Beth Boyle Machlan
@bethmachlan.bsky.social
Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
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"The Court’s order reimposing Texas’s racial gerrymander is best explained not by legal principle, but partisan preference and political power. The Republican justices ruled as they did because they want to help their allies."
The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"The Court’s order reimposing Texas’s racial gerrymander is best explained not by legal principle, but partisan preference and political power. The Republican justices ruled as they did because they want to help their allies."
The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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Everyone is Zeus but with less rizz
Modern life involves hearing about a bunch of dipshits who are basically Olympian gods, omnipotent and in control of every aspect of our lives, but also petty and stupid.
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Everyone is Zeus but with less rizz
Hi … we don’t need to make the tent bigger for billionaires, because the whole point is that there are a minuscule number of them and a whole fucking lot of the rest of us.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hi … we don’t need to make the tent bigger for billionaires, because the whole point is that there are a minuscule number of them and a whole fucking lot of the rest of us.
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For a story: I'm looking to speak to earlyish-career workers about their experiences working multiple jobs, whether it's multiple part-time/gig jobs, side hustles on top of full-time jobs, etc. Email [email protected], Signal rstauff.20, DMs open.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For a story: I'm looking to speak to earlyish-career workers about their experiences working multiple jobs, whether it's multiple part-time/gig jobs, side hustles on top of full-time jobs, etc. Email [email protected], Signal rstauff.20, DMs open.
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Confirmed: They're playing November Rain by Guns n' Roses ahead of Trump signing a peace agreement with Rwanda and the DRC at the US Institute of Peace building.
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Confirmed: They're playing November Rain by Guns n' Roses ahead of Trump signing a peace agreement with Rwanda and the DRC at the US Institute of Peace building.
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tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
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This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
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Fuck this. Fuck. This.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Fuck this. Fuck. This.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
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Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
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Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.
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Posting this on December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a choice, @theatlantic.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans access the same opportunities as their nondisabled peers, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social reports. How did they become another way for wealthy students to gain an advantage?
Elite Colleges Have an Extra-Time-on-Tests Problem
Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans enjoy the same opportunities as everyone else. How did they become another way for wealthy students to gain an advantage?
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Posting this on December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a choice, @theatlantic.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
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Alright, real talk. Does anyone have any resources on writing a great personal statement for grad school applications?
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Alright, real talk. Does anyone have any resources on writing a great personal statement for grad school applications?
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If you've got some coin, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you've got some coin, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
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“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi
On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”
www.nybooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
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Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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i read this essay as a wonderful unpacking of the material and political conditions that undergird relational, caring ways of doing language together, that underlines the need to collectively fight for these conditions
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
i read this essay as a wonderful unpacking of the material and political conditions that undergird relational, caring ways of doing language together, that underlines the need to collectively fight for these conditions
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meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21
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i love spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year not using chatgpt
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i love spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year not using chatgpt
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this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
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November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM