Meredith McGill
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
Excellent news. Share the details with young people in your life, particularly in Red states….
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 4d agogood news for women's healthcare in the US msmagazine.com/2026/08/11/a...
One of the more insidious ideas being incepted via right & center attacks on HigherEd is that college experiences are homogenous. The heterogeneity of the US system is one of its greatest strengths. Their goal of homogenization is served by an illusion of homogeny, just homogeny of the wrong sort.
Hey, hey! Our federal government is kidnapping families with green cards and holding them in detention indefinitely even after they agree to leave the US. This is wildly unlawful as well as immoral. Crimes!! Crimes against humanity!
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 6d agoToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The great Sherrilyn Ifill is shaken. Read her reflections on the confirmation of Todd Blanche and you'll be shaken, too, but we all need to be shaken into action to save what remains of democracy and the rule of law in the United States. Read and act accordingly.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · last wk.My latest: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
“This is not a case of go do the reading and then you can start making a plan. Reading, listening, and having conversations is the plan…”
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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I was a Compliance Officer. I covered BSA/AML fraud for 7 years. If they closed his accounts, he is most definitely guilty. 300+ times guilty.
We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.
Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.
US Historian friends: a grad student asked about recent-ish scholarship on the “counter-Enlightenment” in the C18 and early C19 US, and I’m coming up short. Pre-Transcendentalist Rx to Unitarianism, which I can help on. All suggestions welcome!
Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
nytimes.com
We’ve been saying this about diversity all along. It’s one of the things Americans should be most proud of.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 2w agoHegseth’s failures reveal that the real fear of diversity is its strength: it stress-tests ideas, privileges merit over status, and ensures the best ideas—not the most protected insider status—win out
Hegseth’s failures reveal that the real fear of diversity is its strength: it stress-tests ideas, privileges merit over status, and ensures the best ideas—not the most protected insider status—win out
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 2w agoWatching Hegseth lose this war over and over in the most vicious way is the ultimate proof of what happens when the bar is lowered to the floor for one particular demographic, while spitting on everyone else.
Worth remembering that Talarico raised so much money he just gave some away to other Texas candidates and Mamdani raised so much money during the primary that he told people to donate to Adrienne Adams. People aren't giving up on Ds. They just don't like the DNC. The DNC should think about that!
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3w agocan my comparative politics folks come up with any other example of the opposition party being $2m in debt when the incumbent government is ~20 points underwater on approval?
Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years — telling students to walk away
Medical experts, however, strongly disagree with Musk's claims.
finance.yahoo.com
"The actual epistemological crisis we are entering now is one better exemplified by the Vanderbilt report’s AI-generated analyses: automated data collection, sloppy analysis, and a growing sprawl of LLM-generated pseudo-evidence." 9/n
Hire some people now at the DNC (for example) who are keeping track of the money that states that voted for Harris are currently illegally losing. Add the $$ up figure out the interest payment and be ready to restore with penalties assessed.
What Trump Should Be Impeached For First
What Trump Should Be Impeached For First
The disaster aid numbers are the clearest proof of what this presidency is—and what it threatens to become.
thefarce.org
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
You may think the camps are for someone else. DHS has already floated “100 million deportations” as a real number. Only 47 million people living in America were born somewhere else. Hitting 100 million means coming for citizens too, native-born and naturalized alike.
These concentration camps are being built for us. We can stop them. | LOLGOP Studios
DHS seems to be taking bids for a global network of offshore detention camps that serve a "remigration" agenda. We must force Congress to in
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🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last mo.We have a chance to stop one of those historic horrors where people look back and say, "Why didn't anyone stop that?" The Trump regime has taken formal steps to build a global network of up to 1,000-bed concentration camps. The window to stop this will close soon. We must be the ones to stop it.
The real bombshell is not that China stole 2020. It is that Trump released: 1) an intelligence assessment describing a Putin-directed operation that used Biden-Burisma allegations and American intermediaries to help TRUMP. Putin+Trump colluded in 2020. Lost election still Russia 2024 again.
This is, at the same time, a remarkable rebuke of the man Trump is installing as Attorney General, who was basically called a fraud by the court, and of what we can only describe as Blanche's job application for the position, and exactly what we should expect he'll do with his power.
Trump’s extraordinary ‘settlement’ agreement is defeated by the court
A judge rules against a complex high-value fund being created without legislation or oversight by a court
prospectmagazine.co.uk
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · last mo.Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
