Theresa Ganz
@theresaganz.bsky.social
Professor of Visual Art, Brown University I think about the Roman Empire on the reg. Www.theresaganz.com
“The Red-Headed League” is a Sherlock Holmes mystery that can laugh at itself: defector.com/the-red-head...
"The Red-Headed League" Is A Sherlock Holmes Mystery That Can Laugh At Itself | Defector
I was a Mystery Kid, and every Mystery Kid knows how that goes. Only stories of remarkable children—Nancy Drew, Frank and Joe Hardy, Encyclopedia Brown—could enliven my unremarkable life. Recently I…
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I would never draw the conclusion that most of those dropped are in blue areas, but regardless Texans, check your registration status ASAP. It's easy and only takes a minute.
Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 2d agoMore than 1.2 million Texans are on the state’s Voter Suspense list ahead of the fall’s contentious midterm elections. Texans still have time to check if they’re registered to vote before the October 5 deadline. Here’s how.
This feels like every day during the second Trump administration.
“Trump is permission to be your worst self” is still the most coherent explanation of Trumpism as a phenomenon.
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2w agoNowhere do you see this more clearly than in talking to those obama-to-trump swing voters. They used to be better people, they used to at least profess to believe in virtue, even if incoherently. The incoherence is still there but the values are not, they've become maladjusted & morally stunted
1 in 4 American Jews say they would be more likely to be involved in American Jewish spaces and organizations if there were more “spaces where non-Zionist and anti-Zionist views can be expressed without being labelled antisemitic.” www.jta.org/2026/08/14/u...
Some young Jews are pulling back from Jewish life over Israel discourse, study finds - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The survey also found that three-quarters of young Jewish adults in the U.S. regularly do something Jewish.
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There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.
"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" is this administration's general vibe.
Andrew Facini@andrewfacini.com · 2w agoThis will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever
Today 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...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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knowledge is knowing that NYC isn't actually the capital of the USA, wisdom is knowing that yeah it is
If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.
Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 3w agoA concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnes
honestly, a middle-brow (complimentary) director doing a big splashy Classics adaptation that’s sold out for a month at the IMAX and there’s an ongoing debate about it with one of its en vogue translators is probably the healthiest the culture has been in a long time
Walking into the cinema to go see The Odyssey while carrying an LRB tote bag and a highlighted copy of Emily Wilson’s review. It impresses all the staff, and they offer me a free bag of popcorn. I refuse, as I pull out my container of Kimchi. Everyone stops what they’re doing and applauds
This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm
Alexandra Bravo, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors’ accounts of torture & kidnapping by US, was shot dead by a hitman. The police detail that had been assigned to protect her was not present. www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · last mo.
Mitch McConnell told Andy Beshear that it’s too close to an election to nominate a senator to fill his spot.
He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape
Charles Burchfield, "Dusty Road in July", 1952-58, Watercolor and charcoal on paper mounted on board, 35" x 50"
There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.
Anthony's Spinning Circles here too!@circlesspinning.bsky.social · 2mo agoMaga taking shelter in the National Museum of African-American History And Culture!
me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???
"There’s simply no future for real democratic self-government in the United States with this corrupt Court in place." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken
This likely goes without saying. But I’ll say it anyway and add...
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i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Here's what that looks like
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo agoElon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Here's what that looks like
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
