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Dan Nexon

@dhnexon.bsky.social

As I said the other day: civil society groups, Democratic congressional aides, service unions, and everyone else should be war-gaming out their responses to what Trump might do in 2026 — and preparing for massive non-violent civil disobedience.

August 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM

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Megan Goodwin

@mpgphd.bsky.social

I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Peterbill

@peterbill23.bsky.social

Contemplating techno-determinism in Hiroshima...

August 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Peterbill

@peterbill23.bsky.social

"Instagram is the stasi"
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

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April 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM

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Alexander Clarkson

@aphclarkson.bsky.social

That Crypto is a parasitic entity dependent on a functioning global finance system rather than a revolutionary framework for replacing it is going to occur to a lot of people after it is too late to bail out

April 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM