Janine Holc
@jholc.bsky.social
Academic, writer, hostage to a miniature red poodle, lover of Baltimore City, escapee from Tw*****
I loved the love in this
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I loved the love in this
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Maryland tenant friends -- if you're facing eviction, you may be able to seek assistance through the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program. Go here for more information: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...
Maryland Announces Eviction Prevention Funds for Eight Jurisdictions | Economic Action MD Fund
To receive eviction prevention funds, a household must have a child in a Community School in a participating jurisdiction living in the home.
econaction.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Maryland tenant friends -- if you're facing eviction, you may be able to seek assistance through the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program. Go here for more information: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
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November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email [email protected] if you are interested.
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email [email protected] if you are interested.
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this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward.
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People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org
Looking back- looking ahead
cehc.hypotheses.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org
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Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.
October 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.
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The strongest allies are not always in your face. Often they are quietly working behind the scenes with little to no recognition.
The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.
The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.
October 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The strongest allies are not always in your face. Often they are quietly working behind the scenes with little to no recognition.
The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.
The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.
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Bad news for the EU and Ukraine: Czechia has become the third potential veto player against pro-EU and pro-Ukraine initiatives. More so than ever before.
It’s also another reason to be less optimistic about corruption control and the rule of law in Czechia, the wider region and Europe as a whole.
It’s also another reason to be less optimistic about corruption control and the rule of law in Czechia, the wider region and Europe as a whole.
BREAKING: Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babis has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback.
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show
Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Bad news for the EU and Ukraine: Czechia has become the third potential veto player against pro-EU and pro-Ukraine initiatives. More so than ever before.
It’s also another reason to be less optimistic about corruption control and the rule of law in Czechia, the wider region and Europe as a whole.
It’s also another reason to be less optimistic about corruption control and the rule of law in Czechia, the wider region and Europe as a whole.
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.
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In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.
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Wanna know whose shutdown this is?
Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.
Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Wanna know whose shutdown this is?
Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.
Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.
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Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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I have a book cover! After years of work, "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" is available for pre-order. It will ship in March and the official release date is set for April 2026. I can't wait to share this important history and hear from readers!
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have a book cover! After years of work, "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" is available for pre-order. It will ship in March and the official release date is set for April 2026. I can't wait to share this important history and hear from readers!
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The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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This Saturday (Sep 27) I'll be talking with Sayer Holliday of the New York Society Library and unless you are planning to be there in person there is no need to sign up. Just click the link at 3pm EDT!
www.nysoclib.org/events/bad-i...
www.nysoclib.org/events/bad-i...
Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds | The New York Society Library
Join the New York Society Library and acclaimed Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec for an exploration of her new "Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds." This powerful literary ...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This Saturday (Sep 27) I'll be talking with Sayer Holliday of the New York Society Library and unless you are planning to be there in person there is no need to sign up. Just click the link at 3pm EDT!
www.nysoclib.org/events/bad-i...
www.nysoclib.org/events/bad-i...
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A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids.
Kids: "Cheating."
Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—"
Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."
Kids: "Cheating."
Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—"
Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."
And to be clear, Chat GPT doesn’t do this very well. A human could do it better if they cared to try.
September 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids.
Kids: "Cheating."
Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—"
Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."
Kids: "Cheating."
Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—"
Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."
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i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”
Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access
CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require
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September 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”