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John Coons/Teo
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johncoons.bsky.social
Less than 3 weeks until we premiere our new show, Double InDUMBnity at Green Room 42! More info/tix:

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November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
Heather Steffen, in “Adjunct”: 38 University Keywords Neoliberalism is a concept that recurs throughout this book because many observers name the current era in US higher education the moment of the "neoliberal university," In one basic definition, neoliberalism names the set of economic, political, social, and cultural processes through which free markets have come to serve as our dominant model for social relations and institutional organization: • Social relationships become defined primarily through their economic facets. Students are regarded by their educational institutions as customers rather than learners, and, as Childress writes, "College has become a form of indispensable employment insurance, available for purchase on the open market at protection levels from community college bronze to Ivy League platinum" (2019, 48). • Public goods and services become privatized. Formerly public enterprises are now run by for-profit entities (e.g., for-profit charter schools; private prisons; privately held patents on the results of publicly funded research). • Individuals behave like entrepreneurs, and organizations behave like businesses: we imagine ourselves as mini-enterprises trying to grow our capital in the world's marketplace (e.g., the concept of human cap. ital, resume building for high schoolers). Organizations and institutions like nonprofits, universities, government agencies, and NGOs function on the model of for-profit businesses, despite their not-for-profit tax designation. Public institutions that have not formally been privatized become neoliberalized in that they behave like businesses. • Responsibility and risk are individualized. Rather than viewing the responsibility to employ, feed, clothe, and house everyone as society's responsibility, our society views it as each person's responsibility to fend for themselves (eg, the transition from welfare to workfare, drastic wealth/income inequalities). Similarly, we expect risks to be borne by individu… Adjunct, Continued: working lives, often shifting careers several times. Employers extract cost savings through tactics like automated scheduling, keeping workers just under the number of hours needed to gain benefits, falsely defining workers as "contractors" or "consultants," outsourcing, and speed-up (being tasked with more work but not more time to do it in).
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again

Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
johncoons.bsky.social
Remember- in the video game of life, kissing me restores hearts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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katiesaurusseven.bsky.social
“It was one night and I was … a few hundred metres away. And it was very clear that Israeli quadcopters were supporting the looters in attacking the local security [teams]”

The Israeli military killed “two local notables as they sat in their car, armed and ready to protect the convoy”
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ghostpanther.bsky.social
Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out.

The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.

"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."

www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
johncoons.bsky.social
Jesus is the weirdest parasocial relationship because he hasn’t posted any new content since before my parents were born. It’s like weirder than crushing on one of the Beatles at this point.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
So it’s worse than we thought
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9d
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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esqueer.net
I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.

The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.

apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
johncoons.bsky.social
I refuse to believe that RFK isn't really claymation
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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ndhapple.bsky.social
Nail this to a whole lot of doors, Martin Luther style
benschneider.bsky.social Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 12d
Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.

An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.

www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Americans are Fleeing Blue States, Even When Politics Misalign. The Culprit? Housing Affordability.
Will the blue state starter home ever return?
www.planetizen.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
In the future, we’ll have our bodies, but private equity will rent them out
levernews.com The Lever @levernews.com · 12d
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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katsikajules.bsky.social
This report is absolutely shocking.

A barbaric & dystopian system enjoys almost total impunity for killing and mistreating Palestinians in detention. No trial, nothing, just taken for being Palestinian.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows
Exclusive: Real toll likely substantially higher as hundreds of detainees from Gaza are missing, says NGO Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
97.4%
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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mjgault.bsky.social
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.

Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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redbird-art.bsky.social
All I can think about is this shit inevitably happening.
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church. The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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acabylonbee.bsky.social
christian persecution isn't a real problem and the reason i know this as a fact is no organization on this earth has tortured more christians than ice this year and the people who whine about christian persecution love ice
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
johncoons.bsky.social
Thank Jesus I'm a Mary.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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wilsonmj.bsky.social
It's really sexy when you don't cross a picket line.
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17d
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM