Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.
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Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Really makes you realize why they think AI is “genius.” It must look like magic to the illiterate.
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Merci à @lepoint.fr pour cet article.
Ces travaux sur la relativité intriquée sont le fruit de plus de dix années de recherche et de réflexion. C’est un plaisir de voir aujourd’hui cette aventure scientifique racontée au grand public.
We don’t need talkers right now. We need fighters.
And no matter how many times they knock me down, I’ll get back up and fight with you. Every. Single. Time.
the defining characteristic of art — what distinguishes it from other forms of cultural production — is its potential to elicit controversy in the absence of a determinate concept of taste…ie every work fits this description
Y’a pas photo quand même
your we-just-did-it-cause we-had-bills-to-pay defense waving bye
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
The Defenders of Women, lads
Ten-day countdown to paperback #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, @ucpress.bsky.social! Here's a thread of book excerpts. Get 30% off by ordering from the press w/code discount code UCPSAVE30.
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Vous vous souvenez de tous ces “intellectuels” de centre-droit, de centre-gauche et de droite qui s’étaient coalisés pour alerter sur les risques de censure par les “wokistes” ? Si vous en croisez un, mettez lui une gifle de la part des sociologues de Floride 😡
Sam Raimi’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign
Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke
Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!
A lot of you are saying pretty negative stuff about Markwayne but I respect the man for writing Tom Sawyer
Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/
This is the kind of “leader” that historically views “glory and honor” as the amount of casualties racked up.
Absolutely unfit to lead a drunken conga line, let alone this nation.
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign
I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.
[Exit Murderer.]
❓📝Tuto : votre parti est-il en train de devenir fondamentaliste?
Ce thread collaboratif et participatif à destination de la VraieGauche™ (qu'on aimerait bien voir gagner plutôt que perdre une 4e fois) vous est offert gratuitement par @cleoschweyer.bsky.social et @jostavodebauge.bsky.social
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
I’ve only just seen it (algolessness + badly curated feed = sometimes missing out on great things such as this), but I’m gonna try(hard) sending something!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
