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The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

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What I assume I'm missing in the #Oscars

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Hey modernists, I'm reading an ARC of this. It's super good and extremely relevant to our interests.

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Congratulations to Eleanor Patterson, author of BOOTLEGGING THE AIRWAVES & winner of the International Association for Media and History's Michael Nelson Book Prize for 2025! iamhist.net/iamhist-mich...

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Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

I wonder if you can get a doctor to prescribe you ozempic just because you like Gila monsters and want to get some of their powers

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I’m looking for an academic or expert who can speak to parasocial relationships that fans have with athletes, particularly women athletes, and the dangers that can come with the increasing visibility of these athletes. Any suggestions?

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I am currently getting multiple reports that Google, in an attempt to remove pronouns in the US government email accounts, just removed pronouns for every private workplace account in the world. If you use Google workspaces, go check on that and confirm for me. Overcompliance leads to stupidity.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

“I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America,” says man whose company has bullied half the "free market" into extinction while denying its laborers bathroom breaks.

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It's not a splashy oped in the NYT, but please, I did 16 years of legal and historical research to understand the legislative intent and historical/political motivations for the Reconstruction Amendments. 28 pages, ungated, written accessibly for smart lay audiences. 👇

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Oops, thought I'd filled both 2025 issues of Weird Horror. I am 8k words shy in issue 11 (Fall). Instead of opening for a full month for 2 slots I am open today til Feb. 28, end of day. No reprints. 5k words max. 2-cents per word. Simul subs okay. Send to weirdhorrormag (at) gmail (dot) com

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I LOVE THIS PRACTICAL ENERGY FROM THE PA DEMS

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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 6 days ago • 613 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 7 days ago • 761 comments

Steve Earle song in Andor season 2 trailer

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Coming in November from @sunypress.bsky.social: PRIETA IS DREAMING by feminist writer, theorist, & icon Gloria Anzaldúa (!!)—a collection of 19 stories, 14 previously unpub’d. Huge thanks to @stuartbernstein.bsky.social & the incredible editors. Can’t wait to share this wonderful work w/ all of you!

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 12 days ago • 58 comments

But how am I going to write a history of the Hippodrome that shows how the characters interact with each other, focusing on different ones in each scene and maintaining a sense of the historical spirit of the moment? And then I go back to reading Grand Hotel.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 18 days ago • 425 comments

Once again: tomorrow is the deadline for registration as a Democrat in NYC, so as to be able to vote in the mayoral primary on June 24th. There's not a lot we can do in this moment, but please join me in kicking Eric Adams to the curb.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

And this, my friends, is how you organize a conference on railway aesthetics, with a train journey being part of the conference call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

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Memento but for self-care

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Chorus girls’ legs jigsaw puzzles; Dick Powell haberdashery! The 1933 Warner Brothers ‘42nd Street’ Pressbook is all kinds of wonderful and ridiculous. archive.org/details/pres...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Anyway, here's a playlist of classic Mexican lucha and horror movies in their entirety www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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A friend of mine has a personal contact with Alabama representatives and will send a personal message regarding #NIH #indirect funding cuts. She is looking for personal stories of the effects of science funding cuts on individual people, particularly if they are in Alabama! Share, I'll pass them.

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Stuart Hall: "The only theory worth having is that which you have to fight off, not that which you speak with profound fluency."

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If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments