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Ben Chappell

@benchappell.bsky.social

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Antifascist. Interdisciplinary ethnographer. * studies. Midwesterner. Academic unionist. Loves mass transit and espresso. Hates structural violence and oligarchy.

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 12h

Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing ...

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 18h

For starters, all the press who have been excluded from the white house like AP. I'm sure more compacts are coming that will reduce the WH press corps more unless they agree to be the president's mouthpiece

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

One of a few songs I vividly remember hearing for the first time

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

The right holds a monopoly on political violence

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

Which comes first, ideas or a conception of a plan?

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

Don't threaten us with a good time

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

They haven't done that. They've forcefully argued that totally legal dissent is a terrorist act.

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why the Democrats won't just start having shadow briefings scheduled against anything that administration has

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 4d

was silence not an option, TF?

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 4d

Florida man can shut it, too. Senator from Kansas my Kans-ass

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 5d

delighted that it seems like the Portland antifascist frog has reclaimed the genus from Pepe.

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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to hear it. Take care. We will be talking about your book in class.

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 5d

thank you for your continuing service

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 6d

We can't afford his toxic foolishness

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 7d

Civil War documentary voice over, please

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 7d

For academics ditching academia . edu, I am hoping this spot takes off: hcommons.org. Let's connect there.

Knowledge Commons – Open access, open source, open to all

hcommons.org

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago for capital of the u s

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe a leading journalist is like a work of art. I might not be able to define it exactly, but when I'm not looking at one, I can tell.

Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 8d

Winning heading of the day

Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 8d

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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 8d

There are days of great privilege when my work is to read. I am in the academic labor movement not only to save those days for myself but so that anyone who wants them will have at least some of those days in their lifetime.

A small table with two books and a plate of apple slices. The books are how fascism works by Jason Stanley and unsettling by Gilberto Rosas.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 8d

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 11d

Mood

#organize
#rebels

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 11d

If someone says class struggle, do you think of Psych 210?

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Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social · 12d

Was silence not an option?