Mary Witlacil
@marywitlacil.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at South Dakota School of Mines || Critical theorist of the environment || Pessimist || Logophile || She/her
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
In Northampton for the Critical Theory Roundtable!
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
In Northampton for the Critical Theory Roundtable!
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Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:
August 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:
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in Feb 1947, Marcuse writes 33 Theses on the libertarian communist anti-program for postwar critical theory, which Horkheimer will use as a foundation for his own marginal reflections on class, revolution, & freedom for 2+ years. Translated for the 1st time here (🔗⬇️)
August 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
in Feb 1947, Marcuse writes 33 Theses on the libertarian communist anti-program for postwar critical theory, which Horkheimer will use as a foundation for his own marginal reflections on class, revolution, & freedom for 2+ years. Translated for the 1st time here (🔗⬇️)
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
www.chicagotribune.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
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REALLY SAD! Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
REALLY SAD! Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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If unceasing fact-checking would fix 𝘺𝘰𝘶 – and you're also able to work in our London offices five days a week – then applications for our internship close on Monday 16 June.
June 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If unceasing fact-checking would fix 𝘺𝘰𝘶 – and you're also able to work in our London offices five days a week – then applications for our internship close on Monday 16 June.
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It's Hurricane Season and Sadly FEMA is not prepared - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
FEMA Is Not Prepared
Citizens could be on their own this hurricane season.
www.theatlantic.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's Hurricane Season and Sadly FEMA is not prepared - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The moon desperately needs freedom - how long can our great nation ignore the cries for regime change from the People's Republic of Luna? we will be greeted as liberators
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon
Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also introduce new legal difficulties
www.newscientist.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The moon desperately needs freedom - how long can our great nation ignore the cries for regime change from the People's Republic of Luna? we will be greeted as liberators
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
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I’ll say this as many times as I have to.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
May 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’ll say this as many times as I have to.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
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The Trump administration has taken its fight against DEI to the Fulbright program, intervening in the selection process to disqualify applicants whose projects focus on race, gender or climate change. Great reporting by @liamknox.bsky.social.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
www.insidehighered.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Trump administration has taken its fight against DEI to the Fulbright program, intervening in the selection process to disqualify applicants whose projects focus on race, gender or climate change. Great reporting by @liamknox.bsky.social.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
There's controversy over a possible new data center in rural Davis, West Virginia. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Dan Parks.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."
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with two articles published on Felix Weil in the last week (in Spanish!), i’m basically an expert 😆 ask me anything
www.archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/inde...
www.archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/inde...
May 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
with two articles published on Felix Weil in the last week (in Spanish!), i’m basically an expert 😆 ask me anything
www.archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/inde...
www.archivosrevista.com.ar/numeros/inde...
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Very pleased to share this new essay co-written with @arturochang.bsky.social, treating Rousseau's Social Contract footnote on the republic of Tlaxcala. Arturo did amazing work in providing intellectual and historical context for the footnote! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Very pleased to share this new essay co-written with @arturochang.bsky.social, treating Rousseau's Social Contract footnote on the republic of Tlaxcala. Arturo did amazing work in providing intellectual and historical context for the footnote! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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If you were wondering about that “realism” thing, @advaitarun.bsky.social has got you:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
The belligerent idealism of climate realism
Don’t call it “bipartisan” or “pragmatic”; it’s anything but.
advaitcore.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If you were wondering about that “realism” thing, @advaitarun.bsky.social has got you:
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-bellig...
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I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
May 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
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NEW: The Trump administration has detained a UCLA international student at the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently in CBP custody. The detention comes as the administration has cancelled more than 1,000 student visas across the U.S. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA international student detained at U.S.-Mexico border amid Trump visa cancellations
UCLA confirmed that an international student was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border. A campus rally was quickly organized in her support.
www.latimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
NEW: The Trump administration has detained a UCLA international student at the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently in CBP custody. The detention comes as the administration has cancelled more than 1,000 student visas across the U.S. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
19thnews.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.
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"Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry
Of wonderful times to come
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For the common man"
-Bertolt Brecht
Of wonderful times to come
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For the common man"
-Bertolt Brecht
April 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry
Of wonderful times to come
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For the common man"
-Bertolt Brecht
Of wonderful times to come
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For the common man"
-Bertolt Brecht