Was expecting to write a "I put off responding to an email for 3 months; it ended up taking 3 minutes and was absolutely fine" post, but PLOT TWIST the email in question manages to connect to my worst professional trauma. Awesome stuff.
For instance, Routledge recently asked me to review a book proposal—and I did—but no way would I have if I knew about this and I won’t be from now on unless this agreement is cancelled.
Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...
This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge
“Senator Ted Cruz sounded disturbingly similar to the white nationalist mass murderer who carried out a targeted attack in his home state just five years ago. In one ugly speech, Senator Cruz depicted migrants as literal ‘invaders,’” @vcardenas.bsky.social said ⬇️
popular gun youtuber who dresses up in waffen ss uniforms totally nonpolitically
These dudes created a whole new US flag based on the idea that they do the opposite of this.
Amazon search results for fascism, showing a shirt with the caption "I ❤️ Fascism"
Went to Amazon looking for a specific book on fascism, and here's what showed up as a *sponsored* item at the very top of my search results.
It's possible to get rich people to support the humanities in public higher education: newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...
Always curious about theological setups where god allows the holocaust and the Rwandan genocide but steps in to save a convicted felon who wants to lower taxes and deport “the right people”
Snip from Washington Post article: "After Lincoln, nine of the 11 next presidents sported some sort of beard or ’stache — a streak that ended with William Howard Taft, who was in office from 1909 to 1913."
Legacy of Lincoln betrayed by William Howard Taft, facial hair edition 🗃️
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In recent years, historians and others have increasingly been documenting the Green Book's influence. Architectural historians, Anne E. Bruder, Susan Hellman, Catherine W. Zipf have embarked on an effort to create a national database highlighting the architecture to which Black motorists travelled:
this is why people who aren't republican ops shouldn't be going on news shows and saying the same shit since it's just laying the groundwork for coup 2: electric boogaloo
John Ganz on JD Vance: "But Trump’s GOP was never about a coherent policy regime or even ideology; it’s a structure of feeling & Vance embodies that: Anger, wounded pride, resentment, contempt, & ultimately, hatred & despair...he is the New Republican Man."
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Pépito @PepitoTheCat Follow Pépito is back home (07:55:57)
RYAN: Pépito they shot Trump
lmfao
Oh yeah nothing to see here. 🙄
Since all policing is inherently political, the impunity the cops have mostly had in killing Black people is indeed political violence.
People pushed back when I argued last week that the NYT wants Trump to win.... saideman.blogspot.com/2024/07/all-...
Superbland Glen Powell + a remake that didn't need to happen + willful ignorance to protect delicate red-state sensibilities from fucking facts? Ooh, sign me out
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Finished a book review 2 years after it was commissioned. It was not a long book, but it was written by a friend, so required particular care. The perils of a small field.
According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.
The cops here really want to connect five of them shooting a homeless man with the security demands of the RNC, which was, uh, not that close by and across a highway
Call your reps today to tell them you support this and expect them to vocally support these efforts as well as AOC’s articles of impeachment for the compromised justices. It only takes 5 minutes, and you often don’t even have to speak to a real human!
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dark brandon sighting
Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left.
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Screenshot from a video of Musk interview titled "Elon Musk: I'll Put a Man on Mars in 10 years". Video dated "10 years ago".
This will never be not funny to me
Gun ownership is one thing, but I need someone to explain to me why all these guys have "more than a dozen" AR 15s. Much of my family in Germany are professional game wardens and hunters for the state (control deer and boar population) and have like 1 gun and one bow.
Check out @andydenninghist.bsky.social new book, Automotive Empire, now!! 🗃️🗃️ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
