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Professor, writer, editor. US lit and culture (especially 1930s), southern studies, Faulkner, and film. Author of Monumental Designs: Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority (forthcoming 2025, Univ Press of Mississippi). #TCMParty
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WorldPride is the week before this fascist spectacle, and the parade will be a hell of a lot better. 🏳️‍🌈

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DOGE at work.

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The NYT Editorial Board comprises a little over a dozen writers and editors clustered around the American political center. Every editorial is a negotiation between them. By design, it cannot produce novel, interesting ideas outside that consensus. By design, it does not reflect public opinion.

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Not empty. There will be two dolls on every shelf!

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An excellent lineup in this collection on the Criterion Channel. FYI #NoirAlley #TCMParty folks.

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Sen. Warnock telling it like it is.

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I guess this place is a fixer-upper. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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"You would be my doctor, Webb!" #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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"Happy wedding night, from my twin bed to yours!" #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Maybe take off the dirty gloves before touching your face and his? #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Does he do target practice when he can't sleep? #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Susan with some top-notch gaslighting. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Chekhov's "I haven't shot a gun"? #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Oh, no. Bud is giving another lecture. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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Even the way he sits in a chair is creepy. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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"The cost of living is going down." Those were the days. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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I'm sure listening to Bud's lectures during the night shift isn't annoying at all. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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In MSMspeak, "wide-ranging" means rambling and incoherent.

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Business as usual in Mississippi.

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Today in resegregation.

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The real emergency is that the administration uses fake emergencies to do cruel, destructive, and stupid things.

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University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

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The eugenicist in charge of HHS strikes again.

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Secretary of Defensive

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The process involves watching Fox & Friends for a few days and deciding which host to pick.

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He probably drew them with a Sharpie.

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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By design. "The full scope of campus DEI rollbacks is still emerging as colleges respond to the Trump administration’s orders against diversity practices. But students at some schools said early cuts are chipping away at the sense of community that helped open the door to higher education."

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You are a hypocrite if you are celebrating Christ this weekend while cheering for a Tyrant… You just are.

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Not only do they send innocent people to a concentration camp, but they also engage in nonstop public defamation to justify it. Disgusting.

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