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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영
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Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · Apr 13
May I recommend my book if you want fires, oil spills, eugenics, earthquakes, mudslides, unfriendly neighbors, the mores of the wealthy, beautiful beaches and mountains, and a reference to HBO’s Succession AND the Duchess of Sussex in one tidy package on sale? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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nathantankus.bsky.social
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.

“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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chelseaszendi.bsky.social
Information on corporate collaborators with ICE.

LexisNexis is a target particularly vulnerable to those in academia (as students, teachers, researchers)

www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
So much love for the @jckessler.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & the whole UIC Faculty United, who collectively programmed this event, & then had the generosity & gumption to say, let’s share it with the world, because we are @higheredlabor.bsky.social United.

+ @bakerdphd.bsky.social is 🔥
Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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jamellebouie.net
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
Eagle Ed Martin & @EagleEdMartin X.com A confident America! •8 Jesse Kelly • @JesseKellyDC •4h Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world and the only reason most don't know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization. x.com/billnehr/statu...
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
parhee.bsky.social
One of my very favorite comfort foods!
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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unraveledpress.com
There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.
January 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
Scholars Fired/Suspended for Opposing Genocide in Palestine Featuring: Eric Cheyfitz (suspended, Cornell), Jodi Dean (reinstated, Hobart & William Smith), Maura Finkelstein (formerly, Muhlenberg), Sang Hea Kil (formerly, San Jose State), Ramsi Woodcock (suspended, U Kentucky)
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The End of Academia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A Roundtable of Scholars Fired or Suspended by their Universities for Opposing Genocide and Colonialism in Palestine
zoom.us
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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jamellebouie.net
sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16d
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.

www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
Tunku Varadarajan: Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance? Curtis Sliwa: Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn't the mayor. It didn't work. He's a great organizer. I'll give you an example: Melinda Katz, the current District Attorney for Queens County, New York. She's the mother of my two youngest sons. She was running for DA in 2019. She had the institutional support. Moderate Jewish mother. Loyal Democrat. Queens borough president. Perfect résumé. She's running against Tiffany Caban, who wasn't even in elective office at that time. Very radical. You know, "do away with jails, don't arrest anyone." Tiffany Caban won on election night. But she lost the race on the absentee ballots, but only by about 20 votes. You know who the street organizer was for Tiffany Caban? Zohran Mamdani. So, when they talk about him as a trust fund baby, I say no, no, no, no, no. You don't like it when people call him a "nepo baby." He's earned his stripes. He had 100,000 volunteers going door-to-door, and I experienced that in some of the neighborhoods where you would never have seen anybody liberal or progressive go. Howard Beach! In conservative Howard Beach, they're going block to block. They were everywhere. 100,000. I call them Zohranistas. This was the secret to his election, not TikTok. It was good, old-fashioned retail politics. Frankly, Cuomo and not Mamdani was the nepo baby in this race. Born on third base. Felt entitled. Knew the political process, but mailed it in. He didn't have the stomach to actually go out and do retail politics. And shame on him. Do you think Mamdani will make a better mayor than Andrew Cuomo might have done? How would you describe Mamdani's politics? He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism. What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor! I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left. There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do. A last question. All through our interview you pronounced Mamdani as "Mandami," transposing the "m" and the "n" in his name. Are you aware of the mispronunciation? Many people, Cuomo included, mangle his name. In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose. There's no disrespect. I have a hard time with it. It took people about 10 years to pronounce my last name correctly: "Sleewah.'" They pronounced it Silva, Saliva, Slywah. In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. "Z Man" would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle. Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.
January 2, 2026 at 12:27 AM
parhee.bsky.social
New Year Korean rice cake soup. Now my mom is napping, my dad is watching Zohran’s inauguration, and I’m in denial about working again by catching up on Selling Sunset. Happy new year to all except ICE, etc.
A bowl of Korean rice cake soup on a wood veneer table
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
parhee.bsky.social
Closing out the year with this early novel by Jane Gardam, a favorite novelist, who died in April.
Cover of first edition of Jane Gardam’s A Long Way from Verona from 1971
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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chelseaszendi.bsky.social
"Tokyo 68" mentioned in Le Monde!
www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Notre sélection de dix BD, mangas et comics de fin d’année : « Aristote ou presque », « Sortie de route », « Tokyo 68 »…
Chaque mois, La Matinale vous propose des ouvrages récemment parus, chroniqués par la rédaction. A l’honneur en cette fin décembre, une plongée dans les mondes parallèles et de belles anthologies.
www.lemonde.fr
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
parhee.bsky.social
www.criterion.com/films/27969-... Somehow due to the magic of living in New York I saw this movie at a theater.
My Winnipeg
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s “docu-fantasia.” A work of memory and imagination, the fi...
www.criterion.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
parhee.bsky.social
RIP to an absolute legend. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94
Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
parhee.bsky.social
Very recently stood next to Kerry Condon on a British Airways bus taking us from the gate to our plane going from Heathrow to Seattle (was told I should have asked how she got through filming F1). Had the same experience with Bill Hader at LAX, but that bus only took us to a satellite terminal.
bolt451.bsky.social Frey has a free writing Patreon @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
parhee.bsky.social
Feliz cumple!
December 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare.

multigenerational access is net social good.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22d
'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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dsj2110.bsky.social
Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Book reviews
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
parhee.bsky.social
He did tell me to order the roast pork special which was a good tip and looked much more appealing than the wurst salad that someone else ordered.
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
parhee.bsky.social
A very incompetent selfie with Santa sitting at the Laternre restaurant in Baden Baden earlier this month. 🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻
Half a Santa and half of an Asian woman selfie
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
parhee.bsky.social
Truly! And different cheeses as well!
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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smosment.bsky.social
Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
parhee.bsky.social
I might even trek to a Tesco Extra if they stock the gingerbread Doritos
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
parhee.bsky.social
Already filled a large tote bag with novelty British Christmas potato “crisp” flavors to stun, delight, and horrify people back in the US. I found myself slight taken with turkey and stuffing flavored ones (And shill for the very lovely Pages of Hackney bookstore.)
Pages of Hackney tote bag filled with bags of British potato crisps
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM