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Update on whether Ahab will step down:

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

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strange subterranean commotions

I actually think it’s good when public officials constrain their behavior out of fear of the consequences breaking the law

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If you’d like to support the Smith College Library Workers’ Union as bargaining begins, the union has made it easy with a quick form. SCLWU hopes to gather as many signatures as possible from students, staff, faculty, alums, & community members. Thank you! forms.gle/2gNfouMmT4ga...

Sign our open letter of support!forms.gle CALL TO ACTION 6/26/2024: With over half of Smith College Libraries Workers United (SCLWU) members reporting that they are looking for other jobs, and while recruitment and retention are at all time l...

Humidity forecast:

the pressure of the water is immense

An under-appreciated reason (besides, of course, by Michael Denning) why Citizen Kane slaps is the full-chested critique of American fascism at a moment in which it was a real threat.

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Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community Fri 6/28 4-5:30 pm ET to discuss Noga Rotem's paper on Hobbes & paranoia w/ @kyebarker.bsky.social as commenter! Details here: mailchi.mp/607e21ff3003... #PolTheory #PoliSky

SAVE THE DATE: Friday, June 28 - Noga Rotem on "'No More Wonder': Hobbes's Leviathan and the Politics of Paranoia"mailchi.mp

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veritable gospel cetology

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Stay not just woke, but Wide Awake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...

Thinking about becoming a Lost Causer, but for Reconstruction. Flying an 1876 flag, slipping “40 acres & a mule” into casual conversation, saying “our people fought the good fight” about ten+ years of multiracial governing. www.rareflags.com/RareFlags_Sh...

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Look if you've got a low-lying state made of swiss cheese limestone that insurance companies are fleeing in droves because it's already going to shit, you gotta keep those wind turbines no one is actually asking to build out of your precious boiling waters

DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida lawwww.washingtonpost.com Climate advocates said the bill is a bid for national attention from a Republican governor eager to use global warming as a culture war issue.

Does the enshittification really have to be for everything?

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"In my nearly 40 years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." Robin D. G. Kelley to Columbia President Minouche Shafik: www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik - Boston Reviewwww.bostonreview.net You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

Helluva way to end a semester

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For campus administrations freaking out about the visuals of protests they sure are bad at recognizing the optics of their response

Conservative politicians have found an opportunity to have liberal kids brutalized and they really couldn’t be more ecstatic

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"I just signed a low protecting free speech on college campuses" "These protestors belong in jail"

This is the least surprising possible progression of The Atlantic’s relation to higher ed instruction

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Kant @ 300

Women in the history of political thought question: does anyone have any texts by women in the 18th or 19th century critically appraising the association of women with nature or the naturalization of 'women's labor' that they would recommend?

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If you want to lead any major institution in America you need the approval of a jerkoff named Chris Rufo and if you piss him off the New York Times will help him get you fired

Inflicting Herbert Spencer on my students might be the wildest thing I’ve done as an instructor

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I need you to understand the Supreme Court just allowed a ban on medical care to take effect in response to an ADF brief that cited Pamela Paul as an authority on the matter www.motherjones.com/media/2024/0...

Anti-trans bills keep citing the New York Timeswww.motherjones.com “By any objective measure, the paper seems clearly devoted to advocating against this care.”

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Update: Smith College Libraries staff voted unanimously to unionize! www.opeiulocal153.org/news/smith-c...

Smith College Libraries staff are unionizing! www.opeiulocal153.org/news/smith-c...

SMITH COLLEGE LIBRARIES WORKERS ANNOUNCE UNIONIZATION WITH OPEIU LOCAL 153 — OPEIU Local 153www.opeiulocal153.org

SMITH COLLEGE LIBRARIES WORKERS VOTE UNANIMOUSLY IN FAVOR OF UNIONIZING WITH OPEIU LOCAL 153 — OPEIU Local 153www.opeiulocal153.org

The logic of email conversation

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Did you read (or write) a great feminist political theory paper in 2023? Please nominate it for APSA's Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory! Any paper published in 2023 in any English-language journal is eligible

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AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.

NEW: an AI chatbot touted by City Hall as a helper for small businesses is giving illegal and incorrect information to those who use it

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Lawwww.thecity.nyc The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.

My Political Visions of Nature class met in Smith Special Collections today to see the insanely great collection of early eds. of some texts we’ve read or discussed, including a signed, Kelmscott edition of a Morris book! Huge thanks to @mazarine.bsky.social !

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My department (Morehouse political science) is hiring a VAP in comparative politics (w/ theory as a secondary field) for AY 24-25. We’ll soon announce a TT search in this area for the following year. morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/9307

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Sciencemorehouse.peopleadmin.com The Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media & Arts (HSSMA) invites applications for a full-time, visiting assistant professor in the Political Science Department. The ideal candidate will hold ...