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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

In a Substack post about Olivia Nuzzi, her former fiancé accuses her of sleeping with Mark Sanford as well: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Really worried what bombshell Lizza will drop next:

In addition to stealing all the jobs and buying all the homes and getting free healthcare & social security benefits and eating cats & dogs, they're hiding the cattle in their shirts? Throwing them over the wall? And why are they only bringing the sick cattle? They're leaving the healthy ones home?!

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

"My first money-saving tip would be to not spend money. In the coming days food will become a priority and it is only going to get more expensive. You may want to start gathering kindling."

Me: I wish all these tech bro types would stop misunderstanding sci-fi and fantasy classics Monkey's Paw: Bro.

🎶 Double your boycotts, double your fun! Two! Two! Two boycotts in one! 🎶

First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

These otters are displeased with you. What did you do!?

“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Trump take tourism

We lived in Atlanta for three years. It was quite the eye-opener. The GOP legislature hates the city. Nothing is funded and nothing works. These ghouls want low taxes, low wages, and low services, all while they’re served in a separate economy. I’ve seen what that looks like. No thank you.

Yeah no shit

“Mr. Richardson lacked a background in emergency management, which is a legal requirement for the FEMA administrator.”

how did the foreperson sign an indictment the grand jury never voted on? why did they do that???

Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill. @melbuer.bsky.social reports:

your brain remembers the American evangelical megachurch that does christian versions of marvel movies, mine remembers the Hillsong megachurches that do this

I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again

I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social

"Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve between cars, almost killing entire families, babies, men, women, whoever."

NASA: Voyager Found a 50,000-Degree “Wall” at the Edge of the Solar System #blogpost

I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

Ed Ruscha, Fast Cash, 2021

That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."

Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath. www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...

While Bouie notes that Vance is pretty useless compared to recent vice presidents, I'd add that all changed after this month's elections. With Trump a shamed duck, Vance is now the leader of the party. And that makes his welcoming stance towards the Groypers all the more sick and dangerous.

First exhibition ever dedicated to 16th-century Flemish painter Catharina van Hemessen to premier at the National Gallery, London, in 2027 www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...

Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.

For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can. If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.

People keep saying that & I’m like: - Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic? - what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns? - why aren’t we given masks and tests? - what about ventilation? - why aren’t all shots free

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now we collectively all can't unsee it, you're welcome 🤣🖤

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

My parents met on jury duty. I’m pretty sure my mom was engaged to a guy named Doug at the time. In the jury pool room they watched the Watergate hearings and she thought my dad was an asshole. They were married within the month. And seven years later they named their only child after a hot dog.

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

From an official government account: "Womp womp." It is not just that we are ruled by morons, but our tax dollars are paying the salaries of morons who possess the emotional capacity of a Doberman in heat. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

normal things happening

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

I joined BlueSky mostly for scholarly inspiration, but all of the academics I follow just talk about politics. I muted All The Political Words, and now my timeline is silent apart from a bloke who posts pictures of his pet chicken Colin.

"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."