Kirsten Silva Gruesz
@ksgruesz.bsky.social
Professor at UC Santa Cruz, here to remind you this is just another American nation warped by 1492
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one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
This made me nostalgic for the glory days of FB and google search, ca. 2009-2015. Both now suck.
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
Sharing casual moments from our lives on social media doesn’t seem to make sense the way it used to.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This made me nostalgic for the glory days of FB and google search, ca. 2009-2015. Both now suck.
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Not sure anyone really follows this account, but I’m back yakking about dementia & knowledge collapse
Confabulation: Or, Knowledge Collapse
Invented stories, individual and social
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July 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not sure anyone really follows this account, but I’m back yakking about dementia & knowledge collapse
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The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
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"I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."
June 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."
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Yes, that’s right. The <public> University of Wisconsin - Madison now receives only 15% of its funding from the state, even as the legislature retains near-total regulatory control over us. Unfunded mandates & the privatization of public universities are No Good & Very Bad & we shouldn’t have them.
June 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Yes, that’s right. The <public> University of Wisconsin - Madison now receives only 15% of its funding from the state, even as the legislature retains near-total regulatory control over us. Unfunded mandates & the privatization of public universities are No Good & Very Bad & we shouldn’t have them.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-real-id-... Powerful story with a 100-year-old hero
How Real ID Excludes Real Americans | Essay
My Dad’s Birth Certificate Said Vicente. His Passport Said Vince. New Legislation Would Have Disenfranchised Him
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-real-id-... Powerful story with a 100-year-old hero
In times of collective sorrow we gotta have collective love: P-Funk tour 2025 with an 83-year-old George Clinton joyfully leading
April 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In times of collective sorrow we gotta have collective love: P-Funk tour 2025 with an 83-year-old George Clinton joyfully leading
Not something you see in every university parking lot!
April 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not something you see in every university parking lot!
This week’s yard sign
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This week’s yard sign
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Full suite of projections seen:
April 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Full suite of projections seen:
khanna.house.gov/media/press-... Ro Khanna is your inspiration for today
REP. RO KHANNA DELIVERS SPEECH AT YALE LAW SLAMMING VANCE FOR ATTACKS ON UNIVERSITIES, THE COURTS, AND DEPORTATIONS WITHOUT DUE PROCESS
New Haven, CT – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), delivered a speech at Yale Law School, “In Defense of the Courts and the University,” slamming JD Vance for calling on President Trump to defy ...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
khanna.house.gov/media/press-... Ro Khanna is your inspiration for today
The worst part of the letter terminating the new IMLS grant my co-PIs and I had won: it “no longer serves the interest of the United States.”
April 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The worst part of the letter terminating the new IMLS grant my co-PIs and I had won: it “no longer serves the interest of the United States.”
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If you, like me, are looking for firm details on what’s happened so far at NEH, here’s a list of programs that are marked as discontinued or cancelled on the website. This is a snapshot - I’m sure this the impacts will grow as more cuts unfold throughout the day. #NEH #DigitalHumanities
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you, like me, are looking for firm details on what’s happened so far at NEH, here’s a list of programs that are marked as discontinued or cancelled on the website. This is a snapshot - I’m sure this the impacts will grow as more cuts unfold throughout the day. #NEH #DigitalHumanities
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If the left had been indoctrinating people, MAGA wouldn't exist.
They would have been shut up & shut out.
It flourished because the left believes in democracy and people's freedom to think as they choose.
They would have been shut up & shut out.
It flourished because the left believes in democracy and people's freedom to think as they choose.
March 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If the left had been indoctrinating people, MAGA wouldn't exist.
They would have been shut up & shut out.
It flourished because the left believes in democracy and people's freedom to think as they choose.
They would have been shut up & shut out.
It flourished because the left believes in democracy and people's freedom to think as they choose.
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Why are we now using the words “abducting,” “kidnapping,” and “disappearing” for ICE arrests of educated English speakers? I’m glad to see the brutality called out, but I wish there were the same outrage when Mexican laborers are detained at home in front of their kids.
March 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.
Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Absolutely no reason whatsoever for this kind of behavior. They could have literally just handed her a Notice to Appear in immigration court. There is zero (ZERO) requirement to take her into custody. The law is clear that arrest for someone who isn't "mandatory detention" is a MAY not a SHALL.
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Absolutely no reason whatsoever for this kind of behavior. They could have literally just handed her a Notice to Appear in immigration court. There is zero (ZERO) requirement to take her into custody. The law is clear that arrest for someone who isn't "mandatory detention" is a MAY not a SHALL.
“this future sense is missing from the president and his political movement. Set against it…is a “radicalized politics of apocalyptic orientation” that “happily sacrifices the prospect of a future for a present-tense ‘victory’ or redefines the sacrifice of the future as victory itself.”
Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional
Where all this goes is still up to us.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“this future sense is missing from the president and his political movement. Set against it…is a “radicalized politics of apocalyptic orientation” that “happily sacrifices the prospect of a future for a present-tense ‘victory’ or redefines the sacrifice of the future as victory itself.”
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This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
March 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.
The end run against this fascist attack on the opposition is: dissolve the Democratic Party and re-form the opposition. The party’s brand is shot anyway. Call it the Freedom Party, draw the red-state discontent around the Reps’ attacks on personal freedoms.
With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left
The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The end run against this fascist attack on the opposition is: dissolve the Democratic Party and re-form the opposition. The party’s brand is shot anyway. Call it the Freedom Party, draw the red-state discontent around the Reps’ attacks on personal freedoms.
This is so good
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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March 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is so good
This brilliant piece on the wreck of the public university by Pete Coviello www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This brilliant piece on the wreck of the public university by Pete Coviello www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...