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If you’re a tenured faculty member and you accept a raise/COLA that your adjuncts colleagues are denied, then you’re part of what’s destroying college in America.
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@AOC
@RogerWilliamsTX
You have to remember,
@AOC
, that it's difficult for old privileged white dudes to figure out how to lie in the digital age.
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@peterdaou
Jesus,
@davidaxelrod
. It was 2008. Any precedent in politics or American culture of power ignoring sexual assault? Google what was Harvey Weinstein doing in '08? Larry Nassar? Brett Kavanaugh? Matt Lauer? Charlie Rose? That you were there is an indictment of you, not Ms. Reade.
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@RegentHubbard
Unless your community voices thoughts which are not in line with your hedgefund managment or zionism?
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@morethanmySLE
Nancy Pelosi is a war criminal. She has fed corporations and the wealthy, while the poor and the infirmed starve. "One-in-five children in America do not have enough food to eat" because
#NancyPelosi
stole it for her vineyards and ice cream.
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@alexrmoskowitz
And it pays upwards of $1350 a credit. That covers MTA fares and maybe a vending machine sandwich.
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@IlhanMN
Tomorrow on
@foxandfriends
: Ilhan Omar invents time travel and will use it to destroy America.
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@annehelen
Every college's plan:
1. Pretend endowments don't exist.
2. Increase workload for adjuncts but not pay.
3. Assume 18-22yr olds are adults.
Worst plans I've seen ignore tech (ie: Zoom classes) in favor of LMS-based courses. Also, the term "de-densification" is popular with admin
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Hockey wants victims of sexual assault and violence to shake it off, get back in the game, get some sandpaper, grow a pair. The NHL is a repugnant, regressive, sports entity. Some teams are no doubt getting ready to sign Carter Hart et al. once their time is served.
Hearing the Edmonton Oilers will hire Stan Bowman as GM today…media conference to be held sometime this morning.
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@Dcollier74
I got dismissed as an adjunct because I refused to build a Canvas setup for a course one month before they were even going to send me my contract. The same college once refused to provide my visa documents until a syllabus was posted a month before classes were to begin.
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Protester being threatened with arrest in Tulsa. She has a ticket. She's sitting peacefully. She's not breaking any laws.
#TrumpRallyTulsa
#resist
#MSNBC
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@daveyalba
@annehelen
No, your own newspaper willfully published authoritarian police state fetishist right-wing propaganda by
@SenTomCotton
. I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
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David Berman (
@silverjews
@dragcityrecords
) passed away three years ago, and not a day goes by that I don't consider him or his work in some way. The day after, I wrote this for
@floodmagazine
:
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@rwesthead
We’re so lucky Westhead covers these stories while the rest of the hockey media—
@frank_seravalli
@FriedgeHNIC
@reporterchris
@DarrenDreger
et al.—report on contract AAVs and whitewashing Stan Bowman’s crimes.
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@charliekirk11
Here here! It's our God-given right as Americans to lick hospital walls and cough on strangers. No one should go to jail for ignoring rules meant to protect us all and the greater good. Prison is for minorities and immigrants and people who kneel during the anthem! USA! USA! USA!
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@davidsirota
@CaseStudyQB
New York loved Rudy Giuliani in a crisis, too. No one reads past the headlines anymore, and the headlines are bullshit.
#nuomotocuomo
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@jkirchick
Truly, the greatest mass delusion on the 21st century is the belief that Israel is NOT committing genocide.
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@ddale8
He couldn't enter the church because the moment he crossed the threshold he'd burst into flames.
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@outsports
I gave up on hockey a long time ago but I’ll cheer for any team that flagrantly breaks this policy
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@peterdaou
Dems don't want to win. They know Biden's going to lose. Wealthy Dems & mainstream media they control want Trump's America.
@nytimes
,
@NBC
,
@CNN
,
@CBS
,
@washingtonpost
,
@Vox
,
@PodSaveAmerica
et al. are getting fat on Trump while protected by the inherent privilege of class.
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@babydollstone15
Have the men in blue shot any minorities yet, or is that not on the schedule until after the white power rally? I can't find the schedule online.
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@SaraCivian
The return of Babcock started this, and Bowman and Quenville will follow. Hockey is broken
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If you can, please donate to my lovely friend’s next stage in life. After graduating from
@smithcollege
, she and her daughter are on their way to
@uconn
but could use our help!
#college
#GoFundMe
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The good folks at
@PipelineArtists
were kind enough to publish a new short story of mine, “Spaceman”.
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
#shortstories
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@alexrmoskowitz
Agreed. Maybe they could take that energy and use it to support adjunct equity, the contingent labor that their privilege and lifestyles are born of
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@peterdaou
@nytimes
@nbc
@CNN
@CBS
@washingtonpost
@vox
@PodSaveAmerica
You think
@SpeakerPelosi
wants Biden or Bernie? No, she's got power and vineyards and ice cream? Before Trump,
@AdamSchiff
was a character on
@nbclawandorder
.
@NYGovCuomo
? He gets to look like a decent person next to Trump. The list of Dems who love Trump's America is endless.
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Faculty, staff, & students across the country need to find the courage that so many
#wvu
faculty, staff, and students have during
#wvumistake
crime against College. This fight is coming to every one of our campuses. The very idea of College is under attack.
Earlier this summer WVU cancelled my summer class due to low enrollment (12 students, online) on the FRIDAY before the course began on Monday. They told me it could stay and I could teach it if I agreed to take HALF the pay.
GET BENT. I did NOT teach that course.
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@CampbellTali
Have you been fired yet? You’re an avatar for what hockey has become: a toxic community prone to violence, prejudice, racism, and misogyny. Thanks for helping ruin a sport I once loved
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David Berman of
@silverjews
/
@dragcityrecords
/ purple mountains died a year ago today and I still miss him. I know I'm not the only one. Did this for
@floodmagazine
when he passed. Rest in power, David. Thanks for everything, but especially Tennessee. ♥️
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@peterdaou
Somewhat predictably, Trump's going to have the military try and kill it with AR-15s. Protestors may be collateral damage.
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@modernistwitch
I teach writing in prisons. For a lot of the incarcerated, letters are their lives.
#AbolishPrisons
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Cop says: "I don't want to hurt you" to peacefully protesting woman.
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@EdgeofSports
What
@HarveyAraton
and
@airmovie
seem to ignore is that the fortunes (and legacies) of
@Nike
and
@Jumpman23
are built on child labor, greed, and ignoring the implications of $500 shoes.
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There are over 40,000 Americans currently in prison for cannabis offenses. We should be demanding their freedom just as much as we are
@brittneygriner
’s.
#FreeBrittneyGriner
@WNBA
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Spoke with
@jimjames
,
@carlbroemel
, and
@worldbofree
from
@mymorningjacket
about life, the universe, and everything for
@floodmagazine
. Solid chats with good dudes. Have a look:
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A wonderful writer/person and workshop colleague from
@DisquietILP
suffered the unthinkable. Please help if you can:
“Sofie's life changed overnight. Let's help rebuild what was lost ❤️”
#communitysupport
#amwriting
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@ShawnPatrick_22
Ugh! RIght??? How hard is it for CNN and MSNBC to cover these Klan rallies without bias?
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@dsemenzcrim
At least it’s a full-time gig. The only job market issue TT and tenured profs should be talking about is the contingent laborers upon which your salaries/lifestyle depends. Fight for adjunct equity before title semantics.
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I can’t thank
@PipelineArtists
enough for publishing this. Great, supportive, engaged team there with
@jeannevb
@SPMJM
et al.
"Dad had been sick. Since just after I left. Since he said things and I said things and we agreed to silence. We had expected him to live forever because our people believe in a vengeful god." -
@HowToRentARoom
On
#PipelineArtists
.
#writingcommunity
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Tenured/full-time faculty should use privilege to protect/support contingent faculty like
@tomjkealey
.
@Stanford
chose to destroy them. Tenure/adjunctification is a broken model & needs to be fixed right,
@AAUP
@AFTunion
?
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Damn, Didion. “We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
#RIPJoanDidion
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These young student-athletes work so hard, all year long. They deserve this. Good luck in Ithaca.
#GoPride
#posse
That feel when you hear you’re playing in the
@NCAADIII
tournament. The Posse is going dancing.
#d3hoops
#TakeTheStairs
@SC_Pride
@SpfldCollege
@d3hoops
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In an exceptional gesture, the J. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation has gifted one course at
@CCV_VT
to every Vermont high school grad of the
#classof2020
. Thanks so much to the
@McClureVtFdn
for this gift to our community. More info:
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Pamela Paul in
@nytimes
worries student protestors won’t be able to get jobs working for the monsters they’re protesting against. I mean… ffs. The elitist idea that we all want to be stockbrokers.
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@peterdaou
"Future former Republicans",
@PeteButtigieg
, is a euphemism for "rich white people who don't mind medicare and civil rights but not at their expense, who would vote for a Nazi if it meant they paid less taxes and the golf courses reopen soon."
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@marxforcats
I once found out I was getting passed over for a TT job at the college I was already working while in a department meeting 🤣😭
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@bethanyshondark
I had never heard of you until yesterday, but seems like you’re a nightmare of a person, Karen.
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@catchatweetdown
@NaomiAKlein
I teach in prisons and we discuss Ruth Wilson Gilmore in some of the most fascinating conversations I've ever had the honor of being a part of. RWG is such an important thinker, and I'm so happy her work is getting more attention during the current movement.
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Took to the streets of Hartford yesterday to occupy
@GovNedLamont
's mansion's front lawn with
@4CsSEIU1973
@AFTCT
@AFSCME
@Recovery4AllCT
to fight for equity and dignity in the
@CSCUnews
.
#savectcommunitycolleges
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@JoinerOfficial
@UAW
Because they’re standing up for the marginalized in their community? That’s deplorable?
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Steve Scalise is why America is f--ked. He serves no purpose other than to obfuscate the truth and lower the level of intelligent discourse.
#Scalise
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@AmyClukey
I never make them buy any texts/books. Everything is available online, free. And as for the what they read on, I don’t fight their affection for tech
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@pschofie79
Every class, cohort, discipline, and school is different. We teach the room, not some arbitrary idea
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Came back to Twitter this year to stay apprised of progressive movements. Help a Canadian out!
#NoComradesUnder10k
#NoComradesUnder1k
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Wanted to share
@floodmagazine
piece on
@mymorningjacket
again. Chatting with
@jimjames
@carlbroemel
&
@worldbofree
about music/community/transcendence made for a great morning. Thanks to
@BigHassleKen
&
@michaeIeisele
@bighasslemedia
for connecting us.
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@SportsnetSpec
hockey media will forgive anyone as long as they’re part of the establishment. The sport is so broken, and the media refuses to hold them accountable, ever. Did Larry Nassar deserve a second chance? Would you put your kid in Bowman’s charge? Let’s ask John Doe 2 how he’s doing.
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@peterdaou
@RonanFarrow
Dems think if they can get the few voters left with a sense of morality to question reporting of
#metoo
it'll allow those voters to dismiss
#TaraReade
and finally (if reluctantly) accept Biden. The party's lack of respect for the people and weaponization of
#metoo
is criminal.
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@ptakakjian
@MichaelJStern1
@DorieRogers
@JoeBiden
@USATODAY
Yes, just what we need. More men explaining and/or interrogating the
#metoo
movement. What are your feelings on menstruation and childbirth, Paul?
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@NK_Adjei
I taught literature and writing in prisons for four years, and never have I had more dynamic and engaged classroom conversations and experiences
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Premiere video for new single from Territorial, a collective of incarcerated musicians from
@DieJimCrow
for
@floodmagazine
. Thanks for the work DJC and
@RoyalYoung
.
#recidivism
#endmassincarcerarion
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Wrote goodbye to
#davidberman
two years ago in
@floodmagazine
. Miss him terribly. Hope he found peace.
#dcb
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