Ivan Kreilkamp
@ivan812.bsky.social
English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
This 2019 interview with art collector Stuart Pivar about Epstein really gives a flavor of those dinner parties 😯
“He brought together the most important scientists like Stephen Gould, like Steve Pinker…”
“He brought together the most important scientists like Stephen Gould, like Steve Pinker…”
Jeffrey Epstein, my very, very sick pal
A very weird interview with Stuart Pivar about Epstein, his science parties, his "pathology," and the industrial scale of it all.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This 2019 interview with art collector Stuart Pivar about Epstein really gives a flavor of those dinner parties 😯
“He brought together the most important scientists like Stephen Gould, like Steve Pinker…”
“He brought together the most important scientists like Stephen Gould, like Steve Pinker…”
This story is wild
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt- the missing kayaker from Wisconsin convicted of staging his own death. An interview with his now ex-wife. Gift link.
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This story is wild
Jeff Tweedy & his family band concluded encore in Bloomington with 2 songs by Indiana musicians, one by Jason Molina and then this slightly better-known number
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Jeff Tweedy & his family band concluded encore in Bloomington with 2 songs by Indiana musicians, one by Jason Molina and then this slightly better-known number
1828 mortgage deed to an enslaved person. $300. It’s quite something to see this kind of original document. @ Lilly Library
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
1828 mortgage deed to an enslaved person. $300. It’s quite something to see this kind of original document. @ Lilly Library
I think it’s time to issue a TIME OUT / pause on any and all use of the phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug.”
Possibly we can come back to it after a cooldown period, but too soon to say at the moment
Possibly we can come back to it after a cooldown period, but too soon to say at the moment
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I think it’s time to issue a TIME OUT / pause on any and all use of the phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug.”
Possibly we can come back to it after a cooldown period, but too soon to say at the moment
Possibly we can come back to it after a cooldown period, but too soon to say at the moment
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Happy “On the Calculation of Volume” (by Solvej Balle) day for those who celebrate !!
Psyched for Vol. 3 out today
Psyched for Vol. 3 out today
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy “On the Calculation of Volume” (by Solvej Balle) day for those who celebrate !!
Psyched for Vol. 3 out today
Psyched for Vol. 3 out today
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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E B White's granddaughter says that the author of Charlotte's Web detested fascism in all forms and would be revolted by Greg Bovino's stealing of the work's title to describe his domestic terror operations. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN
In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
E B White's granddaughter says that the author of Charlotte's Web detested fascism in all forms and would be revolted by Greg Bovino's stealing of the work's title to describe his domestic terror operations. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Lots of memorable lines e.g. “It’s like this pay-to-play Tasmanian devil,” one veteran political operative told me. “You just feed her any sort of D.E.I. comment that some executive made over the last twelve years—then you just expect total anarchy and a wide blast zone.”
Around D.C., analogies about Laura Loomer abound—she is everything from Trump’s Rasputin to the “MAGA Grand Inquisitor.” Loomer thinks the most apt comparison is to Joseph McCarthy, a parallel she finds flattering. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nzLTtb
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Lots of memorable lines e.g. “It’s like this pay-to-play Tasmanian devil,” one veteran political operative told me. “You just feed her any sort of D.E.I. comment that some executive made over the last twelve years—then you just expect total anarchy and a wide blast zone.”
I’ll believe it when Laura Loomer spontaneously combusts. Or melts into goo
Literally stunned that someone like MTG is forcing herself to apologize, of all things. Indicative of a political wind blowing away from performative cruelty in politics because she is a weather-vane politician if ever there was one.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’ll believe it when Laura Loomer spontaneously combusts. Or melts into goo
Republicans may come to regret picking this battle. “And while Republican-backed efforts continue to stall across the country, Democrats are beginning to ramp up their efforts”
Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December.
Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure
It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Republicans may come to regret picking this battle. “And while Republican-backed efforts continue to stall across the country, Democrats are beginning to ramp up their efforts”
Great news
Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December.
Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure
It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Great news
“Born-old buzzwords fell through the following months like a grey snow: “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” students as “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing””
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Born-old buzzwords fell through the following months like a grey snow: “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” students as “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing””
Like Charli XCX, I also appreciate Wuthering Heights’s sentences, punctuation, & grammar
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Like Charli XCX, I also appreciate Wuthering Heights’s sentences, punctuation, & grammar
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
“Legalized gambling is completely antithetical to a functioning society-/ to promote this to young men in particular. It's predatory in nature. It's highly addictive. It's just a sense of financial nihilism.”
(Says the biggest NBA bettor ever)
(Says the biggest NBA bettor ever)
"Your League Is So Cooked": Th… - Pablo Torre Finds Out - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · Pablo Torre Finds Out · 11/06/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Legalized gambling is completely antithetical to a functioning society-/ to promote this to young men in particular. It's predatory in nature. It's highly addictive. It's just a sense of financial nihilism.”
(Says the biggest NBA bettor ever)
(Says the biggest NBA bettor ever)
B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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when you’re too embarrassing a wing nut for this SCOTUS you’ve cleared a very high bar
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis' call to overturn its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...
www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...
US Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis' Call to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Rights
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
when you’re too embarrassing a wing nut for this SCOTUS you’ve cleared a very high bar
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it