I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
The woman in front of me at Costco just paid with a check. On the Saturday before thanksgiving. The depravity!
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The woman in front of me at Costco just paid with a check. On the Saturday before thanksgiving. The depravity!
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Jeff Tweedy is playing tonight in Dallas, where it's finally seasonally cool as of yesterday. The over/under for shackets in the audience is 411.5.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Jeff Tweedy is playing tonight in Dallas, where it's finally seasonally cool as of yesterday. The over/under for shackets in the audience is 411.5.
Paging @profloumoore.bsky.social
This is one of the best in-game dunks I've ever seen at the college level — and it was by none other than the son of Dominique Wilkins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph1Z...
DUNK OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE⁉️ Dominique Wilkins' son throws down WINDMILL ALLEY-OOP slam 🤯 | ESPN CBB
YouTube video by ESPN
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November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Today's shout into the void: asked my congressman to get me a chunk of the east wing before Trump starts selling them as souvenirs.
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today's shout into the void: asked my congressman to get me a chunk of the east wing before Trump starts selling them as souvenirs.
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The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.
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This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1937. The Buchanan Dam, which dammed the Colorado River of Texas, west of the town of Burnet, was dedicated. Let's talk about how dams and electricity transformed the work lives of rural women!
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I gave a talk at Rice yesterday as part of a panel called “The Power of Oral Histories.” I could have just read this article.
She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...
She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I gave a talk at Rice yesterday as part of a panel called “The Power of Oral Histories.” I could have just read this article.
She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...
She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...
This was the girlfriend of the founder of antifa. 🗃️ www.nps.gov/people/margu...
October 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This was the girlfriend of the founder of antifa. 🗃️ www.nps.gov/people/margu...
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"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.
UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org
AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/
AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.
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🗣️🗣️What is happening at Texas Tech is part of a national campaign to erase the existence of trans people. Faculty and academic leaders across the country must stand up now: this suppression of #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom will not be confined to Texas!
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...
Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom
Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.
www.texastribune.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🗣️🗣️What is happening at Texas Tech is part of a national campaign to erase the existence of trans people. Faculty and academic leaders across the country must stand up now: this suppression of #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom will not be confined to Texas!
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...
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POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
September 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
The best negotiating tactics are the negotiating tactics you announce are negotiating tactics. That’s the art of the deal.
President Trump’s furious rhetoric toward Russia is “a negotiating tactic” intended to pressure the Kremlin, a White House official said, a day after Trump delighted Ukrainian leaders by embracing Kyiv’s ambitions for a defeat of Russia.
Trump’s blast toward Russia is a ‘negotiating tactic,’ White House says
The president’s escalation in rhetoric is a marker of Trump’s frustration toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a senior White House official.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The best negotiating tactics are the negotiating tactics you announce are negotiating tactics. That’s the art of the deal.
I’m so fortunate to have had Bill Leuchtenburg in my life, and I’m honored to help extend his legacy with a donation to the WEL Fund at UNC Press. Please join me in donating, and support the kind of public-facing scholarship he championed.
"I can't think of a better way to honor Dr. Leuchtenburg's scholarship, mentorship, and friendship than by donating to the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund.” @moye.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m so fortunate to have had Bill Leuchtenburg in my life, and I’m honored to help extend his legacy with a donation to the WEL Fund at UNC Press. Please join me in donating, and support the kind of public-facing scholarship he championed.
Texas AAUP-AFT’s open letter to administrators
Upholding Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom & Due Process
WEB SITE: aaup-texas.org
aaup-texas.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Texas AAUP-AFT’s open letter to administrators
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A dog in Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" has long delighted viewers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Now, researchers say they’ve solved the mystery of what inspired the furry figure.
What’s the Dog in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’? A Longtime Mystery Is Solved.
What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery.
nyti.ms
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I’m in Krakow for a conference, and I can already tell that the score at the end of the week is going to be
The Polish Language 962
Todd 0
The Polish Language 962
Todd 0
September 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m in Krakow for a conference, and I can already tell that the score at the end of the week is going to be
The Polish Language 962
Todd 0
The Polish Language 962
Todd 0