Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Ok, so like, everyone does realize that his brain confused “seeking asylum” for “insane asylum” and he just stuck with it, right?

If this were discovered in a leaked email and published in the New York Times, it might get more attention. But Trump just tweets it out, and most people move on with their day. This is blatant corruption. Blatant weaponization. It is undeniably an impeachable offense.

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

Hosting a JASNA event here at my rare book lib in celebration of 250 years of Jane Austen, and I’ve just pulled a cart of our JA 1st eds, our beautiful P&P peacock edition, a printing of her Grandison juvenilia, & works by authors in her literary world (Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft)

So Democrats just voted to honor the life of a man who has made sure college professors get death threats and fear for their life for the last ten years? My God. Katherine Clark has some explaining to do.

I spent some of the summer helping to wrap old books in blue paper. Come and see them tomorrow at London Open House (history.rcp.ac.uk/event/open-h...), or at our Museum Late on 2 Oct (history.rcp.ac.uk/event/rcp-mu...), or take a peek at the installation video (history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...). 📚

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp. What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

Starting to understand at a visceral level why people under other authoritarian regimes now and in the past have resorted to encoded forms of communication like humor, satire, music, and poetry to criticize those in power.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Happy Monday— I’ve been at my new job long enough that people think I know how to do things, but I still don’t know how to do things

This is such an important book. Available now for pre-order at 30% off with the code E26JCMGZ www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.

"A fascist president is assembling a national army of right-wing thugs & invading US cities to terrorize their citizens & intimidate their leaders." I mean ... does that sound real? Even if you know, intellectually, that it is, have you really *absorbed* it?

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

One of the *many* disgusting things from the A&M video is how none of the other students in the class defend the professor or challenge the fascist girl. All of the students in that class are complicit in this blatant fascism & transphobia.

Sour Orange, Terrestrial Mollusk, and Larkspur, 1561–1562; illumination added 1591–1596. Illuminator: Joris Hoefnagel, scribe: Georg Bocskay. Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment (J. Paul Getty Museum)

the Venn diagram of German baroque poets and My Chemical Romance is actually just one big circle

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Monday morning (my last university still has me listed as an instructor for a course I’m not teaching and students keep emailing me 💀) from Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)

No other POTUS in history would make such flippant posts and statements about attacking an American city. The fact that this stuff is commonplace in the current administration and tolerated by so many is testimony to the moral rot we are suffering as a nation.

I miss the joy that came with thinking he was going to die in a few days

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

admin's entire economic team is Famine given these grocery prices, Trump obviously Death

Had to do a health survey where it tells you your “real age” as part of my new university health insurance. After it told me my health survey results indicate I’m a year older than my calendar age it told me I’ve won something. Could it be depression?

💯 one of the worst parts of planning a conference is having to send rejections, especially after getting so excited with all of the submissions. But there are always physical, financial, and temporal limits

When you comply with executive orders that have no legal foundation, you’re the one making him a king!

imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 12 months ago, etc.

But he’s the “President of Peace,” right?

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are free

Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.

Doing some prep for a JASNA event we’re hosting here at Emory later this month in honor of 250 years of Jane Austen. We have 1st editions of all of her novels! Our copy of Pride and Prejudice was once owned by an aristocrat named Charlotte Ashburnham (née Percy), who was an artist and printmaker!

Imagine they retrieve your car and just hand it back to you without the entire back half

Congrats, Prof. Sargan! @jdsargan.bsky.social

I think it’s much more likely the 2pm “announcement” today is just a kind of proof-of-life event, and he’ll ramble about things like tariffs and Chicago