@blmckean
associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Extremely random that my anodyne post (with all of 4 reposts and 11 likes) got aggregated by Raw Story and I wouldn't even know it if my mom didn't have a Google News alert set up for my name (love you, ma!)
IT IS TIME FOR THE WINTER PARALYMPICS!!!!
The Paralympics are the most consistently mind-blowing sporting event on the calendar. I promise you simply reading about how various Paralympic events work will make you say WHAT?!? or HOW?!?!? out loud at least once
And at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, Benjamin Fong looks at the increasingly complex logistics of Amazon’s same-day delivery expansion.
Not consciously but clearly it was in the air www.vulture.com/2021/07/i-th...
Palmer Luckey is the only man alive who can make you yearn for the restrained good taste and reasonable politics of Wyatt Koch www.gq.com/story/wyatt-...
Very excited for Chanda's new book to come out! I can't think of anybody who combines all the different kinds of expert knowledge she has - are there any other faculty in the country jointly appointed in physics and astronomy and women’s and gender studies? Her perspective is such a wonderful tonic.
Ruth Colker, a highly distinguished law professor and the Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, was interviewed by the OSU’s the Lantern on how SB1 and OSU’s DEI rollbacks contributed to her early retirement. Ruth is also a member of the AAUP.
www.thelantern.com/2026/03/form...
that weird clicking noise you just heard was hundreds of political science instructors simultaneously copying and pasting this into their slides
Olivia Rodrigo really making things easy for parents these days
Relieved someone else made this joke so I don’t have to
Well, here’s one guaranteed purchase for this Bandcamp Friday. What else are folks getting today? Would love some recommendations
universities hollowing out their own long-standing traditions and rituals (whatever me might think of them) just to make sure no 'stakeholders' have to hear their students uttering verboten words like 'free' or 'Palestine'
Would be real “second time as farce” energy if Trump bumbles into another version of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. I’d wax poetic about how that helped usher in neoliberalism and this could help finally usher it out, but the chance of it simply being replaced by fascism is too high.
Imagine referring to yourself as "yours truly" in any context, much less when you're bragging about killing people
SUPPORT THE FAMILY OF NURUL AMIN SHAH ALAM, a blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned and left to die by Customs and Border Patrol in Buffalo, NY
Please join me in giving if you can:
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An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
nevermind students, I know a lot of professors who would benefit from completing this assignment
Saw this chart earlier and I’m still thinking about it. The country comparisons make it so clear what a profoundly broken country the U.S. is
New: A DOJ lawyer today told a Boston judge that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such broad authority over vaccine policy that he could even scrap recommendations for measles shots in favor of people deliberately exposing themselves to the virus. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Don’t miss the fact highlighted in story that the state budget now requires all new course offerings, etc, to be approved by the board of trustees
“Though Bell-Smith, Miller and Hall said they remain involved in their organizations and coursework, they said uncertainty lingers.
‘It’s not just about taking a class or attending a meeting,’ Bell-Smith said. ‘It’s about having a place where I can be understood and supported.’”
I’m so old, I remember when it used to be controversial to describe the U.S. as an imperialist power
We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.
It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.
A good letter from Senate Democrats demanding a federal investigation into the murder of a Philadelphia-born Palestinian American named Nasrallah Abu Siyam.
Interestingly, neither of the two senators from Pennsylvania itself signed on. Nor did either NY senator, one of whom is Minority Leader.
Time for Chotiner to interview Landsman again I guess
Assuming he's confirmed, Markwayne Mullin will be only the second Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history
I'm so old, I remember when it used to be controversial to describe the U.S. as an imperialist power