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🏠 Boston (JP) | he/him 🏳️‍🌈 👨🏼‍🏫 @Harvard Writing Program, @EmersonCollege 👨‍🎓 @DukePoliSci , @CarletonCollege

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@mattbencole

Matthew Cole

17 days

Since classes are wrapped, I guess I’ll share that I’m headed to SUNY Binghamton in the fall. I’ll be a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and teach two interdisciplinary courses (Climate Justice and Authoritarianism) in their Source Project program.

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Matthew Cole

2 years

Someone just sent a phishing scam e-mail to every faculty member at Harvard and Henry Louis Gates replied all like "why did I get this" and now the whole faculty is replying all like "DONT OPEN IT" 😂 😂

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Philosophy and Econ say don't open it. Dental Medicine says thanks. Cell Bio asks what to do if they already opened it. A true interdisciplinary meeting of minds.

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2 years

"Please stop replying to everyone this list. It’s more than a thousand people." - Neurobiology

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2 years

@AndyFuentes557 @mattxiv the fish:

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Matthew Cole

14 days

Welcome show of solidarity between Harvard and Emerson. @MayorWu needs to hear this: you don’t get to sic riot police on students one day then show up to smile and shake hands the next.

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The Harvard Crimson

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Mayor Michelle Wu canceled an event at Harvard after nine student organizations withdrew from sponsoring the talk over her decision to send police to end a pro-Palestine encampment at Emerson College. Madeleine A. Hung and @azusalippit report.

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1 year

Omfg she went off. Honestly I’m not even mad about having to read States and Social Revolutions anymore

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Matthew Cole

16 days

Would like to hear from @MayorWu & @BOSCityCouncil about why I woke up to video of police assaulting and arresting my students @ben4district6 @Ruthzee @juliaforboston

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Vicki

16 days

This is insane, violent behavior by the Boston Police and the city needs to answer to the public about it asap

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Matthew Cole

22 days

That repression of peaceful protest tends to strengthen nonviolent campaigns is one of the most consistent findings in the scholarship on civil resistance. Maybe Shafik should have studied a real social science instead of economics.

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Shayoni Mitra

23 days

After their peers were arrested, after their encampment forcibly trashed, the students have recongregated and are singing in huddle again - We shall not be moved.

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Matthew Cole

2 months

Insane to be living through the fourth decade of “Judith Butler is hard to read” discourse. Like sure Gender Trouble is kind of a slog but generations of undergrads and baby queers have gotten through it. Just get your little highlighters out and take it one sentence at a time…

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Matthew Cole

14 days

I can't believe NEU admin is spinning what you see in this video as justification for cracking down on their students. Faced with hateful jeering from pro-Israel counter-protestors, the NEU students remain calm, disciplined, and on-message.

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Tori Bedford

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this is a video of the incident I mentioned, provided by an organizer with Huskies For A Free Palestine/HFP.NEU The student in the greenish blue sweatshirt holding the Israeli flag is a counter-protester

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Matthew Cole

16 days

They say the fascists made the trains run on time, but in Boston the cops beat up kids and the trains are more useless than ever.

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GBH News

16 days

Multiple students provided GBH News with photos of injuries they sustained during the sweep. City crews were dispatched Thursday morning to clear blood and graffiti from the Boylston Place alleyway, according to footage obtained by GBH News.

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Matthew Cole

7 months

Fellow profs: what strategies do you use to re-energize a class when it hits a slump? In one of my sections, we already have a critical mass of students who aren't reading or participating. In my experience, getting mad about it just makes the vibes even worse. So instead... ?

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Matthew Cole

2 years

Outrageous. Tens of thousands of us rely on the Orange Line every single day. Whole neighborhoods like JP & Roxbury depend on it to get us to work, get our kids to school, get customers to our businesses. Easier to say which neighborhoods *won't* be totally screwed by this.

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WCVB-TV Boston

2 years

The MBTA is expected to announce a 30-day shut down of the Orange Line on Wednesday to address long overdue maintenance, sources tell 5 Investigates.

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Matthew Cole

12 days

In which Harvard's most self-congratulatory free speech warrior explains why the encampment protests should be banned.

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Steven Pinker

12 days

Just published: My op-ed in the Boston Globe @globeopinion w Jeff Flier @jflier | Academic freedom is not a right to coerce (Why universities should shut down occupations).

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Matthew Cole

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This could not have aged worse. Now the state is a billion short and every week we’re hearing about hiring freezes and cuts to healthcare, shelters, and other human services. A record so regressive we might as well have elected another Republican.

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Maura Healey

2 months

We are determined to deliver relief from high costs. That’s why I made it a priority to sign our state’s first Tax Cuts in more than 20 years, passing $1 billion in savings on to residents. We’re coming together to deliver for the people of Massachusetts.

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Matthew Cole

5 months

Yes, unfortunately President Gay walked right into a trap because she was too cowardly to correct Stefanik on the meaning of intifada. What’s embarrassing is seeing our President cowed by someone as stupid as Stefanik.

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Shadi Hamid

5 months

Harvard President Claudine Gay's response to Elise Stefanik was embarrassing but not for the reasons people claim. It was embarrassing because she accepted Stefanik's premise that saying "intifada" is equivalent to a call for genocide, which is ridiculous.

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@RobertGarcia Except this elimination is very much justified by track record 💁🏼‍♂️

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Matthew Cole

14 days

Since NEU won’t make a retraction or clarification to reflect what really happened, let’s get a community note on this.

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Matthew Cole

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@stacycay Yes, most of AR is white. But proportionally, the working class is more diverse than the upper class, and proportionally, the working class is more D-aligned while the upper class is more R-aligned. This is true everywhere, and your condescension to working people is unwarranted.

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Matthew Cole

3 years

@sunrisemvmt @kyrstensinema Maybe if it had been something important like denying 839,000 constituents a raise

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Matthew Cole

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@stacycay Do you think rich people in the South have good/better politics?

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Matthew Cole

9 months

Yoooo I finished my book manuscript

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@Esqueer_ The way everything single thing he said about Zooey just made her seem even cooler? She geeked out about astrolabes on Reddit and we're supposed to be disturbed?

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Matthew Cole

2 years

"A legal environment that favors the armed in their confrontations with the unarmed, police in their confrontations with suspects, and whites in their confrontations with Blacks is antithetical to social peace... It is, however, quite favorable to the American far right."

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Eric Levitz

2 years

Rittenhouse's defense was strong -- and also, a threat to rule of law. Today's verdict spotlights the anarchy latent in America’s peculiar combination of lax gun regulations, expansive self-defense rights, and mass gun ownership

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Matthew Cole

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@stacycay Trump won Benton Country 2:1 in 2020. Little Rock area is blue yes, but that's not because it's wealthy, it's because it's 40% African-American (and those are some of the poorest voters). So you're not mad at "the proletariat," you're mad at white people.

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Matthew Cole

2 years

Today my article on climate fiction and politics is officially ✨in print✨ with @Env_Pol . We explore planetary crises & political possibilities with Kim Stanley Robinson, Richard Powers, and @GhoshAmitav . Happy reading & please DM if you need access!

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6 months

@fwchiro @Esqueer_ This is the reading level you end up with when you never grow out of Harry Potter

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Matthew Cole

3 months

Not enough jobs for me to get one, just enough jobs for me to waste September through March applying for them instead of getting any actual work done

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Matthew Cole

8 months

Can APSA really be important for the job market if there isn’t a job market?

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@__ellastreet__

9 months

Am I missing something or are there.... 5 TT political theory positions in North America this year? (so far that is...)

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Matthew Cole

10 months

Am I delusional to hope @APSAtweets will provide any guidance or update on the labor situation this week? I still haven’t booked a flight. At what point does it make sense for us (people unwilling to cross a picket) to just withdraw from the program?

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Matthew Cole

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@JoshuaPHilll Waiting patiently for the ADL to denounce these antisemitic tropes, I know Greenblatt is getting right on it

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Matthew Cole

2 years

@rochellehd I think about this incredible intro from the Penguin edition of the CPR all the time

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Matthew Cole

1 year

Maybe you’ve seen someone claim this is “counterproductive” or “hurts the cause”? Disruptive protest works by: making an issue impossible to ignore, polarizing opinion, mobilizing supporters, forcing officials to respond It doesn’t work by: making everyone like you

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@ScooterCasterNY

1 year

#HappeningNow Protesters are blocking incoming trains by OCCUPYING SUBWAY TRACKS in Manhattan, demanding justice for Jordan Neely. Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk @freedomnews .tv to license

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Matthew Cole

10 months

For all the talk about what grad students & contingent faculty stand to gain or lose from the APSA situation, the *only* scholar I’ve been in touch with this week who said he would not commit to withdrawing (ie, he would be willing to cross the picket) is a full prof at an R1 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Matthew Cole

3 years

@BostonGlobe "An April WBUR poll of Boston residents found that 76 percent of respondents support rent control, with 59 percent saying they strongly support it." Sounds like @wutrain isn't really alone on this one after all.

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Matthew Cole

3 years

The ballot is in! Proud to cast my votes for @wutrain , @hicks4district6 , @juliaforboston , @ruthzee4boston , and @votehalbert . Now to knock some doors!

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Matthew Cole

11 days

@DanielMillerEsq @CarterChristens He did nothing to de-escalate and he provided cover for the police response with his comments. Not too mention that none of this happens without his failed and unpopular policy of enabling Israel’s assault on Gaza.

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Biden condemns Columbia University student pro-Gaza occupation of Hamilton Hall

President Biden condemned Tuesday the student-led occupation of a Columbia University academic building, after the school was put on lockdown.

www.nydailynews.com

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Matthew Cole

18 days

@stacycay What's your problem with Harvard? If you hate the proletariat so much, you'd love it here.

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Matthew Cole

6 months

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Disruptive protest works by: making an issue impossible to ignore, polarizing opinion, mobilizing supporters, forcing officials to respond It doesn’t work by: making everyone like you

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Philip Gourevitch

6 months

how not to win friends and influence people

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Matthew Cole

10 months

To all my followers from outside the poli sci world (gays, Bostonians, and climate people I think?): I’m so sorry you have to know about APSA. You don’t really need to know about APSA. You are good sports. Soon I’ll be back to my usual thing, whatever that is.

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Matthew Cole

10 months

Gross for APSA to use underrepresented & NTT scholars as a shield for this self-serving decision. Im an NTT scholar & this decision will not serve my interest because I will not attend this shameful event They also mentioned the pricetag first but sure its about the little guys

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APSA

10 months

Update on 2023 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@lionel_trolling Reisman makes this point in ‘Limits of Totalitarian Power’ but I think it’s a misreading of 1984 - the Party believes they’ve foreclosed all revolt but parts of the novel suggests this isn’t true even if it’s protagonists’ revolt fails

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Matthew Cole

9 months

So APSA's Executive Director was confronted with a potential problem and just went "no, it's fine, we don't need to plan for that"? Plus making the Council decide on a course of action while withholding relevant information? WTF kind of leadership is that?

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Matthew Cole

10 days

I'll never understand people who come on here to defend Biden while our bombs fall on Gaza and cops beat kids for protesting. He's the most powerful man in the world. He has an army of comms people who get paid to do this. It's Stan Twitter for people who watch too much MSNBC.

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Matthew Cole

6 months

@erinrpineda To be fair it’s hard to learn anything new when your favorite author to cite is yourself

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Matthew Cole

2 years

@VickiDiLorenzo Conspicuously silent 🤔

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Matthew Cole

9 months

My co-panelists and I agreed to withdraw our panel, "Climate Crisis Politics," and will convene an alternative session indepndently. I'll let you know if that's something you can attend online. We don't want to be part of this year's APSA, online or off.

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Matthew Cole

7 months

@unclecunnysack Never 😘

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Matthew Cole

18 days

@stacycay Yes the proletariat are the problem here

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11 months

Nothing gets you psyched for the academic year like the certain knowledge that you will be fired at the end of it regardless of how well you do your job :)

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Matthew Cole

2 years

@NaveWaveAB @wutrain Rent stabilization works 😍

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Matthew Cole

3 years

~2 years ago I started coming out to my students on the first day of class. Mostly to relieve my own anxiety tbh. Since then many students have come out to me & sometimes I’m the first adult they’ve told. Trusting people isn’t easy but it’s worth it.

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Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

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3 years

I cannot tell you the number of kids who came out for the first time simply because of my hair or being openly - clearly - gay. It's a lot. Or how parents breathed easier when I asked their kid their pronouns. But I will say, representation - you being you - matters.💖🦄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Matthew Cole

2 years

Both Bezos and Shatner came back from their space flights talking about how fragile the planet seems and how important it is to protect it. And that wonderful revelation cost just a few billion lifetimes worth of carbon emissions.

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Matthew Cole

23 days

This advice is for rich kids only. The opportunity cost of a PhD - sacrificing the first five to eight years of your career for something that isn't a qualification for anything other than academic employment - simply does not make sense if you aren't trying to be a professor.

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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench said students should pursue graduate degrees out of passion for their research rather than a desire for professorship during a Tuesday interview. Adina R. Lippman and @angelinajparker report.

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Matthew Cole

10 months

This part is so fucked too bc “the importance of settling their dispute before our meeting”? How about the importance of @UNITEHERE11 winning a living wage on whatever timeline that takes? How about any perspective at all on the relative stakes?

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APSA

10 months

Update on 2023 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition

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Matthew Cole

1 month

How do self-styled anti-authoritarians - people like @TimothyDSnyder , @anneapplebaum , @ruthbenghiat - justify their silence on Gaza? Daily posts about Putin's atrocities and Trump's criminality, but not a word as Netanyahu destroys Gaza and Israeli democracy along with it.

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Matthew Cole

1 year

Job interview today 😬

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Matthew Cole

3 years

Comfy kicks & @wutrain lit - let’s canvass 👊🏻

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Matthew Cole

6 months

What a disgusting sentiment. How loathsome do you have to be to see the world this way? And how shameless to say it publicly?

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Eve Barlow

6 months

Nobody cares about Gaza. They just care about looking like they care. It makes them feel good to know that people think they care about Gaza. They're not losing sleep over Gaza. They are losing sleep over feeling unimportant and not part of what everyone else is doing.

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Matthew Cole

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@PMcGourty @MayorWu @BOSCityCouncil @ben4district6 @Ruthzee @juliaforboston The only injuries I've seen or read about were to students, not police. I don't think beating up kids is a hard job.

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Matthew Cole

10 months

100%. We can't network ourselves into jobs that don't exist. I respect the trepidation of folks facing down a bleak market, and I'm right there with you, but APSA will not make or break anyone's career. The outcome of @UNITEHERE11 's strike will make or break lives & livelihoods.

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Kye Barker (@kyebarker.bsky.social)

10 months

imo the near absence of tt jobs is a much more serious concern of graduate students and contingent faculty than whether apsa is held online or in person

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Matthew Cole

4 months

It feels crazy to be working toward a book contract, prepping an APSA panel, booking accommodations for a fall workshop, etc., when I actually have no idea whether I'll be employed in academia in the fall. Like what are we doing here?

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Matthew Cole

6 months

Delighted to announce that I looked really cute during my job talk (won’t know if I booked it for at least a month 🙃)

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Matthew Cole

9 months

@lionel_trolling He used to be racist now he just thinks nonwhite immigration is genocide and the Civil Rights Act was a mistake

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Matthew Cole

10 months

APSA has never prioritized the interests of underrepresented, Global South, or NTT scholars. And we have long accepted that. As the great political philosopher Dua Lipa once said, “Don’t start caring about me now!”

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@MBTA Downtown, rush hour, and this is the service we get

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Matthew Cole

1 year

Oh wow, the whole half mile from Park Street to South Station! Will that even be long enough for a photo op?

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Jennifer Eagan

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1 year

Gov. Maura Healey will ride the Red Line today at 12:30 p.m. Healey has said her transportation plan will focus on safety and reliability. Her administration is working to find a new general manager for the @MBTA and a transportation safety chief. #WCVB

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Matthew Cole

10 months

@eviljesus123 @mcbyrne @davidmackau @brianstelter Girlboss feminism

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Matthew Cole

6 months

All that effort into pinkwashing and then you get clocked like this

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The Nation

6 months

Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants.

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Matthew Cole

2 months

@pitchforkfest If Carly and Jessie sets overlap for even a second we’re rioting ❤️

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Matthew Cole

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@melnickjeffrey1 Pshh Bjork is an actual genius, Regina is an above average coffee house chanteuse

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Matthew Cole

2 years

I wrote about technocracy and the democratic alternatives for @BostonReview . What does technocratic domination look like? And what democratic forms would allow for knowledge and power to be shared among citizens? 👇🏻

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What's Wrong with Technocracy? - Boston Review

Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.

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Matthew Cole

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@stacycay Don't have Arkansas, what do you think it would prove? My guess is Trump would carry every income bracket in Arkansas, but I doubt he did significantly better with poor voters.

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@lionel_trolling lmao I guess the real WMDs were the friends we made along the way

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Matthew Cole

8 months

I will never not do a silly little icebreaker on the first day of class @EmersonCollege

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Matthew Cole

16 days

@PMcGourty @MayorWu @BOSCityCouncil @ben4district6 @Ruthzee @juliaforboston Cops in riot gear vs. a bunch of fucking theatre kids, give me a break with this shit.

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Matthew Cole

1 year

Tenure is a privilege afforded to less than 1/4 faculty & most unis effectively killed it well before state govts could If you’re relying on tenure to ensure fair labor conditions or academic freedom, you simply don’t care about those things All faculty should be unionizing

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Matthew Cole

5 months

Glad we all agree killing 49 innocent people by airstrike is unconscionable and inexcusable! Bc based on some of her earlier statements there seemed to be some confusion about that

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Saul Staniforth

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"Lets stop and think about what we're seeing. 49 innocent people who were killed by a Russian airstrike while they were shopping for food.. its horrifying.. this is why we're doing everything that we can.. to help the brave people of Ukraine fight for their freedom"

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@polypocketknife I was amused to discover that Sade is not a solo artist but the lead singer of a band that is also called Sade

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Matthew Cole

5 months

Turning 36 today

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Matthew Cole

10 days

This is true and the question that needs to be asked is why these well-precedented forms of nonviolent protests are being met with unprecedented levels of violent repression

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Chris Hayes

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I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that "occupying buildings on campus" is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

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Matthew Cole

1 year

@jeremycarl4 Amazing. Every thing you posted about her just made her seem even cooler.

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Matthew Cole

2 months

First-wave feminism: women’s suffrage Second-wave feminism: women’s lib Third-wave feminism: Judith Butler is hard to read Fourth-wave feminism: Judith Butler is hard to read Fifth-wave feminism: Judith Butler is hard to read Sixth-wave feminism: Judith Butler is hard to

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Matthew Cole

2 years

Gotta catch’em all (contingent faculty positions in the Boston metro area)

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Matthew Cole

8 months

Perfect day to set some new PRs

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Matthew Cole

3 years

I’m seeing a lot of Wu world people “yas kween”-ing on the TL tonight, including folks who rightly blasted @MayorKimJaney ’s Mass&Cass proposal as cruel and inhumane earlier today. Did they miss this part? #bospoli

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Mark Martinez

3 years

So excited to know that no matter what our next mayor will be a woman……….who supports criminalizing addiction and homelessness #BosMayoralDebate

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Matthew Cole

3 years

Wow. Lots of folks have been stepping forward on this, but @BostonGlobe wants to frame them out of the conversation and then blame them for not being loud or visible enough. It’s your beat, Shirley, do your homework.

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Shirley Leung

3 years

I am also disappointed. I wish others would step forward with viable solutions so I can write about them too.

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Matthew Cole

1 year

The problem with going out in Cambridge is that you’re always overhearing conversations about the academic job market and that’s just not something people should be exposed to without consent

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Matthew Cole

3 years

Spotted while canvassing 😍

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Matthew Cole

16 days

Remember when Mayor Wu was a police reformer? Or pretended to be? Now she pumps up their budget and apparently does their PR too.

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Amber Ying 應緣 🇹🇼 🏳️‍🌈 🦁

16 days

Mayor supports Boston police actions after Emerson encampment arrests. #WTF

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Matthew Cole

1 year

This is what I’m talking about 👌🏻

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Matthew Cole

1 year

For most of us the barriers to “free inquiry” are material and institutional. The university has real hierarchies and these people are at the top. Framing the issue as one of cancel culture or incivility or whatever is out of touch and unserious

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Matthew Cole

3 years

My piece on climate fiction ( @paolobacigalupi , @GhoshAmitav , and others) is live at @Env_Pol today! Get into it! If you don't have institutional access DM me for the hook-up ;)

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Matthew Cole

10 months

Thanks for trying @DrJSchwedler . I think the dues-paying membership is owed some transparency about who voted, how they voted, and who drafted this statement. Somehow I doubt we get that from APSA.

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Jillian Schwedler

10 months

@KathTX @joveest @CallaHummel I am on APSA Council and a number of us argued hard for honoring the strike, but lost. Also, the Council did not vote on the statement, it was issued after the meeting today. The statement does not reflect my views (it's so tone deaf). Sorry we failed

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Matthew Cole

8 months

When I describe myself as versatile in my application materials 🤭🤭🤭

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Matthew Cole

7 months

Excited bc I pitched @EmersonCollege a special topics poli sci course on Climate Justice and they're going to let me teach it next term! It's actually the first time I've been allowed to design my own class top-to-bottom on a topic I chose??

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Matthew Cole

2 years

@MilesPerHoward Or that some people have to work weekends :/

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Matthew Cole

9 months

This is critical context. As a member of @HAWorkers , I would never cross a labor union to advance my career. And I hope all of the senior faculty crying about APSA's importance to grad students and NTT scholars are putting the same energy into supporting our union drives.

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Alex Press

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Matthew Cole

3 years

First screenshot is from the OUE guidance on teaching during COVID. Second screenshot is from the OUE guidance on teaching during the @hgsuuaw strike. That's right: you can't teach remotely to avoid COVID, but you can teach remotely to (virtually) cross a picket line.

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Matthew Cole

16 days

@BraggingDj45176 @VickiDiLorenzo No, I don't want the cops beating up my students.

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