Kevin Reuning

@reuning

politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc All opinions, views, thoughts, and takes are strictly my own.

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Kevin Reuning@reuning· 24d

Dolores Huerta given the Lifetime Achievement Award by @aft.org to chants of "sí, se puede"

Dolores Huerta on stage receiving an award from Randi Weingarten

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 25d

Oh no

YOU are being put at risk when Congress strips law enforcement of the tools to stop terrorist financing. Vote NO: info05.co/r/ UUrcEk

StopToEnd

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 25d

Politics is very stupid

A Connecticut Party was a political party formed by former Republican senator and gubernatorial candidate Lowell Weicker in 1990.[1] Weicker announced his run for Connecticut Governor as a third-party candidate on March 2, 1990. On April 16, he formally unveiled the name of his party as A Connecticut Party. Weicker subsequently won the 1990 gubernatorial election and served a single term as governor of Connecticut. The party was intentionally named to fall alphabetically first on the ballot among the minor parties, with the Republican and Democratic parties not listed alphabetically.[2][3]

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

So Fox News has "hot singles in your area" ads now?

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

We actually all know that you aren't paying attention. No one is fooled.

Can confirm. Why I bring my laptop to faculty meetings and do work. When someone asks me about something, and I have no idea what is going on, I say something like - "Oh, well I'd like to hear Emily's perspective first." XD

Works every time.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

Standing room only for the higher ed division session @aft.org

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

I bet Rufo would actually love to know about this.

Randi still on stage. Behind her is a photo of Chris Rufo with a quote of his "To get to universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust"

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

@rweingarten.bsky.social addressing the @aft.org convention in front of what has become one of the most compelling photos of the Trump oligarchy

Randi Weingarten standing in a stage. Behind her is a photo of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg at the Trump inauguration.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 26d

About to start my first @aft.org convention as a delegate.

Photo of a large crowd of people sitting in front of a stage with American Federation of Teachers on it

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 27d

Love when the news is out of date because the mad king posts something else

NBC News with chyron "ICR pauses most vehicle stops on wake of deadly shooting"

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 27d

Going to DC today for the @aft.org convention. Pray that I survive the heat.

DC-area forecast: Sizzling heat today and tomorrow, with a smoky haze at times

HAPPENING NOW: Quickly rising through the 70s and 80s this morning. Most spots are near or above 90 before noon. Sizzling afternoon highs in the upper 90s to low 100s as the heat index peaks near 105.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 28d

Some of you need to log off.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· 29d

A tale of two dogs.

Brown and black dog curled up on the dirt underneath a bush.

Black dog laying on her side on the middle of a patio in the sun.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 10

Wtf is this

Text message: Huge news! Hundreds of park rangers just unionized across TWELVE national parks! Show your support >> https://lforce.org/l/UhFNav

The Labor Force
End2End

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 9

This is such tin-pot dictator shit

NYPost headline: Palm Beach airport officially becomes Trump International as president’s personal plane makes first landing

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 9

This is constantly showing up when I go to my Gmail app on my phone, especially after I switch between accounts. Anyone know how to stop it?

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 8

Do you now have to pay extra to earn miles? Is that what the MQD means here?

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 8

Is this supposed to be Arnold Schwarzenegger? I'd think AI would do better.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 7

I love this but fear my co-authors will hate it. Yes I know the labels don't fully make sense now.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 7

Some are calling it the most inscrutable graph of all time.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 6

Also I'm curious if these are real people but I'm too lazy to look them up

AS
Prof. Aris S.
Stanford University

"Rarely do I get cold emails that actually reference the specific methodology of my last paper. I'd be happy to chat on Thursday."
ML
Dr. Maya L.
MIT Media Lab

"Your focus on our current lab direction is impressive. Send over your transcript and we can schedule a call next week."
JH
James H.
University of Oxford

"Thank you for the thoughtful email. Most students just send generic templates. Let's discuss your honors project further."

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 6

FYI people are now building tools to spam faculty with AI.

Write cold emails that professors actually reply to.

An academic drafting tool that reads their research, matches it to your background, and formats the perfect pitch. No robotic fluff.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 6

This is from their other course and I feel is almost as embarrassing. Having a whole lecture on "capitalism and democracy" where the focus is just on "does the government make it hard to start a business" cif.uiowa.edu/sites/cif.ui...

2.4 Exploring the relationship between Capitalism and Democracy
Lecturer: Reynolds Cramer (Fareway CEO)
Most people believe they understand the difference between capitalism and democracy. Does the average business have a fair opportunity to start, grow, and expand? What are the challenges and political headwinds that affect starting a business? Do the costs of doing business outweigh the rewards? Is the American dream still a reality and is profit a bad word? We will have great dialogue during this session about what’s really going on in the real world today

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 6

Why does a 1 credit course have 8 instructors? cif.uiowa.edu/sites/cif.ui...

Contents
1 Overview of the Course 2
1.1 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Outline of Course Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Required Textbooks, Readings, and Other Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Course Meeting Time and Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5 Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Lectures 4
2.1 Freedom: Its Costs and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Freedom of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3 America Has a National Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.4 Ideas in The Federalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5 Teachers of the Polis: Past and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.6 Self-Reliance as an American value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.7 Why Capitalism Rocks! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3 Instructors 7
3.1 Luciano I. de Castro (Organizer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 Richard A. Fumerton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Timothy Hagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4 Mark Bauerlein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5 Alex Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.6 Eric Dugdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.7 Flavio Guimaraes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.8 Mike Whalen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 5

It is so weird to have this person president. They cancelled the event because of storms but I uncanceled it because that's what I wanted.

The Crowd at 7:05 in the evening was 422,000 people! All were forced to leave because of the weather, the event was cancelled, and everyone was gone because of lightning. When I heard that it was cancelled, I immediately overturned that decision, and waited a while for people to come back. Incredibly, at least 150,000 people returned, and it was an even more spectacular evening than it would have been as normalized! It showed work under pressure. Congratulations to the Secret Service and Law Enforcement on being able to get so many people back into the Arena in such rapid fashion! It was an amazing evening made even more spectacular by the fact that, immediately after the Great Fireworks ended, the rains came down, full blast! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 5

America!

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 4

Who thought this was a good idea?

CNN interviewing some dude pretending to be George Washington

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 2

Be your own boss

Reddit post on r/Professors

Title: Can you buy an endowed professorship for yourself?

Don't hate on me for asking this question. It's something I am legitimately considering because my school is in the middle of a large "organizational restructuring" that has placed jobs at risk.

Have you heard of anyone endowing a professorship under the condition that they themselves get to hold the job until they choose to leave it? I could afford to dump at least $1 million into this (which seems to be a reasonable amount to endow a professorship in my humanities field), and I wouldn't mind doing so if it means I get to keep my job (which I received about a decade ago through a totally normal hiring process that did not involve any kind of donations) for as long as I want it.

Obviously there would be some risk to me (like the university closing or me dying before I get a decent return on my million-dollar investment) but I really like my job, I'm fortunate to have some disposable financial resources, and am trying to think about creative ways of ensuring I'm not re-orged out of my academic career as my institution works through its various financial issues.

Kevin Reuning@reuning· Jul 2

An Indivisible chapter in Springfield, Ohio is holding a rally on Friday in support of Hatians and the "most relevant" comments on their Facebook post just make me sad. Remember when people thought anonymity was the problem with the Internet?