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Carly Goodman
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Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian.

Nobody should be deported.

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Are any public historians teaching 250th courses and would you like to share syllabi and/or put a panel together for ncph in providence?
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I know it’s been a decade now but I still find mentions of Trump from pre-maga pop culture extremely jarring
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I do think crisis of masculinity explains a lot but since masculinity is always crisis we need to figure out why it dominates at some moments more perhaps than others
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“First rule of a full heart: Never begrudge when others get what they need.”

I am going to miss Carolyn Hax so much when she or I leave the WP forever

www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
Column | Carolyn Hax: After he postponed wedding, fiancée split and took the sympathy with her
He postponed their wedding over concerns for their short engagement, but when his fiancée walked, he got zero support.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You never get the time with a six month old back
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My kid loves numbers, pattern recognition, being funny, and being in community so I think those are all at work in 67
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My gratitude for today is that the bike lane around city hall no longer suddenly disappears at the SW curve
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The WP noticed that mass deportations are a horror, but they remain totally committed to the project. They just want it to seem nicer, more purposeful. All of this for nothing but white nationalism. So many lies, obfuscation.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the biff tannen museum is underrated
In back to the future II they should have gone back and not built the carceral state instead of simply trying to prevent the incarceration of Marty McFly’s son. In this essay I will
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In back to the future II they should have gone back and not built the carceral state instead of simply trying to prevent the incarceration of Marty McFly’s son. In this essay I will
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It makes me think that they have no wit because wit is relational, and they have no relationships because Other People Aren’t Real. Wit is grounded in love.
The tech bros don’t want artificial intelligence, they want artificial wit. They want this because they have no natural wit.

InsultComicGPT or Don Grokles is indeed the saddest thing imaginable.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I kind of feel like there’s a special ring of hell for the members of the wp ed board
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If I was cryogenically frozen in 1997 and woke up in 2027 I would be so upset!!
Seen a lot of preparation going into the semiquin in 2026, but much less fanfare about the forthcoming 30th anniversary of Austin Powers in 2027 (marking the same time gap between Powers’ own cryogenic freezing in 1967 and awakening in 1997).
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The recording of our Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the US webinar is now available at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev...
@iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Seen a lot of preparation going into the semiquin in 2026, but much less fanfare about the forthcoming 30th anniversary of Austin Powers in 2027 (marking the same time gap between Powers’ own cryogenic freezing in 1967 and awakening in 1997).
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“In the last forlorn days of America's occupation of Saigon, an American reporter pressed a reluctant diplomat for the "lessons of the war." "They will be whatever makes us think well of ourselves," he replied, "so that our sleep will be untroubled."”
SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This includes the doge lawyer who I hope is too ashamed to show up at the HS reunion next weekend
DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue
The Damage that Doge did is incalculable

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Turns out everyone on Twitter were from like a few countries outside the US.

Meanwhile, most of BlueSky is from the greatest country in the world: Philadelphia
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
You def get the impression that kash doesn’t care about his crimes being revealed because the stories all mention that he has a girlfriend
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wonder how jarring it would feel, if you took a time machine to 1995, to experience shared spaces with people who had no phones to scroll. Small talk, eye contact, both extroversion and introspection would all feel pretty different I bet.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kid made an ornament out of the mold of the orthodontist made of her teeth, I’m in love
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Has anyone written a scathing essay about wonder? I am so angry at it. And I think a lot of people don’t know what it is.
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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People will cling to the familiar even if it is killing them. If one doesn't understand this basic fact, then you will be so confounded on multiple levels.
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
Bill of goods / Feline fame
Felipe De La Hoz on immigrants’ regrets; Ace and Jack on Hollywood cats
flaminghydra.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM