Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

This is the Republican Party now.

Men are weird

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

Adam Johnson: I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

We’ve got to keep the Epstein victims and survivors centered while we pursue transparency and accountability.

Their stories must be told.

Some dream director/book adaptations:

Guillermo del Toro's Shadowbeast

Peter Jackson's Warcraft

Robert Eggere's Witch of Blackbird Pond

A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.

As I recall, I ended up tracing the quotation to a reference to an obscure Chinese-language journal about, I think, agriculture, in Taiwan from decades ago. Which almost no one, of course, can easily consult. I decided not to use the quotation.

Taiwan: The facts of history versus Beijing’s myths – Council on Geostrategy Gerrit van der Wees demystifies Taiwan’s complex history and debunks Beijing’s incessant propaganda points and myths

source: Jonathan Manthorpe, Forbidden Nation: A history of Taiwan (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), p. 111. He was not able to give me the original source, however.

I did find this, but it only quotes Manthorpe too.
www.geostrategy.org.uk/research/tai...

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Has Taiwan Always Been Part of China? The historical relationship is more complicated than Beijing would like to admit.

I've got a quotations list and this same thing been frustrating. Academics quoting other academics. I am currently trying to trace the source of this one:

Taiwan is outside our empire and of no great consequence.
—Kangxi emperor in 1683
which I saw here:
thediplomat.com/2020/12/has-...
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Major airline bans ‘barebeaters’ across all 24 daily flights from UK airports One airline carrier is turning up the heat on barebeaters

Well this is good news. There has been a big increase in people listening to their phone video or audio without headphones. It's SO annoying. Glad to see I'm not alone in being annoyed! Most people are—7 out of 10.
metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/m...

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

Well, after that who will have the nerve to answer!

A carpenter and a union steamfitter

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.

But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

This seems bad

Feeling grateful today that we don’t get carried off by giant birds anymore

Quote of the day for these times | Substack Quote of the day for these times. Click to read Quote of the day for these times, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Since 2025 I've been sending out a brief quotation from the past every day, relevant to current affairs, using Substack.

It's free, and will stay so unless it gets to be too much work, which looks unlikely. No need to subscribe, either!

Here you go:

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The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

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Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Just discovered it was our guy’s 100th birthday yesterday, so he probably sent us those balloons from hell

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

War Happens in Dark Places, Too In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.

Seven years ago, we published our first piece, a gorgeous essay by @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social. Since then, we've published nearly 400 pieces and paid every single contributor for their work. Thanks to everyone who's donated to, read, and taught with our magazine over the years!

HAPPY NEW @thisguysucked.com DAY! This week it’s Pericles, the guy who proves that politicians have always been this awful. Featuring Prof. Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social, who knows a lot about Ancient Greece, and me, who basically does not know anything about Ancient Greece.

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Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.