Alex Bove's Avatar

Alex Bove

@abovepdx

If fingers were xylophones then I could play a tune on your fingers. (Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).

170
Followers
312
Following
9
Posts
20.01.2025
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Alex Bove @abovepdx

Preview
Universities Need a New Defense The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next.
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

11.01.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 807 πŸ” 299 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 14
Post image

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.

This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.

A thread on how to do that 🧡

11.01.2026 07:53 πŸ‘ 5662 πŸ” 4243 πŸ’¬ 321 πŸ“Œ 467
Preview
Trump’s Oval Office bling exposed as knockoff Β£43 plastic sprayed gold Donald Trump’s claim of a β€œ24 karat” Oval Office has been mocked after sleuths revealed his gold dΓ©cor is nothing more than Β£43 plastic moulds sprayed gold - bought from America’s answer to B&Q

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...

08.09.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
James Cameron calls Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer a β€˜moral cop-out’ The Titanic director, who is planning an adaptation of nonfiction book Ghosts of Hiroshima, says Nolan’s film β€˜dodged the subject’ of the atomic bomb’s devastating impact on that city

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

02.07.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Resolution Declares June β€˜Family Month’ Instead Of β€˜Pride Month’ WASHINGTONβ€”Republican Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller will introduce a resolution on Tuesday declaring June as “Family Month,” a bid to reclaim the first month of summer from LGBTQ ideo...

Wow. So utterly shameless.

www.dailywire.com/news/exclusi...

04.06.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

30.05.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 39810 πŸ” 13844 πŸ’¬ 1266 πŸ“Œ 820

πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

26.04.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

bsky.app/profile/ecou...

19.04.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I πŸ’™ clear thinkers!

05.04.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.

Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.

#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

29.03.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 556 πŸ” 266 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 17

πŸ‘‡

28.03.2025 05:47 πŸ‘ 451 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
Preview
Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it killed Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, claiming they were terrorists Press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza on Monday, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by the Israeli armed forces. Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed by an airstrike on his car in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. Continue reading...

Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes

25.03.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9
Post image

Another successful LACK conference. Presenting my paper on Lacan and ecocritism here. What a pleasure to be part of this panel and the conference as a whole!

24.03.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

β€œI shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten o Clockβ€”you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.”

β€” John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818

16.03.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk is performing a coup on the U.S. Government. In the midst of (and smokescreened by) the current "pillaging of Rome" enacted by the rest of the MAGA movement, following their first attempted coup on January 6th.

31.01.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
USDA inspector general escorted out of office after defying Trump order Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday

1/ Meet Phyllis Fong. She's my new sheroβ€”a real badass.

Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.

30.01.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7
Preview
BANKSY | Break down the walls | Facebook Break down the walls ! All we need is Love ! ❀️ #SaveSoil πŸŒ±πŸŒΏπŸŒ³πŸ™

m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

27.01.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship.

www.salon.com/2025/01/23/e...

24.01.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This

23.01.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
From the TikTokCringe community on Reddit: β€œYou forgot to pardon yourself” πŸ‘€ Posted by helloworld_141 - 1,551 votes and 908 comments

www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCrin...

Chilling

23.01.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Action without Hope A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿

08.11.2024 18:41 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 13

I'm with her

21.01.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Manchester University Press - Spectral Dickens Spectral Dickens - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Spectral Dickens by Alexander Bove

Check out my book if you are interested in Victorian lit

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/

20.01.2025 02:04 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1