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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For more abt the book, see
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#Booksky #litcult
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#Booksky #litcult
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Reposted by Robert Dale Parker
Check out this report documenting censorship in higher education in the US. It chronicles record-breaking numbers of state bills that directly or indirectly censor classroom speech and an unprecedented federal campaign to exert ideological control over research, teaching, and campus life.
New PEN America Report Warns of Expanding Web of Control as Politicians Escalate Campaign to Censor U.S. Colleges and Universities https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-warns-of-expanding-web-of-control-as-politicians-escalate-campaign-to-censor-u-s-colleges-and-universities/
PEN America Warns of Expanding Web of Control as Politicians Escalate Campaign to Censor U.S. Colleges and Universities
A new PEN America report on the state of higher education warns of an alarming political web of control on state and federal levels
pen.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Check out this report documenting censorship in higher education in the US. It chronicles record-breaking numbers of state bills that directly or indirectly censor classroom speech and an unprecedented federal campaign to exert ideological control over research, teaching, and campus life.
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This map is shocking.
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This map is shocking.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
Claudette Colvin has died at age 86. Nine months before Rosa Parks’ arrest, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. She was 15, on her way home from high school, & brave.
(Like the people of Minneapolis today.)
RIP.
apnews.com/article/clau...?
(Like the people of Minneapolis today.)
RIP.
apnews.com/article/clau...?
Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Claudette Colvin has died at age 86. Nine months before Rosa Parks’ arrest, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. She was 15, on her way home from high school, & brave.
(Like the people of Minneapolis today.)
RIP.
apnews.com/article/clau...?
(Like the people of Minneapolis today.)
RIP.
apnews.com/article/clau...?
Faculty & student groups at the Univ of Pennsylvania, including the @aaup.org , are condemning the Trump admin's insistence that the University provide the Trump admin a list of Jewish faculty, students, & staff with emails, phone numbers, & home addresses.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Faculty & student groups at the Univ of Pennsylvania, including the @aaup.org , are condemning the Trump admin's insistence that the University provide the Trump admin a list of Jewish faculty, students, & staff with emails, phone numbers, & home addresses.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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For the first day of class/syllabus, I of course had to cover my AI/LLM policy (which is that it is never allowed in class).
I think students are used to being scolded about it.
We read this poem; & I told them that they're worth knowing & I want to know them.
This seemed to resonate much more.
I think students are used to being scolded about it.
We read this poem; & I told them that they're worth knowing & I want to know them.
This seemed to resonate much more.
January 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM
For the first day of class/syllabus, I of course had to cover my AI/LLM policy (which is that it is never allowed in class).
I think students are used to being scolded about it.
We read this poem; & I told them that they're worth knowing & I want to know them.
This seemed to resonate much more.
I think students are used to being scolded about it.
We read this poem; & I told them that they're worth knowing & I want to know them.
This seemed to resonate much more.
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"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."
Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England
Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."
Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
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AI to rescue the slush pile www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
AI to rescue the slush pile www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
If you're at the Modern Language Association convention, you might stop by the Oxford University Press booth and check out my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Isn't that a great cover?
#MLA26
#MLA26
January 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If you're at the Modern Language Association convention, you might stop by the Oxford University Press booth and check out my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Isn't that a great cover?
#MLA26
#MLA26
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"Denmark renames Greenland to Epstein Island, so Trump will stop talking about it"
You gotta love our Spanish equivalent to The Onion LMFAO
You gotta love our Spanish equivalent to The Onion LMFAO
"Seré muy clara: la Isla Epstein es nuestra", ha afirmado la primera ministra danesa esta mañana en una rueda de prensa.
Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dina...
Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dina...
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
"Denmark renames Greenland to Epstein Island, so Trump will stop talking about it"
You gotta love our Spanish equivalent to The Onion LMFAO
You gotta love our Spanish equivalent to The Onion LMFAO
English classes at TX A&M can’t assign lit w major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or trans identities in core classes. They can assign bks w chapters on trans identity IF they do not talk abt it or include it on assignments or exams
Repost to shame them
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Repost to shame them
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
English classes at TX A&M can’t assign lit w major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or trans identities in core classes. They can assign bks w chapters on trans identity IF they do not talk abt it or include it on assignments or exams
Repost to shame them
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Repost to shame them
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
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“Plato does not agree with the narrative that there are two biological sexes and that everyone should be heterosexual. So it is controversial. But that's the whole point of including him in the syllabus.”
— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
“Plato does not agree with the narrative that there are two biological sexes and that everyone should be heterosexual. So it is controversial. But that's the whole point of including him in the syllabus.”
— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
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I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
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Statement from the AAUP–Texas A&M Chapter about the censorship of…Plato….
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Statement from the AAUP–Texas A&M Chapter about the censorship of…Plato….
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
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And the universities … 😡
“The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.” @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the year in politics.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7co9Uv
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7co9Uv
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
And the universities … 😡
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Pushing back works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Pushing back works
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...