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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 7d

“The unspoken consensus between the two elites was to leave things largely as they were, not because the new political elite feared a backlash if it sought to change them, but because it wanted to leave them intact” (Friedman, 2021, p. xii)

Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 7d

“Instead of insisting on that the economic and social habits of the minority were wasteful and a bar to progress, the new governing elite insisted that the minority’s lifestyle should be available to all” 🔥🔥🔥

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 7d

So clearly articulated by Steven Friedman - Prisoners of the Past - p. xi

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 7d

"South Africa in 1994 [was an] exclusive club, composed of only white people. Since 1994, the club has taken on new, black members. But it remains an exclusive club because many cannot gain admission – and most of the new members lack the same powers and privileges enjoyed by the old ones."

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 20d

He made a fool of himself just to be fired anyway. How many times are institutions going to do this?

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 20d

Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20d

This, the fruit of a week’s abject institutional submission to horseshit hagiography, is about ten times the number of specific anecdotes of Republicans being purged from academia that TPUSA fans have ever mustered

Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing

Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate

More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.

www.nbcnews.com

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Sep 4

CUNY friends, we're getting organized!

The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact

Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!

cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education

cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thanks for the tip, I’ll definitely get my hands on it…

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Aug 13

What a way to admit that if your science had to account to a human community, with ethical systems and complex notions of beauty and truth, it would be unworkable. A science for ghouls and robots.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 6

The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.

web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Jul 29

The brilliant Zukiswa Wanner is fundraising for a project that translates books written in African languages into English. The first book will be an isiZulu book; each one needs $5,000 to pay for the process. They've raised $1,300 and need your support! ko-fi.com/post/Announc...

Announcement: First Book

African Translation Project published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · Jul 27

.001 milliseconds after it dawns on me that I’ve been ignoring/supporting a genocide: most important thing now is no scolding about this

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · Jun 11

Tom Lehrer - Send The Marines

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 22

FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · Jul 21

Post from @suchnerve: Printing out a word document that says “I am a person” and then being like omg my printer is sentient now

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Jul 20

Support trans journalists, because ain't no way the cis corporate media are going to tell our stories.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Jul 20

The goal is to add $1000/month to our funding, to ensure Assigned Media remains healthy, and we're halfway there!

We're looking to add 30 new members over the coming week, along with extra gifts from existing members and new small donations.

Will you share this to help us find our people?

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Jul 20

In order to meet the moment, we need your help. Our goal is to add an additional $1000/month to keep funding the increased pace of publication we've been maintaining since we got the news of Trump's re-election.

We're about halfway to that goal, so we need to keep pushing. Join us as a member!

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Jul 14

Philip K Dick knew a thing or two about the USA when he wrote Man in the High Castle…

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 14

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Jul 14

Huge LOL at this basket of deplorables arguing the Elgin marbles should stay put — a motley crew of cunty English lords and ladies plus Sargon of bloody Akkad 😂😂😂

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Jul 14

that list of culture warrior signatories, and the text of that desperate "Great British PAC" letter to the British Museum, in full — what Christmas party that’s going to be 🧐😬

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Jul 9

Elon put Grok on timeout 😆

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Jul 9

After an hour-long blackout, Grok is functional on X again, although it appears to be limited to image generation replies

Grok, Elon Musk's Hitlerite chatbot, producing an image with a screen that says "Grok is restricted to generating images only."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

People criticized your work, therefore it was good?

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 7

This does not inspire much confidence in the NYT. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Despite some public criticism and internal grumbling, the paper’s leadership has continued to back the piece.

One person familiar with the editorial process noted that the Times’ senior editors were aligned on whether to publish the piece, which was read and greenlit by multiple top editors before its’ publication. Others on staff that spoke with Semafor on the condition of anonymity said the reaction to the piece showed why it was important to tackle it.

“The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Jul 3

His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over

While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · Jun 17

anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations! This volume is eagerly awaited 😄

Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social · Jun 17

We did it! Just submitted the manuscript for the edited volume 'Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right', forthcoming with Routledge, ETA 2026. Edited by Iris B. Segers, @audreygagnon.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social and myself.

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