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David Shumway
@nearleft.bsky.social
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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Bingo!
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Trumpists are not conservatives.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d
What's to weigh? It's a no.

It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities.

Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Colleges weigh whether to sign on to Trump plan or forgo federal benefits
A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d
Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found.

At stake are 5 congressional seats. If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 8d
C’mon, @npr.org — they absolutely violate ethics laws. Do better.
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NPR @npr.org · 8d
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 9d
Artificial ideology

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10d
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10d
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 10d
Long past time.
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Ronnie Hot Dogs @nostradamnus.bsky.social · 10d
Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11d
Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 10d
I’m sure these are salutary, but the decline in trust in science is purely ideological.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 10d
No, it is blatantly illegal.
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 12d
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 12d
Clearly illegal defamation. They need to sue.
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 15d
More artificial stupidity.
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 19d
Ha!
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
The Times has until now refused to admit this.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21d
Kristi Noem directs mass arrest of Democratic elected officials for seeking inspection of ICE detention facilities.
11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells
www.nytimes.com
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 21d
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
And Disney, and ESPN.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
Let’s show ABC what we think of their cowardice. Unsubscribe to Hulu now.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 22d
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22d
Too perfect.
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
arstechnica.com
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 22d
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22d
Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
www.post-gazette.com
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22d
Remember that Mussolini did not actually make the trains run on time. He benefited from some modest rail improvements instigated by his predecessor, and then intimidated the press into saying how great the trains were when they actually weren’t. professorbuzzkill.com/2022/01/10/m...
Mussolini Didn’t Make the Trains Run on Time Professor Buzzkill
Ever been stuck on a train station platform, waiting and waiting for a train that was supposed to arrive half an hour ago? It’s a pain. What’s also a pain is
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 22d
Who could have predicted?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22d
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22d
"Humanity now faces the existential threat of a leviathan with three heads: a steadily worsening climate crisis, increasingly deadly pandemics, and an unprecedented weaponization of antiscience that renders us helpless in our collective efforts to address any of the great challenges we face."
Antiscience Is an Existential Threat
The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.
time.com
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 22d
Why on earth?
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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 24d
And the MSM too, apparently.
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