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Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
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literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly

https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Exclusive: Texts messages offer an unfiltered account of University of Virginia board members speaking about ending “chemical and surgical mutilation” for transgender youth at its hospitals and undoing “regimes of racial classification” in its classrooms.
‘This is war’: In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
Private messages between University of Virginia board members and other officials show how they deliberated on key issues and Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s involvement in university operations.
www.washingtonpost.com

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madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social · 2d
Our book has a cover!

Co-edited with @seanobrien.bsky.social , featuring many wonderful contributors, and an Afterword by Annie McClanahan.

Comes out in June, available for preorder now from @plutopress.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
The Return of the 90s - Pluto Press
Why are we so obsessed with the 90s? This is an insightful political reckoning with an anomalous decade
www.plutobooks.com

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 3d
“There has been much discussion in recent years about the supposed scourge of ‘virtue signaling.’ But we could stand to spend more time discussing a related and increasingly pervasive phenomenon: vice signaling.”

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on how the Trump administration is doing and what it means:
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net

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historyiswhat.bsky.social
History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 4d
Minneapolis responds
demonstrators take the streets of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026 banners: LAND BACK (upside down american flag) FTP

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 4d
really interesting discussion -- can't wait for you book, Matt!

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kvetch.gay
taber @kvetch.gay · 4d
Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4d
Some Minneapolis protesters throw snowballs at law enforcement officers as demonstrators march after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman.

Law enforcement earlier deployed pepper spray and tear gas, KARE reports.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 4d
So much love for the @jckessler.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & the whole UIC Faculty United, who collectively programmed this event, & then had the generosity & gumption to say, let’s share it with the world, because we are @higheredlabor.bsky.social United.

+ @bakerdphd.bsky.social is 🔥
Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
open.substack.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 5d
congratulations -- I look forward to reading this

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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 5d
phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way
The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part I
Notes on The Transformation Problem
phases.substack.com

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Remember That Guy? @rememberthatguy.bsky.social · 5d
dante made up an entire fake trip through hell just so he could talk about how he coincidentally saw every single one of his enemies there receiving graphically specific and tailor-made punishments
carthaged.bsky.social Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 5d
Do you have a historical figure you most wish got to be a poster? I feel like you must have a better answer than mine, which is Churchill. The guy started autobiography when he was 19 I think. And just never stopped. True poster.

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madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social · 12d
it's coming out again night after night more of us
than there are of them it's saying no
to every deal remember nothing
belongs to you because nothing
belongs to anyone

to Joshua, on what should’ve been his birthday
Photo of Joshua Clover

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12d
I published exactly one (1) piece this year because life / other Work. Here you go. Eat it up.
Money for Nothing: Finance and the End of Culture - Public Books
Art continues to get made—that’s what human beings do—but capital devours it.
www.publicbooks.org

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 13d
say more lol

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 13d
HMU when you have read this and want to discuss :)
Ryan Ruby, Wikipedia and the Novel, NLR 156, November–December 2025
Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ pseudo-erudition. But might these be signs of an iPhone era ‘regime of perception’? ...
newleftreview.org

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 13d
"TNS senior management has multiple decent revenue options that allow it to close its deficit over 3 years without gutting large parts of the academic workforce and existing curriculum" -- @cnewf.bsky.social on the New School conjuncture
Liner Note 45. What Did They Do to the New School?
Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022    I mean the question literally.   The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...
utotherescue.blogspot.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13d
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
Sarahs!!!

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
does a portmanteau count

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
Getting off Twitter finally in 2026. I'll stick around here instead. Apologies in advance. Let's have some fun. ☺️

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
I keep waiting for cultural objects to be stripped of their affective force by my knowledge of how capitalist social relations shape their form and value but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ jokes on me I guess

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
it's apropos

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
🥰

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14d
thank you 😍