Check out my appearance on History Mixtapes hosted by @katejewell.bsky.social. Great idea for a podcast and well executed - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

GREEN - I´M NOT AT HOME [USA, Power Pop] (1987) https://redd.it/7ed7gf https://youtu.be/DKhOlPux6FE

The Eighties - No Cruising In An Era Of Limits [Los Angeles, CA, USA ; New Wave / Power Pop] (1980) Produced by Geza X. https://redd.it/19c6lus https://youtu.be/K4MZBfu-pEU

“Inherent Vice the novel is an elegy for an era that has permanently changed […] But the film is a profoundly mournful, profoundly funny study of men and women stunted in the thrall of time’s passage, and by the loss it creates as those they love disappear within it.” - @aheartofgould.bsky.social

Generators - Temporarily Out Of Control [United States/Cleveland, Power Pop/Punk] (1981) https://redd.it/14rw2j6 https://youtu.be/h1FexLS2XL0

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

This was super fun! Highly recommend listening and guesting.

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

“Drivers leaned on their horns as union members — many of whom were wearing blue WGAW T-shirts– marched back and forth in front of the main entrance.” deadline.com/2025/09/disn...

Do I know anyone in the SC area who knows someone (or *is* someone) who wants to adopt two cats? I desperately need to find a home for my parents' two cats. I already have three, so I can't take them. They are boarding at their vet while I look, and I have to go home to PA in less than a week.

From the minds of the people who fucked up the last 25 years....

If ICE firing guns on a crowded street and slaughtering a man driving ~away~ from agents, a man who clearly posed no risk to anyone else Is not met with national outrage Its already-reckless agents will kill anyone, anywhere, anytime they deem it necessary It stops now or never

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

“Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian legislators…have asked the U.S. Congress to uphold military support under the Baltic Security Initiative…which the White House is due to propose to cut.” Cutting military aid to these frontline counties is *exactly* what Vlad would want. Interesting how that goes.

Uva people we need support at the rotunda for student action now

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

“Some of them, like an assistant gardener, work all year for not that much more money than U President Rebecca Cunningham earns every two weeks.”

Hello, I didn’t check the delivery address when I ordered some Chipotle delivery just now so if you are in Chicago and would like a chicken burrito go to: The Chicago Hotel Ambassador 1301 N State Pkwy Chicago, IL 60610 It’s at the front desk. Enjoy!

Trump: a man beating HIS woman is no big deal Also a woman dies from domestic violence every TEN minutes.

Too many professors think academic freedom and tenure will always protect us. We need to be better organized as workers.

Heads up, Chicagoland— Early reports of feds* spotted in the Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero. Shared ~54min ago. This is their MO: meeting up early to brief in parking lot somewhere and then heading out for the day for their targets.

CUNY folks! Step up to the bar and join the CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education. Time's a wastin'! Follow: @cadhe.bsky.social!

These fucking people are ghouls. Every decision paves the way for more pain and suffering. How long before Russia targets the Baltic states again?

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Finally teaching a grad seminar on the suburbs. First class was great. Super fun and really good insights on the emergences of the suburbs in the US.

I feel like any family that had a cat and ate meat has a story of said cat getting to a large piece of meat. We had the legend of Muffin trying to drag a turkey away.

Of course they did. They can't just give it to students or workers. It has to be a scheme that helps everyone but people at the university.

José Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist at Freshkills, “will soon defend his Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers…. He sees the park as a hopeful story at an otherwise ‘grim’ time for conservation efforts. ‘We’re seeing all these species come back… And they’re all here on Staten Island.’”

ok yes there are eleventy billion police but also go-go bus

The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.

It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children

The answer is it makes them money to frame it that way. They love Trump because it drives clicks and eyeballs.

LA people

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

It feels odd plugging my book in this horrific moment, but this is precisely what Neighborhood of Fear is about, productive victimization and the production of fear.

This is bonkers. You want better teaching? Pay them more, give students resources and support, and make classes smaller. We know it works, but the 'entrepreneurs' can't fashion a grift out of that.

Agreed. He's ultimately a centrist, both sides are too extreme guy

Don't forget homophobia as central to wanting to overturn

That and massive, systemic voter suppression

This is largely what my book is about. It's too expensive, but do check it out via your library if you're interested in the concomitant productions of fear and power in the US.

For anyone interested in the Satanic panic context, I write about it in Neighborhood of Fear as part of the fear for and if teens.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Oh no, RIP to a great director. Directed Over the Edge, one of the best teen movies ever and the apocryphal inspiration for "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I write about a lot in Neighborhood of Fear if you're interested in its part in the discourse of suburban fear. Also, had a phenomenal one sheet.

📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

This is always true, but we're force fed STEM and business degrees because so many want them to be the thing and want to denigrate anything that teaches critical thinking that might question why you need an MBA.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Seeing the New Bomb Turks tonight, one of my all the faves and one of America's greatest rock and roll bands. If you're remotely local to Brooklyn, go see 'em. Always a great show. "This country gave us Little Richard and it gave us Richard Speck.." - "Grounded Ex-Patriot" youtu.be/JarXmSSoZn8?...

“The Legionnaires' disease cluster is in Central Harlem. According to NYC Health, the following zip codes are affected: 10027 10030 10035 10037 10039 People who live or work around these ZIP codes and develop flu-like symptoms should see a health care provider right away, the agency said.”