Election Live Updates: Virginia Passes New Map, Lifting Democrats’ Midterm Chances

It was necessary and we did it, Virginia. #Virginia #redistricting #Virginiaredistricting #voteblue

I understand the desire to remind folks that the VA gerrymandering is a necessary evil etc but maybe consider letting people just enjoy a win for a minute. Those have been a bit scarce lately and this is a long ducking marathon.

Don't know how to read vote data in real time but these people probably do

My new go-to pedagogical hack for teaching Saba Mahmood's "Politics of Piety" is to ask how we'd evaluate her argument if the whole book was written about Tradwives.

Definitely! I have a bunch of grad students from Comm in the class and they wanted to talk about how the digital media landscape reshapes our assessment of both groups. Also some discussion of whether Tradwives were "religious" in the way the Piety Movement was (and whether that mattered).

My new go-to pedagogical hack for teaching Saba Mahmood's "Politics of Piety" is to ask how we'd evaluate her argument if the whole book was written about Tradwives.

Warpaint - Disco//Very - Keep It Healthy (Official Video) YouTube video by Warpaint

Just going to say it, 2014 had no right to go this hard

Lincoln after losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to disease and watching this shit from 1864: "What the actual fuck"

Warpaint - Disco//Very - Keep It Healthy (Official Video) YouTube video by Warpaint

Just going to say it, 2014 had no right to go this hard

Thanks to a massive baby bust in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, exacerbated by Trump immigration crackdowns and the COVID-19 pandemic, US schools will see major declines in enrollment, with some states seeing *double-digit* declines.

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And no Rogan? She’ll never carry Pennsylvania.

OH COME ON

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATHER

Jim Lahey as Trump as Jesus

thank you to whoever made this meme for more Cancon in this discourse

Real Americans are sick of divisive issues like Marcan priority, Farrer theory, and the nonstop stream of Waluigi into our lives.

This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.

Pure hackery.

1976

Interior of the Arch Street Meeting House.

Went on a tour of Philadelphia religious sites today with some students, including a stop at the Arch Street Meeting House.

Quaker architecture is fascinating! Rows of pews where the *only* focal point in the room is more pews.

On the note of writing advice, here's one I got in graduate school that straddles the line between mean and actually good.

I once turned in a story with no quotation marks around the dialogue. The professor asked why, and I didn't have an answer. He told me: "Find more interesting ways to rebel."

Never gets old.

We need an arsenal of ferocious academic revenge ideas like this for at least the next 3 presidential cycles

The primary reason to keep your physical CDs is because they have tickets stubs tucked in the cases that remind you of when you saw your favorite bands 24 years ago

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Worth a visit to the Met:

incredible exchange here, this website has the juice

how is this literally happening in real life

We need an arsenal of ferocious academic revenge ideas like this for at least the next 3 presidential cycles

Interior of the Arch Street Meeting House.

Went on a tour of Philadelphia religious sites today with some students, including a stop at the Arch Street Meeting House.

Quaker architecture is fascinating! Rows of pews where the *only* focal point in the room is more pews.

Totally. It was inevitable once the cheatbots showed up.