Mary Craig
@marymcraig.bsky.social
Baseball and political theory, often simultaneously. See: Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America. (they/them)
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There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
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The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
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It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans
It's so great to see colleges pay the government millions of dollars for the privilege of unilaterally instituting Zionist, anti-trans policies, all while claiming to uphold academic freedom.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's so great to see colleges pay the government millions of dollars for the privilege of unilaterally instituting Zionist, anti-trans policies, all while claiming to uphold academic freedom.
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It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
In addition to MLB's FanDuel partnership, I think that the exploitative nature of MLB's Dominican academies played a role here. Would Dominican players be less desperate to make money if they weren't told from childhood that their communities depended on them doing so?
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In addition to MLB's FanDuel partnership, I think that the exploitative nature of MLB's Dominican academies played a role here. Would Dominican players be less desperate to make money if they weren't told from childhood that their communities depended on them doing so?
It's a little odd that this article doesn't discuss Benicio Del Toro's character, but I do ultimately agree that the film fell into some of the same patterns, re: portrayals of Black women, that it was attempting to critique.
'One Battle After Another' isn't up for the fight defector.com/one-battle-a...
'One Battle After Another' Isn't Up For The Fight | Defector
To paraphrase the late, great Prodigy, there are wars going on outside no one is safe from. They are cultural, political, racial, class-based, and literal. It’s increasingly difficult to shake the…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's a little odd that this article doesn't discuss Benicio Del Toro's character, but I do ultimately agree that the film fell into some of the same patterns, re: portrayals of Black women, that it was attempting to critique.
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Wasn’t able to watch WS live but apparently the Jonas Bros did some of a song at some point? I cannot express this urgently enough: NO. Baseball is not meant to be associated with entertainment. The beauty of baseball is its uninterrupted agony. The outside world must be barred from the stadiums.
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Wasn’t able to watch WS live but apparently the Jonas Bros did some of a song at some point? I cannot express this urgently enough: NO. Baseball is not meant to be associated with entertainment. The beauty of baseball is its uninterrupted agony. The outside world must be barred from the stadiums.
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Mamdani invoking the memory of Sylvia Rivera, a staunch anti-imperialist who very much framed trans liberation as part of the liberation of all oppressed peoples throughout the world, just days after calling Cuba a dictatorship really is something.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Mamdani invoking the memory of Sylvia Rivera, a staunch anti-imperialist who very much framed trans liberation as part of the liberation of all oppressed peoples throughout the world, just days after calling Cuba a dictatorship really is something.
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“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser
The best thing about my book is that it's only 133 pages long!
September 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The best thing about my book is that it's only 133 pages long!
AOC earned a 4.0 at the Barack Obama School of Scolding Your Constituents
I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often?
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
September 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
AOC earned a 4.0 at the Barack Obama School of Scolding Your Constituents
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happy labor day
September 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
happy labor day
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Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza city: what Israel is doing in Gaza city is what they did in Rafah, scorched earth, destroying everything, depopulating the city by making it unliveable.
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza city: what Israel is doing in Gaza city is what they did in Rafah, scorched earth, destroying everything, depopulating the city by making it unliveable.
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My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”
August 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
Since the Balfour Declaration, Western Civilization has tied itself to the settler colonial project that is Israel. Palestinian liberation will bring the West (and therefore liberalism) to its knees, so long as we continue crafting a coherent theory of socialism to capitalize on this moment.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Since the Balfour Declaration, Western Civilization has tied itself to the settler colonial project that is Israel. Palestinian liberation will bring the West (and therefore liberalism) to its knees, so long as we continue crafting a coherent theory of socialism to capitalize on this moment.
Solidarity! No gains for the working class have been won by capitulating to the capitalist-owned government.
“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
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August 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Solidarity! No gains for the working class have been won by capitulating to the capitalist-owned government.
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You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.
Hey, Google, I hate this!
August 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hey, Google, I hate this!