i struggle to teach sylvia plath because i have some weird fantasy about defending her from her readers

yeesh - phoenix doesn’t seem that cool

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

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seriously, please- someone help me understand why in a world literally running out of water, universities are so pumped about their AI investments. All I see is so so info and mundane task mastery, outsourcing of human labor, and deepfakes.

there’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear …. but i might be kind of annoyed by it

Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide: Rutgers Nebraska Indiana Michigan State Michigan Ohio State Washington Maryland Minnesota UMass Hunter City College Hostos SUNY

Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...

No worse time John Ashbery

this is a shoutout to the brandy snifter subplot in *Rear Window*

Dear @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social and @democrats.org We should be talking back to tariff discourse, which many red and blue workers are getting behind, by talking about outsourcing and automation that only serves billionaires’ bottom lines www.demandsage.com/outsourcing-....

why do service jobs taken over by robots never get raised in all this talk about jobs in the us? 🙄

My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4

i find this to perfectly illustrate the vibe of now: expertise and particularity count for nothing, profit and use are everything— seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil, etc, getting and spending we lay waste our powers, yadda yadda yadda - whatEVER

El Paso Herald-Post, 8/27/34

from Neil Acherson’s review of Richard Evans’ Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich

the phrase “this is not a drill” drilling thru my skull

getting down to brass tacks or something

we see what’s happening but we can’t believe it. our posts won’t stop it.

Someone with deeper knowledge may dispute this, but I'm seeing a real direct line between the 2023 Rutgers strike dynamics and the posture its faculty is taking these days.

how much patti smith will it take???

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

just a random PSA- getting the iodine from a CT Scan anywhere near your neck can kill your thyroid gland , which is … pretty detrimental to your overall health.

i’d guess 1500-2000 at one of 2 protests in A2

resignified

interesting/ wise/ well written books about bipolar disorder? (asking for a friend)

69 million American women unable to register to vote simply because they changed their last name after marriage, like myself. That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do. My @demwomencaucus.bsky.social colleagues and I won’t stand for this.

This vote is this week- Call your congresspersons today fivecalls.org makes it easy

#AnnArbor- This affects Food Gatherers and others. #charity #help www.freep.com/story/news/l...

One of the many below-the-radar outrages of this administration. USDA cancels $4.3M in poultry, cheese, eggs to Michigan food banks www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-foo...

suicide by government

Reading testimonies of writers questioned by HUAC in early 50s it’s so clear none of the questions asked were about fact-finding. As Arthur Miller knew, they were about power-flex via ritualized abjection & terror. The point was to force one into public betrayal values, knowledge, & communities.

Largest # of votes with Trump: Shaheen: 42 Fetterman: 39 (but *24* absences) Hassan: 39 Rosen: 39 Gallego: 38 (but *8* absences) Hickenlooper: 38 Slotkin: 36 Cortez Masto: 35 Warner: 33 Kelly: 31 Peters: 31 Bennet: 30 King: 30 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat. “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

def speak out and not just on SM - it actually matters that you call call call your reps and senators in NUMBERS large enough to scare politicians.

why are the HLS agents masked. It’s so telling.

def speak out and not just on SM - it actually matters that you call call call your reps and senators in NUMBERS large enough to scare politicians.

my loathing for the high school mean girl at the podium w the mj nose job is ….a lot of loathing

i’m weary of the news reporting on the government’s latest moves as though the content of those moves were the point

“…. it was impossible any longer to discuss what was happening to us in contemporary terms…. We were all going slightly crazy trying to be honest and trying to see straight and trying to be safe. Sometimes there are conflicts in these three urges.” Arthur Miller on why he wrote The Crucible (1953)

Something to think about

…at the Naval Academy, CAPT Andrew Ledford and I wove together the workings of our hypothalamus, research on cognitive reframing and thought-stopping, and how poetry may save us. Think of poems as dopamine hits — WH Auden, Rita Dove, and Amy Woolard (my favorite contemporary poet).

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

some of those “resistance moms” have been calling all along and are also intellectuals why is our country so misogynist

Oh hey, @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 about genres and forms of Forever War! Please consider submitting an abstract and sharing!

what about the cloture??

Too much is at stake not to keep up the pressure on the Senate Democrats up to the very moment of the vote.