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public university library director; prof & pedagogue; exhausted by all this, retaining my humanity by hanging out with my dogs. NH, USA.

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robinderosa.net
A stunning recommendation from epidemiologist and past CDC-employee and champion, Katelyn Jetelina:

"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
One of CDC’s final blows. And what it means for you.
Where to find trusted health information now?
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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kishizuka.bsky.social
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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melikhovo.bsky.social
How things are going in higher ed in New Hampshire, the state that funds education the least...
robinderosa.net actualham @robinderosa.net · 4d
An update on the loss of my tenured faculty job at a public regional university. There is no much I regret already about writing this. So much I wish were different. robinderosa.net/higher-ed/in...

#HigherEd
Insult and Injury
It’s the kind of tactic I’d expect in the kind of cut-throat private industry we have become.
robinderosa.net
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
robinderosa.net
An update on the loss of my tenured faculty job at a public regional university. There is no much I regret already about writing this. So much I wish were different. robinderosa.net/higher-ed/in...

#HigherEd
Insult and Injury
It’s the kind of tactic I’d expect in the kind of cut-throat private industry we have become.
robinderosa.net
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
"The plan would reorganize the departments and their faculty members into an array of “schools,” “centers” and “institutes.” Among those that administrators have floated are the School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions & the Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies"
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5d
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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triciamatthew.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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paulakrebs.bsky.social
Underfunding public higher education may not affect the kids of state legislators, who go to private colleges, but it irrevocably reduces the options for most students in the state, who rely on their regional institutions. Read this, by @robinderosa.net
robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...
I Lost My Job
I got fired. I guess that is not precisely true. I took a “voluntary” separation incentive to leave my position. It doesn’t feel voluntary. This winter, close to thirty tenured fa…
robinderosa.net
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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aaup.org
"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students,"

— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.

#DefendHigherEd
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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ips-dc.org
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:
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
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markharris.bsky.social
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
From a Bluesky post on which the author chose to disable quote-tweets (fair enough, and I wouldn't quote it if I weren't complimenting it: "Instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.""
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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jrdnbwn.bsky.social
Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 12d
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
robinderosa.net
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? bbc.com/news/article...
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
robinderosa.net
@hassan.senate.gov please stand strong and don’t cave. If we lose the ACA subsidies we will never get them back. As a constituent from Campton NH, I urge you to stand up and fight.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ariellaelm.com
Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!!

And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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santiagomayer.com
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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egall.bsky.social
On the list: Logan
Not on the list: Manchester
#FlyMHT
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
robinderosa.net
We could have just had free public college but sure yeah let’s let a select few control how and what we learn what could possibly go wrong
insidehighered.com Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 16d
U of Austin to End Tuition ‘Forever’ With Help of $100M Gift

After receiving even more support from a big conservative donor, the not-yet-accredited institution announced it will neither charge tuition nor accept government funds. Some are skeptical. https://bit.ly/47sNHW4
Students gather in a common area at the University of Austin on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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glenc.bsky.social
Never EVER click on ads on Facebook. Even if they appear legit, you can almost guarantee they aren't.

Facebook is like Mos Eisley spaceport: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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kellylynnedang.bsky.social
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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lexmcmenamin.com
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.
Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway
More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.
www.11alive.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
robinderosa.net
"This work is not easy, it is risky, and there’s no guarantee that those who do it will see its benefits. But it is essential."

I am grateful for those in #HigherEd who stand alongside me. In the work. And now, when the work is trying to leave me behind.
catherinecronin.net/reflecting/p...
Postscript to Open Access Week 2025
Two years ago this week Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and myself, was published openly by Open Book Publishers. To our amazement, the publica…
catherinecronin.net
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
robinderosa.net
Trump’s DEI Crackdown Closes 120 TRIO Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

#HigherEd
Trump’s DEI Crackdown Closes 120 TRIO Programs
Multiple programs had their grants terminated for saying they hoped to enroll roughly equal numbers of male and female students, leaving high schoolers without college-access resources at the start…
www.insidehighered.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM