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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1h

I really appreciate that when Cardi wants to pay homage to her man’s thing she just efficiently says she wants to hold it while he pees and doesn’t belabor some overwrought redwood tree imagery.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2h

Good teaching day but appended two words to something I said that inadvertently changed my whole meaning in a way that made me blush right down to my soul.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 22h

My vague sense is that she has largely discredited herself but I’m still grateful to Nicki Minaj: as the parent of a girl who hit her teens in early 2010s I remember NM’s music opening up some very important conversations.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 23h

Well put

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh man I’m old enough to remember the men’s movement weirdos in the 1990s who talked about being “intact” and now this putz is serving crackpot cocktails?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 23h

Ohhhh

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 23h

But my favorite Dylan Hicks’ song is actually “Ambulance”—one of the most gorgeous songs ever about being a Dad and coming to accept that you cannot always protect or keep your kid but you can slip a few bucks to them before they start the drive back to [quiet sob] their own home.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

You should listen to Dylan Hicks. Start with “Gallery A”—just a few perfect verses about a museum guard who sees an enigmatic solo patron laugh one day, cry another, shouts out John Berger and Franz Marc, and curates an outro with horns and piano that articulates giggly joy.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Day! youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

YouTube video by SammyHagarVEVO

youtu.be

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. The moment when that cop in NYC can’t believe the miners don’t have dental insurance

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

You should listen to Dylan Hicks. Start with “Gallery A”—just a few perfect verses about a museum guard who sees an enigmatic solo patron laugh one day, cry another, shouts out John Berger and Franz Marc, and curates an outro with horns and piano that articulates giggly joy.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

I often think fondly of the student in my older kid’s 8th grade class who managed to smuggle in as his yearbook quote a line from Saddam Hussein about fire raining from the sky on the United States.

In 2003.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

That is really something

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

It undermines the trust that is at the heart of education, which we have already eroded in so many ways, but which is worth trying to preserve and sustain

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

So much misery in our moment that that it is hard to justify worrying about this or that but honestly: we are gonna have to start pushing back hard on the idea that it is ok for our students to be weaponized as spooks, snitches, paid staffers for the global Right elite.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

🩶

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Please join me in supporting our Rutgers’ colleague Mark Bray and his family if you are able

Yvonne Yen Liu (she/her) 🇵🇸 @yvonnegraphy.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers professor Mark Bray, author of the Antifascist Handbook, has been doxxed and targeted with death threats by right-wing supporters of Charlie Kirk. Support him and his family in their effort to leave the country by donating at www.freefunder.com/campaign/hel...

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Ceasefire will not redeem a thing for Israel.

Doom hangs heavy over the promised land, the chosen people. Blood and fire, as Niney the Observer sang in 1971: “let it burn burn burn.”

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 1d

!!!Amy Kaplan, in her book Our American Israel, is devastating on how this film helped domesticate Zionism

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Terrifying shit, must be stopped

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

I’m with you

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Also don’t know Blake at all

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah?

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah but Katie Crutchfield scooped her recording it!

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d

Hah! Mine was…a little worse

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