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A library worker in the Midwest, I'm also working on M.A. in English Literatures. Today I'm interested in queer things; the pacing of forested walks; today's poetry; Early American Literature; the anxieties of the challenged patrilineal; Great Lakes swims.
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The emerging corporate consensus on pre-emptive capitulation to authoritarianism is bad news for universities bc those people are our trustees. If we've learned anything this year it's that we should put little faith in their avowed commitment to free speech, we'll have to fight to defend it

An excellent and informative thread 🧵

Really grim. He murdered a man for being homeless, and got away with it because the man was homeless. We should be clear about this and the fascist implications here.

From a man with experience dishonoring a Zoom office…

Democrats' immigration policy has pretty consistently always been "whatever the Republicans were advocating about twenty years ago". People really don't appreciate just how far right the Democratic party has moved on immigration.

🚨Our situation worsens with each passing day. Hunger, fear, and constant bombing fill every moment with terror. I don’t know how to express just how scared, sad, and lost I feel. Death is all around us. ❤️‍🩹 Please repost and share if you can't donate‼️ gofund.me/082e2682

It is so offensive to me that Harris is still pushing the debunked narrative about Oct 7 rapes. This is genocidal propaganda designed to counter the vast # (a majority) of Americans supporting an arms embargo. Both candidates in this election are unhinged from reality, morality, and constituents.

We ask at this time that if Orville Peck is problematic in some way please shut up about it and just let me have this.

it is a profound journalistic failure that the public doesn't fully comprehend this man operates at a third-grade reading level and has absolutely no fucking idea what he's talking about on any subject beyond sexual assault and lazy real estate fraud

GET HIS MUSTY ASS OUT OF THE RING.

I signed this because I believe what UChicago is doing is wrong. This is my coworker. He is vitally important to our work. Our dean immigrated here from the UK but my coworker is from South Asia. UChicago places higher value on certain classes/races. Care to guess? www.coworker.org/petitions/pr...

"childless woman" is such a 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?

Racism is fluid and versatile. When they want you to be Black, they'll be like "one drop". When they don't, they'll be like, "well, when did she become Black?" That's why we don't let anyone else define Blackness.

Funny how Israel can have very precise targeting when it wants to, but then somehow always goes the "let's bomb the entire apartment block" route in Gaza.

The head of Project 2025 stepping down reminds me of when I found out Operation Rescue used to just switch leaders around to whoever had the least assets at any time so if they got sued there wouldn't be any money to get...

They aren't just weird, they're extremely creepy.

Absolutely inhumane. x.com/EvanDyerCBC/...

This is a fantastic interview and also one of the most direct and honest spotlights I've ever seen a trans person get in a major media organization. Which is a bummer, itself, but doesn't take away by how meaningful this is. Attacking Musk's hatred in such a direct, clear way is POTENT.

JD Vance trying to breed the next ottoman empire.

In new clip (link below), Vance floats a federal intervention to stop interstate travel. Why? He envisions a bizarre, head-spinning scenario where "every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to go have an abortion in Cali." x.com/KamalaHQ/sta...

A rapist is always "different" to the people they aren't raping. I won't read the article but I hope CollectiveamNesiaNews includes that in their reporting.

If you even try to mount a defence for this, you need to rethink everything about your life.

I’m steeling myself against the mental wear and tear of watching democrats be more “upset” about Trump’s bruised ear than they’ve been about thousands of dead Palestinians.

the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

My condolences for the man who was barely injured despite his intentions to kill me. I hope he has a swift recovery so I can be killed faster and with vigor

I know y'all know more about tech than I do. What does it mean when someone using Gmail to access an edu address randomly has Gmail sending multiple duplicates of each outgoing message? And is this an issue others experienced yesterday?

Hate how relevant this is to multiple world-shifting societal problems we’ve decided to mostly ignore

If I wrote computer code that returned "2+2=5" no sane person would call that a "hallucination." You're helping them gloss their shitty code with qualities of mind. Fools.

There is something uniquely cruel about excitedly attacking the accuracy of Gazan death statistics after spending months bombing and killing all the health officials and institutions responsible for trying to track them.

what a paragraph. what a fucking paragraph.

At the Solidarity with Gaza encampment today on the campus of University of Chicago, where University President Paul Alivisatos has gestured opposition to the encampment, depicting it as militaristic and disruptive of learning. I've been learning quite a lot about decolonial struggle.

[winces]

Tom Tomorrow rocks