in a nutshell

squeeeeee

i mean the pava hats! the jibaros! when they climbed the light poles during el apagón i nearly flew of my couch in a dancing fugue…

the math maths

i am aglow from bad bunny’s halftime show. as a scholar of puerto rican collective memory, it was beyond thrilling to see a global cultural juggernaut deploy semiotics of puertorriqueñidad towards redeeming US political culture. of course, celebrating latino joy was also glorious. i’m starstuck.

last night my partner & i were discussing attempts to reduce protests & histories of state sanctioned violence into one another. as a social movement historian, i have concerns about this. i see great value in public discussion that compares, say, our current political moment with other atrocities.

“nobody can outsuffer minnesotans” as a member of the minnesotan diasporic left, this piece is poetic journalism.

@maryharris.bsky.social staying at a friend’s house & using a mr. rogers mug this am, which is giving me life. i’m reminded of your “what’s it going to take” speech, which became a 2026 grounding mantra for me & another dear friend; we wept together & i listened to it 4x all told. #lookforthehelpers

oh the volumes of knowledge that the upper midwest in winter contains about greyscale beauty and texture.

members of congress are ensuring that the military aren’t being primed into the totalitarian project. that’s a comforting thing. of course, the fascists react.

STOP THE FEVER DREAM (when exactly did i become a techno-pessimist?)

i too am always thankful for my professional community and organization! @ncph.bsky.social is more than an advocacy org. it’s truly a professional family!

and this is how you handle totalitarian dictators who don’t know when to go home. take note, fellow citizens.

big props to @nitishpahwa for ensuring that the PETER’S FRIENDS gets any fresh eyeballs it can. it’s an annual viewing in my household, over 30 years running.

we are all piggy.

am seed saving from my herb garden for the first time. i have to say this is one of the best antidotes to the emotional states rendered by late trumpian politics. sunday morning kitchen witch reporting for duty. also, either dried shiso seeds smell like dr. pepper, or i’ve been at this too long.

future students of history will be asked to interpret 2025 with images like this.

this weekend my very neurotic and under-socialized rescue great dane had a successful hangout with my colleague’s very nervous and tremendously barky mini dachshund. and if they can do THAT, eight fucking dems can hold their ground for struggling americans. HARD THINGS ARE ACHIEVABLE.

this. plain and simple.

i follow a number of hourly animal accounts. what you don’t know is that my feed is filled with cuteness and this shit is the only thing that is propping me up in 2025. i was raised on 2008 twitter and you’ll never convince me that chronological feed social media can’t bring joy and frivolity.

can we all be new yorkers now?

oh goddess the AI follow bot headache is at a 7.8 today. whyyyyy bluesky whyyyyyyyyyyyyy so many bots

hey team scholar: has anyone else been offered the opportunity to use an AI tool from academia.edu that will turn your work into a short comic? i can decide how i feel about it. it’s surprisingly good. and accessible. and isn’t that what we want for our work, at least if we care about engagement?

when in doubt, follow historical examples like the Black Panther Party ✊🏻

i know we’ve been over this before, but one more time, just so we are clear: our agendas involve 1) the cultivation of taste 2) closet organization 3) collaborating on the dismantling the capitalist patriarchy 4) many many many gender chores. soooo many gender chores.

remember hope? this is what hope looks like.

you know you’re living in fascist times when you start your personal psychotherapy sessions with “how bad is the collective stress level” & “how am i caring for others” check in. i know y’all know. just reminding that you’re not alone & we can take care of ourselves & each other at the same time.

today my therapist told me that it’s ok, in fact, the best we can do these days, to simultaneously hold any joy we have and the sorrow/fury/rage/anxiety we have for the world. in fact, she said, it’s the very best we can do in these times. we start every sesh exchanging how worried we are for folx.

i myself only wear this on the first day of classes. i find the pantaloons make me look a bit chubby and the hat flattens my hair.

nice work if you can get it. oh, yeah, you can’t get it if you’re a dem.

greatly appreciate the how this week’s @404media.co podcast got real/base/filters came off in the subscribers-only section. great episode, as always, and respectability is trash. love your authentic smart selves. @samleecole.bsky.social @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social

someone in the comments said “roan rolled.” see, the internet still has a hidden gem of goodness here and there if you squint, tilt your head to the left, and stand in one foot. youtu.be/2vF26QG9he4?...

does anyone else indulge in flights of fancy about the post- period when we get to rebuild this mess? like, just little daydreams here and there? as if one might actually survive this hellish reign and life to see a better day?

my question to anyone declaring they are disengaged is: what’s their relationship to privilege? are they shutting down because they’re well-padded by economic security, able-bodied and comfortable to move about as they please, socially protected by race and sexual identity? if yes, time to disrupt.

last week i asked my local pharmacy about the covid vax. they told me i needed an rx from pcp. no problem! got it sent over. early last week they were out. today i called to make sure and they said they would no longer give it to a 52 year old, even with an rx, for fear of being sued by the feds.

the second amendment has gone and gobbled up the first amendment.

we make the road by walking. always.

the clear, coherent two paragraphs i’ve been looking for since thursday. thanks, cynthia!

fun fact: i entered college with a plan to become a television journalist. one mass comm introductory class and i was so horrified that the media constructed truth instead of reporting The Facts that i went off in search of a new major and eventually found my way to public history and my academe.

@maryharris.bsky.social you mentioned a cool ranch doritos seasoning recipe on the bonus episode (which was nothing short of excellent, btw)…hook a sister up?

a dear human and grad school friend has been fired from his tenured faculty post without due process. read more here and sign the petition. www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...

i really resent how much i have had to learn about alt-right subcultures today, and i’m still not ready for this week’s junior division political pop quiz.

ordering flags flown at half mast, something he did NOT do for Rep. Hortman and Sen. Hoffman, actual public servants. another day in upside down world.

as someone who is sitting on the edge of a hospital bed, waiting for discharge from a pulmonary embolism, feeling like the best outcome of it is i have a new care team to help me understand my struggles better, LAWDY I COULDN’T AGREE MORE.

this happened. it’s real. you’ve used it in a sentence many times before. now @merriam-webster.com has made your experience and language usage VALID.

IT ME. “Approx. 48 hr after a triggering event—physical, cognitive, or emotional—patients experience a “crash”: profound fatigue, cognitive slowing, hypersomnia, tinnitus, nausea, headaches, migraines, executive dysfunction, word-finding difficulties, pain, & worsening dysautonomia, mood disorders.

sigh. do we really need this reminder? well, if we do…

this missourian welcomes it with open arms. sue the hell out of these MFs, please.

a summer classic.

curious if you can walk into a CVS & get an updated covid vaccine without rx? depend on which state you are in, firstly. secondly, if you are under 65, you’ll need an underlying condition. you may be able to self attest to asthma, obesity, physical inactivity, or other. get boosted with a fib!