🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

And yet students speaking up for Palestinians are the REAL anti-semites

This is the face of a dog that ripped through a bathroom trash, scattering its contents all over the kitchen, shredded his plastic biscuit container , eating every biscuit, and attempted to break into his pill bottle during the superbowl

As suspected "The bill also defines 'credible threat' as ' A knowing and willful statement or course of conduct, which, based on the totality of the circumstances, would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of another.' "

I know what you are #bridgerton

Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had: (Yes, volunteering and internships also) -program manager (current) -Tenure track professor -ESL instructor in Indonesia -actress -cocktail bar hostess

Please contribute if you can to get this Senegalese student snatched by ICE home ASAP www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Santigold is going to hit every time

Finally acting on the @clairewillett.bsky.social reccomendation and starting "Finding Mr. Christmas " for my post-surgery convalescence

Once again complaining about the hostile lack of seating in Moynihan

Lmao this is so hurtful #rolltideroll

Do Kalshi...is not the granola/health food company I was thinking of

Sometimes it might come with a likkle sprinkle of listeria, but absolutely worth it. And the correct answer is pineapples & cream

Ok but the 3 rolls crammed into one section is diabolical

Glad I get to feed MechaHitler my tax dollars

I'm about to buy Modest Mouse tickets in the year of our lord 2025

Well on my way to be coming a snob (celebratory) about the Acela

DIVA DOWN

RIP Dolly's Doughnuts from the Temescal Alley in Oakland ,CA

So JD Vance killed Pope Francis?

On June 24, you can rank up to five Democratic candidates for Mayor of New York City and none of them should be named Andrew Cuomo. For example: Zohran Mamdani Brad Lander Zellnor Myrie Adrianne Adams Jessica Ramos It’s that easy.

Performing arts secondary school. Which in a long winding way led to doctoral work with trans artists in Indonesia and a subfield in trans studies (and lots of brilliant trans friends and colleagues allowing me to share space)

As a 3rd grader who thought Goosebumps was ✨too scary✨ these were my jam

When your name and breed is just "Nugget"

Fuck this

Why can't one of y'all just slip a little arsenic in his morning ketamine

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. They won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the Championship again in 1939. Left handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out 12 batters.

Also very happy for Doechii. That album went triple platinum in my car.

Big takeaway for the night is Disease wasn't a fluke and recession era Gaga is back. See you all at the Market Hotel

Seems correct

Imagine being a Black Appalachian (me) and seeing this bullshit. The same excuses to be racist I’ve heard my whole life.

My now husband used to live up the block from this place. We toured the studios one year 😏

my man my man my man 😍

Moved here at 18 pre-smart phones. Navigating 2am service changes with a prayer, a pocket map, and a body full of cheap tequila

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Also jobless

Aka welcome to my first full day of unemployment 💅🏾

Wow life tastes great when you don't have slack all up in your phone demanding attention

2 faves from '24

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I'm about as theatre kid as you can get (theatre boarding school, theatre undergrad degree, theatre PhD) and the slander is incredibly valid