Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan

Where are the Black Eyed Peas when you need them most?

Announcement for the Stand Up For Science National Day of Action rally in Nashville's Centennial Park on Saturday, March 7, from 10-12.

#Nashville peeps, come join the Stand Up For Science National Day of Action at Centennial Park Saturday morning, Mar. 7. I'll be speaking about defending good science from politicized attacks.

Also, Hammett. An Echo McGuire would have fit perfectly into the Maltese Falcon.

Senator Markey 🎯

The people of Omelas sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men in a basement torture a child on their behalf.

The first chapter of C. Riley Snorton's "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity" (2017) discusses James Marion Sims's surgical experimentation upon enslaved women and the ways in which gynecology arose from a medical juxtaposition of sex and gender with racial enslavement

Dems disavow Tennessee Senate nominee <p>Democrats urge voters not to vote for their nominee against GOP Sen. Bob Corker.</p>

Memories...

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In 1998, I gave a talk at the AAAS called "A memento mori for tenure" predicting similar unrest when non-tenure-track faculty became a majority in the US, but history has proved me wrong so far.

However, I retain hope that eventually, academic workers will rise up in solidarity and demand power.

Those whose seniority predated the agreement would keep their high pay and benefits, but everyone hired after would have lower pay and stingier benefits.

This worked until the younger union members became a majority, and then all hell broke loose.

There's a good lesson here from the airline industry. At some point in the 1970s, following Jimmy Carter's deregulation of the industry and the rise of Southwest and other bargain airlines, airlines convinced pilots', mechanics', etc. unions to a cost-cutting measure that would create two tiers:

I hear you. It gets so frustrating how aggressively the MAGA government is erasing the science.

NIH/NIHGR had a brilliant two-day webinar in July 2024, Exploring the Many Dimensions of Sex and Gender in the Genomics Era, and posted videos of all the talks, but Trump's NIH deleted everything.

My answer: "A woman is someone who lives their life as a woman."

That may not satisfy everyone, but being a woman or a man is about how you experience life in that gender, not about what's in your lower abdomen or between your legs, and I'll die on this hill.

My answer: "A woman is someone who lives their life as a woman."

That may not satisfy everyone, but being a woman or a man is about how you experience life in that gender, not about what's in your lower abdomen or between your legs, and I'll die on this hill.

It's actually a bit worse than this, because originally they predicted a wave of regret-fueled detransitions. Those never materialized, so instead of admitting they were wrong they concluded the happy, well-adjusted trans young adults would be better off if they'd done conversion therapy instead.

And after you read Red Plenty, check out the online seminar on Red Plenty at the Crooked Timber blog, featuring Henry Farrell, John Holbo, Spufford himself, and others crookedtimber.org/category/red...

Nonesuch A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz—f...

You GUYS you GUYS

did you know we are less than a week from the new Francis Spufford????

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Yes. Definitely Red Plenty!

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Poster for the Music City Stand Up For Science National Day of Action rally in Centennial Park, Nashville TN, on Saturday morning, Mar 7, from 10-12 at the Southwest corner of the Parthenon. "Let's get together for a peaceful rally to support science and democracy!" "Kid and pet friendly. Bring a sign or bring a Frisbee and come enjoy a warm day at the park."

Poster for the Music City Stand Up For Science National Day of Action rally in Centennial Park, Nashville TN, on Saturday morning, Mar 7, from 10-12 at the Southwest corner of the Parthenon. "Let's get together for a peaceful rally to support science and democracy!" "Kid and pet friendly. Bring a sign or bring a Frisbee and come enjoy a warm day at the park."

Also, Vice President James Donald Bowman, Senators Addison Mitchell McConnell (R-KY) and Rafael Edward Cruz (R-TX), and Governors Jonathan Tate Reeves (R-MS) and John Kevin Stitt (R-OK), among many others.

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

Announcement for the Stand Up For Science National Day of Action rally in Nashville's Centennial Park on Saturday, March 7, from 10-12.

#Nashville peeps, come join the Stand Up For Science National Day of Action at Centennial Park Saturday morning, Mar. 7. I'll be speaking about defending good science from politicized attacks.

Local governments are the point of first contact, but don't have the power to be the last resort.

When people turn to Metro government as the last resort for abortion rights, or LGBTQ+ rights, or to impose local oversight over the police, the state pre-empts and local government is powerless.

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

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The irony of a German Chancellor echoing Chamberlain's "Peace for Our Time" näiveté is just too much.

The cover of Neil J. Young, _Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right_ (University of Chicago Press, 2024). The cover shows what appears to be the torso of a man, dressed in a charcoal suit jacket with a white shirt and a solid red tie, sporting a rainbow pride flag pin on the left lapel.

Excerpt from the book: "It is clear that there is—and as we will see, has long been—an immense diversity of LGBTQ conservatives. This book shows why they have voted for, belonged to, and worked for the Republican Party. That diversity has been more ideological than demographic. Nearly all of the people who formed what they first called “gay Republican” organizations and provided the public face of LGBTQ Republicanism have been white men, most of them middle- to upper-class."

Sounds familiar.

A black Nissan Altima

Cones and vehicles blocking a bicycle lane

Cones and vehicles blocking a bicycle lane

Nashville bicycling experience of the day: nearly getting hit by this speeding driver minutes after dropping off my 4-year-old while trying to navigate around a sidewalk and bikeway closure with no active permit and no safe detour.

This is why you don't block bike lanes.

Everyone who could do something about this is on this app. They absolutely see Katherine's posts. She points out low cost fixes that could save lives. And yet

"Too Late for Prince Charming?" was the cover story in Newsweek magazine 20 years ago this Friday. The magazine reported on a study that indicated college-educated women over the age of 40 had a less than 3 percent chance of getting married — leading to the famous "more likely to be killed by a terrorist than find a mate" line. Two decades later, Madeleine Brand reports that most of the women involved in the original study are now married, and that other study findings have proven untrue.

Reminds me of this, back in 1986 (revisited here, 20 years later, by NPR)...

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