Calvin Coon
@calcoon.bsky.social
Arkansas born, Missouri Raised. Aux Arks.
PhD student in English Literature at University of Arizona.
Research Interests: US Regionalism, US Southern Literature, Housing, Home, and Property, Critical Black Geographies, Critical Animal Studies.
PhD student in English Literature at University of Arizona.
Research Interests: US Regionalism, US Southern Literature, Housing, Home, and Property, Critical Black Geographies, Critical Animal Studies.
“Slaveholders, colonial rulers, prison guards and the Shah’s police have all had occasion to discover that when nothing remains except force, nothing remains—period” Barbara J Fields
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
June 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Slaveholders, colonial rulers, prison guards and the Shah’s police have all had occasion to discover that when nothing remains except force, nothing remains—period” Barbara J Fields
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not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
June 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
For Father’s Day, yes, but so well-timed for other reasons too 😅 @jacobinmag.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For Father’s Day, yes, but so well-timed for other reasons too 😅 @jacobinmag.bsky.social
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Boer on the Floor
June 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Boer on the Floor
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While we’re at it.
Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’
We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?
Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’
We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?
June 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
While we’re at it.
Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’
We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?
Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’
We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?
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If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.
June 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.
Can we finally move on from corporations steering political and identity formation
Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Can we finally move on from corporations steering political and identity formation
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The doctrinaire neoliberalism of the Chicago School so far seems to be too entrenched in courts & financial institutions for hallucinatory MAGA protectionism to overcome.
a woman is sitting on a couch talking to two other women .
ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch talking to two other women .
media.tenor.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The doctrinaire neoliberalism of the Chicago School so far seems to be too entrenched in courts & financial institutions for hallucinatory MAGA protectionism to overcome.
What’s the different valence of “basement dwelling gamer” as against “immigrant receiving benefits without taxes” and “welfare queen?” Who’s being added to the cache of images to scorn?
Scalise on Medicaid: "If someone is able-bodied and they can go get a job and they're living in their mom's basement playing video games, I'm sorry, you gotta go get a job. This program was designed for the truly needy."
May 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What’s the different valence of “basement dwelling gamer” as against “immigrant receiving benefits without taxes” and “welfare queen?” Who’s being added to the cache of images to scorn?
Translation: “some people couldn’t stop saying slurs at work and had to keep meeting with HR over and over and over”
Tulsi Gabbard claims that intelligence professionals have told her that under Biden they were expected to spend half their day on "DEI work"
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Translation: “some people couldn’t stop saying slurs at work and had to keep meeting with HR over and over and over”
Hear me out…an exaggerated version of Derridean double reading: first stable read in the grant application, let (interpretive) hell break loose once the bag is secured
Might work once? Might work just a couple times? But we gotta grow a rose in every crack we can, while we can
Might work once? Might work just a couple times? But we gotta grow a rose in every crack we can, while we can
I ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed.
www.neh.gov/news/update-...
www.neh.gov/news/update-...
An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency’s Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders
www.neh.gov
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Hear me out…an exaggerated version of Derridean double reading: first stable read in the grant application, let (interpretive) hell break loose once the bag is secured
Might work once? Might work just a couple times? But we gotta grow a rose in every crack we can, while we can
Might work once? Might work just a couple times? But we gotta grow a rose in every crack we can, while we can
Need to write a paper on some rappers appealing to being country and comparing that against rappers appealing to being street, hood, etc for authenticity/credibility. Southern rap especially in the early 2000s really repped rurality, what’s going on there?
April 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Need to write a paper on some rappers appealing to being country and comparing that against rappers appealing to being street, hood, etc for authenticity/credibility. Southern rap especially in the early 2000s really repped rurality, what’s going on there?
Turns out, transphobia and the obsession with political-economic-sexual virility and aggressiveness are, as anyone with a brain has known, completely enmeshed. Glad it’s just out there now, in mainstreamed right wing hormone discourse.
RFK Jr: An American teenager today has less testosterone than a 68 year old man. Sperm counts are down 50 percent.
WATTERS: Wait -- an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68 year old man?
RFK JR: That's right
WATTERS: Wait -- an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68 year old man?
RFK JR: That's right
April 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Turns out, transphobia and the obsession with political-economic-sexual virility and aggressiveness are, as anyone with a brain has known, completely enmeshed. Glad it’s just out there now, in mainstreamed right wing hormone discourse.
I will not be coalition building with the WSJ editorial board to bring down Trump. And if you are coalition building with them, I will not be coalition building with you. It’s economic democracy + redistribution + indigenous- and smallholder-prioritizing ag reform, or it’s no deal
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
April 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I will not be coalition building with the WSJ editorial board to bring down Trump. And if you are coalition building with them, I will not be coalition building with you. It’s economic democracy + redistribution + indigenous- and smallholder-prioritizing ag reform, or it’s no deal
If anyone actually reads my posts, please for the love of God refuse to coalition build on the Democrat Party’s terms. Make them come left, make them join unions, make them redistribute property
April 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If anyone actually reads my posts, please for the love of God refuse to coalition build on the Democrat Party’s terms. Make them come left, make them join unions, make them redistribute property
Mailing in my prediction now:
1. A huge swing towards moderation in the Republican Party in time for midterms. Free marketists make decisive split from nativists.
2. Democrat Party scoops them up, moving the party further right.
3. Democrats frame all this shit as an aberration from capitalism,
1. A huge swing towards moderation in the Republican Party in time for midterms. Free marketists make decisive split from nativists.
2. Democrat Party scoops them up, moving the party further right.
3. Democrats frame all this shit as an aberration from capitalism,
April 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Mailing in my prediction now:
1. A huge swing towards moderation in the Republican Party in time for midterms. Free marketists make decisive split from nativists.
2. Democrat Party scoops them up, moving the party further right.
3. Democrats frame all this shit as an aberration from capitalism,
1. A huge swing towards moderation in the Republican Party in time for midterms. Free marketists make decisive split from nativists.
2. Democrat Party scoops them up, moving the party further right.
3. Democrats frame all this shit as an aberration from capitalism,
Jesus, what a rube. It’s like watching a child be mystified by the coin behind your ear trick.
Van Hollen: "My one vote I cast for a member of the Trump cabinet was for now Secretary Rubio. I regret to say I regret that vote, because once installed in office he is essentially abandoning the positions he took here." (Who could've foreseen ... )
February 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Jesus, what a rube. It’s like watching a child be mystified by the coin behind your ear trick.
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Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually
No notes, run it back
My review: loved the flag, Serena, SZA, Drake diss, Greek chorus of women, A+ no notes #kendrick
February 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
No notes, run it back
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"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
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8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
Luigi and Elon. Wild West gunfight at high noon. For leadership of the country.
February 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Luigi and Elon. Wild West gunfight at high noon. For leadership of the country.
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Please learn from the enslaved people who perfected the art of strategic malingering.
How to delay. How to break tools and lose passwords.
How to subvert unlawful or cruel orders with foot dragging. How to convincingly feign incompetence and ignorance.
Bury them in paperwork.
How to delay. How to break tools and lose passwords.
How to subvert unlawful or cruel orders with foot dragging. How to convincingly feign incompetence and ignorance.
Bury them in paperwork.
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Please learn from the enslaved people who perfected the art of strategic malingering.
How to delay. How to break tools and lose passwords.
How to subvert unlawful or cruel orders with foot dragging. How to convincingly feign incompetence and ignorance.
Bury them in paperwork.
How to delay. How to break tools and lose passwords.
How to subvert unlawful or cruel orders with foot dragging. How to convincingly feign incompetence and ignorance.
Bury them in paperwork.