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“Who saved you from falling asleep during that hundred-slide PowerPoint on the employee handbook by slipping in that line about ‘soliciting pubic opinions’?”

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Review of Gus Trenor in the play version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1906): "He made love to Lily as if he expected to emphasize his pleadings with a blackjack." Ouch, in so many ways.

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Visiting the MASC (Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) and seeing Mourning Dove’s correspondence & promotional materials for Cogewea was a treat for the grad class & for me on Monday.

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One way for news outlets to respond would be an immediate TV ban on airtime for all administration officials.

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Republicans are full steam ahead to defund Medicaid and kick kids off their health care to pass more tax giveaways for billionaires—but YOUR story & YOUR voice can make a difference. Congress needs to hear from you—so my advice is to get loud. Here's how you can help fight back ⬇️

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Senate Republicans just launched an all-night voting spree to rip apart Medicaid and starve kids—all so they can hand more cash to billionaires like Elon Musk. They’re doing this while most people aren’t watching. Absolutely disgraceful.

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I will not confirm Kash Patel for FBI Director, someone whose sole objective is to turn law enforcement into a weapon for Trump to target his political enemies. He is patently unfit, unqualified, and a real threat to the rule of law. I voted NO.

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The Trump Administration is trying to illegally cut the federal workforce in an attempt to come up with a budget and tax increases on middle class Americans, all while giving $4 trillion in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthiest individuals. (1/2)

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J.D. Vance must’ve thought he was scoring points by saying “Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," but of course controlling abuses of that power is exactly what Federal Judges must do — and what Judge Engelmayer did in this very case. search.app/hHJJWzMXS2f2...

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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@raskin.house.gov: "This is a coup, which is a seizure of state power by unelected actors... In addition to everything that Trump is doing to dismantle every part of gov’t that doesn't profit him personally, we have this additional problem of Elon Musk trying to consolidate state power under him."

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Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"

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Listen to the sounds that the ice makes.

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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

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News close to home (Coeur d'Alene): good reporting on an essential college whose workings were derailed & threatened by an aggressive, bullying, rogue board composed of a "group some considered far-right even for rural Idaho. " The bullies wanted to pick a fight, and now the college is threatened.

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I have been thinking about this quotation from Tim Snyder: “These are policies that are deliberately designed to administer pain, to add to the total amount of pain in American society. “If you hurt people you create a resource of pain, of anxiety and fear which you then direct against others.

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Skyline with Steptoe Butte and windmills in the distance, 40 miles away. I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.

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In case you could use a picture of a snowy path today.

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Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night. Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App TOGGLE OFF. You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

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Via @aaronkashtan.bsky.social on Facebook, I just learned of this 1925 short story by the Cherokee writer Ruth Muskrat Bronson. It's a powerful account of the conditions esp. for women on the reservation a century ago. Govt. schools; language; sexual violence. thenewhistoria.org/editorial/th...

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So what are Dreiser's "six worst pictures" of 1931? * Alexander Hamilton * Bad Girl * Bought * A Free Soul * The Front Page * The Road to Singapore The naturalist author really had a bee in his bonnet about the lack of "social value" in these films. (h/t Media History Digital Library)

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“Lebensraum: is it prudent fiscal policy?” 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Again, one thing I was completely wrong about is that I believed there was a baseline level of professional pride & integrity below which supposedly serious journalists would not sink in the face of the far right authoritarianism.

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Trump is being sentenced in two days (Friday), so the more outrageous he can be to distract the media, the more he wins the news cycle. He's shouting "squirrel!" and the media are chasing it like a deranged golden retriever.

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Folks teaching spring courses on feminism / cinema / archives, our double-issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on "Curating Feminist Film Archives" is currently open access!!! @laurah.bsky.social would be happy to make syllabus suggestions for your course topic. 🎞️❤️ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10...

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I thought that the first Trump trainwreck taught us that he will say any insane lie or any lunatic plan in order to dominate the news cycle for 24 hours while his minions work on the real business of destroying the country. Why is the media falling for this AGAIN (Greenland, Canada, Panama)?

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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“She was bad . . . Always.” #EdithWharton knew how to start a story and also a goal for the new year. “New Year’s Day” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...

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Happy Public Domain Day! Clara Bow in The Wild Party is now available. Also: Nella Larsen’s Passing and Edith Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed.

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Happy public domain day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

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I was today years old, nearing the end of my second decade as a professional Twain scholar, when I learned that Twain funded the Ivy League education of Didhwo Twe, the Liberian revolutionary who thrice fled the country after trying unsuccessfully to disrupt the century-long reign of the True Whigs.

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The Tragedies of Isabel Bolton. Mary Miller published her first novel at 60. Largely autobiographical, it was also largely ignored. So she became Isabel Bolton, whose next three novels made her the darling of critics. But none of them knew the tragedies that shaped her work. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

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My trip is fine A primary source that took my breath away? The eyewitness testimony of the Burr-Hamilton duel—from the trial of Burr’s second. It hadn’t been recognized before. I was STUNNED & VERY HAPPY. It ended up being used in the Hamilton musical. Which is how I knew LMM read my book. #AMA

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Excellent advice for PhD exams in English, etc. as well.

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cool new @archive.org collection of archival @wfmu.bsky.social documents, assembled by @erazlogo.bsky.social & @spinningindie.bsky.social. archive.org/details/wfmu...

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Nothing to see here—just your average moose in the field.

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