Found this clipping from who knows where in an envelope with photos at my mom’s. Remember this, ladies, the next time jackasses start mouthing off about how you’re ruining the workplace. (Also my mom worked at Yale so LOL)

OK I loved Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN and because I watch nothing ever I’m now once again having big “do you guys know about MOVIES?!” feels

Not to be a bitch and resort to name calling but he’s such an f-ing dweeb

Funny but true: The President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, wrote his PH.D on enslaved African Americans in Louisiana. Indeed, his master’s thesis was entitled, African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms Among Slaves in Virginia, 1740–1870.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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The most corrupt administration in American history.

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Look on my works etc etc

8 Nov 2025 -- Good explainer from TIME. Money quote from Chase Strangio: "What these Executive Orders do is open the door to sex-based policing that cannot be enforced without subjecting everyone to some sort of scrutiny & invasive process that will harm us all.” @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

We’ve had a random influx of 1-star ratings on Apple Podcasts from people who think TGS is too left-wing (lol) so if you’ve never rated us, it would be cool if you did! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

the way I am dreading—DREADING—trying to planes trains automobiles and boats-ing to Puerto Rico for NWSA. I just want to get there and conference and get back to my kiddo.

*world’s loudest, longest sigh* knew it was coming, doesn’t make it suck less www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

taking a break from politics to share that I listened to the new Lily Allen album 4 times today and I am INTO it

Waiting at the DMV reading about how Cornell caved and the 6th circuit actually used the ludicrous phrase “biological pronouns.” Truly what fresh hell—

brb ripping up my degree

There are no words for how evil this is

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. bacls.org/news/187/

Amid government overreach, economic precarity & plain misinformation, the academy’s responsibility to invest in the infrastructure of knowledge & career advancement provided by university presses is even more imperative. Read Executive Director Peter Berkery's full letter: https://bit.ly/47HnLF3

On a search committee and genuinely in awe of the incredible skill and exciting avenues of research our young colleagues, fresh out of grad school or on the verge of defending, are pursuing. Truly the assault on higher education is a loss to humanity as a whole.

When you've pissed off one of the kindest and most generous people in the literary world, you should know you've really gone and done it—but also, more people should be shouting this loudly about this kind of thing. A boycott is a bold stance and I wonder what'd happen if more of us joined him.

Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.

lol

Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

S is traveling for a conference so I’ve been taking great pleasure in telling people that I’m playing Mr. Mom

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

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To invoke Mario Cuomo - but NOT SAY HIS NAME. Because he had already told us he was done saying the name of his defeated opponent. I shrieked.

So we’re all staying home “sick” today to consume memes, read coverage, make fun of Cuomo, and watch that victory speech on repeat, right?

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

The primary was the biggie so the victory is no surprise but it’s a local win and major milestone nonetheless www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Happiness really is shocking sometimes.

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Hopefully this trifecta can get to work undoing the agreement that UVA signed with the DOJ.

Oh JFC Lawrence O’Donnell saying Cuomo’s concession speech will be the most important one of the night

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Definitively, the anti trans position is a losing one

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

lmao

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

This Election Day has been a real wake-up call and referendum and honestly it had never occurred to me before that awesome hard-working charismatic people with good policies that speak to the electorate should run

Rachel Maddow just accidentally called Mamdani “governor of NY” and I’ll take it. You heard it hear first. Mamdani is governor. Done! I’ll buy it!! Move over, Hochul!