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Eleanor Courtemanche

@ecourtem.bsky.social

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Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · Jan 30

For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...

Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory

If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 13h

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

hell to the YEAH

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 17h

Stunning acting this week from the actor who plays (erm) shitweasel misogynist hacker Roddy Ho

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 21h

This week’s JAMBOROO topper is about Slow Horses, which is a perfect TV show. defector.com/how-slow-hor...

How 'Slow Horses' Explains The World | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE,...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

It would be *extremely* funny if the Nobel committee just gave it to Obama again.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

Wowwwww

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

This man is rising to the occasion. Trump’s greatest legacy may be the election of President Pritzker in 2028.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

Pale light of autumn

A delicate white aster growing from a sidewalk crack with its flowers illuminated by a low pale sunbeam

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 1d

Reading a passage from the 1890 Lippincott’s version of _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ at our campus’s banned book week event. So glad our library organized this!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.

Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain. - News Creator Corps

The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 2d

as a child I was led to believe I'd hear a lot more about Rice-a-Roni after moving to the San Francisco area

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I was reading Swinburne this year. dudes just finding a place to crash and spinning out poems so hot Edith Sitwell has to censor them. gravy train

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

It’s basically this emoji 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

Cosmic irony? I now think almost everything is cosmic irony sad lol

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Making copies

A set of prints made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

👀

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

"The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo."

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

A haha!!

Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2d

We saw the first episode of the Galician comedy Old Dog New Tricks on Netflix last night and it was funny & sweet

Plot summary from Wikipedia

The plot follows gruff rural veterinarian Antón from the fictional Galician village of Topomorto, who loses his clients and is begrudgingly forced to join an animal boutique managed by his niece Uxía. (1] (2]