Jason Coupet @ProfessaJay Twitter profile

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Jason Coupet

2 years

Pinning this tweet so that in 2024 when they overturn election results in 5 states we can remember how little we gave shit in 2021 when they told us that was exactly what they were going to do.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

When I was 16, I had two white police officers follow me for 20 mins coming from my aunts house. When I pulled into my parents driveway, they turned their car lights on, got out the car, and unholstered their guns. For failing to signal. Into my own driveway. On a cul de sac.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Daddy got a big grant today! 6yo: what’s a big grant? It’s when someone gives you lots of money to do research! 6yo: So we’re rich!!!?? No, sweetie the money is for research. I don’t get the money. 6yo: Oh. So wait someone else gets the money, and you get more work? 🖕🏾

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.

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Jason Coupet

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13 days

Whew man these receipts.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Took a major L today. Signed up for a class at the Y because the boxing gym is closed for renovations. Got in and a it’s a bunch of middle aged women in there, like silver sneakers club. I thought I signed up for the wrong class, I almost left but didn’t wanna be disrespectful.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho.

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

My father had a medical emergency yesterday (he is stable and recovering). The EMTs, alongside my mom, saved his life. I’m guessing they saved 5 or 6 more during their shift yesterday. Average EMT starting pay is $28k a year, not enough to afford a standard Chicago 2br apartment.

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Jason Coupet

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4 months

“Homeless people drink and do drugs and crimes.” YOU do drugs and come from an entire family of upper middle class alcoholics. You speed in the car, and cheat on your taxes. And you get to not be homeless. I just want the same for them buddy.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Wtf man, I’ll own this one, my bad. These women must not do shit in retirement but work out and do push-ups. Gospel tshirts and shit on to fool people. They had the conditioning of nba players. They all “nice job young man good work” afterward. I feel like an ass. A tired one.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Man sheeeeeeit. That shit was brutal. An hour of intense cardio with this old lady drill sergeant barking at you. Like I’m a fat ass but I’m not that outa shape, I can work out hard. I spar. This thing kicked my ass. I almost got beat in the sprints by someone my momma age.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

4 years

Senior year of high school, I used to pick my 15 year old cousin up on the way to school at 7:30am. For two weeks a Hispanic police officer followed us, turn by turn, the whole way to school every morning.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

I should say: I regular have law enforcement folks in class and they have usually been pleasant, mature, and thoughtful. I think it’s important to talk about the “offense” part of harassment though. So much of this conflict is provoked.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

After a few days of this he started tailgating me very closely. I am a new driver and am nervous. I finally make a mistake a knock over a trash can. Lights on. Where am I going? (It is 7am and we have on backpacks). Why am I over here? Stay out of this neighborhood.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Just found out that the 9yo just placed first in the science fair. In *city of Atlanta*. Whats wild is that we didnt do *any* of it. She came up with the experiment all by herself. Did the board all herself. A nice control and some heterogenous treatments. So proud of her.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

He came to the window with his gun out. Demanded to see my license (I am not driving). Where are we going? Are their weapons or drugs in the car? Have us a ticket for going 96 mph. Refused to show radar.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Lol there are tenured professors of English making 50k who calendars look exactly like this. Come on dawg.

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1 year

I'm 30 years old. And I run a $200M portfolio of businesses. This is my daily routine:

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

My wife and I were driving to New Orleans from Chicago. 2pm in southern Illinois, my wife was driving, maybe 68 in a 65. Made eye contact with a cop on the side of the road. Knew we were getting pulled over.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Asked if he was going to take my statement. “Shut the fuck up talking to me.” White lady, incredulous, says he should take my statement. He takes my statement.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

All this talk of merit and fairness when it comes to black folk reminds me of s story my grandma told me. In the MS delta when she was a kid there was this white family that owned a small plot of land on which they grew cotton and some other fruits and vegetables for sale.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Stuck in traffic in grad school at a complete stop, I got rear ended on I-57 in grad school by a car going 60 mph. Car totaled. Black sheriff takes statement from white dude that hit me, and white female witness and packed up to leave.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

“What the fuck are you doing outside of your car? Get off my fucking street!” I try to explain but I freeze up. He runs at me and charges me. I am certain it’s my time to leave earth. Hispanic partner gets out of the car, races towards him and tackles him into the snow.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

1 year

We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Hispanic cop starts furiously talking to him. Slaps his face .two more cops get out the back seat of e cop car. They push my car out of the snow and leave.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

8 months

Ya boy is ecstatic. Word to the Biden administration for fixing this program and expanding it. Federal policy works man. But word to the activists and organizers that *put* this on the agenda and never shut up about it.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Car got stuck in a major blizzard on 65th and Blackstone in Chicago. No other cars on the street. I get out and start pushing. Cop car sees me and drives up. Irish cop gets out and starts screaming at me.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

1 year

Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious™️ warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

I think about that shirt slot when I hear people start lecturing on merit and black people and handouts and what not. That they’d be fine with black people on campus and in the work place so long as they “earned” it.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

11 days

Well he just said it out loud. The reason they don’t like tenure is because these billionaires want to be able to call your dean and get you canned for not being an obedient serf.

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@FakeDawnSummers

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YUP

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

14 days

These same academic presidents crying on zoom and putting up “good trouble” murals after George Floyd got killed are now calling the same police departments out to beat the shit out of their own students. Whew man, the pendulum has *swung*.

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

Mississippi is the butt of many jokes, but it did not descend down from the heavens as a bastion of poverty and disorganization. Its identity as a loose network of feudal plantations held together by white supremacist terrorism was an enormously profitable political economy.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

So anyway in the middle of the night some white folks broke in and grabbed the father and his sons and took them to the top of some small hill and they beat their ass. I mean beat them to a pulp. I guess for showing up the other family? Made him abandon the farm.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

They grew vegetables and fruits and cotton too but their yield was vast. It was a super successful farm. She did not remember what they did differently, but clearly something. They stated making a little money from the farm, on the merits.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

10 months

The black family they hired saved up a little money and wanted to buy it from the county. No one else wanted it since the land yielded to little. But they were black so the county was reticent. They finally gave in and let them buy the land.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

They picked it themselves sometimes alongside a black sharecropper family they “hired”. It was a failing farm and they swore the land was unproductive. After years of this they abandoned the land.

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

The University of North Carolina, the flagship university of a state that is about is about ~25% black, is 7% black. And they are being sued by conservatives that think that number is too high.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

4 months

The drugs trope with poor and unhoused people is so disingenuous. I’ve never seen more drugs being used than when I started seeing upper middle class and rich people in high school and college. Pot, pills, ecstasy, coke, heroine, binge drinking.

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

Having working class black and brown kids in your PhD programs is not charity, it’s a strength. They can cook up research ideas privileged people can’t because of their inexperience and lack of perspective. Race and class stratification robs our society of so much good research.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

Every fairness discussion about rich people starts at the point when the rich guy already has the money. “Fidel Castro took our family’s farm.” Damn that sucks. What kind of farm was it?

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Ninety percent bro. Ninety percent. How dude.

NYCLU

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1 year

The NYPD released their data on vehicle stops for the first time ever. We learned that: 🔴 90% of motorists stopped last year were Black or Latino 🔴 Police stops of motorists in 2022 were about level with pedestrian stops at the height of stop & frisk

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

Please remember this as these rich Topham hat golf all day MFs try to convince us that the world sits on their shoulders. That they are the heroes of society while the rest of us, the educators and life savers and cleaners, work all day and still have to go to the food pantry.

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

In grad school I always wondered “why don’t all departments allow families for dissertation defense?” and then my family came to mine lol. One committee member asked some challenge questions to push me a little and both my dad and father in law wanted to whoop his ass after lol.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

3 years

I once made a half joke in class about how much nicer the police were here. An officer put his hand up: “It’s cuz in NC all the ticket 💰 goes back to the state, the cities don’t keep it. We don’t have an incentive to stop you unless you actually harm safety.” Look at this map.

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

More than 730 municipalities get at least 10% of their revenue from fines and fees, a New York Times investigation found. Most are in the South and Midwest. In many cases, officers' salaries — and sometimes, the size of the police force — depend on ticket revenue.

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Jason Coupet

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I try not to complain much about my job man, but this year one thing I’m feeling super acutely is how much like k-12 university teaching has become. It’s increasingly so different from my undergraduate experience that I’m starting to feel old and somewhat frustrated.

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

Econometrics is changing too fast. Everytime I meet with a more junior person I feel dumber and dumber. WTF is an augmented diff n diff. How am I supposed to keep up with this shit. I got kids.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

2 years

I know where my bread is buttered homie. Labor makes our world go. Let’s start behaving like it.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

2 years

Could you imagine the scandal this would be with any other public agency? Omg the public school system? It would be the scandal of the century.

Scott Hechinger

@ScottHech

2 years

NEWS: My god. $750 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$750 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent for 7,000 families out of work & at risk of eviction. With millions left over.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Homie got tenure today. I was raised to be very humble about these things but I am very proud of this. I got tenure at an R1, a year early, with a PhD in another discipline.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Like we didn’t do a damn thing other than buy some materials and staple a couple of papers. I was playing 2k23 while she was writing her abstract. This child is a scientists scientist man. I couldn’t be more proud.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Lol when I finished my dissertation, my mom and dad, unprompted, promised they would spend the week reading the whole thing cover to cover. When i asked a week later i heard “I’m sorry we tried, we got about a quarter through the introduction and just couldn’t stay awake.”

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

A few years back, my university started a food bank for students dealing with food insecurity, like those off campus or on campus during breaks. But during the program evaluation after the first year, know who used the food bank the most, by far? Campus minimum wage employees.

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Jason Coupet

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9 months

I spend *alot* of time thinking about the political economy of organizations. I’ve devoted my life to it. One of the the things the sociologists are right about is that huge institutional changes that are ostensibly about efficiency are usually mostly about power.

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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:

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

Once in my 1st or 2nd year on tenure track I went drinking with a senior colleague and we had way too many beers. Stumbling out of the bar i tripped on the curb and made a joke about almost dying and he said “Dude you can’t die mf, we might not get your line back.”

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

I *do* think there are lots of things about academia that are not good fits for some people. Most academics have to: 1) lead themselves through work on detailed, very long term projects with very little supervision or structure

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

Yale is 7-8% black (prolly less than half of that African American) and somehow we the scapegoat for every white kid denied from every university. The shot don’t even make sense. This country is just racist.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

“Chicago is cheap”/“Chicago is expensive” both seem like overstatements. Chicago is hyper hyper segregated by race and class. Chicago is like a tale of three cities and therefore like a tale of three price levels. Everywhere has price differences but chicago is like two CPIs.

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

As Florida and Texas try to put the last nails in the tenure coffin, it is super frustrating to me to hear people defend tenure as if it’s just a job perk. *The point of tenure is so that powerful people can’t bully researchers and keep society in the status quo.*

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Jason Coupet

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11 months

It is annoying to me that so many of the admin slicing humanities funding are treating the decline in majors as some exogenous market force. The kids are interested, especially now, but they’ve all been told since they were toddlers that if they study the stuff they will starve.

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Jason Coupet

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7 months

If you are applying to PhD programs, don’t sleep on the urban R1s like UIC (my alma mater) or GSU (where I work). The faculty are about as good as you’ll find anywhere else, and you get to be in a big fun diverse city, which can be great for your mental health.

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Jason Coupet

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2 years

“We alienate conservative viewpoints!” is lazy. Say what the viewpoints are. Articulate the specific viewpoints being alienated and advocate publicly that those viewpoints deserve space in the tent.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

Right before I went to high school I won a science fair and I got a $50 prize. I wanted to buy a video game but my parents made me put it in the bank. They said it would grow and I’d be super happy I saved it. I went to go get that shit before college and it was like $50.74.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

@Herring_NBA Dawg both sides of town too. If I run into you one of these days, gotta tell you the shit they pulled with my dad and brother by Halsted.

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Jason Coupet

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4 months

“I’m tired of seeing homeless people.” Well let’s build and fund public housing. “No! They are lazy and should work and pay.” Okay well let’s make sure everyone can have jobs pay enough to get housing. “No! That’s not fair. Let’s just put them in jail.”

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5 months

The City of Atlanta plans to clear out homeless encampments under bridges around the city.

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Jason Coupet

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6 months

It’s almost surreal to juxtapose how the Obama presidency was received in 2008 and what it’s legacy will probably actually be. He was universally thought to be the birth of something new and instead will likely be seen as the last hurrah of third way corporate liberalism.

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Jason Coupet

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They’d want detailed rubrics of exactly what they are supposed to say, how many pints each argument is worth, how to format charts, etc. I’m either gonna need to get with it or find something else to do I guess lol.

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

Me and the kids are on the plane next to a sociologist from the dark blue school down the road. Despite my kids being very quiet he is acting annoyed. But I’m sneak peeping his laptop screen and them corny regressions he running not causal. Joke on him.

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Jason Coupet

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4 years

Racism is something else man. These folks will happily crash a car that both of y’all in if they think your side doesn’t have airbags. Building solidarity is hard when something that insidious and backwards infects everything.

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

It’s “backwardness” powered a global economy and was a backbone of the birth of industrial capitalism. Mississippi is easy to make fun of, but there’s a good chance some of yalls great great grandparents made alot of money off this shit. Northerners too.

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Jason Coupet

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It’s the hand holding that really does it for me. When I was in undergrad they would tell us shit like “Greece wants to join the EU, write a data I formed paper arguing for or against if you’re Greece” and we could do it. I feel like I could never get away with that today.

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Jason Coupet

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*This* is why they are pushing to get rid of tenure all over. It ain’t got nothing to do with labor market inefficiencies. It’s power. Your ability to speak and publish and write using evidence is dangerous for those who want to govern us with lies, myths, and violence.

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@MiddleEastEye Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor” #Gaza #Protesters

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Jason Coupet

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3 years

Super curious: how many universities in the country can the average assistant professor afford to buy a home within a ten minute drive from campus? There can’t be that many anymore.

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3 years

To all the right wing people people who really really love America that think professors are engaged in a collective communist plot, allow me to share the topics from our last faculty meeting of left wing radicals:

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

I'm telling you, I don't know why y all believe their free market ideology schtick. Young black people start making a little money on the square and on go the Klan hoods. He isn't even hiding the racism here.

The Recount

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) complains about how antitrust laws impact college sports at a hearing on the PGA Tour-LIV merger: “Now everybody that plays basketball in college is gonna be driving a Bentley or a Rolls. I mean, we’re gonna be seeing rap stars instead of basketball stars.”

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2 years

This opening paragraph is just…wow. Did he just shoot somebody or is he in the running for man of the year?

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Jason Coupet

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1 year

The craziest thing from coaching the 6yo hoops team this past year: first day of practice this little blonde girl shows up, she has *just* turned 5 and looked 3. She has on unicorn light up shoes and like a Minnie Mouse shirt. Its like she came straight from day care.

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Jason Coupet

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10 months

More academic conferences in working class cities like Detroit and Baltimore, and more coney dogs, crab cakes and pit beef for lunch and receptions. If you’re gonna be in a city be in a city, let’s ditch the hospital food at least every once in awhile.

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8 months

I hope we all get relief and we redesign higher education finance so that people don’t need debt to get higher learning. But this PSLF program always made sense too. If you use what you learn to build up society I stead of extract from it we should be rewarding that.

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Woke up at 6:30am to see the 2yo standing in our bedroom eating a tub of ice cream with a fork. I didn’t even know we had ice cream. It’s a circus in here.

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Jason Coupet

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This debt was accumulated to get what I think is the best undergraduate econ degree in the world ( @umichECON ), and instead of going to Wall Street or some shit I taught math to second graders and intro to econometrics to night school adults in chicago.

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Jason Coupet

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11 months

European academics' summer away messages are a great reminder that american work culture is seriously out of pocket. I just got an auto response sayig my shit would be read upon their return in *September* lol

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Jason Coupet

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I’m amazed by people that get more judgey as they age. The more I learn about people man the more I understand what folks go through man and I feel like an idiot for ever having passed judgement in the first place. The one exception is judgey people lol, I judge them more now.

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Jason Coupet

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Like my mom and my dad and my grandma lots of working black folks I dedicated my life to public service. I was 21 years old when I started teaching in Chicago Public Schools, and I haven’t left a classroom since. I earned this the hard way.

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Jason Coupet

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11 months

North Carolinians get so very upset when people refer to the NC-SC region as “the Carolinas”, and as a long time former NC resident, I understand completely. North Carolina feels as different from South carolina as Florida does to Boston. You can feel it when you cross the border

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1 year

Did a work write this?

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@ProfessaJay

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If you want to be driven mad, watch my 2yo eat a slice of pizza. First he picks all the cheese off the top in chunks with his bare hands and eats them. Then he licks all the tomato sauce off face first. Then, he bites .50 caliber holes through the slice. It’s insane.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

3 years

Laugh if you must, but Mississippi's political economy is endogenous to a system that made lots of people rich, including many liberals.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

2 years

8yo to my grandma: “My dad says it’s called organizing but it looks mostly to me like drinking beer with your friends while you complain about work.”

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

10 months

I seriously cannot imagine being an established scientist making a quarter mil a year, and in some cases a lot more, and logging on to a blog site to anonymously post hateful and spiteful shit about women and minorities. How could you possibly still feel that small inside?

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

4 years

Academics complain about their jobs a lot, and there is certainly plenty to complain about legitimately. But man, I’ve done other jobs and I like this one so much more. Sometimes I wonder if we are scaring off potential future researchers, especially poor kids and kids of color

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

1 month

The 10yo at it again! This time in the social science fair. First place in North Georgia, headed down to state. She came up with an experiment examining if kids read their own hand writing better than print. They read print faster, but make fewer mistakes reading their own!

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

1 year

This is exactly what I mean. BLM signs in their yard but they hate poor people. Same thing is happening in Chosewood Park near me. A bunch of super friendly tolerant yuppies are organizing to keep affordable housing out of Chosewood park, a historically black working class hood.

Patrick Quinn

@PatrickQuinnTV

1 year

BREAKING: Reynoldstown neighbors vote 79-16 AGAINST the development of a 42-unit affordable housing project on Moreland. The developers will take this vote to the ATL Housing Authority. It’s unclear if this will derail public financing for the project. 6 people abstained.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

9 months

I’ve been on faculty in two of the fastest growing, by population and money, economies in the country in Georgia and North Carolina. Somehow It’s been a nearly ten year run of bad budget news. Maybe, I dunno, 60 straight faculty meetings of belt tightening.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

2 years

Woke up this morning to the 8yo whispering to the 11 month old: “Mommy and daddy are going to be in their late forties when you turn 8, and they might not be able to help you with much. Things like bending down to tie your shoes will be hard for them.” Good morning to you too.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

3 years

Twitter post: It isnt perfect but I actually really like my job. Twitterati: “Privilege! Intersectionality! (Insert sociology 101 word here)!” My grandmothers were child prodigies that cleaned homes and picked cotton. I ain’t apologizing for finding joy in my work. Kiss my ass

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

3 years

I got an email today from a student entitled “Class Conflict” and I got really excited till I realized it was about the syllabus.

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

10 months

When I was on the market nearly ten years ago, my advisor, the kindest man ever and from a town in west Texas, told me he would write me a glowing recommendation letter to any university in the world except two. One of them was Texas A&M.

Joel D. Anderson 🆓

@byjoelanderson

10 months

What I keep thinking about is how many black parents & coaches let their kids go to Texas A&M and immerse themselves in *that* kind of hostile environment. I’m not naive; many schools have a similar base of support. But to see how it works behind the scenes…we can’t unknow this

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Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

3 years

5) I cannot stress the self driven through long very detailed projects for crazy periods of time with little guidance thing. I don’t think most people would like working like that.

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