To assume a book on being antiracist is only for White people is to overlook internalized anti-Blackness and the anti-Blackness of the people identified as Native, Latino, MENA, and Asian.

The midterms are the last chance for Democrats to hold Trump accountable at the national level before he leaves office (unless he attempts to follow through on his musings to seek an unconstitutional third term).

Just another reason to go to my relatives instead of them coming to me.

Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote was her favorite.

Check out the full list at the link below #booksky:

Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story: Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole. Randy, his arms down. The Old Man, when the lamp broke. Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

James Marion Sims, a doctor in 1840s Montgomery who became world famous as “the father of modern gynecology." The whitewashed part of his legacy? He achieved his surgical breakthroughs by experimenting on Black girls and women from plantations.

When a French village became an ALS hot spot, neurologists found that the patients consistently ate three foods. Shayla Love traveled there to investigate: Revisit the story from March, which became one of The Atlantic’s most-read articles of 2025: theatln.tc/DpPZNmMC

The Supreme Court rebuffs the Trump administration over its plan to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois over the strenuous objections of local officials.

A writer for “Saturday Night Live” is asking the public to help him locate his missing sister, who was last seen in Los Angeles.

I teach a course both in-person and online. I've always approached figuring it out by getting it ready for in-person and adapting that for online. This time I'm trying the opposite. I'm going to get it ready for online and then adapt it for in-person. I think it'll work better this way. #AcademicSky

Kids - Santa does not & would never hurt anyone. This video by Kristi Noem is not nice. It is fake and that's not the real Santa at all. Many grownups have let Santa know what Ms Noem did and we are told that she is very very very much on the naughty list! Be good. It's almost Christmas! 🎄

For non-academics: this means the student is likely done at OU because the TA gig is attached to tuition waivers for graduate school. Sunk time at OU will be lost and the options are to quit or start over somewhere else.

House Dem Sues Trump Over Renaming Of Kennedy Center

Wow.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

Not doing great I had an interview for a teaching position on Wednesday that I really, really wanted. I was excited about this opportunity. I feel like the interview went well. Especially since the entire interview was in ASL. I already have anxiety during interviews, and doing an interview in my…

My parents had "The Christmas Tape". It was a VHS different Christmas specials were added to over the years. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was the first one. So happy I found it in a DVD bundle years ago. One of my few X-mas holiday musts.

A festive blog post from Henry Jenkins ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fandom as Consumer Collective: Christmas Trees as Fannish Display #FanStudies henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/12...

If you're staff, faculty, grad or undergrad student, alumni, or other community member of any UNC system school, please send Peter Hans a letter opposing the mandatory public release of syllabi. First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.

Coming home to find the power's out definitely delays getting groceries.

Seems like People don't want water guzzling, polluting, home energy energy price hiking "AI" data centers in their areas 🤷🏾‍♂️ www.decaturish.com/news/dekalb/...

If only my dissertation was done and I didn't want to take a break before working on a theater fandom monograph.

Now for the worst part of the interview process: waiting.

There is one thing I miss about in-person interviews, I could arrive early and wait there nervously. Now it's a case of watching the time and trying not to log into the Zoom too early or too on-time. Ack!

It's nice when a meeting lasts 30 minutes because we've covered everything without rushing. Yay!

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

The closest I ever came to meeting Rob Reiner was sitting in movie theater on Westwood Bl. which is now a drug store. I was watching John Waters’ SERIAL MOM, and the Reiners were sitting behind me.

I interviewed Rob Reiner as one of the bonuses for the @criterion.bsky.social BluRay of SPINAL TAP. We talked for an hour about the movie and his career and then they shut off the cameras and we talked about movies for another hour. A delightful, unhurried genius.

If you want to celebrate the life of Rob Reiner tonight and you haven't seen it, the documentary about his best friend, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, is as much about Brooks as it is Reiner's love for his lifelong best friend. As fall down hilarious as it is sweet & touching. It's a must see.

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Vinyl records are popular again, but it's not just audiophiles or nostalgic boomers fueling the resurgence. Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years. https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

And with that, another semester is done. And I somehow survived teaching ASL I and II in 8 weeks each. Yeah. Not doing that again, at least that way. I need twice as much classroom time with them, however that looks.

It worked! I just have their final videos to grade tomorrow! Almost done!

I have a plan. After watching a student's video, I'll grade their paper. That way I get both things graded and I'm not just watching videos which keeps me from being too drained. Considering I just want to curl up under a blanket with a hot tea and watch TV, I think it's a good plan.

Once I'm done with work, I get to uncover my car from the snow that's been falling since I got here at 2, go home, make and eat dinner, and try to get at least 4 ASL videos graded. Maybe get their papers graded too so I just have their final videos to grade tomorrow. End of the semester sucks.

Human-created art matters.

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Decolonizing Media Fandom Disability, Race, and Marvel Superhero Fans Divya Garg #FanStudies uipress.uiowa.edu/books/decolo...

Well, this is a new twist...

While waiting for the DM to get sound figured out, I decided to work on revising the #dissertation introduction. I at least applied my chair's comments. I should be able to have that done tonight. Yay!!! One step closer to a complete draft! #PhDsky #AcademicSky

It's weird. I could not bring myself to work on my dissertation. But I did finish notes for an upcoming presentation and started working out what to address in another. It's so much fun being #ADHD with #PMS in academia. #PhDsky #AcademicSky

Wow. I think I have a draft of my conclusion. I think I can start working on revising what still needs it tomorrow. I am getting so close! Now to deal with the paperwork and red tape. #AcademicSky #PhDsky #dissertation

Putting money in Rowling's pocket is also why we ignore press releases from comics events that include Potter programming. It's funding her hate. I'd implore every creator/publisher/potential guest to consider this when approached by those cons. - Andy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think I'm almost done writing the conclusion to my dissertation. I feel like I'm repeating myself, but I know I do need to do that to a certain extent. I have one more section to finish up and then I think I can move on to making sure the whole thing makes sense before sending it on its merry way.

Revising my teas Recently, I was able to invest in some furniture that allows me to be better organized. That includes my tea. In fact, my tea collection is part of why I invested in it. I was hoping that getting it organized would inspire me to drink more tea. But I've been wary since I don't…

As much as I am trying not to, it seems I have reinforced the need for looming deadlines to get me to actually get things done. It turns out my chair was hoping I could simply get my dissertation written and I'd be done without defending. I guess that was an option at some point recently. 1/3