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new book MONOCULTURE out now! (Unicorn Press) / poet, teacher, plant hoarder, cat photographer; lecturer @HowardU; editor @essaypress; he/him šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ

Washington, DC
Joined August 2009
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Now open! The Boutique of Pure Reason sells men’s vintage clothing, ties, jewelry, scarves, shoes, belts and decor (such as vintage pennants). Located on the former H&R Block space at 1662 Columbia Rd. Open Wed to Fri, 1-6 pm, Sat 11-6, Sun 11-4. This is the 4th vintage shop to open in the neighborhood in the past 12 months along with Garlic Girl Vintage, Golden Hour Collective & Grift the Rich. Instagram @purereason.vtg
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Oh no they tried to do this to Toni Morrison too for the dedication in Beloved (ā€œSixty million and moreā€). Shameless.
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Despicable. I refuse to outsource my knowledge work and let my critical skills erode. (These skills include the empathy, advocacy, and ability to synthesize a student’s contributions that go into writing letters.) We innovate and strengthen our faculties through failure, working through boredom and tedium, making mistakes, and struggle. Hello?
i was on a call with some profs and several of them, sheepishly, admitted to using AI regularly for lit summaries, for writing student recs, for writing methods sections for grants. academia is really going to hell.
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šŸ—£ļøšŸ“¢PRESS RELEASE: ā€œTexas A&M University Caves to Political Pressure, Violating Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom and Due Process.ā€ 🧵 1/5
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(pre)ORDER Announcement: GLOOM, the collected edition, by Jake Reber @artificialbl1ss // October 2, 2025 // 1111press.com/gloom 1111press.bigcartel.com Reserve your copy today
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What do you even say about Gaza at this point? Our collective humanity was lost there. We are paying for the starvation of two million people. Women, children. This is barely remarked upon. A monstrous evil unlike any I’ve seen before in my life.
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Last night, @SEIU projected this over the Boston Common to send a clear message: in the face of fascism, labor won't back down. We will continue to call for the immediate release of our union sibling Rümeysa until she is free!
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ā€¼ļø HAPPENING NOW IN D.C., A massive banner has been unveiled with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023.
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Cory Booker broke a filibuster record with a 25-hour speech about moral courage and resisting fascism, then turned around and voted to arm a government committing genocide.
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this is terrifying. she was detained for writing an op ed about BDS. an op ed. students are being kidnapped over this. this started at columbia and it will keep happening if we don’t stop it.
NEW: I’ve obtained new footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers.
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First you fired our union president. Now you cancel bargaining 2 hours before it was set to begin. Columbia admin, is this what you call bargainingĀ inĀ goodĀ faith? Was our rally too much to handle?
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For all the Columbia and Barnard students expelled today ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„ garadinervi-repertori.blog/p…
Read June Jordan’s ā€œNotes of a Barnard Dropoutā€ and then read it again.
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Fuck Columbia University
🧵IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
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🧵IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
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To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road. I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.
Where are Columbia faculty? All those who hide behind anonymous letters of ā€œsolidarityā€ with students? Your students have been arrested, expelled and now having their permanent residency revoked - what are you doing? What are well-positioned, wealthy sympathetic alumni doing?
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NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-det…
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you know you scream and scream and scream about how liberalism easily paves the way for fascism and then it just sort of happens right in front of you even faster than you could ever imagine. oh well
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As a gay man who watched as Reagan laughed off the AIDS crisis, fuck you. Reagan's legacy is nothing to celebrate.
Slotkin: As a cold war kid, I am thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980's. Trump would have lost us the cold war.
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this must hit so hard if you’re dumb as fuck
I didn't expect this, but I'm increasingly feeling that Amy Coney Barrett is going to save the Union.
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