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We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death,…

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Finally got a babysitter and saw the Odyssey this morning. Now it’s time to absorb all the Discourse I’ve been avoiding for the last two weeks

would hogwarts hire a velociraptor? do you have to let a vampire inside your home - if he's your landlord? is a cop who fights crime as a werewolf by night technically a K9 unit who - deserves overtime? if they become partners, can they literally go anywhere and pull over whomever they want?

First two that come to mind are The Family Stone and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the 2000 Ron Howard one)

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

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Lindsey Graham Dead, World No Worse | Defector

The Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on Saturday, after what reports have called a “brief and sudden illness” following an official visit to Ukraine. He was 71. In 2003 Graham ...

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Albert Burneko@albertburneko.bsky.social · 4w ago

My hot take is that regarding Congress like it's analogous to some normal workplace with colleagues who are all ultimately on the same team is exactly the thing everybody is disgusted by, because politics and policy are real to them, because they are not smug cloistered fucking nitwits.

mandatory reading

“Now the summer can finally begin,” I tell myself as I do final edits on an article that was due in April …

Sam Brody@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · last mo.

happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

This Knicks team is really good, but also it's hilarious that Trump showed up and ruined the vibes at their first Finals home game since Bill Clinton was president.

Harper keeps challenging Anunoby for reasons I don’t understand

Bob Pettit again for the win (though Drexler might not have made it through the season with MJ there):

The implicit “problem” these white papers are dealing with is the TAs’ success at winning a favorable employment contract. The “solution” these white papers propose is to divest from reliance on grad students as teachers. Instead, we’ll use AI, undergrads, and anyone else we can exploit.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UPDATE: Gluesenkamp Perez responds: "My heart breaks for children who don’t feel safe letting their parents into their world. But divorcing a young child’s school life from their home life doesn’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family." More: www.huffpost.com/entry/8-demo...

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

American Historical Association@historians.org · 3mo ago

The AHA’s report on academic hiring in history for the 2024–25 cycle is now available. Read more in #AHAPerspectives.

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

The French Parliament has called for sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, along with his entourage.

French Parliament calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, with far-right and far-left voting against

The resolution condemned the ruling party’s ‘authoritarian drift’.

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‘The protesters weren’t the work’s habitual antagonists, demonstrating under the misapprehension that the opera is antisemitic or glorifies terrorism. They were activists from Firenze per la Palestina.’ @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Olivia Giovetti | ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ in Florence

By now, a production of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer presumes its own opposition. At the Teatro del...

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Operating since 2018, the doula collective offers services such as breastfeeding support, birth planning, and labor and delivery preparation...

The Birthing Hut is taking on racial disparities with Black-centered doula training

In her heart, Iyanna Bridges believes she is an entrepreneur, and for years, she channeled her focus into Bey’s Temple, a natural skincare company. However, after a negative experience giving birth…

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choral composers doing a lot more with chromaticism than sound artists send tweet

Suffering through this Celtics game but it’s legitimately great hearing “roundball rock” every time it goes to commercial

My fantasy is that someone buys the Hampshire land and buildings and turns it into a kind of 'institute for advanced study' for humanities research & public education

Paul Cohen@paulecohen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

let's crowdfund a purchase of the campus so we can restart Hampshire College on an employee-owned cooperative basis who's with me? www.wamc.org/news/2026-04...

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

Resonance | University of California Press

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No real fault of the OP's engagement post, but the replies to this debating the veracity of the Freud quotation show how easy it is to spiral into circular arguments when 10 minutes of normal research can get the answer. The quotation is from a letter by Freud to his fiancée Martha Bernays ...

Anna Mazzola@annamazz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Seeing the reserves for the Timberwolves playing so well and wishing that Mazzulla had put in the Celtics bench much earlier

I haven’t given any $ to a Democratic campaign in years. Haven’t felt they’d know what to do with it. I could however see giving to candidates who explicitly map out how they’d destroy the Supreme Court.

“Against Theory” (Knapp & Michaels, 1982)

Sen. Lemon Gogurt@ugarles.bsky.social · 3mo ago

first of all, we had to figure if shells sometimes just do that

The destruction of Gaza is so total that it changed the nature of echo in the ruinscape, and gunshot sounds are now easy to trace because nothing ricochets off walls www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

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