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God, Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever" really is a perfect story to teach (and to read, obviously)

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Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

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"MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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I still have “This is what Democracy looks like” ringing in my ears. It’s a good sound. Tomorrow will be something different, but for now I feel joy.

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Monday Mood

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I just... what the actual fuck

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Oooh, a favorite for #throwbackthursday! If you missed Emma Howes & Christian Smith's "You have to listen very hard”: Contemplative Reading, Lectio Divina, and Social Justice in the Classroom" from Assay 3.2 (Spring 2017), you're in for a treat!

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✨Minneapolis friends, save the date! ✨ We'll launch ALL THE WILD HUNGERS: A MEMOIR OF GOING SOLO on May 21, 2025 @6:00pm at Open Book in Minneapolis--and I'll be in conversation with Marya Hornbacher, which will be hilarious. I hope you'll join us! milkweed.org/event/in-per...

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Today we're throwing a spotlight on Michael Ranellone's "Brothers, Keepers, Students: John Edgar Wideman Inside and Outside of Prison" from all the way back in Assay 3.2 (Spring 2017).

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💥 Preorder now for May! 💥 The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo takes readers on a journey through Nova Scotia, where the author weaves the personal and the historical, uncovering how the stories of her ancestors shape her view of home and belonging. https://buff.ly/3CIwPxx

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"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

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We'll know the Republic is officially over if Trump/Musk willingly ignore court orders and all the major media outlets cast it as "a bold move" or characterize it as "the political stakes heightening" or whatever as opposed to calling it blatant, Constitution-subverting lawlessness.

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BULWARK: “Under Trump, the law is just vibes now… university and medical centers face a $4 billion funding cut… a swing at science and higher learning… IT’S ILLEGAL…” This will hit Vandy, Williamson County, the med research community here. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-laws...

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This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

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Yes. I did run errands without permission. I’m sorry, okay? #dailydara

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I…have no words

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With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/

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My sisters and BIL got me a rosemaling class (zoom) at the Vesterheim for xmas and today was so much fun! My watercolor experience was not at all helpful… Tomorrow: details! Here’s mine at the end of Day 1! (My recipe box, made by Al Goedtel, was rosemaled by Helen Luetgers).

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They did it! NYAG James and 18 other AGs filed suit, and a federal judge just locked Elon out of Treasury and demanded the immediate destruction of any downloaded information! Keep calling the AGs - say thanks and ask them to file lawsuits for every department or agency these muskrats invade!

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Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that all mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.

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It’s not only that we live in evil times, but they’re very stupid as well

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Today was a very good day in all things academic, but I absolutely extroverted too close to the sun. Happy to report that I am seeking treatment and it is working I swear, he still thinks he is a tiny bebe

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💥 Preorder now for May! 💥 In The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo, the author uncovers hidden family stories, revealing how the road less traveled becomes a bridge between historical and family traumas and a more grounded understanding of self. https://buff.ly/3CIwPxx

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Three months till The Allure of Elsewhere is out in the world-- It's about the ways stories—both inherited and created—help shape our understanding of where we come from, as I explore my Acadian history on a solo camping adventure from MN to Nova Scotia. With cats. milkweed.org/book/the-all...

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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

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Almost bought an Elna sewing machine at the thrift store on the way home because my mom had an Elna (and I know how to work it). Didn't, because I've got Gram's collecting dust in the guest room because I don't have a good place to set it up...

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Things I love about Day 1 of Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever" (in any class, but today it's my intro to creative writing): I get to nerd out on alllllll kinds of things to a captive audience. This novella really is a master class in all things fiction. And I get to talk about Grosse Ile.

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"upheaval that threatens to erode the financial foundation of higher education in the United States" fortunately we have a lot of writers who will defend universities as spaces of free inquiry www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

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America, you broke through—the media, from small outlets to large, is finally picking up on what’s happening. Legislators, judges, and attorneys general across the country are speaking out. They hear you. We love you and are honored to serve you! 🦬💚🇺🇸

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I've been struggling with this a lot, but my third book is coming out in May. It's about family history, natural history, camping, camping with cats whose idea of roughing it is a Super 8, the solo life, and so much more--and it's got a freaking amazing cover. milkweed.org/book/the-all...

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“Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.”

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