83 Senators voted to pass a $858 BILLION defense budget this week. That's $2.3 billion a day. $97 million an hour. All being funneled to an agency that has never passed a SINGLE audit and can't account for over HALF its assets 🚨🚨🚨

Michael Hobbes People don't understand politics is the system of how people interact with people. You can't escape that. Everything is political because everything is people interacting with people.

What are your favorite essays about social media (any aspect), preferably accessible to first-year college students?

An Ohio teacher, who was reading The Sneetches to her Grade 3 class, was abruptly cut off by an admin when a student said "It's almost like what happened back then, how people were treated. Like, disrespected. Like, white people disrespected Black people.” dispatch.com/story/news/edu…

When you see mainstream media amplifying arguments that queer is a bad word, you are witnessing pushback against the idea that we have culture and history and a right to transmit that culture and history both to others like us and to anyone interested in our wider impact.

Accepting applications for a new position in Advertising and Strategic Communication at Northeastern University northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

This is the year I feel as a professor I've had my rupture with youth culture. The rope stretched as far as it could, and now it's snapped. They exist across a chasm for me now.

Oh. My. God. The comments under this thread are……upsetting. We in higher education should be doing more to advocate for our institutions. I’m not sure we’re prepared for what’s coming in the next few years. Or am I being alarmist?

Watching nothing but sitcoms to save my eyes

None of the conversations about the canon I had as a cinephile or grad student prepared me for what it’s like to teach film courses at universities with no devoted screening times, small libraries, policies to disallow ripping DVDs to post online, etc

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Always Be Historicizing 🥃 Aparna Nair You know, if I were running a big university that charges a lot of tuition and is dependent on state funding, I'm not sure that "professors are easily replaced by software" is a message I'd want to send.

Here's the group that is dismantling WVU. They have been hired as consultants at land-grant universities around the country to help shred the liberal arts. Would be sensible for people to know who they are, as more unis hire them: rpkgroup.com/?fbclid=IwAR1l…

Word is the CDC is seriously considering limiting eligibility for the new fall booster to 65+ and/or Immunocompromised. If you think this sucks, fill out a CDC comment form here regulations.gov/document/CDC-2…

Please share this new job posting — Assistant Teaching Professor: Rhetoric and Persuasion northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/…

I feel like it would be more normal for colleges to have nothing to do with arms manufacturers.

I'm a Jew, a faculty member at northeastern, and I visited the Gaza solidarity camp each day. Many student protesters there were also Jews. Northeastern admin is justifying arresting their own students by claiming they were chanting "kill the Jews," which is a blatant lie.

I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident Northeastern U. leadership is referring to

Caitlyn Jenner has arrived at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.