Boxing Day white cranberry cosmos. Here’s to y’all. #cocktailsofbluesky

Just got my first email from an entity referring to itself as “The Trump Kennedy Center.” Never unsubscribed from anything so fast in my life. Out of my inbox, Satan, and stay out! Merry Christmas! 🎄

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

We do not have to live this way.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Don’t sleep on this Maryland team, y’all. They are smart, talented, and tenacious as hell. Go, Terps! Read the story of their incredible comeback in their Big Ten opener against Minnesota.

SHARE NOW: Texas just got a whole lot louder. Jasmine Crockett is running for the United States Senate and Republicans should be terrified. She’s smart, fearless, relentless, and she doesn’t back down from anybody. This is the matchup Texas deserves. Let’s go.

I'm late to @johannawinant.bsky.social's wonderful essay. I love her practical, tactile guidance to students: "Point to a detail, one that’s really on the page and small enough to fit under your finger." Then you work out how that detail works with other details. Then you learn to make an argument.

Gorgeous reading of a gorgeous poem.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

I’m a proud third-generation alum of Indiana University. In my family, an IU education was the pathway to careers in teaching, business, law, and journalism. It breaks my heart to read this detailed analysis of the systematic weakening of the institution that has occurred over the past three years.

A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”

An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Perfect.

Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Here ya go

Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸

Quiet, Piggy.

I want a t-shirt and I want it NOW. "Quiet, piggy," with the biggest, piggiest caricature of Trump the world has ever seen. I'd put it on and go stand in front of the White House for the next three years.

I’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!

So, um, Willa Cather is in the Epstein files!?! @maddow.msnbc.com, if you'd like to talk about that, this queer Cather scholar is at your—and the nation's—service.

Such wonderful, important work by my dear colleague @jasonr75.bsky.social -- today.umd.edu/book-club-op...

Democracy dies in obfuscation.

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

Job alert! Come work with me and my wonderful staff in College Park Scholars, a group of 13 interdisciplinary living-learning programs for first- and second-year students at the University of Maryland. Posting is here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

JOB ALERT! Administrative Coordinator position with College Park Scholars at University of Maryland. Scholars is a community of living-learning programs for first- and second-year students. Be a part of the best darn staff on campus! (And work with me!) umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

This "No Kings" song from Jesse Welles is giving me Dylanesque vibes and flashbacks to earlier eras of protests for peace and civil rights and women's rights. Those led to big things. This is starting to feel big, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWD...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Sharing as a proud and outraged alum of IU journalism who wrote for the IDS when future Pulitzer Prize winner Tom French was editor. Keep publishing, IDS!

"I will not give in, I will not give up!": Attorney General Letitia James of New York rebukes President Trump at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. It was her first public appearance since she was indicted on federal charges of bank fraud and making a false statement.

So, apparently I’m not the only one who’s been googling “inflatable animal costumes” as Oct. 18 approaches. #NoKings #MoreFrogs #LFG

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Gift link: essential and sadly brave writing for dark times from Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Them: "WHERE IS KAMALA HARRIS? WHY ISN'T SHE SAYING ANYTHING?!?" Also them: "WHO IS THIS FOR? WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS BOOK WHEN NO ONE CARES WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY?!?" Us:

“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” - Ta-Nehisi Coates archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

WaPo brilliantly executing its plan to drive away its last four left-leaning subscribers and devote itself exclusively to being a wellness newsletter for aging white folks. Heckuva job, Bezos.

I love this guy. Thoughtful, timely reflections from the great @junsworth.bsky.social. Happy retirement, friend. Looking forward to what you’ll do next. ✊☮️🥂❤️

We failed in letting people who hate us take over words we use in good faith and agreeing they are an insult. Being a warrior for social justice is good. Being liberal in our awareness of others and their needs is good. Being woke to the threats bearing down is good. Don't agree? I don't care.

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."

Took an exploratory paddle around the Smithsonian Educational Research Center in Edgewater, MD on this lovely Saturday afternoon. No federal troops or ICE agents were there and the Oleaginous Pedophile hasn’t closed the place yet, so, yeah, it was a perfect day. Peace, y’all.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. So good.