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Holy SHIT that opening story
Sign.Me.Up!
Uh goodbye ll bean
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Correct assessment!
“Phantom public sphere” for academic writers. How can we make it real? Can we make it real?
Honestly best answer to a sports reporter question ever
LOL
Settler colonialism, book version
Someone sent me this.
What a lovely, loving story this is. Like if Orlando were set at the Jersey Shore. "Lanternfly," by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social, at @yalereview.bsky.social. From her new story collection, "Fat Swim." yalereview.org/article/emma...
So weird to have a Pope crush
Yikes 😳
Yup
This is out of control
[walks to the fridge immediately]
Queen, monster, icon: Marie Antoinette at the V&A - my review of the museum's latest blockbuster show., in my free newsletter.
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#earlymodern #monsters #politics #18thC #prints 🗃
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👏🏼!!
Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed.
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This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.
Reminds me of a statement by Min Jin Lee in a podcast when she says “growth is sexy,” it’s hot, and she wants no part of the smug bastards who refuse it and think they don’t need it. You can’t grow without struggle.
This so accurately describes every facet of our current moment, education included
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.
And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.
It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.
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All the buzz about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering H, & Elordi's Heathcliff makes me wonder why nobody has as yet mentioned "Dude Watching with the Brontes" (by the brilliant @katebeaton.bsky.social, who has long since anticipated all we mere mortals have to say):
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
I remember reading about these labor conditions in Orwell’s Roses, a truly excellent book. Yes: buy your beloved a book for tomorrow and maybe pick them some flowers.
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
Bernie forever
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
