There is a weird divide in everyday life now where some of us act like there’s mass death being perpetrated indiscriminately by a nuclear-armed country and others who act like we are overreacting and being weird 🤷

This is why independent spaces are so vital for communities. Could this happen at a Target or a Walmart? Only if the staff at empowered to act, and most times they’re not. People know what to do, and structures can either help or hinder.

FBfirestorm.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 10:08pm

The morning #HurricaneHelene hit Asheville members of our co-op sat in the dark, listening to the howling wind and crack of trees falling. When we emerged to take stock a cardboard sign on our door read “Community meeting here, Saturday at 2. Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other.” 1/?

The morning #HurricaneHelene hit Asheville members of our co-op sat in the dark, listening to the howling wind and crack of trees falling. When we emerged to take stock a cardboard sign on our door read “Community meeting here, Saturday at 2. Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other.” 1/?

*exhales*

"Now would be a good time for this reminder: ... While football revenue can help subsidize other sports, money from athletics rarely flows to the educational side; it is often the opposite.... Most major universities subsidize athletics, not the other way around."

AKakalhan.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 10:05pm

What Does College Football Have to Do With College: "does a multibillion-dollar sports enterprise, attached to American universities, make any sense?"

What Does College Football Have to Do With College?

The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.

Keep waiting for them to pull Wheeler, then we’ll do something. Hmm it’s the 7th inning already? Hmmmm😭

go go go 550 NTT faculty teach 60% of all undergrad courses, yet the Uni’s top 30 executives make more than all of them combined seiu73.org/2024/10/univ...

Any digital archivists out there looking for a 2-year gig in NYC? CUNY is hiring. This job will help scope out big picture plans for CUNY's digital archives infrastructure and also work one-on-one with archivists across CUNY campuses on digital preservation needs. #LISjobs#archives#digipres

I am in the process of designing a new MA course for CUNY’s Middle East Studies program called “Palestine, Palestinians, and the State in Comparative Perspective” for Spring 2025. I welcome any suggested readings/resources. I will share the syllabus once it’s ready.

HOLY SHIT