@uofnorthgeorgia Rhetoric prof. My opinions. Bonhoeffer, Merton, UF Gators, AAUP, and a Substack about all things TPUSA

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Charlie Kirk is dead, tragically murdered by an assassin’s bullet. Now Turning Point USA wants to cement its founder’s legacy by Christianizing America in his name. Read about that threat to democracy in my new book out now: wjkbooks.com/bookproduct/066…
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Tarp still up
NEW: Court docs: Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center. Crews worked into the early morning hours after covering the building with a tarp. That tarp is still up for now, with our camera on site to capture the moment it comes down and the removal is fully revealed. Watch live here: youtube.com/watch?v=1SvjzURh…
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MSNow has begun a Tarpwatch—and understandably so. Trump has now put a *barricade* around the scaffolding and had the tarp affixed to the *sides* of the scaffold so no one can see Kennedy's name on a building that *legally must have that name on it*. This will go back to court.
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And so the usual summer of death begins here in Gainesville
The victim who reportedly drowned on Lake Lanier Saturday has been located. #lakelanier #drowning #gainesvillega #northgeorgia #hallcounty accessnorthga.com/news/updat…
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Turning Point ran ad on Jumbotron at UFC Fan Fest in prep for fight tonight at White House
‼️SHOCKING: They are literally BLASTING Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk PROPAGANDA all over the jumbotron at the TRUMP White House UFC fight right now. 🤯🏟️ Live in D.C. for the historic UFC Freedom 250 event, and before a single punch has even been thrown inside "The Claw" on the South Lawn, the propaganda machine is already operating at a solid 100%. They have turned the massive screens at the Ellipse watch party—where tens of thousands of fans are gathered—into a full-blown TPUSA recruitment seminar. Here’s what’s flashing across the screen while fight fans are just trying to settle in: The Charlie Kirk Tributes: Sweeping, heavily produced legacy clips of the late TPUSA founder being pushed out to a crowd that came to see cage matches. The Post- Charlie Push: Loud promos highlighting the organization's current trajectory under Erika Kirk, capitalizing on the massive captive audience packed onto the Ellipse grounds. You honestly can't make this up. People traveled from all over the country and stood in the blistering heat to see absolute premium fighters like Ilia Topuria and Justin Gaethje throw down, but instead, they're getting a mandatory dose of Turning Point messaging blasted at high decibels across the National Mall. It’s clear the alignment between the administration and the TPUSA machine has never been tighter, especially with them hijacking the pre-fight hype to broadcast corporate propaganda to tens of thousands of captive fans. The corporate takeover of sports culture is wild, but turning a landmark sporting event into a political rally takes it to a whole new level. Are you watching the White House UFC fights this weekend? What do you think about them turning a sports jumbotron into a political promo machine? Let’s hear it in the comments! 👇 From: @WUTangKids FOLLOW Them!
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So who gets the call? Zoom? Teams? FaceTime? Tell me it’s not TikTok.
The MoU between the U.S. and Iran to end the war is expected to be signed today in a virtual meeting, in the presence of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, and Iran's chief negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar will also attend the meeting remotely, Saudi Al-Arabiya reports. Following the signing of the agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened, and transit will be permitted without fees. The U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports will also be lifted. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Qatari negotiators traveled to Tehran this morning as part of efforts to finalize the agreement to end the war.
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Not a suprise. But waiting this long after early voting has ended is interesting. #gapol
BREAKING NEWS: President Donald Trump endorses Congressman Mike Collins in Tuesday's Georgia Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate. #gapol He is running against Derek Dooley, who is backed by Governor Brian Kemp. More coverage on WABE News and at wabe.org/2026election
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NEW: Israel just struck Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. This followed Hezbollah fire into northern Israel overnight.
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If there is a vibe shift on Trump then the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center should be seen as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency, midterms will only be more evidence. He took it over, did a rebrand, was forced to erase it, and he hid until last minute.
Read this from @AgentMax90, a hard conservative, on why he believes the Trumpist "vibe shift" is over. Excerpt below: agentmax.substack.com/p/its-…
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Stone Mountain was “wtf.” And LSU Stadium (after seeing soccer game at Auburn) is insane. The Houston soccer game is gonna be indoors. Freddy’s gonna lose it.
Omg this is insane
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Yep. There is no proof donating to a politician - which very few people do anywhere especially on campus - correlates to or even causes bias in classroom or scholarship
So @TheFIREorg uses campaign contribution data to assess academic disciplines. It's impossible to convey in a tweet how shallow and anti-intellectual is this measure, it's exactly the same as the people they complain about assesing scholarship by the politics of the scholar.
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There is no “national media” and certainly not reporters who shame as you say
The national media seeks to shame the SBC for expressing our faithful, historic Christian convictions in Orlando. But far be it from us to seek the world’s favor. In Paul’s terms, “The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
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And also American pedagogy has so lambasted the lecture in any form… we have moved from it to classroom discussion of readings
In general, US profs assign far more pages of readings than European profs. When I taught in France undergrads relied much more on lectures than reading assignments—40 pages of assigned reading was normal. Assigning lots of reading works if the students read it but often it shows that profs are insecure of their ability to get through a 90 minute class on their own if necessary.
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The presumptive (?) new president at the University of Florida has written an op-ed…. for Fox News. What a sad humiliation.
Dr. Stuart Bell: “Many universities drifted from the righteous pursuit of truth and toward partisan activism dressed up as scholarship. Slowly at first. Then quickly and often angrily.” OK, but when did he speak or act to stop this drift? Didn’t he preside over it at Alabama?
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Over the past 2 months, I've been investigating what happened to 3 Ecuadorean fishing vessels whose crew say they were tracked by U.S. drones/vessels. 1 fishing boat simply disappeared. The crew of 2 more say they were attacked. The Guardian reports: theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
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The Kennedy Center’s name sign is still blocked by tarps and surrounded by security guards more than 12 hours after President Donald Trump’s name was removed from the building. Just a handful of journalists and passersby waiting for the tarps to come down.
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The fact that the Great Books have become associated w the Right is one of the dumber things to happen in last decade Good article by @CathyYoung63 Great Books Are for Everybody: Urges readers not to think of the books as “belonging” to conservatives thebulwark.com/p/the-great-b…
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lol. We used to be a proper country and end wars by signing documents on a battleship of our choosing
🇺🇸🇮🇷📝U.S., Iran expected to "electronically" sign agreement to end war on Sunday. My report on @axios axios.com/2026/06/13/us-iran…
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