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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

8 months

2023 had its ups and downs but I published this great book and now that you've had enough to drink pehaps you want to impulse buy it. Happy new year!

Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

www.amazon.com

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

normal writers: how academics: the ways in which

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

7 years

That Arizona even has Confederate monuments, despite not being a state for another 50 years, tells you this has never been about the war.

The Root

@TheRoot

7 years

Arizona is the next state to request the removal of Confederate monuments

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

One thing people born after like 1990 or so will never appreciate is that there were several decades of American life during which literally every indoor space smelled like stale cigarette smoke

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I'm a big fan of the pomodoro method, which, if you aren't familiar with it, is when you do 25 minutes of focused work and then take a 95-minute break

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

8 months

Using Twitter to search for news from Japan gives you hundreds of blue check accounts with very few followers posting video and images from 2011 and claiming it's today. $44 billion to make the world's most important news source absolutely useless

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

Castro came to power 64 years ago. So Ted's father was imprisoned and tortured by the U.S.-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista.

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

1 year

66 years ago today, my father arrived in America. He had been imprisoned & tortured in Cuba, and America gave him freedom. He came to Texas; he spoke no English and washed dishes making 50 cents an hour. God bless America, the greatest Nation on earth. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

It is weird that he does not mention that both of his parents were college professors with PhDs from the University of Chicago and that this might have given him advantages other people did not have

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 months

lol RIP Donald Sutherland

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

One time in the Cold War history class I asked students if they knew who George Smiley was, and nobody said anything, and I said, "Nobody's read a John Le Carré novel??" and one student said "we're not old and weird, just tell us who he was"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

In the archives this morning I'm working through material on Columbine and one thing that stands out is how the killers were unmistakable white supremacists but within days the press stopped talking about that and instead focused on mental health, teen angst, media violence, etc.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

7 years

HUUUUUUU MAAAAAAA NIIIIIIIII TIIIIIEEEEEEEESSS

Neil deGrasse Tyson

@neiltyson

7 years

In school, rarely do we learn skepticism, and how political winds can influence it, morphing skepticism into obstinance.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

Just overheard the 7 year old on Facetime with family: "actually the Civil War was about slavery"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Had students read a New Yorker piece on Martin Luther at 500 and we talked about it in class and then I asked them to do a brief informal writing reflection on Martin Luther's impact on the modern world and two of them wrote about Martin Luther King

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

Weird how the NRA knew exactly what an AR-15 was for in 1962

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

Historians have always known that unions were a better deal than economists made them out to be

Bloomberg

@business

6 years

Economists are starting to suspect that unions were a better deal than textbooks made them out to be via @bopinion

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 month

What I've noticed at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is that people who went to elite schools are not necessarily smarter or more capable but they most definitely have a better network of elites to help them get ahead

kevin baker

@kevinbaker

1 month

I'm not actually convinced that elite universities offer a better education than state schools.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

As a parent of an only child I have come to realize through observation of multi-child households that a second child, whatever the child's temperament, is always a pure chaos agent

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

Good morning, may you greet the day with all the confidence of a mediocre white man shouting at women PhDs on the internet

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

Remembering fondly how three months ago I said Trump belongs in jail and my university felt the need to issue a public statement condemning me

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

One of the things university administrators don't like to tell you is that the liberal arts often brings in more tuition credit dollars than anyone else because we teach many required courses with large enrollments and we're paid much less than business or STEM faculty.

Carisa Collins

@CarisaCollins

1 year

From WVU Provost Office: English Dept: Revenue from tuition ALONE is avg $2M HIGHER per year than expenses. World Lang Linguistics Lit Dept: Revenue over $800k HIGHER per year than expenses. Together, they make WVU nearly $3M/yr. Why in the world would they cut that?! Invest!

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Remember when he took out a full-page newspaper ad to say five children should be executed for a crime they didn't commit

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

JUST IN: Donald Trump slams Jan. 6 panel after Ivanka Trump interview request: "They'll go after children"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Oh Clarence Thomas dissents? Clarence Thomas you say? The same Clarence Thomas married to Ginni Thomas? The same Ginni Thomas who cheered on the effort to overturn the election?

SCOTUSblog

@SCOTUSblog

3 years

BREAKING: Trump loses his bid at SCOTUS to block Congress from obtaining his White House records related to 1/6/21. Clarence Thomas is the lone public dissenter in the apparent 8-1 ruling.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Have they tried shooting the virus

mike spies

@mikespiesnyc

3 years

BREAKING: the NRA's upcoming Annual Meeting has been cancelled due to to COVID

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

8 years

Democrats should tread carefully with obstructionism. Republicans did it for eight years and only ended up controlling everything.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

The video inadvertently shows the tiny bubbles these people live in. Niall Ferguson is like "wow, we had a Trump support and a BLM support in the room together," like maybe try teaching at a regional public university Niall where this is literally every class you're in

Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

2 years

Bari Weiss's fake university put out a video bragging about holding a two-week summer course

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

It's okay to expound extensively on critical race theory even if you've never read an article or book about it but you definitely should not talk about guns unless you personally know the man who designed the AR-15

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

A week after getting my second shot at the mass vaccination site in Shreveport I'm having this weird side effect that manifests as nostalgia for efficient large-scale coordinated government action to address a major crisis

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

11 months

Take it from Louisiana's experience: it's an abject failure. Two thirds of voucher students ended up in failing schools that existed for no other reason than to funnel public money into private religious organizations

ChrisTomlinson

@cltomlinson

11 months

Texas has 1 million kids in private or home school. If they each got a $8,000 voucher, it would cost taxpayers $8 Billion. A major transfer of public money to mostly religious institutions. More: #txlege

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

The obvious answer is that the Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004 but don't discount that 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, in which Congress freed gunmakers from any liability for their products killing people, which opened the floodgates on market "innovation"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

NPR just described Warren's speech last night as "like a professor delivering a history lecture but with more energy" and they will be hearing from my attorney shortly

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

Richard Hofstadter, 1970: "“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence, but their extraordinary ability, in the face of that record, to persuade themselves that they are among the best-behaved and best-regulated of peoples.”

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

What I find so baffling about the right wing obsession with the lab leak story is that if it's true that China leaked a virus that killed a million Americans it only makes Dear Leader's incompetent response look all the worse

Dinesh D'Souza

@DineshDSouza

2 years

BAM! And just like that the truth comes out. Let’s remember that ⁦ @YouTube ⁩ and @meta have been censoring people who said this. A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid Pandemic, Energy Department Says - WSJ

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

This is a thread of political radicalization, no doubt, but it's also a thread of conspicuous consumption. Guns are expensive. Working-class people cannot afford these arsenals.

Joey R Johnson

@Johnson__joey

2 years

Miguel Farinas (35) and Diliet Farinas, Miami, Florida, April 2019

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

It's as if nobody wanted to talk about how the Columbine killers were products of a toxic and deadly culture of white supremacy. Instead it was more convenient to turn them into "lone wolf" characters.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 months

It's worth noting that in 2023 total law enforcement deaths were at their *lowest* point since *1959*

CBS News

@CBSNews

4 months

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

One time I interviewed for a job and came in second but I called the search committee chair and said "I hereby refuse to concede" and they had to give me the job because it's in the constitution

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 month

Brought to you by the very normal adults who put "Let's Go Brandon" on their F-150s

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

1 month

This whole “they’re weird” argument from the Democrats is dumb & juvenile. This is a presidential election, not a high school prom queen contest. It’s also a tad ironic coming from the party that preaches “diversity & inclusion.” Win on policy if you can, but cut the crap please.

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@drewmckevitt

1 year

A literal Vanderbilt wants to tell you that you live in a silo

Acyn

@Acyn

1 year

Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

The killers chose the date April 20 because it was Hitler's birthday. They were learning German and would shout it to each other in the hallways of the school. They were fascinated with Nazi military and material culture.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

@ABertheim Are you mad that I tweeted something you also know

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

The university president has announced a "vaccination incentive plan" for students that is a drawing for several prizes, including an iPad. Perhaps we also might consider a "vaccination incentive plan" that includes "you can't come back to campus if you're not vaccinated"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

What I think happens is that their clear white supremacist ideology gets tucked into a teen angst framework, as if white supremacy went hand-in-hand with violent video games and music as something angry teenagers experiment with when trying to figure out who they are.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

Now that I have tenure I would like to say good morning to everyone except the dean at my first job who said I'd never get a tenure-track position so I should just do something else

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

HEY YOU, it's MONDAY, time to GET PUMPED for another week of HARD WORK or at least some HALF-DISTRACTED WORK for the next couple hours before descending into a DOWNWARD SPIRAL of ENDLESS ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION then realizing that NOTHING MATTERS so WHY BOTHER, LET'S DO THIS

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I kid you not, someone wrote the university president to say my Twitter joke about Rand Paul's neighbor's senate campaign was a "violent rant." I can tell you from nine years experience that there's only one side fighting this culture war here and it's not the "radical left"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

What is this telling me to do

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

You know, if you really want to change politics in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and so forth, you could move down here. Bring your money. And bagels.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

10 months

I finished grad school 15 years ago, been teaching at the college level for 18, I'm tenured with an endowed chair, I've written two books, the most recent of which made a year's best nonfiction list, and my father just asked if I'm "doing a school project," so no that never ends

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

Nobody is self-made. Everybody who made it had help, many of them from government programs that go unacknowledged. The self-made mythology is insidious.

MSNBC

@MSNBC

6 years

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "I've also been criticized for being a billionaire. Let's talk about that: I'm self-made. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York. I thought that was the American dream. The aspiration of America."

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

26 days

To be clear he's talking about his mother in law, who is a provost at UC San Diego

Heartland Signal

@HeartlandSignal

26 days

NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.” He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a "weird, unadvertised

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

Students who've missed class have offered to show me the most personal medical documents and it's like, what asshole ever made you do this? Who is to blame for this?

the hot dam historian

@hotdamhistorian

1 year

student: *emails to say they're in the hospital*l and adds* "of course I’ll send you a letter from the doctor when I’ll get it." what i want to say: buddy, why are you emailing me? please pass out and sleep for at least forty eight hours, this class is not that important.

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@drewmckevitt

1 year

Does the library still have holes in the ceiling?

WAFB

@WAFB

1 year

LSU football to wear air-conditioned helmets for upcoming season:

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

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4 years

[whispers loud enough for only students to hear] if enough of you coordinate and refuse to go to in-person classes your instructors will have no choice but to move classes online and that's probably what they want to do anyway

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

Rich people should stop giving money to vanity projects at Stanford and Harvard and start giving it to schools that will be transformed by it.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I'm just eyeballing the math here but if I'm not mistaken you're about 700 times more likely to be shot in the United States each year than you are to get a serious blood clot from a vaccine

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

You understand, they're declaring victory in Pennsylvania to distract you from the fact that they're all boarding a plane to some post-Soviet authoritarian country without an extradition treaty

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

"Your 280-character tweet does not express the rigorous sophistication and scholarly nuance I would expect of an academic monograph" is among the worst genres of tweets

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

I appreciate the sentiment but wait until you find out what kinds of Democrats FDR had to share the party with

Power to the People ☭🕊

@ProudSocialist

5 years

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.” I am with @AOC . We used to be a very progressive party until big money donors took over. Warren, Sanders, and AOC are fighting to return us to our FDR roots.

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@drewmckevitt

5 years

It was easy to miss yesterday that the suspect in the burning of three black churches in Louisiana has been charged with a hate crime.

Suspect in 3 Black Church Fires in Louisiana Is Charged With Hate Crimes (Published 2019)

Holden Matthews, the 21-year-old son of a deputy sheriff, had been charged with arson and now faces three additional charges of hate crimes.

www.nytimes.com

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@drewmckevitt

4 years

This is domestic terrorism, and they're not even trying to hide it.

Media Matters

@mmfa

4 years

Militia leader Stewart Rhodes tells Alex Jones that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats

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@drewmckevitt

3 years

A colleague of mine has a life-threatening tumor and has previously had their request for teaching accommodation rejected by the university. Now the university is reconsidering it but only if my colleague sends HR a recent MRI or CT scan documenting the tumor. Sadistic treatment.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

One thing I appreciate about the adorable naïveté of the "taxation is theft" crowd is their belief that, absent the entire apparatus of government supported by taxes, their job and their salary and everything else would be the same, and they'd just get to take home an extra 20%

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

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Hi, "rockstar tenured professor" here, and really all I want is for you to keep your private sector ideas in the private sector and to fund public education as if it were something we actually valued

Jennifer Doleac

@jenniferdoleac

1 month

This week I found myself advocating for abolishing tenure at universities. Since giving up tenure myself (and seeing how the private sector operates) I’ve become confident that experimenting with (higher paid) merit-based contracts would be a smart move for universities that want

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

For the last two days Twitter has been filled with an awful lot of people trying to either defend mass murderers from accusations of white supremacy or defend white supremacists from association with mass murderers. This website is weird

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

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2 months

I'm curious: what would you learn getting a four-year business degree that someone who spent four years, say, learning to read critically and write thoughtfully and think and research independently couldn't learn in a couple months on the job?

rax ‘leads with her crotch’ king

@RaxKingIsDead

2 months

MY hottest take is colleges should remove business degrees

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

The same College of Liberal Arts that fired my colleague when a parent complained he was teaching about racism is today hosting readings of banned books, in case you're on campus and want to see what irony looks like

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

If you think a CEO's kid is gonna skip Harvard or Yale to go to SUNY Oneonta, then maybe your candidate hasn't really thought through how higher ed works.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

For the self-righteous nerds who want to pop in and say "how dare you make fun of students," I'm not. This is genuinely hilarious and the students would think so too. The point is not that they're "stupid." It's that they paid no attention. They may not have even been in class.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Fewer cops, more rabbis with chairs

The Associated Press

@AP

3 years

BREAKING: The rabbi of Texas synagogue says he threw a chair at a gunman and escaped with two other hostages, ending a 10-hour standoff. Authorities say the British gunman Malik Faisal Akram, 44, was killed after the hostages left the synagogue.

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@drewmckevitt

5 years

This day is starting to look like some scene in a superhero movie where a supervillain takes over a prison and unlocks the cells of all the D-list villains

Jim Roberts

@nycjim

5 years

Donald Trump is expected to issue clemency for convicted felon and tax cheat Bernie Kerik.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Tax churches, all of them, but start with this one.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

3 years

Just a normal Sunday at Global Vision Bible Church as right-wing pastor Greg Locke literally screams at his congregation "do not get vaccinated" while saying that only "crack-smoking, demon-possessed leftists" think Biden is the legitimate president.

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@drewmckevitt

2 years

"The bottom line: Masking mandates were linked with significantly reduced numbers of Covid cases in schools."

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others. Researchers took that opportunity to compare the spread of Covid in masking and non-masking schools.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 months

This is deranged and whoever is responsible for this should be fired immediately

IU on Strike

@IUonStrike

5 months

Sniper on the roof of the IMU. Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

TBH if I were a 19 year old living through the worst pandemic in a century and a concomitant global economic collapse and looking toward a lifetime of climate catastrophe that I did nothing to create then my intro world history survey would be pretty low on my priority list too

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Weird to think we're a little over a month away from commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11 when we've collectively lived with 200+ 9/11s in the last 18 months

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

We're about two weeks out from the first stories with headlines like, "Couple Who Attended 'Reopen America' Rally Dies of Covid-19"

Read No Shortcuts

@JoshuaPHilll

4 years

Ten days ago people in Wisconsin risked their lives to vote. Right now people in Brookfield, Wisconsin are risking their lives for the right to die in a pandemic - and infect others. A sad day for this country.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

Academics are talking about Twitter again and I think one thing that doesn't get enough attention is how Twitter is a democratic (even if imperfect) way to build the professional networks that people with degrees from elite institutions can take for granted

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I noticed a good bit of the classic "assault rifle is just a name the gun control lobby invented to scare people" today and I felt compelled to grab something quickly from my research so here's an ad from The American Rifleman (the NRA's magazine) from June 1961.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Many years ago I got a student evaluation that said "He talked too much about slavery. He should teach facts, not opinions," and I like to think that today that student is a parent at a school board meeting shouting about critical race theory

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

[grades two exams] Let me check Twitter [grades two more exams] Let me check Twitter to see if anyone liked my joke about grading exams and checking Twitter

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Me: "I'm tired and hungry and I had a long day. Can we get dinner now?" 6 year old who sat through my two classes: "all you did was talk"

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I thought this was very funny but all these "the kids these days" replies remind me why Twitter is terrible so muting this thread now

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 months

Dan Quayle, who was elected vice president 36 years ago, is younger than both 2024 presidential candidates

kang

@jaycaspiankang

2 months

I am just old enough to remember when the vice president misspelling potato was a crisis.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

1 year

This is going to be shocking to hear, I know, but there are mountains of data that show that when your society has fewer guns, you have fewer gun deaths.

Steven Rattner

@SteveRattner

1 year

It's the guns.

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

It has crossed species

Jon Cooper 🇺🇸

@joncoopertweets

4 years

BREAKING: @DonaldJTrumpJr has Covid

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

A 5-year-old who goes to school with my kid was critically injured by a stray bullet yesterday and I just want to show my appreciation to the NRA for keeping all these Second Amendment heroes out here armed

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Happy to announce that the history faculty had all teaching assistants taken away without warning a week before the start of classes. Love this for us, will be good professional development

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

So glad I can start brainwashing my students with communism at 11:01 am CST

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

Me reviewing a book in grad school: meh, I've seen better Me reviewing a book while writing a second of my own: this is AMAZING, it has WORDS, and COMPLETE SENTENCES, literally THOUSANDS OF THEM, arranged in LOGICAL SEQUENTIAL ORDER, a remarkable triumph, would read again, 12/10

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 months

Amazing landing page

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

I took out loans to pay for college and I eventually paid back every dollar I and few things would make me happier than to see some or all of everyone else's student debt erased. I would be delighted to see my tax dollars go to this rather than F-35s or tax cuts for millionaires

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 months

I don't want to name names but you will find lots of conservatives in Louisiana in significant positions of authority who sincerely believe that teaching the liberal arts means teaching students how to be liberals

Dr. Heather E. Yates

@heatheryatesphd

2 months

This is the kind of framing that reinforces the myth that universities indoctrinate students “school turned him liberal”… tenets of the Liberal Arts involve critical and independent thinking. To many that SEEMS like an ideological shift when it’s not Do better @washingtonpost

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

I used to have the TA grade these informal writing assignments but now we have no TAs so I am grading them for the first time and I wonder how many times this has happened in the past

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

5 years

Ah yes, Henry Ford, famous speaker only on issues directly related to his business, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

NPR

@NPR

5 years

Historically, CEOS spoke out only on issues directly related to their business. Now leaders are taking public stands on controversial issues, one expert says. Leaders of more than 180 businesses recently signed a letter opposing restrictive abortion laws

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

2 years

Book cover incoming! I can't tell you how excited I am to have a book in my hands that looks like this. Coming Fall 2023 from @UNC_Press !

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

Eugene Debs received 3.4% of the vote from a prison cell in 1920

Sudeep Reddy

@Reddy

4 years

Ex-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney: Trump will run for the presidency again if he loses

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

3 years

Ultimately this whole fake outrage machine on the right is about destroying public education

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

Doing REALLY well, academically, on solving the Writing situation (Book!). It will happen!

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Doing REALLY well, medically, on solving the CoronaVirus situation (Plague!). It will happen!

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

4 years

This is grossly irresponsible and dangerous and anyone who thinks it isn't going to happen repeatedly on every single campus where students return in August is kidding themselves

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Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly)

@drewmckevitt

6 years

I would like to share with all of you that I have been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of history, effective September 2018. Please clap.

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