hello people who live in the greater Chicago area! I'll be in conversation with Nashwa Bawab on the media's complicity in the Gaza genocide next Friday April 24 at 6:30pm. It's at Haymarket House. Register, come by, join us if you can. Thank you!
@nancybentley.bsky.social yes to dog videos! Also helpful—
the flying squirrel video sub genre (mcteague-coded)
How, then, have we arrived at a thermonuclear monarchy whose ludicrous nature only becomes visible to us if a president—out of a lucky convergence of candor and bad taste—makes the lineaments of the ludicrous monarchy (let us call it a “ludocracy”) visible? No one faults Richard Nixon for contemplating using nuclear weapons on four occasions, only for comparing himself to Louis XIV, for dressing White House police in the lavish insignia of royal subjugation, for spying on the rivals to his throne, and for lying to Congress. As moral errors, we will someday see, these acts are incomparable with the error of accepting a post that involves firing nuclear weapons, an assignment not only Nixon but each of our post-atom bomb presidents has accepted: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama. Louis XIV was powerless compared to each of these men. That insight is Nixon’s gift to us; it is precious; let us not (once we recover from our laughter) set it aside cavalierly.
"That insight is Nixon’s gift to us; it is precious; let us not (once we recover from our laughter) set it aside cavalierly."—Elaine Scarry in 2014
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340...
How do the dogless cope?
ALSO I am learning that the US President is making threats that suggest WCK may have a whole lot more work to do really soon, so let's raise money for them - buy a used cookbook!
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barak ravid^^
Axios not the greatest source on the planet earth though …
UIC English is hiring 3 NTT faculty, part of our United Faculty Union. professional writing, english language learning, literature/culture generalism. hmu w questions!
uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Happiness isn't one of the options! Go work on your book or something
Omg
A new review of Jan Baedke’s #OpenAccess Cambridge Element The Organism (@universitypress.cambridge.org), by Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social), has been published in @thebjps.bsky.social Review of Books! Check it out! 👇📕 www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #HPBio #philsky #HPS #evosky #booksky
“My land is the freedom I will never compromise.”
On the 50th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day, we remember that land is identity, history, and resistance.
Read more & take action: www.mecaforpeace.org/my-land-is-t...
#LandDay #Palestine
Job alert!
Assistant (advanced) or Associate Professor
Dept of English
Howard University in Washington, DC
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I have followed @attackerman.bsky.social's hard-hitting War on Terror journalism for almost 2 decades. But the tenderness of this piece of reporting on Gaza's hospitals is both beautiful and heart-breaking.
Mayor Mamdani prays alongside people in custody and staff at Rikers Island.
People in custody pray together.
Rikers Island staff prepare a dining table for iftar.
Mayor Mamdani shakes hands with a person in custody across a dining table where other people in custody eat together.
Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.
In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity.
Eid Mubarak, New York.
Me too
ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes
ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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It’s just all made up. Made up illegal war
Ach! Is this a tsa dhs fiasco plus weather? Weather alone? Wishing you luck getting on flight then deep sleep the whole way to Ohio
boom
Oh of course and
oh no oh no .
I suspect you’re not alone
Keep us posted!
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Oh no to the uk??
There is already documented evidence of Israel using white phosphorus over Lebanese homes
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Twitter is wall to wall video of residential Tehran burning. What gives over here
