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Associate Professor of English. 19th-century lit, religion, digital humanities. Author of Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America. Buy it or read it for free: https://shorturl.at/Tmavp
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no. men must never acquire the devastating power of the Novel. in fact we should preemptively invade their country to shut down their efforts to develop fiction

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BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

I just learned that Zohran Mamdani is Mira Nair's son. This guy just gets cooler by the second.

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I absolutely love this. It's been such a pleasure to work with an amazing team, especially Byron and Way who managed to turn something incredibly dry into something cold, sweet and engaging (and thanks to @aedwardslevy.bsky.social for her help with the puns) www.cnn.com/interactive/...

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Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat” (1898)

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Just over here rewatching the best thing the MCU ever gave us youtu.be/a_JD6gt4asI?...

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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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NIH Staff have written The Bethesda Declaration urging the NIH director to end the politicization of science and medicine and a return to academic freedom and scientific excellence. Sign in support. Please share broadly. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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👇🎯 Here's how this will play out at R1s like UW: STEM fields are massively funded through federal $. This "frees up" ever-📉 state $ (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) to "cover" the rest of Letters & Sciences As federal $ 📉 state $ will shift to "bail out" STEM The biggest cuts will be in the humanities

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

A big takeaway for me from all this MUSK/DOGE 'departure' news and reporting is how absolutely predictable this all was! the goal was the rapid unscheduled disassembly of the government by a group of people led by a callous, ignorant man who believes he can solve any problem and consolidate power

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Detroit. (Detroit!) I rode 2 different forms of public transport and biked all over the city. A couple people asked me for spare change; otherwise I was left completely alone and I never felt unsafe

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I grew up surrounded by very tall pine trees and I agree that the horizon is up to no good

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I’ve been grumpy about the process of getting to this game but baseball, it turns out, remains one of the great loves of my life

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

@mlb.com I want to attend exactly 1 (ONE) baseball game in a city I’m visiting. After purchasing a ticket through your website I should not have to a) download your app, b) create an account, c) verify that account in order to access that ticket. Just email me the damn thing

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

I keep forgetting and relearning that Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay for The Cutting Edge and every time I rediscover it I’m delighted once again

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