More: I remember that my tweet had only noted I was reading and enjoying the article (no critique in the guise of friendly observation), that the women were senior to us both, that I wrote the scholar **immediately** to clarify that I thought the article was very smart. We shared amused emojis.

Just had a Twitter flashback: The time I tried to promote a junior scholar’s really good article and these aggressive white women academics came out of the woodwork to stop the bullying…THAT WASN’T actually happening. Like AT ALL. Anyway, I like it here better.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

That speech. 👊🏽

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Democrat Mikie Sherrill will succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, marking the first time since 1961 that one party has won three consecutive terms in the New Jersey governor’s mansion. https://to.pbs.org/47GNkpO

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

MAMDANI!!!!!

The second episode of The Race and Regency podcast is up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Donated. Been here. Everyone is great.

The Andrew formerly known as prince.

Tomorrow!

Save the Date! 11/11 at 4PM: Join the Department of History for a conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America. Free and open to the public! Learn more:

Literally shaking my head.

I’m in physical therapy to recover my mobility after breaking my femur. Each session I sit on a recumbent bike pushing the pedals a tiny bit forward and a tiny bit backward. I have great support. I still can’t complete a full rotation. This is a post about trying to get my manuscript to my editor.

Found one of the study guides my mom used for her citizenship test (1970s). She passed, but we encouraged her just to keep her Dutch citizenship.

This has now shown up in my FB feed a bunch of times from attributed to different sources, so I have no idea who made it.

Please share your #RedWindReading - this is mine! 😍 teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/all...

listen we all know how to solve this make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏

www.raceandregency.org/donate And you can make donations to support our work.

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We have a podcast!

Canadian paperback. Coming soon-ish.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Watching The Task finale. Good LORD. My nerves. Also, Sallie Elise Richardson’s direction. 🥺

Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O

THIS is how you do it

🐸🐸🐸🐸

In the lead up to my birthday (Sunday), I am raising funds for @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224... - please support if you can. Also they welcome volunteers if you are in NYC.

This parade question is stupid.

I am screaming! Andrew Cuomo thinks he lost the Democratic primary because he wasn't on social media enough LOLOL!

Curtis Sliwa living his best life and not giving a shit about anything else

Sliwa on transportation: “I like to avoid yellow cabs. As you know I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gambinos.” You can’t beat at NYC mayoral debate.

“If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for him. If you know that the problem is that your rent is too high, vote for me.” - Mamdani

The thing I did not see coming in the NYC mayoral debate is Sliwa giving Cuomo one savage beatdown after another. If I were the former governor, I would go home and cry.

Today is the launch of my video series & website on “The Brown Book”, a guide to Black Joliet, Illinois in the late 50s. The streets that were once the heart of a bustling community are now home to the county jail and vacant lots. We document that here www.beyondtheconfinesofplace.org/the-brown-book

:-(

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎 bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

NYC! New zine just dropped! "Who is this Zohran Mamdani Guy Running for Mayor?" It's got important dates, what he plans to do as mayor, how he'll pay for it, why a little socialism is good for us: the regular people, etc! And of course you can print your own! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Registration is open. Register for in-person and online. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

A weekend pleasure is walking to the bookstore to pick up books I've ordered. So excited to read these new editions from the brilliant @triciamatthew.bsky.social! Wonderful introductions, rich and learned and: "I have a soft spot for Northanger Abbey. Its first line is hilarious." So. True. 😄

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

Listening to Ezra Klein on the New Yorker Radio Hour and he seems astonishingly naive. It’s telling that he clings to an Obama USA that even Obama admits wasn’t real. I am sure he’s good at a certain kind of thinking, but I think he REALLY doesn’t get what’s happening.

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice. lithub.com/what-pride-a...

Register here! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...

www.patriciamatthew.com/pride-and-pr... And here’s a resource guide some of you might find useful.

I talked about editing Austen for Penguin w/ @folger.edu www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

“Researching Austen’s allegedly shoplifting aunt was a lot more fun than you might think.” You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt? New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social. www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...