Margot Waldman
@bbeatrix.bsky.social
English PhD at Rutgers, studying transness on the early modern English stage. Plus I work on comics, pulp, superheroes, whatever. Sometimes a freelance writing person. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. She/her. Trans rights are human rights.
The Shakespeare play most suited to the 21st century is Othello, a play where Iago in his first scene announces he’s a racist who wants to destroy Othello for reasons of racist jealousy and then the cast and the audience spend the rest of the play pretending his motives are inscrutable.
It's kind of wild how literally everyone conversation about Russia involves pretending the Russians don't regularly talk about re-establishing their Empire
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 8h agoImagine saying the reverse and thinking it makes any sense: “Having Russian planes on the UK’s border reduces the risk of war.”
Woke up to find this piece of warmed over McCarthyite “humor” in my feed. Guess who posted the dank meme on the left. A. Rob Schneider B. Dinesh D’Souza C. Ted Nugent D. The Department of Education
In the 1970s my dad's aunt came over from Ireland and stayed with his parents in London for extended period. Only after three months did she realise that she'd been attending the Anglican masses instead of Catholic ones.
Earlier this year, Princeton was forced to end its 133-year honor code tradition of unproctored exams due to rampant AI-based cheating. This does not seem to have given the administration the slightest pause.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoJust got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns
In honor of The Devils getting rereleased, here’s some artwork.
a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic
He was a well-regarded acting teacher - this is how they knife you in front of a crowded room
My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
had a dream that bob dylan released a funk album called “frisky!” (including the exclamation mark) and the title track was him singing “girl / i’m frisky / this sex is very risky” and it sucked real bad
The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · last wk.Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...
Obviously a lot of people aren't going to read this because it's published by Liberal Currents and is largely aimed at the Dirtbag Left tendency but @goldwagnathan.bsky.social is constantly making really vital points here
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago"There is an antisemitism problem on the left because the left consists of people, and modern internet culture is built out of bigotry and slurs from the ground up." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-native-l...
this is why i tell students that if they are, like me, a messy bitch who loves drama they should become historians
R̸e̵qui̴ęm for Tw̷i̴t̨ter̶@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 2w ago
it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s
James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2w agoEl-Sayed is going to forced to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at least a dozen times more before the midterms. The point is clearly not the answer. The point is the question. It's basically push-polling.
As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
put on Princess Bride for my kids and am once again absolutely blown away by how stupidly hot Cary Elwes and Robin Wright are in this
What will become of the world's straightest couple now that the bisexual vampire king is here?
Some Pizzagate-level shit right here. An armed fucknut is gonna burst into a school, looking for the mutilzation room.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."
🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
Happy Columbus Day. A day that I assume celebrates one of the Great World Cities, and my hometown.
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last yr.Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 3w agoDonald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
nytimes.com
