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I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Denver #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Denver #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day · May Day Strong
The billionaires continue to wage a cruel war on working people, with their cronies in the administration, ICE and law enforcement backing up their attacks. This Labor Day we will continue to stand st...
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August 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what they could say and teach. Some started avoiding terms like “racism.” One student recently told me that when someone used “intersectional” in class, the instructor told her not to use that word. One colleague told me that he stopped assigning an article about lynching and white evangelicalism for fear that those terms could raise red flags. Another said she was censoring her language not just in class and on campus but also on personal social media. Several professors have been subjected to efforts at entrapment. Last year a man posing as a student tried to encourage Muslim faculty members to criticize Mr. DeSantis and Israel. A similar incident happened to me. In October 2024 my department chair called me into his office to tell me that someone claiming to be a student in my Religion and Science class had complained that I spent 20 minutes talking about specific candidates, including who I was voting for and why. I was stunned. That never happened in that class or any other; it is antithetical to the way I teach. Fortunately
May 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
cindywearstiedye.bsky.social
I’ve been gazing longingly at my photos from Obama’s inauguration. Part of me is staying in denial. THIS can’t really be happening😥😥
January 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I’m still trying to figure out how to connect with all of my friends here?
December 4, 2024 at 12:23 PM