Hilarie Ashton
@hilarieashton.bsky.social
Academia, abolition, boxing, cats, mutual aid
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In non- pipeline news: I'm at a diner and the kid at the next table informs me that "This is the best apple juice I've had IN MY LIFE."
Small joys
Small joys
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In non- pipeline news: I'm at a diner and the kid at the next table informs me that "This is the best apple juice I've had IN MY LIFE."
Small joys
Small joys
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Can't grade if it means disturbing the cat.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Can't grade if it means disturbing the cat.
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Fall Out Boy had been around for a time by the time my daughter fell in love with 'Uma Thurman.' Now, they're one of my favorite bands. Never underestimate the power of a child's influence.
Because I became a dad in 2003, I didn’t really keep up with the new music of the oughts. So when my younger daughter played some Arctic Monkeys for me this evening, it was a lovely revelation.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Fall Out Boy had been around for a time by the time my daughter fell in love with 'Uma Thurman.' Now, they're one of my favorite bands. Never underestimate the power of a child's influence.
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my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica
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The best part of the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary is playing spot the dog in the old paintings
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The best part of the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary is playing spot the dog in the old paintings
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
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The same people who want you to hate Palestinians want you to hate transgender people too. And are not shy about denigrating a person's rabbinical credentials just because she happens to be transgender. She was ordained as a rabbi before she transitioned, fwiw, not that it changes her qualifications
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The same people who want you to hate Palestinians want you to hate transgender people too. And are not shy about denigrating a person's rabbinical credentials just because she happens to be transgender. She was ordained as a rabbi before she transitioned, fwiw, not that it changes her qualifications
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
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Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
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Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Me, when family members try to explain the plot of the new Wicked movie
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Me, when family members try to explain the plot of the new Wicked movie
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BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
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Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
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All these institutions think Dems aren’t going to do anything btw
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
All these institutions think Dems aren’t going to do anything btw
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(destroying my reputation for a person with a lower approval rating than the Bears' head coach)
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
(destroying my reputation for a person with a lower approval rating than the Bears' head coach)
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He’s at 60% disproval lol
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
He’s at 60% disproval lol
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It’s also possible that any aide who usually stops or distracts him has gone home to their families and he’s bunkered in with a TV set and the real zealots.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It’s also possible that any aide who usually stops or distracts him has gone home to their families and he’s bunkered in with a TV set and the real zealots.
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tv president wants to dominate sunday morning shows and saturday night variety, that's the logic of all the friday night massacres
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
tv president wants to dominate sunday morning shows and saturday night variety, that's the logic of all the friday night massacres
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I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
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Generations, like time itself, are inventions for facile thinkpieces too flimsy to withstand the slightest scrutiny
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Generations, like time itself, are inventions for facile thinkpieces too flimsy to withstand the slightest scrutiny
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*blinks in mid- to late-90's modern adaptations*
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
*blinks in mid- to late-90's modern adaptations*