Robert Dale Parker
@robertdaleparker.bsky.social
Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction.
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Today is pub day for my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Available for free at many academic libraries. Until Feb 6 the 1st chapter is free here
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CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.
#CADHE Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression
#CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social
#CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social
Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression – The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.
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Members of @upenn.edu community can join this petition to support its Jewish community against Trump threats.
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Stand with Penn Against the Trump Administration's Demand for a List of Jewish Community Members
We are deeply concerned by the Trump Administration's lawsuit, which demands that the University compile and provide the names, personal emails, phone numbers, and addresses of Jewish members of the P...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Members of @upenn.edu community can join this petition to support its Jewish community against Trump threats.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
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@aaup-penn.bsky.social
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
If you use Gmail, Google may be using your emails to train its AI. Here's how to turn it off:
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you use Gmail, Google may be using your emails to train its AI. Here's how to turn it off:
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Better yet: books.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Better yet: books.
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These are the new state mandated questions that will appear at the end of our student evaluations. Just in case anyone was curious about the effects of right wing higher ed legislation in Ohio:
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
These are the new state mandated questions that will appear at the end of our student evaluations. Just in case anyone was curious about the effects of right wing higher ed legislation in Ohio:
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Harlem Renaissance trivia:
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Harlem Renaissance trivia:
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
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In all of this awful, I'll say that I'm very much looking forward to this evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library discussing Dickinson, Jane Austen, and their marvelous legacies--please join us December 9th!!! www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
The Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Celebrating Jane Austen at 250 | Folger Shakespeare Library
This year, our annual birthday tribute to American poet Emily Dickinson will also honor English novelist Jane Austen on her 250th birthday, with noted scholar Martha Nell Smith and romance author Nikk...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In all of this awful, I'll say that I'm very much looking forward to this evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library discussing Dickinson, Jane Austen, and their marvelous legacies--please join us December 9th!!! www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
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Because international student enrollment is so often used as a cudgel in discussions about immigration, this is a good time to remind people that international students aren't taking up spaces for US students at state schools, they are paying full tuition that FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR US STUDENTS.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Because international student enrollment is so often used as a cudgel in discussions about immigration, this is a good time to remind people that international students aren't taking up spaces for US students at state schools, they are paying full tuition that FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR US STUDENTS.
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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the average first-time home buyer age is the highest it's ever been at 38. that's because nobody has the money to afford a house anymore. except, apparently, the people who pick our fruit and clean our homes
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the average first-time home buyer age is the highest it's ever been at 38. that's because nobody has the money to afford a house anymore. except, apparently, the people who pick our fruit and clean our homes
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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"Fiction is an alchemical art, a way of knowing not only the worlds that exist today but hypothetical worlds, vanished pasts and imaginary futures. Why read or write fiction at all, if you don’t want to go beyond the mind you have?" —Karen Russell lithub.com/meet-the-202...
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hil…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Fiction is an alchemical art, a way of knowing not only the worlds that exist today but hypothetical worlds, vanished pasts and imaginary futures. Why read or write fiction at all, if you don’t want to go beyond the mind you have?" —Karen Russell lithub.com/meet-the-202...
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The AAUP condemns proposals before the Texas A&M Board of Regents that require the college president to approve “course content & materials” for courses that cover topics on “race, gender ideology, or gender identity.”
Full statement:
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...
@texasaaup.bsky.social
Full statement:
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...
@texasaaup.bsky.social
National AAUP Demands End to Texas A&M Censorship
JOIN: Join Texas AAUP and here are several reasons to join
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November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The AAUP condemns proposals before the Texas A&M Board of Regents that require the college president to approve “course content & materials” for courses that cover topics on “race, gender ideology, or gender identity.”
Full statement:
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...
@texasaaup.bsky.social
Full statement:
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...
@texasaaup.bsky.social
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
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The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/
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This false story, shared by Trump on Truth Social, originated on a satire Facebook page "America's Last Line of Defense", who states "Nothing on this page is real".
Obama lives rent free in Trump’s head and will be the scapegoat to justify taking away healthcare for millions of Americans.
Obama lives rent free in Trump’s head and will be the scapegoat to justify taking away healthcare for millions of Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This false story, shared by Trump on Truth Social, originated on a satire Facebook page "America's Last Line of Defense", who states "Nothing on this page is real".
Obama lives rent free in Trump’s head and will be the scapegoat to justify taking away healthcare for millions of Americans.
Obama lives rent free in Trump’s head and will be the scapegoat to justify taking away healthcare for millions of Americans.
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Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
All this hand-wringing about what will Democrats do now that Mamdani is surging. The press loves to talk about disputes among Ds. Why not ask if Republicans in Congress will start to back away from Trump now that elections have proven he's so unpopular? Help make it happen by asking the question.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
All this hand-wringing about what will Democrats do now that Mamdani is surging. The press loves to talk about disputes among Ds. Why not ask if Republicans in Congress will start to back away from Trump now that elections have proven he's so unpopular? Help make it happen by asking the question.