I grew up a @clebrowns.bsky.social fan during the Kosar era and was heartbroken when they left for Baltimore. Plundering taxpayer funds for $600 million while our state libraries are defunded and our public schools can't bus students is worse than anything Art Modell did.

History is now restricted in the USA.

The "revolution" has become the secular left's version of the rapture. Voting matters. Wild that I have to say that.

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

I've never seen this level of anxiety and fear in my profession. Lives are being destroyed because of a self-destructive political vendetta. #skystorians

"Pseudo-pacifism refers to the tendency of those not under threat to refuse to assist those facing destruction under the pretext of not multiplying violence and to direct blame at the victims" trafo.hypotheses.org/52545

Wolves in a Ukrainian zoo howl in response to air raid sirens, signaling a possible Russian attack.

Today is the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl NPP disaster. ☢️

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To all my Michigan folks ⬇️

The modern GOP is almost Maoist as they pursue their own version of a cultural revolution.

🚨 Climate Crisis Panel Discussion! 🚨 Join us to discuss the urgent challenges of climate change and explore the role of literature in this moment. Registration is free in the link below! givebutter.com/IPMJbW @beltpublishing.bsky.social @literarycleveland.bsky.social @rustbeltlab.bsky.social

My first book is on LibGen and I'm thankful. The publisher decided to not issue a second printing and the price has doubled. LibGen is making scholarship far more accessible and should be protected.

All of my students just happen to be reading Donald Worster's The Dust Bowl this week. I've taught it for years, but this time it hits different. #Skystorians

The March issue of Cleveland Magazine is in stores now and includes my essay "Finding the Source" on the city's relationship to nature. This essay is an excerpt from An Alternative History of Cleveland, available from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. #Skystorians #Cleveland

#InternationalWomensDay #UkrainianView

Happy Stalin's death day to all who celebrate 🇺🇦 #UkrainianView

H5N1 killed 6% of all California Condors in the wild during 2023. 🦤

There are not enough pączki in Cleveland for these times.

What happened today at the White House was disgraceful. The US has elected 80s-era bullies straight from central casting to run the government.

Not sure if this is piercing the political noise, but H5N1 has been identified in wild geese, ducks, rats, chickens on factory farms as well as backyard flocks, cattle, and even indoor house cats. It is in the food supply and can spread on the wind over a distance of five miles. 1/2

Three years of Ukrainian apartments, hospitals, nuclear power plants, dams, and churches attacking Russian missiles. Слава Україні 🇺🇦

Трамп і Путін - хуйло!

I’m at the desperately-rereading-Hope-in-the-Dark-by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and-throwing-the-book-across-the-room-at-the-mention-of-Glenn-Greenwald-as-a-hero stage of grief. 📖💨👋

This should be required reading for every academic hiring committee. Modern journal publishing is becoming a Potemkin Village.

What can we do? Look to Cleveland. Interview with @riotnerrrd.bsky.social is online now. beltpublishing.com/pages/interv...

"So much of our present culture seems obsessed with obliterating what makes a place unique." Not Jon Wlasiuk! New interview with @riotnerrrd.bsky.social about An Alternative History of Cleveland live now --> beltpublishing.com/pages/interv...