Yes! I’ll get in touch by email with more.

You should teach there. Do Gaskell!

It was great. I said I can bring in a cake, and the Newberry said, no we know caterers. And it was done! Also, it was Middlemarch for nine sessions. Swoon.

Cake designed after an original serial installment of Middlemarch from the Newberry Library special collections.

Cake designed after an original serial installment of Middlemarch from the Newberry Library special collections.

Then there’s the Middlemarch cake the Newberry made for George Eliot’s 200th birthday in 2019! This was for an in-person adult ed class.

George Henry Lewes, in jacket and vest. With Pug. (1860s)

Happy Birthday George Henry Lewes!

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Less firin', more hirin',
Less Wall Street, more Main Street,
Less ICE thugs, more nice hugs,
Less droppin' bombs, more helpin' moms,
Less shootouts, more cookouts,
Less hypocrisy, more democracy.

- Gospel of George and Whatnot

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Hats off to historians. Y’all must be real tired.

Just shocked to hear this! What next? AI is bad for them too?? 🙄

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

💯

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives.

The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

a painting of a woman holding a crescent moon and a star Alt: An image of several human figures in and around the moon — including a woman seated on a crescent — from the restored (hand-colored) version of Georges Méliès’s 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon.”

Exciting live footage from the dark side of the moon!

There’s one sort of fellow sees nothing but the end of his own nose, and another sort that sees nothing but the hinder side of the moon.

Go Bruins.

Beat SC!

He's busy rereading Said's Culture and Imperialism

A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”

-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University

This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

A photo of UFW President Teresa Romero with a call out box to the right that says her quote: "This ruling confirms what we have said: Border Patrol cannot round people up just because they are brown, speak Spanish, and work hard. The court made clear that Border Patrol raid on day laborers in Sacramento, like their raid on farm workers near Bakersfield, was unconstitutional." --UFW President Teresa Romero

This ruling confirms what we've said: Border Patrol cannot round people up just because they are brown, speak Spanish & work hard. The court made clear the Border Patrol raid on day laborers in Sacramento, like their raid on farm workers near Bakersfield was unconstitutional. 1/

Who Goes AI? An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game.

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists.

www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕

Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

Your lips to god’s ear.

Bruuuuuuuuce💜

Go Bruins

no kings

My parents died and left me a mortgage, some guns and 34 decorative fish "My Parents Are Dead: What Now?" is a darkly funny guide to navigating grief and the paperwork that follows.

Very, very good resource.
www.salon.com/2026/03/24/m...

Just when I thought I couldn't love Zero Mostel more than I already do, I learn this:

"In the early 1940s, Mostel’s contract with MGM was terminated for a number of reasons, among them his protesting of the MGM film Tennessee Johnson (1942) for its downplaying of Andrew Johnson’s racism."