie du Sud, les éléphants de mer sont confrontés à la propagation du virus qui entraîne avec lui des dizaines de milliers de phoques.
www.liberation.fr
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Avian flu is decimating the elephant seals thanks to the willful ignorance, explicit neglect and greed of petro-corporations and the money they spend to corrupt governments.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Many left publications sadly aren’t paying attention to this story.
12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year.
Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract
paydayreport.com/following-st...
12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year.
Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract
paydayreport.com/following-st...
Following Strike Vote, Volkswagen Chattanooga Workers Build Momentum
"There's a lot of excitement on the floor,” says Caleb Michalski. "Strikes are hard, but I think people have really seen how Volkswagen has shown their true colors, and they are upset."
paydayreport.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Many left publications sadly aren’t paying attention to this story.
12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year.
Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract
paydayreport.com/following-st...
12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year.
Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract
paydayreport.com/following-st...
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Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
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What they're doing is great (but what the headline is doing is weird; adults are not primarily identified by their reproductive status when they're not doing something specific to offspring, or are they, since trivializing women happens a thousand ways?)
They've been showing up all over Evanston, a leafy suburb north of Chicago: suburban moms fresh from the school run and out to protect their community from what they see as unwelcome visitors. https://cnn.it/47U4IqS
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
What they're doing is great (but what the headline is doing is weird; adults are not primarily identified by their reproductive status when they're not doing something specific to offspring, or are they, since trivializing women happens a thousand ways?)
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The Justice Department argued in a new legal filing to the Supreme Court that Trump has unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, marking the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities.
https://bit.ly/49mfIA1
https://bit.ly/49mfIA1
DOJ Tells SCOTUS Trump Has Unreviewable Power to Send Troops to U.S. Cities
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Justice Department argued in a new legal filing to the Supreme Court that Trump has unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, marking the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities.
https://bit.ly/49mfIA1
https://bit.ly/49mfIA1
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What exactly are they investigating? No one was prevented from speaking
The school responded w/over the top punitive treatment of nonviolent protestors, just as Trump would want.
It’s like they are opening investigations based on how many likes it will garner on X.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
The school responded w/over the top punitive treatment of nonviolent protestors, just as Trump would want.
It’s like they are opening investigations based on how many likes it will garner on X.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Protests at Turning Point Event at Berkeley
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What exactly are they investigating? No one was prevented from speaking
The school responded w/over the top punitive treatment of nonviolent protestors, just as Trump would want.
It’s like they are opening investigations based on how many likes it will garner on X.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
The school responded w/over the top punitive treatment of nonviolent protestors, just as Trump would want.
It’s like they are opening investigations based on how many likes it will garner on X.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
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"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social
⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ
⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Transgender people are our beloved members, family members and friends, and our valued flying partners. What harms transgender people harms us. AFA calls for respect and transparency in policy-making, and for equality under the law for transgender people.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Transgender people are our beloved members, family members and friends, and our valued flying partners. What harms transgender people harms us. AFA calls for respect and transparency in policy-making, and for equality under the law for transgender people.
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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
The “pedocriminal empire” was well known to Trump . . .
Donald Trump «savait à propos des filles» : des élus démocrates publient des mails attribués à Jeffrey Epstein
Révélés ce mercredi, ces écrits accusent le président américain d’être au courant de l’empire pédocriminel monté par son ancien ami
Révélés ce mercredi, ces écrits accusent le président américain d’être au courant de l’empire pédocriminel monté par son ancien ami
Donald Trump «savait à propos des filles» : des élus démocrates publient des mails attribués à Jeffrey Epstein
www.liberation.fr
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The “pedocriminal empire” was well known to Trump . . .
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Will the Epstein files be spun as titillating revelations or recognized as evidence that misogyny & mass sexual exploitation of women are POLITICAL, linking antidemocratic politics globally?
Depends whether men with big platforms decide to connect the dots. Women have been screaming into the void.
Depends whether men with big platforms decide to connect the dots. Women have been screaming into the void.
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Will the Epstein files be spun as titillating revelations or recognized as evidence that misogyny & mass sexual exploitation of women are POLITICAL, linking antidemocratic politics globally?
Depends whether men with big platforms decide to connect the dots. Women have been screaming into the void.
Depends whether men with big platforms decide to connect the dots. Women have been screaming into the void.