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Mixter Kit O'Connell<p>My latest: Last year, I covered the chaos as a peaceful protest for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> at the University of Texas at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> was attacked by state troopers and local police. Unknown to me, a respected UT professor I'd interviewed for other stories was also there, and was about to have an encounter with cops that would cost him his career.</p><p>Today, Austin Free Press is releasing video from that incident showing the trooper deliberately shoving him multiple times. <a href="https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">austinfreepress.org/days-of-ra</span><span class="invisible">ge/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a></p>
Mx. Kit O'Connell — Hire me!<p>Out today at Austin Free Press: Respected UT professor Richard Heyman was arrested and lost his job after an altercation with police at a protest for <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> last year. Newly released video shows the Texas state trooper deliberately shoving Heyman multiple times. <a href="https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">austinfreepress.org/days-of-ra</span><span class="invisible">ge/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/GregAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GregAbbott</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>
91PeaPod5<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeffjarvis</span></a></span> At a hotel and conference venue operated by the public University of Texas, Austin.</p><p>Discount at AT&amp;T Conference Center</p><p>Scheduled for 28-29 March. </p><p>Organized by Kevin Dolan</p><p>Ticketing page: <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25536091-natal-conference-2025-luma/#document/p1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">documentcloud.org/documents/25</span><span class="invisible">536091-natal-conference-2025-luma/#document/p1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utaustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utaustin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/at" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>at</span></a>&amp;t <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natalconference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>natalconference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazism</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>These developments reflect a broader trend of <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a>—targeting certain bodies, protests, and speech—imposed through top-down power and control. The result feels less like a functioning academic institution and more like a manifestation of despotic corporate control. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/censorship-ut-austin-professor-angela-valenzuela/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/censorship-u</span><span class="invisible">t-austin-professor-angela-valenzuela/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>UT students and faculty overwhelmingly expressed concerns over the violence against peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors, the climate of fear on campus with the takedown of DEI centers and offices, SB 17 over-compliance, and violations of students’ First Amendment right to free speech. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/censorship-ut-austin-professor-angela-valenzuela/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/censorship-u</span><span class="invisible">t-austin-professor-angela-valenzuela/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXlege</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a></p>
Houston Public Media<p>University professors across the political spectrum in Texas are preemptively self-censoring themselves for fear of damaging their reputations or losing their jobs, according to a&nbsp;new survey&nbsp;from a First Amendment advocacy group.</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2024/12/13/508699/texas-professors-self-censor-for-fear-of-retaliation-survey-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/news/texas/2024/12/13/508699/texas-professors-self-censor-for-fear-of-retaliation-survey-finds/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EducationNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EducationNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faculty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TexasAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexasAM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UniversityOfTexasAtAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfTexasAtAustin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTDallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTDallas</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>As the Austin Chronicle article notes, there are grounds to believe the School of Civic Leadership will suck resources out of existing institutions for research and teaching in the liberal arts at UT.</p><p>Don't be fooled by the pretense that this is merely about reviving study of "Great Books".<br> <br>UT already has a center where undergraduates can undertake the study of core texts and ideas of the western tradition under the direction of a leading Straussian scholar, Tom Pangle:</p><p> <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretex</span><span class="invisible">ts/</span></a></p><p>I suspect that Rufo et al. are unhappy with this center because Pangle is an East Coast Straussian, not a West Coast Straussian; see this Jeet Heer article for the distinction between these two currents of Straussian thought:</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/140933/failure-pro-trump-intellectualism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/140933</span><span class="invisible">/failure-pro-trump-intellectualism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/UniversityOfTexasAtAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfTexasAtAustin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SchoolOfCivicLeadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SchoolOfCivicLeadership</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/ThomasJeffersonCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasJeffersonCenter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThomasPangle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPangle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeoStrauss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeoStrauss</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanConservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanConservatism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PoliticalThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalThought</span></a></p>
Alex Wild<p>At <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UTAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UTAustin</span></a>, you can watch what a fascist takeover of a once respected major university looks like in real time. Purges, beating and jailing of students, a culture of fear and intimidation. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11-22/the-right-wingification-of-ut/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">austinchronicle.com/news/2024-</span><span class="invisible">11-22/the-right-wingification-of-ut/</span></a></p>
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