I'm teaching our Intro to Film course this fall and have decided to have the students subscribe to @criterionchannl.bsky.social for the term. I'm thinking we watch 10 films currently on the channel and students work in groups on a cluster of 3 films defined by director, genre, or region. Thoughts?

My current scholarship in a nutshell.

Once a Pussy Posse always a Pussy Posse.

My current scholarship in a nutshell.

Kind of hazy at the Pirates/Nationals game.

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!

Indiana Jones 💖

No, Laura. It’s not “Antifa.” It was Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization. They covered their faces because they’re cowards who don’t want to be identified. We’ve been saying for over a year that ICE officers shouldn’t be allowed to wear masks either. They are cowards also.

James Murray is asked about US surveillance company Palantir working in the NHS. Palantir should have no role in the NHS (or any other UK public service). We need to kick them out.

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Good run! (Transitioning from Horror cinema seminar to Fall I try to Film Studies)

After far too long a hesitation, I watched 'Jeanne Dielman' and found it kind of . . . thrilling? It brought back memories of being a young child and observing my mother, similarly fastidious (and auburn-haired), as she carried out her day-to-day tasks with care and frustration.

I AGREE!!!

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

You would actually get a killer "pre-history of story games" education playing this mix (in roughly chronological order) Bunnies & Burrows Traveller RuneQuest Toon Pendragon Rocky & Bullwinkle SPG Ars Magica Amber HOL Whispering Vault Over the Edge Violence Zero Puppetland Unknown Armies

Julia Ducournau rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but the dismissal by so many critics of 'Alpha' as a misguided, untimely, overwrought AIDS allegory baffles me. I find it deeply moving, a horror movie about the monstrosity of love. A perfect conclusion to my grad seminar on horror cinema.

I had the great fun of co-writing a chapter for E.B. Hunter and Scott Magelssen's 'Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance' (link the in the alt text). We just got a glowing review in 'Theatre Journal.' No lie, I blushed when I read this:

In Goebel Park in Covington, KY, they removed all of the picnic tables from under the shelters a few years back due to concerns that homeless people were setting up shop there too often. Now we have nowhere shaded to sit or eat in the park. Either *everyone* benefits, or we all lose.

go go go cultural work is work

Let me be clear, man, Teri Garr is the fuck. And I would add Gene Wilder and Michael Keaton.

Either sell me physical games or put protections into law regarding digital library ownership. Ideally both.

For the sake of argument and to practice our analytic skills, the students in my graduate seminar, "Approaching Horror" took the position that Bong Joon Ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003) is a work of Folk Horror. The conclusion: It is, in fact, one of the best films in that hallowed tradition.

I had the great fun of co-writing a chapter for E.B. Hunter and Scott Magelssen's 'Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance' (link the in the alt text). We just got a glowing review in 'Theatre Journal.' No lie, I blushed when I read this:

If Dems made this their party line a lot more people would be excited about voting for them.

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

same guy

Five to four. Let that sink in.

Feeling this, but I’ve just scored my first big grant and a vision of the next decade that doesn’t feel like burn-out or fade-away, but something else. And I’m bringing a bunch of other folks along for the ride!

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SCOTUS refused to hear E. Jean Carroll. So it’s official: he is a predator.

Sports gambling is a cancer. The NBA should be ashamed of how it has embraced and promoted it.

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

what if we started a new for real public good public university, we could even have underwater basketweaving classes www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/r...

FIFA: Do NOT Let Donald Trump Touch the World Cup Trophy The man doesn’t care about soccer, isn’t loved by the fans, and can’t be trusted not to steal the moment (nor the trophy). Let Mexico or Canada’s leader do the honors — Trump can stay in DC and golf SUBSTACK 👇

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

A perfect coconut macaroon from Pittsburgh’s Enrico Biscotti Co.

“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

An old Cincinnati friend is visiting. Note both Skyline and Gold Star.

During last night's D&D session, I designed a simple "chain boot" mechanic in response to a particularly nauseating event. The character who witnessed the event had to roll under their CON. They failed and the number they rolled was the ST for everyone else who witnessed that character failing. 💯

Congratulations to Katie Phang on winning the preliminary injunction motion to further the release of the Epstein files. Love her!

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

Trump’s Pentagon wants $80 billion to cover the cost of his illegal war on Iran. That money could… -Extend ACA subsidies for 2.5 years -Cover SNAP benefits for 35 million people -Cover Medicaid for 23 million children It’s not about what we can afford. It’s about our priorities.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Anyone not running on reforming the Supreme Court cant be the leader of anything moving forward. It's an unhinged gang of extremists unrestrained by anything or anyone.

The Democratic Party: YOU BETTER GET IN LINE WITH THE STATUS QUO! The Status Quo: Masked secret police shooting and disappearing people without warrants or due process and people getting 30-year sentences for making booklets about what an asshole the President is.

Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.

BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet. 💪 I support this 💯

Yes, 'Eve's Bayou' is a monumental achievement, but let's not sleep on Kasi Lemmons' all-time horror sidekick performances:

Elon Musk posted that “not a single dead child” has died from DOGE’s USAID cuts. Let’s talk about that.