Kristen
@kgregz.bsky.social
Writing lecturer, literature PhD, mom to two small boys, a smidge burnt out from parenting and working in the humanities during *all of this.*
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Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
I have been teaching college-level writing for 15 years, and this current moment has been considering using my QTR benefit to get a law degree and leave teaching entirely. I'm so tired of AI slop consuming so much of my time and energy. It has killed the joy of teaching and learning.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I have been teaching college-level writing for 15 years, and this current moment has been considering using my QTR benefit to get a law degree and leave teaching entirely. I'm so tired of AI slop consuming so much of my time and energy. It has killed the joy of teaching and learning.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Please do not chatbot with AI Jesus, or Satan, or a dead relative, or a pretend lover. Nothing good can come of any of it.
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Please do not chatbot with AI Jesus, or Satan, or a dead relative, or a pretend lover. Nothing good can come of any of it.
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Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
These days I am spending far too much of my one wild and precious life trying to hunt down hallucinated scholarly articles in my students' Works Cited pages. 🫠 #edusky
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
These days I am spending far too much of my one wild and precious life trying to hunt down hallucinated scholarly articles in my students' Works Cited pages. 🫠 #edusky
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ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.
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Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire
A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire
Baseball is clearly an insane sport. I think I should get into it.
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Baseball is clearly an insane sport. I think I should get into it.
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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Amen
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Amen
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Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."
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Faculty Senate calls on President Garimella to reject deal that would 'endanger the independence, excellence & integrity' of University of Arizona
UA profs oppose 'academic compact'; Trump admin gives school until Oct. 20 to submit 'limited' feedback
The White House has given nine universities—including the University of Arizona—until Oct. 20 to send "limited, targeted" feedback on a "compact" for higher education, agreeing to suppress campus crit...
www.tucsonsentinel.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Faculty Senate calls on President Garimella to reject deal that would 'endanger the independence, excellence & integrity' of University of Arizona
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Our official statement on the University of Arizona's China microcampuses shutdown.
You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.
You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Our official statement on the University of Arizona's China microcampuses shutdown.
You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.
You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.
As a "former gifted child" and a mother of a kindergartner whose dissertation work focused on the cultural anxieties invested in gifted children in America since the Cold War, there should be no testing, tracking, and segregating "gifted" children in kindergarten (or at all 😅).
in NYC this is like college applications for kindergarteners. it's hugely harmful to them and stressful for their parents and privileges people who can take time off work to fight with admins.
My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
October 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
As a "former gifted child" and a mother of a kindergartner whose dissertation work focused on the cultural anxieties invested in gifted children in America since the Cold War, there should be no testing, tracking, and segregating "gifted" children in kindergarten (or at all 😅).
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.
Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More
Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.
variety.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.
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This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot
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I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:
I am finally reading Paladin's Grace after trying and hating every other romantasy book, and hell yeah! I went from interested to All In the moment the female Bishop was introduced.
September 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I am finally reading Paladin's Grace after trying and hating every other romantasy book, and hell yeah! I went from interested to All In the moment the female Bishop was introduced.
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Gotta be honest today was the first time I've heard the phrase "ANTI-ICE".
Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'
Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'
September 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Gotta be honest today was the first time I've heard the phrase "ANTI-ICE".
Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'
Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'