Cathy Day
@daycathy.bsky.social
The kind of Hoosier who leaves--but then I came back. Liberal Arts evangelist. Daylily enthusiast. Cool, wine aunt. Rescue-dog mom. Recovering workaholic.
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I sure do miss the good old days when children worked in factories! Oh wait, that's happening again.
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I sure do miss the good old days when children worked in factories! Oh wait, that's happening again.
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The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn
Indiana legislators will NOT reconvene in December to further gerrymander our state! Yay! We will get to keep our two Dem districts out of nine despite the fact that more than 40% of the population votes Dem. Hooray!
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Indiana legislators will NOT reconvene in December to further gerrymander our state! Yay! We will get to keep our two Dem districts out of nine despite the fact that more than 40% of the population votes Dem. Hooray!
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
The view from my writing chair.
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The view from my writing chair.
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Wow let’s hope every potential employer looks up the name Zac Segal before hiring so they can see what kind of person he is
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Wow let’s hope every potential employer looks up the name Zac Segal before hiring so they can see what kind of person he is
I'm teaching an online asynch career class for English majors with 60 students. They're each doing 2 informational interviews with alumni, which scares them a lot. 10 students have gone dark. Emailing every week didn't work. So yesterday, I sent them this absurd picture of my dog. "Come see me."
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm teaching an online asynch career class for English majors with 60 students. They're each doing 2 informational interviews with alumni, which scares them a lot. 10 students have gone dark. Emailing every week didn't work. So yesterday, I sent them this absurd picture of my dog. "Come see me."
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Allowing for the refusal of AI in our educational institutions is simply the right thing to do. If we can's support those freedoms, what are we doing? Congratulations on a year of vital work.
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Allowing for the refusal of AI in our educational institutions is simply the right thing to do. If we can's support those freedoms, what are we doing? Congratulations on a year of vital work.
I've been teaching a novel-writing class at Ball State for 15 years, and this group had some writing CHOPS. Plus they came to class! Turned in their stuff! Talked in class! Looked at me when I was lecturing instead of at their screens! Helped each other! Emailed me when they had to miss class!
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I've been teaching a novel-writing class at Ball State for 15 years, and this group had some writing CHOPS. Plus they came to class! Turned in their stuff! Talked in class! Looked at me when I was lecturing instead of at their screens! Helped each other! Emailed me when they had to miss class!
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
The red Japanese maple leaves fell like a carpet around my laughing Buddha.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The red Japanese maple leaves fell like a carpet around my laughing Buddha.
The Aurora over Aurora, IN. Well, close by. Sunman in Dearborn county.
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Aurora over Aurora, IN. Well, close by. Sunman in Dearborn county.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
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LMAO
HOO BOY
HOO BOY
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
LMAO
HOO BOY
HOO BOY
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It's a sad day when a conservative Republican--I've met Adam, he really is--can see a dangerous fascist like MTG more clearly than some who consider themselves left or liberal.
Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
Please.
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's a sad day when a conservative Republican--I've met Adam, he really is--can see a dangerous fascist like MTG more clearly than some who consider themselves left or liberal.
Please admire my Japanese maple before the wind and rain and maybe snow take all those red leaves away.
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please admire my Japanese maple before the wind and rain and maybe snow take all those red leaves away.
Dick Cheney died and Mamdani won today. ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Dick Cheney died and Mamdani won today. ❤️
Everyone in my family just put on Colts gear. This will definitely help them turn things around in the 4Q.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Everyone in my family just put on Colts gear. This will definitely help them turn things around in the 4Q.
Happy Howl-o-ween from my sweet treat dog.
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Happy Howl-o-ween from my sweet treat dog.
I AM SO EFFING SICK AND TIRED OF LOOKING AT THIS BULLSHIT.
ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔
This is so heartbreaking 💔
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I AM SO EFFING SICK AND TIRED OF LOOKING AT THIS BULLSHIT.
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Heads up: Indiana's Republican governor just called a special session to consider a new congressional map.
Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.
Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Heads up: Indiana's Republican governor just called a special session to consider a new congressional map.
Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.
Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.
It's Week 11 of the semester and I'm caught up with all my grading for the first time.
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's Week 11 of the semester and I'm caught up with all my grading for the first time.