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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1h

I have a tendency to say this every day but I love Philadelphia so much and feel like it’s such an honor to get to live here with my neighbors.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3h

I do not regret to inform you that Carly is an authoritative source

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 6h

I am rereading Gun Country because my grad students are reading it next week and I do not regret to inform you that @drewmckevitt.bsky.social is a genius

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5h

It’s wild watching any semblance of shared reality disappear in real time

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5h

Once you see how hard it is to make you absolutely must cry over it

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5h

Everything or sesame with scallion cream cheese and a salted tomato slice, pls

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 6h

There’s this scene in freaks and geeks where Nick Andopolis is listening to Lindsey’s dad’s Buddy Rich drumming record and his face can’t contain his joy at what he’s hearing; that’s how I feel watching Drew cook

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 6h

It couldn’t even tell what song was playing 🙄

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 6h

I am rereading Gun Country because my grad students are reading it next week and I do not regret to inform you that @drewmckevitt.bsky.social is a genius

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7h

I could have sworn the general consensus, between 1980s-2001, was that free expression was conceptually important, likewise privacy; not that everyone’s rights were upheld obvi but like rhetorically, this being a place where they should be?

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 11h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7h

Milkshakes didn’t quench the blood thirst I guess

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 9h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8h

Found myself wondering, who designed this sign? What did they think about it? Who set it up? Did it not seem weird to anyone?

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 8h

We are all baby

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 9h

Ripping millions of people away from the fabric of our communities is creating unfathomable mass trauma

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 9h

Is there a non cloud based word processor that we should be using because Word and Docs are run by monsters who want to steal from us, own and constrain our thoughts, and diminish the user experience besides

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 9h

Bike share systems are I think my favorite technology of the last quarter century. Just a deeply human, flexible, useful, easy way to be in a city (my own or others!) and feel free, alive.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah my scholarly work is going great, much productive

A child’s sweatshirt with the derpy cat from kpop demon hunters made of felt and sewn on, for a Halloween costume

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Overall society seems to have incentivized an awful lot of extremely antisocial behavior and it turns out that sucks

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

The pain of my people, I can feel it weighing on my shoulders. May we foster brighter days ahead.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Damn you are good!!!

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

It undermines the trust that is at the heart of education, which we have already eroded in so many ways, but which is worth trying to preserve and sustain

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