Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

this guy ♥️

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

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“Horsefeathers” is an expression that absolutely needs to be revived and I hereby pledge to do all I can to help.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

i feel like this guy is my spiritual sibling

Update on the plan to make The Handmaid's Tale a reality.

Okay fine, but like . . . why?

What if the Bad Bunny half-time show is the real Turning Point?

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

America needed this.

Truly he is the Best Bunny.

That was freaking amazing!

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl. 🏈🦉 #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

There are lots of important books about concentration camps; two that I have used in my own teaching are "KL" by Nikolaus Wachsmann and "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Golfo Alexopoulos.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

lol this is the most ominous letter I've ever seen in my life.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

She’s asking about the Epstein victims And He’s telling @kaitlancollins.bsky.social to smile. I want to scream.

Lord I see what you’ve done for others

Thank you, Catherine O’Hara, for your vivaciously venerable vocabulary. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

Why does researching a novel take so long? Case study: you start reading about face paint/makeup in the 17th century, and your eye is caught by the word "hagbut" and your inner teenager giggles. Hellloooooo, rabbit hole. (It's a kind of early firearm, in case you were wondering.)

on this day 12 years ago bill de blasio dropped staten island chuck who later died of his injuries

This right here!

Okay, have you guys known this and I'm only now figuring it out? Hal and Kate--The Diplomat Hal and Kate--Henry V

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Ursula K. Le Guin is back? Huge if true

The immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.

“He was a very bad guy: the sort of guy who never put the plastic divider down for the person behind him in the supermarket queue.” Opening line of my next novel.

📚 What made plants undesirable according to #earlymodern how-to books? In our latest #blog Stefan Laube explores household books on the practice of weeding 🌿 howtobook.hypotheses.org/5594

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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interesting thread

it turns out it's hard to write when you're in a state of emotional paralysis

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

They don't even specify the RECIPIENT. Name him. Who is this letter TO, you chickenshits?

Okay, that's SOMETHING!!!

Read the fucking room, Dems. @democrats.org You want us to give because you have a deadline coming up? Not a penny more until you grow a spine and fight fascism.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

This is the beginning of something very dark.

We've made this Sinister Minnesotans shirt from our Stan Kelly comic this week. Net proceeds from this shirt will be donated to local organizations doing their part to keep Minnesotans safe and send ICE agents home to ruin their own fucking communities. Fuck ICE and stay strong, Minneapolis.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social