If you’ve loved #HeatedRivalry for the gay romance, wait until you read about the decades-long love affair between a Maine painter and Harvard prof, full of secrecy, torment, and simple domestic bliss. Cover is only known photo of them together. ❤️ @umasspress.bsky.social

Resolutions (no order): - summarize each book read, to remember - organize/write/pub (loosely defined) research on late 20th c Boston independent publishing - volunteer, maybe @ a hospital - be strategic @ gym rather than just wandering, doing stuff - figure out how I can best fight dictatorship

Trump says we need to go after drug cartels. Meanwhile, he disbanded a DOJ task force that took them on. And he pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Trump doesn't care about drugs — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. It's a power grab.

Donald Trump has multiple indictments in the United States for crimes against the US government. And also pardoned top drug dealers.

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

again Tony Dokoupil is not that smart and not that good and I firmly believe has his job because his hair carried him 90% of the way there and the last 10% is that the expression of his stupid pleased his new boss, who is seeking to please the oligarchs and whose stupid aligns with his.

“According to one study, on an August day in 1918, 23 horse-drawn vehicles and 559 motor vehicles came onto the Cape. On a single Sunday less than 20 years later, 55,000 cars were counted crossing the bridges that were built over the Cape Cod Canal in the early 1930s by Roosevelt’s New Deal.”

The @nytimes.com story on how little DOGE did is so depressing, bc their actual cuts were cruel and led to deaths and misery around the world, via cuts to international aid. I hope the media and activists keep reminding us of this as we in the US enjoy our comforts.

Truly chilling.

Said goodbye to this perfect pup exactly one year ago today. Almost 14 years with him. Still miss him everyday if I’m being honest.

Just an fyi, my colleague at @umasspress.bsky.social has acquired a couple of Shaker books recently so check out our small but powerful - and current! - Shaker list!

If I wanted to try to write about Boston publishing history (more recent, like last 50 years or so, not 19th c) in some kind of serial way, what is best platform? Substack seems lowkey evil. Happy to get opinions on this. Thanks! #publishing #bookhistory #Boston #books

How the mighty (60 Minutes) have fallen. My parents watched loyally for years, I was the rare teen that never missed an episode. My dad is rolling his eyes at it now, from the beyond. Sad days.

Sitting with this today

Imagine having to live with having voted for a desperate, petty, insecure man, giving him a platform to seek vengeance in the saddest ways (along with some of the most harmful, deadly ways). Or you didn’t vote at all. And you’re allowed to keep that to yourself, of course, but what a secret to have.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

Because it’s a smash and grab.

"I just want to try as best I can, with what limited financial and emotional resources I have, to create a community of book people who enjoy creating the art they want to create for the readers who enjoy reading these sorts of books." Amen. Very helpful - thanks, @chadwpost.bsky.social! #publishing

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

Full-throated endorsement of the strange, poetic novel North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford, pub’d by A Strange Object out of Austin and @deepvellum.bsky.social, shortlisted for the National Book Award. Men’s cruelty, nature’s magic, hyper capitalism’s power. Phew.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

How many people must experience this until a critical mass demands that it stop? I’m counting on my political leaders - @warren.senate.gov & @edmarkey.bsky.social & @pressley.house.gov - to keep the pressure up. Have y’all called yours?

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

Critical & devastating work by @thrasherxy.bsky.social & Afeef Nessouli documenting what they call the "racialized LGBTQ+ employment crisis for front-line Black & brown workers" in HIV prevention & care globally. #WorldAIDSDay #IllnessPolitics theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Sometime last year, a CUNY alum contacted me saying they’d found some photos they took at the 1995 protest against budget cuts and would I please take them so they could clear out their attic? They arrived today and they DID NOT DISAPPOINT

Great post from a fellow university press editor which can be applied to #MLA26 (where I’ll be) or really any scholarly conference! Thanks, @adinapopescu.com. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Today is #WorldAIDSDay and the government is cutting back funding for treatment and prevention globally, and telling employees not to discuss. People are getting treatment and not transmitting, but many others are too fearful to get tested, have no access, and/or have limited/no treatment options.

Add this to list of human rights abuses in which our government is engaging. Truly terrifying and shameful.

There’s a lot to watch rn but keep your eyes on these pathetic tactics, state by state.

A very readable, deeply-informed piece by Naomi Klein that combines genocide, the Surrealists, fascism then and now -- and Mamdani. www.equator.org/articles/sur...

State dept employees and grantees have been told to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging.” Everytime you think they’ve gone the lowest, they go lower.

The number of immigrants in detention without criminal records has surged by over 2,000% since Trump reentered the White House. Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction. Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

I wish the @nytimes.com would make press names clear for books in Top 100 (which would make dearth of uni presses more obvious). I had to click multiple times to discover Hagfish, a reprint/editorial agency of sorts that looks cool, who have a book called To Smithereens in list. #publishing

A good one today.

I didn’t have phone out at Patti Smith’s Boston show last night, but I woke up today wanting to keep going by googling live clips of her. She’s still in full control, and still performing this song in a way that takes you right out of your body, now with references to env degradation and Gaza.

My mother spent her whole long career as a nurse. I learned so much from her. Two months plus after her death, leave it to the incompetent WH admin / feckless Dept of Education to insult and injure the profession by limiting student loans available for nursing. Our healthcare will only get worse.

Happy 75th birthday to @utpress.bsky.social! (Proud alum of UT, where I stupidly never got job or internship at incredible press which was right there bc I didn’t know I could?) @publisherswkly.bsky.social

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman. Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Please note: none of these are university presses. Thank you.

“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”

Next couple of weeks includes first an Erykah Badu concert and then Patti Smith. I’ve made some good decisions.

Rest in power, Alice Wong, a powerful activist and writer

In February, Vought told the Federal Reserve & a federal judge he was requesting $0 of the $329m available, because CFPB had too much money. Now that it's running out, he has a new excuse. Don't let Vought keep stealing from you. Tell Congress: restore CFPB funding & fire Vought NOW! nteu335.org