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english & the center for the book, uiowa / ed, ui press / author, *the pilgrim & the bee* (penn, 2007) and *the novel & the blank* (jhup, 2025) / opinions about drink are, in a certain sense, from my employer https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

Gov Janet Mills of Maine’s statement today should be read by everyone. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Stenography for a dictator.

pro tip for professing sung-era china is imagining your mighty team teacher colleague as a scholar-official with comparable powers in our current moment

i finally made it to the cover of the new york review

What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome

🐐 GOAT 🐐

“Unless you think signature collation isn’t worth the time.”

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

Infinity times this.

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

think i'll extend wet january into february

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

tbh this new platform is basically jamelle bouiesky for me

The rules, if you are keeping track: If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever. If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

Outsouling.

on my bucket list is wearing a lego sweater watching buster keaton movies on a couch at 3 am with julianne moore

Target to Pursue Racial Segregation in Hiring Plans fixed it for you

This is an exciting new Fellowship opportunity, to fund travel to Boston to conduct research the Boston Public Library! www.bpl.org/blogs/post/a...

It tastes like the inside of a hospital.

Trump wants prescription drug prices to go up so that he can enrich his donors. thehill.com/policy/healt...

alright you crazy bastards i made some tepache

blow out the candles, ben, you are 319 years old and you've got "a large and tiresome Folio" coming your way. hey #skystorians look out for *the novel and the ______* (jhup, 2025).

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

Imagine if there were an opposition party getting on TV and across social media insulting these assholes like they deserve.

naomi osaka hell yes

The narrative from Gavin Newsom needs to be, point blank: California is not asking the country to bail it out. California, which is the greatest contributor in federal tax dollars and greatest subsidizer of the nation is asking for it's money back. Otherwise, Californians shouldn't pay federal tax.

"The researchers concluded that the death toll from Israel’s aerial bombardment and military ground operation in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024 was about 64,300, rather than the 37,900 reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/h...

i promise this was incessantly my bit over the holidays

my cringeometer just broke

hot take todd haynes is a better director than james mangold

so much discourse rn and this is all you need www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzrh...

gofund.me/f8e281a8

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC