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Seth Kahn (he/him)

@badpacifist.bsky.social

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Writing/rhetoric prof in PA. Write about higher ed organizing. Teach about demagoguery. Spurs/Union/Phillies/UGA fan. Read sci-fi, police procedurals, and horror fiction. No DMs with strangers. My employer says I have to tell you I don't represent them.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 17d

This isn't even finished yet and it's already super-helpful--a primer on just cause and workers should have it but often don't (and often mistakenly think we do ).

Thanks, @dskamper.bsky.social.

Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 17d

All right, let's do this.

I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause."

So what's just cause?

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 17d

Any interest in an educational thread on "just cause" protections in union contracts?

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 1m

Too many of us in higher ed believe HS is where students are supposed to learn all the things we'd rather not teach. I get weird looks from colleagues when I tell them that since I've never trained for nor taught HS, I would never tell you what your job is. Not sure why that's hard to understand.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 14m

#sportsball

Once again, Mike Norvell's inability to convince his players to do simple things right costs his team points. Today's episode (so far): 3 4th down conversions they could have stopped if they'd made sound tackles instead of trying to strip possession. It was 4th down, fellas.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 18m

*most of them

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 29m

And then multiplying the problem by having the top leadership of their agencies tell them that the law doesn't apply to them because we're at "war," knowing that most of the joined because that's exactly the excuse they wanted.

Paul Arzooman @zoopaul.bsky.social · 1h

This is what comes of hiring mentally unbalanced men and giving them power. It's like the Nazis in the 1920s. Bunch of pissy losers who blame everyone else for the fact that they can't cut it in life.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 41m

Fits squarely into their eugenicist approach. No point in reporting or warning about diseases. People who die were weak and the gene pool is better off without them. Or if you're more Christian Nationalist than pseudo-scientific, God will protect you, so no point in sciencing about it.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Good question! @nytimes.com? @washingtonpost.com? @politico.com? @axios.com? @thehill.com? @cnn.com? @msnbc.com? @nbcnews.com? @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy? @npr.org? Could do this all day.....

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

Did a Capitol Hill reporter reach out to Bill Cassidy on the CDC bloodbath?

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 2h

Hoping @nytimes.com will ever fix itself is dumb. All we can do is counter their decision not to show what's really happening by showing it. This is what was really happening.

Two panel image. On the left, close-up of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on top of a building staring down at something intently. On the right, about a dozen reporters and a protester in a chicken suit.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 2h

Nobody's rioting in Chicago or Portland either, you bigoty fascist creep. The only thing that's revolting in all this is you and your bigoty fascist friends insisting that anyone who disagrees with you is a criminal.

Badlands 🇪🇺 @badlands.bsky.social · 2h

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” #Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
Well, some news about the sleepy South, Mr Miller.
#Leland #Mississippi

BNO News @bnonews.com · 2h

BREAKING: At least 4 people killed, 12 injured after shooting at high school homecoming game in Leland, Mississippi - CBS

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 2h

What happened to her (and many others) is terrible, obvs. The fact that employers can just dispose of...inconvenient people whose...crimes [sic] had nothing to do with their work is also terrible but somehow manages not to get a mention in the article.

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

www.npr.org

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 20h

If Democrats said that Republicans refused to pay the troops in order to prevent the release of the Epstein files, Republicans would have to deny it. Just saying.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning! In case you missed it, misogyny is alive and well. Jeebus wept.

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 15h

@yourweirdofriend.bsky.social nails it, as they so often do.

on being scapegoated by powerful people | your weirdo friend

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 18h

For the record, an aide insists he never said this, but why would somebody have made it up 5 years ago? That was before he was running against a pro-Palestinian Muslim he thought he could beat easily by asserting that he was the better candidate for Jews.

tl;dr Cuomo is scum. Not news, I guess.

Kate Pryde @mutant187.bsky.social · 18h

🌚 #CancelRent @maunciple.devil.computer · Jun 23

imagine voting for the anti-semitic candidate smdh

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18h

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19h

Jeebus, I didn't even think about this. Not only is that lawless thug trying to destroy their lives, but they can't even find out directly that it's happening. And Vought probably thinks that's hilarious.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Vought promised to put federal employees “in trauma” - consider this, HHS employees are reading in the news about layoffs but most are not allowed to check their emails to see if they are affected because of the shutdown.

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 22h

Unknown layoffs are happening at HHS. Unknown in terms of who and which agencies.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h...

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19h

He...kinda already did.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19h

"Justice Roberts, I thought you were an originalist."
"Yeah, I used to be, but having even a pretense of a legal theory guiding my decisions got boring. Clarence and Sam seem like they're having such fun making up new law out of whole cloth!"

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 19h

There's really no point in trying to calibrate who's the more terrible human being between Vought and Stephen Miller, but it's hard to resist the temptation. Both of them are horrifying hate-filled bigots who revel in jacking up human suffering for fun.

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 21h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 20h

I'm pretty sure the Constitution and 250 years of jurisprudence says otherwise, but I guess since Clarence Thomas' declaration the other week of "Meh, precedence schmedence," maybe this goon is right.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23h

Raise your hand if you somehow put a meeting on your calendar for both today and next Friday, and you didn't notice it was duplicated because why would you be looking at next Friday, until you just did for some inexplicable reason and realized that it's not today?

I can't be the only one!

a baby is wearing a green bib that says little on it .

Alt: a baby is wearing a green bib that says little monster on it . Baby is raising his hand with index finger pointing up.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe she can move to Costa Rica with Curtis Yarvin.

Now that I think about it, I can't think of 2 people I'd rather lock in a room together forever than those 2.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23h

I don't honestly GAF how anyone else takes their coffee, but this made me LOL anyway.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re getting whipped cream and caramel syrup on top of your coffee order, just go to a Baskin Robbins already

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 1d

The funny (not ha ha, the other kind) thing is, he could probably have just announced that he won it, and his supporters wouldn't have any interest in finding out otherwise. It wouldn't be the most brazen or destructive lie he'd told them.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

Not as prestigious as an actual Nobel, but still in the vaunted tradition of awards Republicans make up to give Trump.

Senator Rick Scott giving Donald Trump a trophy at Mar-a-Lago.

Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 1d

I could live with a Jesus who loves Charlie Kirk this much, as long as that love is an act of forgiveness for being such a relentlessly horrible bigot his entire adult life. But something tells me that's not the message here.....