Robert Stilling
@rstilling.bsky.social
English Lit prof in FL. Decadence, Modernism, Poetry, some politics. Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674984431
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We are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for:
"Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication"
Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
"Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication"
Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 AM
We are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for:
"Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication"
Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
"Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication"
Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
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Father of the 6-month-old being taken to the hospital because of flashbang ICE threw at his car. From Instagram.
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Father of the 6-month-old being taken to the hospital because of flashbang ICE threw at his car. From Instagram.
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Would be nice if every single Democrats who is in Congress or wants to in Congress - especially everyone from California - spoke with clarity and moral conviction like Matt.
As a candidate for Congress in #CA14, my full statement on the illegal U.S. strike against Venezuela. It's imperialism. It's colonialism. It's illegal. Congress must act now.
January 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Would be nice if every single Democrats who is in Congress or wants to in Congress - especially everyone from California - spoke with clarity and moral conviction like Matt.
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Would like to see some JAG officers on the news talking about whether these military strikes are technically legal and, if not, what sort of liability commanders have incurred by carrying them out.
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Would like to see some JAG officers on the news talking about whether these military strikes are technically legal and, if not, what sort of liability commanders have incurred by carrying them out.
Good thread here.
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Good thread here.
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Does anyone doubt Bari Weiss spiked the story to kowtow to Trump? What a disgrace. At a network that once knew its duty to speak truth to power.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Does anyone doubt Bari Weiss spiked the story to kowtow to Trump? What a disgrace. At a network that once knew its duty to speak truth to power.
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This is straight-up authoritarian media capture. Allies of the regime purchase major media corporations and install new leadership. Media organization ceases to report critically on the regime.
It's that simple.
This is happening now. (Along with over 100 murders in the Caribbean and Pacific.)
It's that simple.
This is happening now. (Along with over 100 murders in the Caribbean and Pacific.)
Hmmm
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is straight-up authoritarian media capture. Allies of the regime purchase major media corporations and install new leadership. Media organization ceases to report critically on the regime.
It's that simple.
This is happening now. (Along with over 100 murders in the Caribbean and Pacific.)
It's that simple.
This is happening now. (Along with over 100 murders in the Caribbean and Pacific.)
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
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Finally, it couldn't be more fitting to have Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of Literature, Media, and Culture at Florida State University, give a keynote talk.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally, it couldn't be more fitting to have Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of Literature, Media, and Culture at Florida State University, give a keynote talk.
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The wonderful Laura Wheeler Waring's cover for the December 1928 Christmas issue of The Crisis. Full issue online here: archive.org/details/sim_...
December 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The wonderful Laura Wheeler Waring's cover for the December 1928 Christmas issue of The Crisis. Full issue online here: archive.org/details/sim_...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
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We should not just be asking the real price of this ballroom, how it’s really being financed and how Trump could get away with this East Wing demolition and desecration of our history. We should find out whether he’s building an underground bunker and how much he’s stealing for himself.
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We should not just be asking the real price of this ballroom, how it’s really being financed and how Trump could get away with this East Wing demolition and desecration of our history. We should find out whether he’s building an underground bunker and how much he’s stealing for himself.
Every bit of this story is amazing. Absolute amateur hour at Trump’s DOJ.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every bit of this story is amazing. Absolute amateur hour at Trump’s DOJ.
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Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
Portland is showing the way.
WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Portland is showing the way.
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Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.
OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.
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If you are at the MSA conference, stop by the JHUP table to take a look at the beautiful latest issue of Cusp.
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you are at the MSA conference, stop by the JHUP table to take a look at the beautiful latest issue of Cusp.
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"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
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Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.
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At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?
“In reality, the “compact” is a maximalist document, demanding a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university. “
for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“In reality, the “compact” is a maximalist document, demanding a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university. “
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UVA is one of 9 schools being targeted with a “compact for academic excellence” in exchange for federal funds. They are being told to limit the political expression of their staff and students, open their finances to the Trump administration, limit foreign students from attending, and more.
October 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
UVA is one of 9 schools being targeted with a “compact for academic excellence” in exchange for federal funds. They are being told to limit the political expression of their staff and students, open their finances to the Trump administration, limit foreign students from attending, and more.