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Mike Duncan
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Professor in Texas. Rhetoric, technical communication, composition, early Christianity. I also like games. https://badrhetoric.com/about/
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Today is very Houston. Power went out at 3 am after a minuscule storm. My little generator wouldn’t start at 7. Took until 1:30 to figure out the problem, it cranks… and the street’s power is restored immediately.
I love it when the HOI4 font can’t quite keep up with the political situation.
The Democratic party should not run Nazis or white supremacists as candidates.

This is not a difficult concept to understand, save for the aforementioned groups.
…yeah. Familiar. Poison pill thinking.
Such an ad/position could also be a sign that there is a serious problem in the department and thus it’s a bullet dodged.

I prefer a philosophy of hiring with as wide open a specialization as possible, though.
Zag is a rebel; Mel is a soldier.
Yep. And people outside of academia have even less clue.
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⭐️⭐️ New statement from the AAUP chapter at Texas State on professor Tom Alter’s case: “The laws of Texas have robbed our profession of its ‘primary responsibility’ over ‘faculty status.’ We ask the Board to step in where we have been forbidden to stand + make a finding in favor of Dr. Alter.”
Why the TSUS Board of Regents Must Find in Dr. Alter’s Favor
San Marcos, TX (Oct. 21, 2025) — The Board of Regents of the Texas State University System (TSUS) is hearing the appeal of Dr. Thomas Alter, a tenured Associate Professor of History at Texas …
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@uh.edu Cancels ‘Confronting Oppression & Injustice’ Course

The course’s axing is yet another example of curricular censorship at Texas public universities. https://bit.ly/4748W06

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
It’s not the first time the White House has been destroyed, but it’s definitely the stupidest.
My seven-year-old son handed me scrambled Rubik’s cube without explanation last night. I’d never solved one, and I sure couldn’t figure it on the spot. But I have Dad reputation to maintain. Studied methods, looked at the clock when I solved it. 1:30 am is a bedtime somewhere.
Repairing old consoles is rewarding and not super difficult.
I did this in my first-year composition courses this year. So far it’s worked great.
I don’t have my birth certificate in front of me. Who carries around such information?
The Independence Day aliens would have done it better and for free, but America First, y’all.
Trump is destroying the White House. Another step in Trump’s attempt to demolish the United States.
The scholar of presidential rhetoric who chooses to analyze the AI poop shower video will employ Burke’s pentad. Talking about it directly would be like the professor in Community who attempts to conclusively answer Who’s the Boss.
It occurs to me that the market for inflatable animal costumes must be extremely favorable for the foreseeable future.
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I do not suggest "drink when Mike Johnson pretends not to know something" as your drinking game, as you will likely not survive
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
It’s not enough yet. Panama in ‘89 involved nearly 30k.
Yep. “Americans” doesn’t mean to him those people.
No university that has received a extortion threat has any legal obligation to respond or obey any made-up deadline. I wonder if the remaining Us in red states may cool their heels rather than say no outright.