Alex Young @Alex_T_Young Twitter profile

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Alex Young

4 months

ASU folks - still some open seats, open to undergrads and grad students - also a Barrett thesis pathway for any Barrett students looking to write a thesis on some aspect of gun violence or gun culture!

ASU Center for the Study of Guns in Society

@ASU_CSGS

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🚨🚨🚨 Attention @ASU students! Check out this new class on Guns in America offered by @ASU_CSGS affiliates @pizarro_jesenia and @AlextYoung !

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Fetterman will be such an asset as we transition into the “brawling on the senate floor” phase of democratic decline

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@Alex_T_Young

2 years

This got more traction than expected so let me be clear that I’m glad he won and think he will do a better job than at least 99 of our current senators

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

6 months

There's a reason why they've been saturating the media with think pieces assuring the public that settler colonialism is nothing but an academic fad

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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Israel approves plans for 3,400 new homes in West Bank settlements

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Alex Young

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3 years

Why has no one written an article about pandemic politics called “White Skin, No Masks” yet

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Promoted to senior lecturer today. Not a big "pleased to announce" guy, but I think it's important for people struggling on the job market to realize there's a lot of potential meaningful careers out there between the poles of the TT dream and an untenable adjuncting situation.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

As someone who has been studying the fiction of the radical right, people should know that there are multiple survivalist novels that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies that pose a bungled pandemic response as the event that kicks off an armed right wing insurgency

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

1 year

Rufo speaking at the DeSantis launch should be red-alert news for university faculties and everyone who cares about the future of inclusive higher education in the United States.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

“World’s greatest democracy”

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

@az_rww

2 years

Firing teargas right into the crowd straight from the Capitol windows

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

My colleagues and I at Barrett Honors College are embroiled in an escalating controversy involving this event. I'll explain some of it here, but the main point: we are being targeted by violent threats from the far right, & need solidarity from folks at ASU and beyond. 1/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

11 months

TPUSA is a hate group. This kind of harassment and violence has no place on university campuses. We have done everything we can to speak out against them; it's time for ASU to act to protect faculty and students.

'You can't run': ASU investigating after queer instructor confronted by Turning Point USA 'crew'

ASU police said 2 people shoved instructor David Boyles the ground, injuring him. Turning Point USA said he "lunged" at its "crew members."

www.azcentral.com

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 months

Kind of gives away the game, free-speech-wise, doesn’t it?

Sophia Ramirez

@nerdyoso

4 months

Counter protestors appear to help police throw away encampment supplies for @statepress

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Folks on the left should reflect for a moment on how rapidly these roadblocks were organized

Multnomah Co. Sheriff’s Office

@MultCoSO

4 years

Deputies have contacted several groups of residents in Corbett who have set up checkpoints and are stopping cars. While we understand their intent is to keep the community safe, it is never legal to block a public roadway or force other citizens to stop.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

POTUS literally threatened to shoot your constituents down in the street and your response is "vandalism must stop"?!?!

Amy Klobuchar

@amyklobuchar

4 years

Re Trump’s “shooting” tweet? Our community is hurting. Hurting for justice & charges for George Floyd. Vandalism must stop. But we need systemic reform. Like a full scale DOJ pattern/practice investigation of Mpls. Police like I’ve called for. So much better than a tweet.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

lol come on

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 months

Shame on @ASUPolice - our students have a right to peacefully protest. Looking forward to the outcry from our campus's many champions of free speech

Rachel Louise Just

@RLJnews

4 months

Two more pro-Palestine protesters were arrested. Seemingly for trespassing, but ASU PD refused to tell me what specifically they had been arrested for. Police began pushing some protesters in order to arrest others.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

What we are asking for now is simple: the strong support of our colleagues at ASU and around the country as we defend our academic freedom to express an opinion about the operation of our own unit in the face of these attacks. Please reach out to me if you’d like to help. 9/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

7 years

I shouldn't be surprised at how hard-wired Indigenous erasure is in our language, but this definition, from @OxfordWords , stunned me:

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

1 year

Great piece on the settler colonial fantasy of the trad wife phenomenon

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1 year

wrote about tradwives, seed oils, sourdough, ballerina farm, baby eugenics contests, and other things of that nature for @thebafflermag ’s food + agriculture issue ✨

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Alex Young

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1 year

@ArmyStrang Spotted in Phoenix last week. Apparently the trick is to bring them up from Sonora

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the paramilitary right is not a working class phenomenon, no matter how badly guys like this want to believe it. The kit you see on most of those guys engaged in "armed protest" costs more than the average US worker makes in a quarter

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Did @TheAtlantic even fact check this dreck

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

3 years

A growing atmosphere of mob justice in America is producing the kind of self-censorship found in an authoritarian regime, @anneapplebaum warns:

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

1 year

White liberals in the US hold on to their myths about frontier violence so fiercely because they need a script to justify their contemporary dependence on extralegal violence to protect their own privilege

Michelle Tandler

@michelletandler

1 year

Our society seems to have become seriously complacent. 100 years ago in SF people were publicly hung for their crimes. Often by vigilante groups that wanted to send a message. The hangings worked. Crime would plummet after a few of them. Often for many months at a time.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

6 years

Once more for those in the back: the Bundys and their ilk are not "antigovernment." They only oppose the state when the state doesn't serve white supremacy with the aggression they believe themselves entitled to.

Jacqueline Keeler

@jfkeeler

6 years

The Bundy family attorney who has led insurgencies against federal power since the 1990's is now Deputy Soliciter at the BLM.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

This is inane & insulting to contingent faculty but exemplary of the problem with most TT academics’ “solidarity” with our situation: they think it can be ameliorated via a liberal politics focused on representation rather than a labor politics focused on material redress

SueJeanne Koh

@suejeannekoh

3 years

A gentle PSA for graduate students, faculty, & staff: We no longer say "alt-ac" (short for alt-academia) but "career diversity" or (my preferred phrase) "career pathways." "Alt-ac" implicitly continues to privilege the TT faculty position as the coveted outcome of a PhD program

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

7 years

@ShaunKing Watching with an MD who seriously thinks this was a possibility

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

For that reason, the following letter to our administration was written and signed by a supermajority of Barrett faculty. You’ll notice the absence of calls to “cancel” or “boycott” the event (as if 30-odd contingent faculty had “cancellation” power in any case) 4/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

@nickmartin @TPUSA You didn’t even screen grab the dumbest one

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Many faculty members found the fact that we were not consulted in selection of speakers or even notified of the event until less than 2 weeks before it was to take place concerning. We expressed those concerns. We did not receive answers about how & why this was happening. 3/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

@celebratewewill @viaSimonRomero Yeah they’re remarkably restrained when dealing with armed white supremacists, funny how that works

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

1 year

My full statement on this predictable stunt.

The State Press

@statepress

1 year

Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager will return to ASU in September despite continued controversy over their appearance at the University last February.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

@nickmartin Ward’s statement is beyond parody

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez

@yvonnewingett

4 years

NO AZGOP ELECTION AUDIT: Kelli Ward said there's “no procedure, process, rule that allows for it to be done, and you certainly don’t allow a challenger who lost an election to demand something that they don’t have the right to, and we don't have the responsibility for providing.”

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

"I don't take responsibility at all" - Trump 2020

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Academic Twitter we need to abort this chain restaurant discourse immediately. We’ve got full profs on here today like “Don’t tell me about hardship!!! I had my 12th birthday at Applebee’s”

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

RIP to a real one.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

We became aware of the event on 1/26, when it was posted to Barrett social media. It was at this time we noticed it was being promoted by the speakers as having a very different focus than the one advertised in the ASU marketing. 2/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

“A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly: [...] (4) Exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner” - Missouri Revised Statutes

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

The results of this carefully orchestrated far-right media campaign have been predictable. We are being deluged with threats online, via phone, and email, to our lives and livelihood. All of us are on contingent contracts and are anxious about the university response. 8/

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Alex Young

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2 years

@OlufemiOTaiwo A friend once told me that her grad school mentor told her that "it doesn't matter what discipline you're from, so long as you're embarrassed by it." I think about this almost every day

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

A failure to recognize that mass shootings actually went up, substantially, during the Pandemic is more than just an innocuous mistake of the the liberal commentariat. The inability to see any gun violence except for these spectacular public events is an ideological framing. 1/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Could not get a more crystalline picture of what dem elites offer us in a moment of emergency: an insistence that no fascistic horror is too great to shake their faith in settler nationalism.

The Recount

@therecount

2 years

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reads a poem in reaction to SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

lol this “is there a doctor on the plane” thing is the most cringe trend on academic Twitter in years and that’s saying something

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Good morning Arizona #azleg #KeepGunsoffAZCampuses #sb1123

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Can @asu and @michaelcrow clarify, because I'm confused: is this a university-sponsored event about personal development (as it has been billed on ASU channels) or is it a private event at which Kiyosaki, Kirk, and Prager can trash education and enrich themselves?

Robert Kiyosaki

@theRealKiyosaki

2 years

RU Sick, Tired, & Disgusted with Education in schools? So are we. The REBELS of EDUCATION @charliekirk11 , @DennisPrager , Robert Kiyosaki & others speak @ ASU’s Health, Wealth & Happiness seminar at Gammage Theater Feb 8th 7 -9 pm. Get tickets here:

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Not only does @dougducey obstruct ASU from implementing the vaccine policies that would protect our students and our community, but @9thFloorAZ can’t even keep their story straight as to why. A total failure of leadership.

Katherine Davis-Young

@KDYJournalist

3 years

In June, Gov @dougducey ’s spox told @azcapmedia that the reason universities can require MMR, but not COVID vaccine was full FDA approval. So I asked if FDA’s recent approval of Pfizer vax means things now change. Answer: no.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

5 years

Nice to be back stateside where I can enjoy traditional holiday activities like [checks notes] demanding the closure of the concentration camps on our southern border at ICE HQ in 105 degree heat. Solidarity to @LUCHA_AZ & @AZjews4justice #closethecamps

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Alex Young

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2 years

@re_colston This is lost on way too many academics

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Alex Young

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5 years

Debt is a powerful form of social control. The fight for free college tuition has stakes that extend far beyond the university.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 months

Some tough conversations happening in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party this morning

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Alex Young

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2 years

Kari Lake has now joined the pile on. You’ll notice all of these pieces engage with our letter very little, and are animated by a kind of paint-by-numbers culture war rhetoric: again, we called for neither the cancellation of the event nor a boycott 7/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

7 months

English departments waiting to discuss TSwift like

Ashley Rattner

@ashleyrattner

7 months

Just saw the Taylor Swift album title and I worry we're about four minutes out from academic Twitter pronouncing this will revive the humanities

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Alex Young

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2 years

I knew SC had sold the last shreds of its dignity to its development team during the final year of my PhD, when I encountered the endowed urinals in the new student center

Quinn Slobodian

@zeithistoriker

2 years

Wild that you can buy a history department now

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

8 months

This has always been where all this was heading; I just hope this helps more people wake up to that fact

Will Sommer

@willsommer

8 months

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is gearing up for an anti-MLK campaign next week to coincide with the holiday, saying the Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake."

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Alex Young

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2 years

@SamAdlerBell It's hard to overstate how hard she had to work to lose in AZ. Weak opponent, and a huge surfeit of name recognition and goodwill after her tenure on local news. She wasn't just chasing polls, she was playing to the crazy even when that was clearly a bad move electorally

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

No one: Late capitalism:

𝔸𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕝𝕒𝕖𝕤

@AmityShlaes

4 years

I still believe in markets. Markets do not fail us. We fail markets.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

The inability of most liberals to put two-and-two together re the increasingly mainstream backlash against BLM that articulates itself as a violent insistence on the defense of property as a transcendent social imperative is terrifying

inverted vibe curve: burgertown has fallen

@PatBlanchfield

4 years

must be a coincidence how some folks rally around litigating the 1619 project in a moment when those demanding that black lives matter are being met in the streets by murderous vigilantes who justify their own violence as a preemptive defense of the order of "property"

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4 years

The remarkable thing about the replies to the original tweet is that they demonstrate just how many white guys read Black people in public space declaring their right to be there w/o being gunned down by cops as a prima facie threat to property rights

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Sure, you may be having a rough day, but are you a 39 year old who just got asked by a Safeway clerk if he would be applying his over-55 senior discount? ☠️

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

If you doubt that we live in exceptional times, consider the fact that @businessinsider just published this brilliant piece by @PatBlanchfield contextualizing the McCloskey incident in St Louis’s long history of racial and colonial violence.

A white man waving an AR-15 around in front of his mansion says much more about America than you’d...

What an armed couple outside a St. Louis mansion says about a history of struggles over race, guns, and property that are as old as the US itself.

www.businessinsider.com

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

tfw you know nothing about the paramilitary right but have some feels about racist rural white people

Google “Project 2025,” Donald Trump is a Fascist

@WalkerBragman

4 years

This is the home of Joseph Morrison, one of the Michigan men recently arrested for his plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Can we acknowledge that maybe economic circumstances play a role in radicalizing people?

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Thread. The window in which a popular movement might defend electoral processes is closing.

Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

1/7 That the main "coalition" national groups which local groups put their faith in to make the call for mass direct actions today is still silent is a repeat of Florida in 2000. The strength of the Democratic Party Industrial Complex cannot be underestimated.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

This opinion piece, collegially penned by three of our tenured colleagues, followed shortly thereafter in Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire. 6/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

“Armed protest” is an oxymoron. This is paramilitary coercion.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

@ThePlumLineGS Thanks for putting this in the national spotlight. Watching his apocalyptic border ads on local news every night then watching the national coverage often made me feel like I was living in the upside down

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Employees at ASU are organizing against our administration's reckless reopening plan and the lack of employee representation in our institution more broadly. Please follow @asu_c3 and help us amplify our message! If you work at ASU, join us! #asuc3 #slowtheforkdown

ASU Community of Care Coalition

@asu_c3

4 years

A concerned group of nearly ASU faculty, staff, and graduate students has come together to ask @michaelcrow to reconsider ASU's reopening plans. Join us as signatories on our letter: #asuc3 #slowtheforkdown

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

An update. After representing himself as a beleaguered champion of free speech at the Lewis Center event, Charlie Kirk is now in the process of putting all of the Barrett faculty signatories on TPUSA’s notorious Professor Watchlist. 1/

Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

My colleagues and I at Barrett Honors College are embroiled in an escalating controversy involving this event. I'll explain some of it here, but the main point: we are being targeted by violent threats from the far right, & need solidarity from folks at ASU and beyond. 1/

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Seriously though - contrast coverage of the "Reopen" protests, many of which were attended by only a few dozen (albeit heavily armed) protesters, to events in Minneapolis. Check out front pages of major papers, CNN - no one is featuring this. It's bizarre.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 months

Everything calm down here for now.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Good call, when has a police officer accidentally shot… [checks google; self defenestrates]

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

5 years

To understand rhetoric like this as mere trolling is to severely underestimate how seriously its intended audience reads it. Its intended effect is to build a political community willing to use any means necessary to maintain its racial sovereignty.

Arizona GOP chairwoman: Stop Senate candidate Mark Kelly "dead in his tracks"

The head of the Arizona Republican Party says in a fundraising email that Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly will be stopped "dead in his tracks."

www.abc15.com

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@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Objectively the funniest concession tweet possible

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@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Remarkable how many people regard this man as one of our leading minds on climate change

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

2 years

@JohnnaCrider1 @stats_feed Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Super stoked for the armed mobs of crypto bros taking to the streets when the market bottoms out on the pet rock of financial instruments

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@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Reupping this one

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@Alex_T_Young

7 months

@chrislhayes Spend a little more time around evangelical mega churches and you’ll find out

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@Alex_T_Young

2 years

ASU and U of A folks - the best time to join @UCWArizona to organize against the far right takeover of our institutions would’ve been yesterday. Second best time would be today. The always fragile promises of academic freedom won’t save anyone’s job if Lake wins.

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3 years

Welcome to hell

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4 years

Who could’ve foreseen this except everyone in higher ed who isn’t a ghoul

The Chronicle of Higher Education

@chronicle

4 years

A new CDC study suggests that in-person campus operations brought soaring rates of Covid-19 transmission to their communities.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

5 years

A white supremacist shooting at protesters who ask him to dance with them sums up global politics in 2019 in a single incident.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Well, Elon is being quite careful about one aspect of content moderation anyway

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3 years

@LalehKhalili @PatBlanchfield

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@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Imagine trying to explain this photo to your 2019 self

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3 years

@mxwfx

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2 years

Smartest and most sobering reading of what the hell is happening to this website I've yet encountered.

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Elon is a creative accountant who rebranded himself as an engineer. Like any fintech grifter, he lives in perpetual fear of liquidity crises, like the one he now faces. Most prognosticators I'm seeing predict one of two things. 1/8

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4 years

@luxiferased @endlesswario Oh we did. We were calling this shit out before anyone 🤣

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@Alex_T_Young

1 year

A recent WSJ editorial has once again focused the ire of the far right on Barrett faculty for speaking up about the public programming of our own college. My colleagues @prof_jdb , Michael Ostling and I respond in this op ed:

There is a serious threat to debate at ASU. But it's not coming from faculty

Democratic exchange at ASU and other universities deserves to be defended against those who reject the inclusive ideals that make it possible.

www.azcentral.com

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Tomorrow, the Barrett Honors College faculty will be participating in the nationwide #scholarstrike - see website for full schedule and links! I'll be giving a brief talk and leading a discussion on guns and race at 12:30 for those in the ASU community who want to join.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

1 year

For anyone who has visited recently or who follows @ClueHeywood this is old news, but good to see @SkilletDoux call it out in print:

Durant's sells first-rate nostalgia and mediocre food. Is that enough?

At 73 years old, the legendary Phoenix steakhouse is smooth and charming as ever. The food, unfortunately, can't live up to its promise.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Many Dem voters have zero idea that unions play such a central role in the Dem ground game because Dem candidates (who can’t pretend ignorance) often don’t do enough to acknowledge unions’ role. Pay attention to which candidates proudly acknowledge union support & which don’t.

Dripped Out Trade Unionists

@UnionDrip

2 years

UNITE HERE had 1,200 members on the ground in NV, AZ, PA, and GA knocking on 2.7 million doors. They played a crucial role in this election. Thank you for fighting for all of us. UNITE HEROES ✊🏻

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@Alex_T_Young

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This is why it is so crucial to historicize the higher ed emergency de jure. Both the ostensibly pragmatic neoliberal threat and the right wing culture war threat are two sides of the same coin - a coin minted by Reagan’s attack on the UC system in the wake of desegregation

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

11 months

Up the union. I’m a big “fight speech with speech” guy when it comes to campus debates, but with this violent attack on David, enough is enough. TPUSA doesn’t deserve university resources to harm members of our community.

United Campus Workers Arizona

@UCWArizona

11 months

UCWAZ commends President Crow and ABOR for condemning Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as a result of repeated harassment and a violent attack against members of the university community, which are in direct violation of the ABOR code of conduct (1/5)

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

Important to remember in the coming months, as Trump and his noise machine will try to paint 100k or even 200k deaths as a victory, that this could've been us.

Ben White

@EconomyBen

4 years

Never been more jealous of a curve in my life. Man they nailed it. Via Time.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

4 years

@PatBlanchfield This is why the enforced ubiquity of the “antigovernment” label applied to the paramilitary right is so pernicious. It obfuscates the fact that, on a fundamental level, the state *allows* extralegal violence and coercion from the right to proliferate in the way that it does

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

A near perfect email from my employer to close out 2021

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

I know it wouldn’t solve half our problems but it says a lot about our billionaire class and the bootlickers who support them that their highly publicized vanity projects are space flight shit not, just spitballing here, carbon capture

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

As the war on higher ed in AZ becomes more overt, I hope it galvanizes higher ed workers to make common cause with our K-12 colleagues to fight back.

Chris Hanlon

@ChristoHanlon

2 years

The AZ House just adopted @michudall 's amendment to SB 1412, which censors university professors from discussing slavery or Indian Removal with students.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Around 10% of the faculty in my unit now out with COVID, just as many with COVID positive children. It’s only Wednesday. University workers at institutions that haven’t started yet - time to advocate for remote start is now.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

10 months

…did a Rhodesian write this

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

10 months

As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide. Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

2 years

Not the first person to make this comparison but - good lord

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

Just submitted an article that I’ve been working on, fitfully, for 12 years. 😵‍💫

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Alex Young

@Alex_T_Young

3 years

To all my tenured colleagues who have been hesitant to join @UCWArizona : think about this. You’re one right-wing organizing push away from ABOR putting you in this position. The time to organize is now. If our profession has a future, it is in solidarity not institutional fealty.

American Association of University Professors

@AAUP

3 years

1. 🧵 Tomorrow, the @BORUSG is expected to vote to end tenure for Georgia's public universities. The AAUP has warned that this move will destroy protections for academic freedom, which is indispensable for the quality of teaching and research in higher education.

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