I am back in the USA and I am a very middle aged man dressed like a little boy (baseball hat, striped tee, shorts) and still they let me back in

now i'm remembering the socialist Carlist party in Spain

It's here!

Free idea?? The University Review of Books—a new online OA member supported book review focused on scholarly nonfiction books, any discipline or period, that’s not rooted in a particular place or uni but understands “the uni” as the knowledge we—people!—produce together.

Just read @colindickey.com 's piece for commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/memento-mori-0 and reminded of my saying to my ma students that Covid19 had come and gone, like the 1340s plague, with scarcely a cultural ripple. And then a succession of books upset my theses:

Fun piece of trivia to share if you want to dare people to call you a liar: Maya Angelou played Elizabeth Keckley, opposite Geraldine Page's Mary Todd Lincoln, in Look Away, which closed on Broadway after a single performance and still netted Dr. A. a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress.

Oh yeah !

thought this was a Krautrock post for a split second

In south tyrol in Italy, technically, Morocco just scored on Canada, announcements in German, the Arab kids going nuts

i don't think the average american would believe me if i told them there's a state in india that's like 80% christian and specifically baptist

Happy 4th of July, for my first piece for @commonwealmagazine.org, I looked into whether or not the pandemic contributed to the nation’s rightwing lurch. Does Terror Management Theory, the idea that a repressed fear of death can have political consequences, help explain our current moment?

Bittersweet to be at desk 1066 in BL manuscripts today

En route to Pavia, where I can finally realize a lifelong dream (wandering under a roof)

I would like to remind everyone that automatic excommunication is triggered immediately after the action that causes schism is complete

Since I am unmoored from any single university (and since academia./edu went full dystopia), I’ve put together a site where all my academic ‘stuff’ can live for the foreseeable future. Books, articles, blog posts, some slideshows and lectures - all in one place and freely accessible. nickposegay.com

marking medieval Mongolia safe in the Gay Time Traveller's Guide.

"traditionalist" Catholics my ass. They're schismatics and should be treated as such.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

Look I have jetlag still and last night this came into my sleeplesss head at like midnight and I knew if I moved to write it down I'd never get to sleep, so I'm glad (???) it was still there in the morning

Seeing your Ezra Kleins reconcile themselves to fascism is grim, but the sight of people who want to be seen as socialists talk about "infrastructure for absorbing immigrants" is fucking beyond

Is your boyfriend a roomba? Because he sucks at everything

Having read A Separation and Intimacies and now having just finished Audition, I think Katie Kitamura's latest novel is very unsettling, also a bit like Ozon's Water Drops on Burning Rocks, and also too prone ultimately to literalizing the metaphor. I can see why it hit though.

Weighed in on the Great Dad Band Debate of 2026.

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Enyum / Enya Enyi / enyorum Enyo / &c

They’re Republican-led states, they’ll have no shortage of volunteers

Not that CUNY would have fired me for saying somethin and not that I'd want to take CUNY like this but man I'm sorta feeling like I missed my chance for a payout

very exciting news. my new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup is coming soon! she’s a tête-bêche or perhaps a tête-BÊTCH I should say. my first new poems in like ten years. preorder from your favorite indie or go here!

Back in 2020, I read the British Library's only copy of Gertrude Trevelyan's A War Without a Hero (1935) in my quest to discover her complete oeuvre. Peter Quennell said it would have been better at half the length. I think he was being too nice. It's a turgid mess. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Absolutely befuddled on plane bc I decided to watch Hairspray (1988), which I have not yet seen, and instead watched Hairspray (2007), which I have never had any intention of seeing, and thought, for the first hour, gee this just doesn't feel like a John Waters but I guess this the mainstream one?

Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

Guys I'm in Milan and here's what I've learned from on the ground reporting: it's so freaking hot

my husband just glitched out and said ‘the 2000 year old man by mel gibson’ which is the a) funniest and b) most antisemitic thing i’ve ever imagined

Did you know that we have a nearly unbroken span of legal records from the 13C in England that have not been calendared, much less edited & published? Only in the last 20 years have these records been digitized & that has been the dogged project of a dude at a university in Texas. 4/n

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because everyone seems to be falling for this hit piece. Charrington is not DSA-endorsed!

Welcome to Berlin

I made one post about air conditioning days ago and people finally stopped arguing in my replies THIS MORNING

Illuminating read -- halfway through, and the impact here seems to be in cost of servicing mortgages. Why mortgages so high? In part bc investors thought rent would keep going up. Oops!

unironically I wish more people on here would do this we’re gonna have disagreements, sometimes they’re heated, but we are - generally speaking - on the same side and I wish we didn’t spend quite so much energy ripping into each other

my hyperlocal q: Darializa Avila Chevalier got her MPhil, so I presume she's filed a prospectus. But where's she at in her degree progress? Did she get a CONGRATS from her advisor and not open the email bc she's overdue on a draft? And why hasn't the CUNY Grad Center social bragged abt the win!

Thought for a second that the carton in the fridge said 'sourced from ethnically ambiguous cows'

so addendum here: it seems that this can be in no small part attributed to WFP going all in on NY-7 and leaving Niou (and Chuck Park) out to dry, all to lose by 25 l

Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella were excluded from the Panthéon ceremony at the request of Marc Bloch’s family, who cited his “deeply anti-nationalist” views.

I met James and Barry a handful of times, most recently maybe 6 or so years ago before a show at the Public on Lafayette, and we had the occasional friendly chat on line. Sorry he's gone | a wonderful life hyperallergic.com/james-wagner...

So...why didn't Yuh-Line Niou get anywhere near a victory, oof

among other things, Mamdani just demonstrated he has the power to knock over any D city council district that he looks at side eyed (important since his allies don't yet control a majority of the council)

One time in Brooklyn I was running before dawn and I accidentally startled a guy who was trying to break into a car and he walked away and I was like whoa this is exactly what it feels like to be Batman