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Anise K. Strong

@anisekstrong.bsky.social

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Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · Aug 19

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

Assistant/Associate Professor - African American History - Tenure Track

Western Michigan University invites applications and nominations for the position of full-time tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor in the field of African American history to start August 20...

www.wmujobs.org

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 17m

It is difficult to explain to our puppy why I'm not nearly as excited as she is about her unearthing the rabbit den in our backyard at 8:30 AM. She keeps yipping ecstastically & dashing back between the den & trying to get me to come over & help, as is clearly my ancestral duty. I am a Bad Human.

CLoseup of a tan-furred, blue-eyed dog looking imploringly at me.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13h

what a time to be alive

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 14h

My first reaction on hearing the Gaza ceasefire news was relief and some joy. My second reaction was to wonder whether the pressure for getting it done by Wednesday was a correlation or an effect of the Nobel timeline. It felt so much like writing a paper at the last minute and expecting an A+.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 14h

That certainly wasn't my assumption or implication - just that in fact it almost always has greater costs! Especially in ancient history, and even in reception studies - both of which are my fields - research & publication costs are actually pretty darn cheap for the most part.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16h

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 19h

Just to be clear, the circumcision “link” to autism RFK announced is:
-Antisemitic
-Anti-Muslim
-Ableist and Neuroableist
-Sexist (implies that women can’t be autistic)
-Rooted in conspiracy theories
-Medically unsound

…I could go on. Like his Tylenol assertion, it’s total BS.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 15h

Also, because if the fascists try to ban them, right before Halloween, a thousand dinosaurs will rise up in the night.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 15h

I would like the largest # of qualified projects possible to receive the funding they need to succeed. This award falls out of the pattern for projects of its type, while not having information available explaining why it needs that $$$. Meanwhile, other projects are losing existing funding.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 18h

It has nothing to do with "deserves." It's the financial reality of the average cost to produce a traditional monograph vs. a large-scale open access digital project. These costs are reflected in decades of NEH awards. It appears the ceiling for a book in 2024 was $60,000

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 23h

There is for me a distinction between "begrudging a grant" overall & honestly wondering why, when normal book grants are ~30K, this particular project is getting 8 grants worth of funding when many other extremely deserving projects have had their funding yanked halfway through. Spread the funding!

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I would very much play that! It would feel very therapeutic right now!

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

today's earworm:
🎶if you're proud of what you're doing, show your face🎶

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I love Sarmizegetusa though I've never been there, because it is always the battle/city name that panics even my confident students, especially when giving oral presentations. To reassure them, I've adopted a practice of collectively chanting it in chorus at increasing volume: Sar-mi-ze-ge-tu-SA.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa:

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously, they're a veteran of the 54th MA Infantry/Michigan 102nd, or, given AC's penchant for name-dropping, the 2nd S. Carolina Volunteers so they can hang out with Harriet Tubman. They survive hell, get mustered out...& then probably face tragedy causing them to join the Assassins vs the Klan.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

I love shitting on social media as much as the next guy, but Skype a Scientist was built directly from social media connections.

We've matched over 60,000 classrooms with scientists from it...

That's pretty great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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