Here's everything this bill targets.

The stress is real when you weren't in the top tier of grad applicants chosen for funding! (Final decisions haven't been made yet, so hope is not entirely lost yet)

I'm not complaining about the ease of talking to someone far away in real time, but we didn't get rid of the means to write each other - we can actually do both! It feels strange that we don't, as if we sacrificed a part of romance to the new gods of distraction and urgency. 4/4

As someone who predates widely accessible mobile phones and personal computers for Internet connection, I remember the days of pen, paper, and postage stamps. When that envelope bore your name and you thrilled to open it and consume every word. When seas and miles couldn't stop love. 3/

With so many options for communication available today, from short text messages to phone or video calls to the occasional email, how often do any of us sit down with the intention of clearly describing our feelings for another person? We favor the near immediate over the time consuming. 2/

I was grading midterms this morning, blue booked essay questions, and I had the weirdest non sequitur in recent memory. While cringing at some students' lack of intentional writing as I read the meandering mess I started to think about the lost art of the love letter. 1/

I'm currently finishing my MA with my PhD program lined up for fall, so I'm not teaching yet. That being said, I definitely want to teach a History of Gender & Sexuality in America since I'm pursuing LGBTQ+ US History.

I had fully expected to have to wait to hear back from PhD History programs that I applied to. This morning I was informed that I have been accepted to the program I really wanted at SUNY Binghamton! One less thing to stress over in my final MA semester.

February is going to be tense. Not only do I have course requirements and TA requirements and end of program requirements to fulfill - I also have to sit in the silence of not yet knowing if I'm accepted to any of the PhD programs I applied for.

Running amok at the AHA conference, celebrating my birthday, and meeting both up-and-coming scholars and big names in my field! Tired, but I can sleep through tomorrow!

I had a wonderful Zoom meeting yesterday with a potential PhD advisor. My current advisor was the person who recommended this one, and I really hope that I get to work with this person!

What is “woke history” according to MAGA? Finding a pattern and how to fight back, live The current administration has continued its attacks on education, something I covered here: https://youtu.be/B6g8z1Z7Lt4 . Now that we have a more compreh...

Join me tomorrow at 3pm PST for one helluva livestream, where I will be covering the what history MAGA demands to be censored and label "woke," as well as the ways historians are fighting back. Gonna be interesting: youtube.com/live/mZQgZww...

I'm currently in the weeds of the end of term. Grading papers, writing papers, and just trying to not explode! I also had to submit PhD program applications to Yale, Princeton, University of Minnesota, Binghamton, and UW Madison. Thank goodness the next deadline isn't until the 15th!

I don't know what's worse- applying to ten different PhD programs or doing so while also finishing the semester and grading papers as a TA.

Eek!

I've meant to be a lot more active on here, but between research, applying for PhD programs, personal issues, and the expected rigors of grad school I just haven't had the spoons. I think that I have a finished list of 8 schools to apply to now. We'll see!

Wait, was that out of left field or o'er the larboard bow?

Trans People Have Disappeared From ICE Records, Against Congressional Orders The Trump administration has made efforts to "erase" transgender people, who face violence and medical neglect behind bars.

It’s really important that people understand this isn’t just a matter of markers. There is no record. Without recognition, not only is there no healthcare, gender-concordant housing, or basic protections against discrimination, for many people they will simply cease to officially exist.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.

Republicans vote to kill

I'm very invested in trying to move there after this upcoming academic year, and I'm biting my nails over the mayoral race.

Screenshot of a tweet by J.K. Rowling replying to Mark Adam Harold. Mark's tweet asks, "How are you planning to police public toilets?" J.K. Rowling responds: "Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake." The tweet was posted at 10:51 PM on June 21, 2025, and has 216.9K views, 298 comments, 1.2K retweets, 10K likes, and 152 bookmarks.

JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.

This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.

Federal appellate court rejects Louisiana's Ten Commandments display law — Louisiana Illuminator NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court blocked a Louisiana law Friday that requires public K-12 schools, colleges and universities to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

A conservative federal appeals court banned the Louisiana law which call ms for displaying the Ten Commandments in all classrooms since it violates the 1st Amendment which bars the government from endorsing any religion.
Oklahoma you’re next.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
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Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst.

www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

I adore this! Thank you for sharing!

Watch it!

Reminder that there's an organization called Black Owned Maine which has an entire directory of black owned businesses in Maine you can support today (and really every day, doesn’t have to just be on Juneteenth).

www.blackownedmaine.com

That's incredible dexterity, and I adored the beautiful pleased grin at the end. 😍