Was expecting to write a "I put off responding to an email for 3 months; it ended up taking 3 minutes and was absolutely fine" post, but PLOT TWIST the email in question manages to connect to my worst professional trauma. Awesome stuff.

For instance, Routledge recently asked me to review a book proposal—and I did—but no way would I have if I knew about this and I won’t be from now on unless this agreement is cancelled.

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

“Senator Ted Cruz sounded disturbingly similar to the white nationalist mass murderer who carried out a targeted attack in his home state just five years ago. In one ugly speech, Senator Cruz depicted migrants as literal ‘invaders,’” @vcardenas.bsky.social said ⬇️

popular gun youtuber who dresses up in waffen ss uniforms totally nonpolitically

These dudes created a whole new US flag based on the idea that they do the opposite of this.

Went to Amazon looking for a specific book on fascism, and here's what showed up as a *sponsored* item at the very top of my search results.

It's possible to get rich people to support the humanities in public higher education: newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

Always curious about theological setups where god allows the holocaust and the Rwandan genocide but steps in to save a convicted felon who wants to lower taxes and deport “the right people”

Legacy of Lincoln betrayed by William Howard Taft, facial hair edition 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/0...

In recent years, historians and others have increasingly been documenting the Green Book's influence. Architectural historians, Anne E. Bruder, Susan Hellman, Catherine W. Zipf have embarked on an effort to create a national database highlighting the architecture to which Black motorists travelled:

this is why people who aren't republican ops shouldn't be going on news shows and saying the same shit since it's just laying the groundwork for coup 2: electric boogaloo

John Ganz on JD Vance: "But Trump’s GOP was never about a coherent policy regime or even ideology; it’s a structure of feeling & Vance embodies that: Anger, wounded pride, resentment, contempt, & ultimately, hatred & despair...he is the New Republican Man." www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-meanin...

lmfao

Oh yeah nothing to see here. 🙄

Since all policing is inherently political, the impunity the cops have mostly had in killing Black people is indeed political violence.

People pushed back when I argued last week that the NYT wants Trump to win.... saideman.blogspot.com/2024/07/all-...

Superbland Glen Powell + a remake that didn't need to happen + willful ignorance to protect delicate red-state sensibilities from fucking facts? Ooh, sign me out www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Finished a book review 2 years after it was commissioned. It was not a long book, but it was written by a friend, so required particular care. The perils of a small field.

According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

The cops here really want to connect five of them shooting a homeless man with the security demands of the RNC, which was, uh, not that close by and across a highway

Call your reps today to tell them you support this and expect them to vocally support these efforts as well as AOC’s articles of impeachment for the compromised justices. It only takes 5 minutes, and you often don’t even have to speak to a real human! (Negative/doomer replies will be blocked)

dark brandon sighting

Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

This will never be not funny to me

Gun ownership is one thing, but I need someone to explain to me why all these guys have "more than a dozen" AR 15s. Much of my family in Germany are professional game wardens and hunters for the state (control deer and boar population) and have like 1 gun and one bow.

Check out @andydenninghist.bsky.social new book, Automotive Empire, now!! 🗃️🗃️ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

AFL-CIO: "Sen. JD Vance likes to play union supporter on the picket line, but his record proves that to be a sham ... A Trump–Vance White House is a corporate CEO’s dream and a worker’s nightmare." aflcio.org/press/releas...

Daytime high temps have risen fast. Nights are worse.

Every picture of JD Vance looks like it’s accompanying s news story about a former child actor who got caught in a multi level marketing scam

This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

As if JD Vance's countenance weren't discomforting enough, a high-school friend pointed out that the guy doesn't have a speck of gray in his beard at age 39, and now I can't unsee that

JD Vance was the VP candidate chosen by tech plutocrats (Musk and his former employer Peter Thiel), conservative media figures like Tucker Carlson, and most crucially the President's son Don Jr. Its a workers party now, focused entirely on merit! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/u...

This is ... quite the analogy

This is like a parody of the brain-cooked memes a Gen X aunt with no IRL social circle is sharing on Facebook

timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

idk how to explain this but i strongly feel that JD Vance is related to the Hamburglar

Remember the J.D. stands for “juicebox drinker”

Your least favorite politician's favorite politician

… “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance” —Romney

Vance is definitely the kind of guy who has already thought deeply about the fact that he could murder Trump and then pardon himself as his first official act.

jd vance looks like if a baby got old but not in the normal way

A good time to revisit @gabrielwinant.bsky.social 's 2023 essay on J.D. Vance's class politics @nplusonemag.bsky.social

It's here! It's real!

Peak NYTimes The margin is the same in both places but Biden is "trailing" in PA and "only slightly ahead" in VA.

This take aged well.