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True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this very timely forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too muse.jhu.edu/journal/754

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I’m really excited to get to talk with my good friend and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social colleague @bradsnyderprof.bsky.social this Friday at @politicsprose.bsky.social about his new book, “You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads.” D.C. peeps, come join us!: politics-prose.com/brad-snyder

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Ghoul. Ghoul. Racist white supremacist ghoul. Scream.

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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Stunning AOC: "Federal workers do work that is part of the lifeblood of our society...That's what [Musk]'s trying to strip away...We have an obligation to resist oligarchy incl any billionaire who tries to undermine our Constitution...Make them: don't agree in advance....Every small action matters!"

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Great advice from one of the nation’s best civil servants, @erie.bsky.social eriemeyer.medium.com/so-you-still...

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OMG! HUGE family fave. Rest in peace and power, Iceman! My favorite song of his is "Ain't Understanding Mellow," his duet with Brenda Lee Eager from 1971. My parents and grandparents LOVED this song, and so do my sisters & I. One of the best R&B duets of all time! open.spotify.com/track/1ljRPp...

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"In the merged ‘humanities’ meeting, an Executive Board member admitted that half of those in the hall were facing the sack." Half of the humanities gone. Just. Like. That. Craven administration. Craven UK government that is allowing this gutting of universities.

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former Tory chief whip Simon Hart on the party’s current leader

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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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I have decided to call @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social EVERY DAY to tell him to fight harder. The days of being cautious and timid have led us to fascism. I will remind him he works for us and that he needs to ramp it up. I called and left a message today. Please join me. His number: 202-225-5936

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A HUGE loss for Haiti: The death of Franketienne, a giant of Haitian literature & art. Thanks to @danicacoto.bsky.social & @apnews.com for covering this in English. RIP Franck Étienne!

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The DOGE claims are not true. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS “Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World” Please submit article manuscripts by August 15! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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These OUR LAND newsletters by David Corn are an essential contribution to understanding the current crisis. See his next tweet to subscribe. I'm so happy to be one of the subscribers.

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Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

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The NEH funded this book. apps.neh.gov/publicquery/...

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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

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Guys, it's been 91 years since this gem was released #OTD IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934). Still one of the most hilarious movies ever made. Again, this is one of those "if-you-have-never-seen-it-go-see-it-NOW" films. You will thank yourself. #filmsky #moviesky #comedy

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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GOP Lemming: "lemme jis' say....lemme jus' say....this is not the tactic that I would use to solve the problem." OMG. Congressman Hern (R-OK) thinks invading another sovereign country is a "problem" to be solved. Won't speak out against war crimes. I hope his constituents keep up their fight!

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this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

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holy mole-y.

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Admin is using this in part as pretext: “faculty members… were upset about a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” The Ivy League is clarifying its vision of itself as real estate and investment firm.

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Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

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Charlatans like Lutnick make me think of that shortlived tv series where people in power were being attacked by alien parasites that were lodging in their brains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQP... Actually a lot of the Hive-infilatrated had more self-awareness than the orange menace's carnival clowns.

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This is the guy who said "Social Security is wrong, Medicare and Medicaid is [sic] wrong," Just wait til Musk's teenbeans give him our records. Call your Congressional Representatives today. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... How to call your rep's local office: www.house.gov/representati...

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Thank you so much for your great reporting. And Shame on @washingtonpost.com for not crediting you! How can @lisarein.bsky.social and her editors sleep at night?

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ironically, the TERFer is using a gender-neutral pronoun ("them") to describe the singular "neighbour". See APA's stylesheet (bless their hearts for standing strong on Gulfs and Inclusion): apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

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