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Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.

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Sotomayor's dissent should be shared widely--this majority decision does abandon transgender kids, who have been subject to political whims (and political animus) in an acute, focused effort for the last five years.

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Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

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Happy Father’s Day to him!

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Since I serve as academic senate chair, I already know how sausage is made, thank you.

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I stood at a urinal next to Ian McKellan during intermission at a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2010.

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JOB! staff organizers for Higher Ed Labor United! join one of the fastest growing sectors in the labor movement as we work on collaborative strategies; dm questions higheredlaborunited.org/2025/06/11/h...

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Academic shot in the dark: does anyone have access to a pdf scan of the first edition of Yeats's _The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems_ (1889). I'm not finding it in all the usual places (Archive.org, Google Books, Hathitrust)...

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The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

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The AAUP calls for the immediate release of David Huerta & the immediate cessation of these violent & reckless ICE raids that are terrorizing hard-working families from coast to coast. An injury to one is an injury to all. #FreeDavidEndRaids www.aaup.org/media-releas...

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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

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Two words from yesterday: Boo Cinema.

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

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This is hilarious. And also matches my experience.

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This pride month, remember to have someone help you with sunscreen when you wear your sleeveless trans rights t-shirt for two hours of pickleball in the Long Beach sun.

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Ken Cuccinelli tried to oversee an illegal clawback of LGBTQ student rights on college campuses when he was Attorney General of Virginia. I know because I was one of the college students involved in a multi-campus protest movement against him. He has no interest in higher education.

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I’m loving all the posts from the UK about the Kylie concert. Her status is so different in the US…US fans like some sort of hermetic gay male secret society. Most of the public is like “what’s a padam?” Or they say, “Who’s she? She seems fun!” when she appears on The Residence.

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Annual Pride Display…sorry I didn’t fully show the Beyoncé fan.

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I had about fifteen minutes today when writing seemed, like, an okay thing to do. It’s only midday…time for some disillusionment

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I’m really looking forward to this, especially as it’s my first visit to the society since I became a fellow last year. Prof SQ FLS coming soon!

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If you want to understand why this country is in the state it’s in, and why we have no real functioning opposition party, consider this: Rubio has been the most dangerous and dictatorial member of the Trump cabinet. And yet every single Senate Democrat voted Yes to confirm him.

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I'm not very good at knowing when I need to work and when I need to rest...

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Panel and screening for _The Residence_ last night…in awe of all these people.

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Enjoyed the moment in Ian Duncan’s _Human Forms_ chapter on _Notre-Dame de Paris_ where Duncan suddenly compares the Parisian cathedral to Godzilla.

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Glad that CSULB students were willing to protest. I just learned that they ended the strike three days ago. lbcurrent.com/news/2025/05...

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The political news today…just so much awfulness all the time

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A few shots from this morning’s commencement. Congratulations to the graduates from the English Department and College of Liberal Arts at #CSULB!

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Amazing how quickly the rhetoric of “personal choice” drops away once they’re in a position to impose their crackpottery on everyone.

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Thinking about _Middlemarch_ for my MA-level Victorian lit seminar in the fall.

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I drank Vietnamese coffee after 7 pm. It had egg foam on top. It was, of course delicious…but will I ever sleep again?

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