WELL SHE WAS AN AMERICAN GIRL

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

good morning, i just recently learned that you can follow the nighttime migration of birds in the continental u.s. because the fancy bird scientists now track the numbers with radar????? birdcast.info

happy wednesday to this queen only

Robert Redford (1936-2025) 🤍

Georgia AG Chris Carr has failed in biggest attempt ever to use RICO ag't a protest mvt. Why, and what does it mean? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @micahh.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social @stopcopcity.bsky.social

"What started with lawmakers weaponizing their platforms against civil servants has morphed into a statewide directive to hunt down and fire educators for opinions shared on their personal social media accounts." - @zephcapo.bsky.social www.texasaft.org/government/t...

highly recommend this book as a way to understand everything about our current moment

he put me on a literal hit list, sally

i hope your day is going better than this brown thrasher's

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

The second this Texas A & M story broke I said to a friend “we’re going to quickly learn that this student is the child of some county GOP chair.” I was close. Of course the entire episode was not spontaneous, but was part of a PR stunt that’s now ruined several people’s lives.

Good news! A judge has thrown out most of the Cop City RICO indictment! Georgia’s AG lacked authority to bring Counts 1 & 3, accounting for most of the defendants. The state will appeal & a subset of defendants still face terrorism charges, but this win is something to celebrate.

i made a friend

im obsessed with this dr. seuss ass butterfly

okay this is not the point but I want someone with a background in critical architectural to write a long essay about this specific arrangement of furniture and why it is fascist

earlier this year my partner worked as lead gaffer (ie he did the lighting) on a film. the teaser just dropped and it looks amazing. especially the lighting 😌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ZM...

while watching THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, i'm trying to track down accurate info about its source. pauline kael's review calls it an adaptation of gertrude walker's novel, but other sources call it an "original story," which means it may not have been published but just sold to warners #tcmparty

i'm back but i realized that i'm on central time, so i'm actually an hour behind the tcm schedule. oh well! i'm about to start watching ABOVE SUSPICION, the second of 6 films in today's crawford marathon that were adapted from the prose of american women writers #tcmparty

TY @muckrock.com for featuring my story on Mario Guevara in their newsletter. Thanks to public records, I was able to report just how closely Gwinnett SO collaborated w/ ICE to suppress Mario’s reporting. Muck Rock is a v. important tool for open records requests! georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/21/i...

good morning #tcmparty! i got a bit of a late start on the joan crawford marathon, but i'm catching up on SADIE McKEE (1934), adapted from viña delmar's "pretty sadie mckee." the story was serialized in liberty magazine in 12 parts, starting in june 1933

Tomorrow's @tcmtv.bsky.social Joan Crawford marathon reveals a pattern: her transformation from working-girl melodramas (SADIE McKEE, 1934) to noir femme fatales (THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, 1950) tracked with changes in what women were writing AND reading. More during tomorrow's #TCMParty

does anybody know the term for this era/style of paperback art?

today in first year writing class i had the thrill of answering "yes" to a student who asked "do you know who jeff hardy is?"

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

While aimlessly looking up bio details for forgotten women writers, I found something interesting: a case of Hollywood credit erasure hiding in plain sight. And it involves the Norse god Thor (sort of)... 🧵

🎬 HEADS UP: TCM is airing 8 Joan Crawford films adapted from women writers this Wednesday! From Viña Delmar's SADIE MCKEE to Fannie Hurst's HUMORESQUE & beyond, Crawford was THE choice for women's fiction adaptations. Schedule + author credits: boxd.it/NU8iw/detail #tcmparty

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

In case you thought movie tie-in re-releases were a modern thing. The Photoplay Edition of LENA RIVERS, by Mary J. Holmes (originally published 1856), to coincide with the 1915 film adaptation, starring Beulah Poynter (who had previously made a name for herself by adapting the novel for the stage).

New from me: Spoke with Nicole Collier, the Texas rep who spent two nights in functional detention fighting racist gerrymandering. Collier told me she would "absolutely" support primary challenges to other Democrats who won't fight Republican rule. Gift link on a newfound star finding her voice:

trying out something new— #PhotoplayFriday —to share the wild early 20th century movie tie-in books i've been collecting. first up: The Eagle's Mate (Grosset & Dunlap, circa 1914): The publisher's first deluxe movie tie-in, establishing the template for silent era photoplay editions. 🧵

Nearly 2.5 years later, the 'Cop City' domestic terrorism case remains in legal limbo. Jamie Marsicano, one of over 40 people charged with domestic terrorism, is fighting for dismissal, arguing the delay violates their rights.

i found a new favorite pre-code film poster

Michael Thurmond, the former DeKalb County CEO who defied a judge's order and closed a public park by executive order to facilitate a "Cop City" land swap, is now running for Georgia governor. Here's a 2024 Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay by @nonmodernist.com for @thexylom.com :

when it comes to voting and civil rights: play fair or don't play at all. on the Texas Dems enjoying their Italian beef: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

"I SAID DID YOU FIND ANY GOOD CLAMS OVER THERE"

lmao @ me 17 days ago when i thought i was done with data entry

One of the most insane stories our team had to cover: a tricontinent public health nightmare set into motion by the second Trump administration, leaving people in scrambling to protect themselves from HIV. Please take a read!

why are you as a man even thinking about sex. you should be thinking about what could have happened if the spanish republicans had not succeeded in crushing the revolutionary spirit of the cnt and poum in 1937

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

black sails eats every single one of these shows for lunch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

running two python scripts at once like some kind of wizard

This is how I learned it's August 1st

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

The Int'l. Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has contributed to the legal defense of 11 anti-ICE protestors facing serious charges after a 7/4/25 protest @ in Alvarado, TX. Full story, incl. how you can help our friends: intlantifadefence.wo... #abolishICE, #nooneisillegal, #antifa

Cops lie. All the time, about anything and everything. And especially if they are implicated in violence themselves.

Today is the international day of solidarity with antifascist prisoners and today is a call to action. They are imprisoned because they refused to look away. Today is a call to refuse to abandon them. Here are some lists to aid: supportantifaprisoners.wordpress.com/antifascist-...

as a reminder, the Dallas Express is a pink slime far-right propaganda machine, not a legitimate news source :)