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Associate Professor of English at Governors State U. Interested in urban studies, Joyce, Shaw, LeGuin. But mainly post about Deadwood and lefty political stuff, and pictures of my dogs
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Preferably this time by "harnessed" we mean "grassroots political activism and creating a broad enthusiastic base" not "endless donations to do nothing democrats to line the pockets of grifting consultants".

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This is truly amazing news, pancreatic cancer has such a dire 5 year survival rate, this is nothing short of a miracle.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

As someone whose first job in America was an NEH fellowship, something which changed my life, I am disgusted by this. Not just the substance of it, but the compliance.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I can't believe society is being torn asunder, unopposed, by this big of a loser

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ah well, I guess we'll just have to do it ourselves like we were before.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I see this posted on here it's interpreted by a thousand liberal posters in the replies as being about trump, and not the genocide in Gaza. Omar El Akkad's point was about those exact people who are taking his words out of context. (the OP does care about Gaza, though, FTR)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Having a kid who's really into anime is great because you have an excuse to watch movies like The Tale of the Princess Kuguya repeatedly. Every shot is so well composed, the pacing is so careful, it's just a beautiful movie. Looks completely unlike the other ghibli movies, like a living painting.

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In the latest issue, Catriona Clutterbuck explores how, in Irish poetry of parental bereavement, child death is variously confronted, conceded, recalibrated and countervailed – often all within the same poem.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If you sometimes worry how future generations will judge this moment there's some good news: there might not be any future generations.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I wish all that money and energy around corporate DEI had been funneled into labor organizing, strike funds, and worker education instead; that’s how you actually change a workplace

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Saw this yesterday at the art institute, it's by Jozsef Rippl-Ronai who was from Kaposvar, the town in Hungary I lived in in 2004-5. Hadn't thought of him in nearly twenty years.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Off-roading on the lawn at Windsor Castle

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Bruce Robbins making a very clear and cogent case for withdrawing from the MLA (FTR I haven't left it, yet, because I wonder if the current leadership and their position is tenable under the current pressure, but without significant and very quick change, I don't know if I can justify staying)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

He was tragically taken from us too soon

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If humanitarian catastrophes have happened before, why shouldn't we do them again?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is especially true because the only things the people who say "there are bigger problems" are actually DOING about those problems are posting and scrolling. If that's you, consider shutting the fuck up for a few days.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It really is amazing that the alarm bells aren't ringing louder in education regarding this, and in fact to see so many of my colleagues actively cheerleading it. It's destroying everything at light speed.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I just asked Google what the purpose of a fucking water tower is and this works perfectly.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments