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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3h

(this is why it's America's game. because it's so wonderful and so stupid at the same time.)

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 14h

Two things about fascism I didn't really grasp until it became our reality:

1) it's not all-or-nothing. You can have more or less fascism. (Which means even though that's where we are, we can still push back, resist, make many things less bad for many people.

2) It isn't *everywhere* +

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone know of a #fountainpen ink maker in Connecticut (or Southern New England more broadly)?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16h

A gorgeous day in Hartford.

The red brick and wood front of the Mark Twain House lit up by sunlight against a cloudless blue sky

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 1d

"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal."

(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)

Down in Dyess

Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.”

contingentmagazine.org

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to us live from the inside of a lemon!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

The number of books was eye-watering, even for someone with a good job and support!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it was the author's intention, but I think it also furthers the argument of people who think there can be a "teaching" track and a "research" track for faculty and that the quality of teaching and research will both remain unchanged.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but honestly, it's got the same problems as the TT success narratives. If it's not replicable in any meaningful way--and this isn't--then what are we to take from it?

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

This is a..weird article. I mean, good for this guy that he found a fulfilling career, etc. Not taking anything away from that.

But, it also seems odd for the AHA to be sort of glamming up a contingent career without tenure in this particular moment.

www.historians.org/perspectives...

How Giving Up Tenure Made Me a Less Distinguished and More Influential Professor

Giving up tenure gave this professor more time to focus on supporting his students.

www.historians.org

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

This is a..weird article. I mean, good for this guy that he found a fulfilling career, etc. Not taking anything away from that.

But, it also seems odd for the AHA to be sort of glamming up a contingent career without tenure in this particular moment.

www.historians.org/perspectives...

How Giving Up Tenure Made Me a Less Distinguished and More Influential Professor

Giving up tenure gave this professor more time to focus on supporting his students.

www.historians.org

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 1d

Leaning into the witchy allegations hoping to catch your attention.

Healthcare is on the line, it doesn't take a psychic to see that.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

good gravy

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

You know it!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

thank you twizzlers (1 lb bag)

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you doritos

Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 3d

thank u Kraft mac & cheese

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

The giant ballroom is so we can all get a seat for the tribunals.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

I worked from home yesterday and didn't go outside, and when I came out this morning, I gasped at the big red brushstroke that had appeared up the side of a huge tree on my street.