Leila Walker
@lwalker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
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Leila Walker
@lwalker.bsky.social
· Aug 31
Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism | Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Efforts to diversify the field of Romanticism, long overdue, have intensified recently, and many Romanticist organizations now sponsor programmes aimed at amplifying Black and Brown voices. Most of th...
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New article! "Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism." I couldn't include acknowledgments, but I'm so grateful to @zugenia.bsky.social, @reneemc.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, Andrew McKinney, and Duncan Faherty for helping make this happen. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
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Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”
It has come to my attention that there are Leftists on God’s green earth who haven’t seen the television program Leverage. My friends. My Leftist friends. You must watch this program. It is a heist and they steal capitalism.
January 19, 2026 at 2:59 AM
It has come to my attention that there are Leftists on God’s green earth who haven’t seen the television program Leverage. My friends. My Leftist friends. You must watch this program. It is a heist and they steal capitalism.
I lived in a very cold (real temp -27, feels like -42) town for a year. I am not an expert! But I wore Muck boots and they worked.
GET GOOD BOOTS. generic "snow" boots will do nothing for you. You want something waterproof with a temp rating. These will not be cute, but you will keep your toes.
Get Yaktrax. They will quite literally save your ass.
Get chemical hand and toe warmers. They will save your extremities.
Get Yaktrax. They will quite literally save your ass.
Get chemical hand and toe warmers. They will save your extremities.
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 AM
I lived in a very cold (real temp -27, feels like -42) town for a year. I am not an expert! But I wore Muck boots and they worked.
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(we don't live in a democracy in a meaningful way anymore and we know it)
January 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
(we don't live in a democracy in a meaningful way anymore and we know it)
I mean why California? Can New York get in on this offer?
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 18, 2026 at 4:48 AM
I mean why California? Can New York get in on this offer?
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I live in Ridgewood, Queens, and 11 days ago a fire destroyed four buildings in the neighborhood and displaced 50+ people. The community stepped up in a way I've never seen with donations of physical items but these folks need to rebuild. Please help if you can.
sites.google.com/view/ridgewo...
sites.google.com/view/ridgewo...
Ridgewood Fire - English
A five-alarm fire broke out in the early morning on January 6 in a rent-stabilized building on Madison Street between Onderdonk Ave and Seneca Ave. The fire impacted four buildings total and left 26 o...
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January 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I live in Ridgewood, Queens, and 11 days ago a fire destroyed four buildings in the neighborhood and displaced 50+ people. The community stepped up in a way I've never seen with donations of physical items but these folks need to rebuild. Please help if you can.
sites.google.com/view/ridgewo...
sites.google.com/view/ridgewo...
I'm saying right now, if the Ds run another milquetoast "moderate," they're going to lose again, and somehow the takeaway will be that they weren't far-right enough. I am begging "moderates" to watch Zohran's first video and slink into the shadows in shame.
How is there still discourse about a potential presidential run for a milksop with the personality of a novelty toilet brush?
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I'm saying right now, if the Ds run another milquetoast "moderate," they're going to lose again, and somehow the takeaway will be that they weren't far-right enough. I am begging "moderates" to watch Zohran's first video and slink into the shadows in shame.
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Idk if y’all know this but you can take ANY electrical device to Best Buy for recycling. Doesn’t have to be related to Best Buy in any way. Coffee pot? Vacuum? Weed whacked? They will recycle anything.
www.bestbuy.com/site/service...
www.bestbuy.com/site/service...
www.bestbuy.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Idk if y’all know this but you can take ANY electrical device to Best Buy for recycling. Doesn’t have to be related to Best Buy in any way. Coffee pot? Vacuum? Weed whacked? They will recycle anything.
www.bestbuy.com/site/service...
www.bestbuy.com/site/service...
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Head ablaze, I ran indoors with my friend. I put out the sparking flames with my hands. We stood, uncertain about the future, not ready to face death yet, hands black with burned hair.
Dreamed a friend were infected, waiting in a house for the end, during a pandemic of a disease that made people burn up in daylight like vampires. We sat at dawn in a courtyard; the first rays of the sun hit my head, which lit up like a giant sparkler. I could feel the heat & light, but no pain.
January 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Head ablaze, I ran indoors with my friend. I put out the sparking flames with my hands. We stood, uncertain about the future, not ready to face death yet, hands black with burned hair.
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Molly's being characteristically thoughtful. I'll be more of an asshole: THE AI COMPANIES HAVE USED WIKIPEDIA'S SHIT FOR YEARS. It costs millions of fucking dollars in infrastructure to serve up content to these companies. Should Wikipedia subsidize them? No? Then it's *good* they're getting paid!
I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Molly's being characteristically thoughtful. I'll be more of an asshole: THE AI COMPANIES HAVE USED WIKIPEDIA'S SHIT FOR YEARS. It costs millions of fucking dollars in infrastructure to serve up content to these companies. Should Wikipedia subsidize them? No? Then it's *good* they're getting paid!
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HE SAID THE THING
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
HE SAID THE THING
This is why people use social media as a news source, and also why information literacy is so hard to teach right now. How can I tell students what sources to trust, when they can see for themselves that the media doesn't cover the actual news?
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is why people use social media as a news source, and also why information literacy is so hard to teach right now. How can I tell students what sources to trust, when they can see for themselves that the media doesn't cover the actual news?
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The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM
The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
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This a fascinating archive, and revealing its contents is a public service. But I worry for the safety of those who retrieved this archive for us. And I hope the NYT et al who report on this archive will defend the freedoms of those who made this reporting possible.
After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
January 15, 2026 at 12:07 PM
This a fascinating archive, and revealing its contents is a public service. But I worry for the safety of those who retrieved this archive for us. And I hope the NYT et al who report on this archive will defend the freedoms of those who made this reporting possible.
Morning run at the Ridgewood Reservoir. Haha. Goose butts.
January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Morning run at the Ridgewood Reservoir. Haha. Goose butts.
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Renee Good could have been Charles Manson and ICE still shouldn't have murdered her.
Pretending her "ties" to anything are worthy of investigation privileges the Trump regime's lie that there might be a reason why it was OK to shoot her.
Pretending her "ties" to anything are worthy of investigation privileges the Trump regime's lie that there might be a reason why it was OK to shoot her.
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Renee Good could have been Charles Manson and ICE still shouldn't have murdered her.
Pretending her "ties" to anything are worthy of investigation privileges the Trump regime's lie that there might be a reason why it was OK to shoot her.
Pretending her "ties" to anything are worthy of investigation privileges the Trump regime's lie that there might be a reason why it was OK to shoot her.
Grammar check really does not want me to use "creature" as a subject without "the."
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Grammar check really does not want me to use "creature" as a subject without "the."
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I think it matters that Renee Good was a lesbian and i think im gonna permanently distrust everyone who frontloads the "she was a mother" without acknowledging the lesbian part for the rest of my life.
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I think it matters that Renee Good was a lesbian and i think im gonna permanently distrust everyone who frontloads the "she was a mother" without acknowledging the lesbian part for the rest of my life.
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New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
January 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
A local business owner recently referred to me as R's "friend," and I don't think it's possible to convey to straight people the absolute bone-chilling terror that those words inspire. It sounds like casual homophobia. It is a threat.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
A local business owner recently referred to me as R's "friend," and I don't think it's possible to convey to straight people the absolute bone-chilling terror that those words inspire. It sounds like casual homophobia. It is a threat.
"The woman and her friend."
I see the gay panic defense is making a comeback.
I see the gay panic defense is making a comeback.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"The woman and her friend."
I see the gay panic defense is making a comeback.
I see the gay panic defense is making a comeback.
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Important thread with lots of greatpoints about geology, science, extraction, colonialism, and "green" transitions. I want to add, though, that environmental humanities people talk about this messiness all the time...
I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul.
However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events.
I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪
theconversation.com/greenland-is...
However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events.
I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪
theconversation.com/greenland-is...
Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why
Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.
theconversation.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Important thread with lots of greatpoints about geology, science, extraction, colonialism, and "green" transitions. I want to add, though, that environmental humanities people talk about this messiness all the time...
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Babe I actually just consider all people worth protecting
Leftists try to use Palestine as a wedge issue on Democrats during an existential crisis for America democracy. Instead of rallying against fascism in America, you all would rather dilute and split the opposition to American fascism. Why? For Palestine.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Babe I actually just consider all people worth protecting
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This is the point. They are using an immigraiton system that has long dehumanized people, that has long operated with a lack of due process, to create state police force, whose victims are by definition “domestic terrorists,” who have license to kill at will. This isn’t a mistake. It’s the point.
BREAKING: Local and federal sources tell ABC News that federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon. The FBI is responding.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
This is the point. They are using an immigraiton system that has long dehumanized people, that has long operated with a lack of due process, to create state police force, whose victims are by definition “domestic terrorists,” who have license to kill at will. This isn’t a mistake. It’s the point.