Matthew Boedy
Professor of Rhetoric in Georgia. Gators, Bonhoeffer, Merton, and AAUP. I too have a Substack. matthewboedy.com
- Turning Point USA is hosting an alternative “All American” Super Bowl halftime show “celebrating faith, family and freedom” — a description that reinforces right-wing ideas of nationhood and acts as a dog whistle for racial, sexual, linguistic and national purity. theconversation.com/the-backlash...
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- And yet…. Turning Point is putting you on to be divisive…
- Hope springs eternal. The spring training feeling of academia
- Great review of a collection of essays by “exiled” faculty including me. I wrote about how I was fired before I even started. #highered www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
- Ask yourself this question, faculty
- Imagine ending tenure by executive order…
- Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. bit.ly/4tlEtUq #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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- Reposted by Matthew BoedyFinal Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf
- The prayer beforehand didn't seem to work.
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- Reposted by Matthew BoedyNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
- As Turning Point USA rebukes a Spanish infused Super Bowl halftime show with its paler lineup, internationally its outpost in Australia is growing, its UK arm leans into anti-immigrant fever, & its brand in Canada is alive again. Read more in my Substack: substack.com/@matthewboed...
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyToday I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
- Reposted by Matthew BoedySome people will be tempted to think that having the state dictate faculty teaching loads we can repair trust in institutions and avoid authoritarianism when in actuality having the state dictate faculty teaching is part of an authoritarian program.
- I have a chapter in this new book coming out in May from Penn State Press:
- Carpenter Media's ominous takeover of local news.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/feature/carp...
- Ala the coaching tree, a beginning of a Charlie Kirk Influence Tree on my Substack substack.com/home/post/p-...
- whining about "rhetoric" - hire more rhetoric professors and we won't have this problem, Tom.
- This Homan presser is completely incoherent. He started by announcing a drawdown of 700 agents (good!) but then pivoted to whining about "rhetoric" (bad) and suggested there will be more bloodshed if it doesn't stop (grim). Not clear to me that anything is actually changing on the ground here in MN.
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyConsider the suite of “reforms” for public higher education in Iowa. This is a sweeping package that would dismantle public universities. The justification? Public money should go only to training people for high demand jobs. In the Postliberal University we call this a “neoliberal Trojan Horse”
- It's not much but I'm keeping my $7 digital subscription to The Washington Post. There will be less to read, though.
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- A deeper look ar the new Turning Point Canada and the growing Turning Point UK and Australia open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...
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- Reposted by Matthew BoedyBREAKING: the AAUP and @democracydefendersfund.org filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's “Gold Card” visa program, which unlawfully sells US residency to wealthy individuals while pushing aside scientists, researchers, engineers, and other outstanding professionals. Read more below👇
- Coming tomorrow on my Substack: substack.com/@matthewboed...
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyThe UNC System aims to redefine academic freedom as they make faculty syllabi public records. “We’re very concerned that the language could be weaponized against faculty members that a student disagrees with, or that an outside actor disagrees with.” —Belle Boggs @ncaaup.bsky.social President
- FFS: “In 2016, attorney Ken Starr wrote (Epstein) an email telling him to check out Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” julieroys.com/jeffrey-epst...
- A new profile of Turning Point Australia in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey showed 25% of respondents had actually applied for a job in another state. Now a Chronicle survey says half of faculty nationwide have at least considered it. Deep morale issues. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
- Called it in Jan. 29 post: "My guess is a country artist with a combo of the MAGA rap lineup." See also my larger question: Where is TPUSA going? substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyBiometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...
- A new profile of Turning Point Australia in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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- Frank Schaeffer says his father was indeed the prophet to the seven mountains mandate, as I note in my book (at 20 mins) youtu.be/W3BQ-xunmVk
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyRemember, the full Epstein Files are well over 6 million pages long. What you have seen so far is the *least offensive* 3 million pages. Trump and his lawyers are hiding the other 3 million pages—and have made clear that they will never ever release them, federal law be damned.
- A great critique of seven mountains mandate: “A hard, or absolute, incommensurability between Christian and non-Christian domains… amounts to essentially denying the possibility of any substantive “common good” at all.” mereorthodoxy.com/elites-and-t...
- Snowed in here in Gainesville, Georgia. Too soft for snowman, though. #snow
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyJANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
- 👀 Epstein was forwarded a Rick Warren devotional that seems to be written by someone who worked in worship music. Or maybe they sent it to the wrong Jeffrey Epstein?
- Epstein received and forwarded Rick Warren devotionals? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- My quick read: DOJ has absolutely nothing on Lemon. The indictment conflates many facts and doesn’t say Lemon actually knew protest plan. In fact he said he didn’t know & wasn’t hiding a plan that he knew. They are charging him with conspiracy because he didn’t air comments made by protestors. Wild.
- Georgia State University says ICE hasn’t been on campus news.gsu.edu/2026/01/30/u...
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- Reposted by Matthew BoedyThis just in from Amnesty International: "U.S. authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice."
- In article @VanityFair nods to obvious Nicki Minaj as headliner for Turning Point USA All American Halftime Show. My guess is a country artist with a combo of the MAGA rap lineup. But where? 1/x
- Reposted by Matthew BoedyI really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.
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