Scott Banville
@sbanville.bsky.social
Cyclist. Victorian Lit & Culture. Reader. Writer. Teacher. Associate Professor.
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Scott Banville
@sbanville.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Project MUSE - <i>Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday</i>: The Geography of Class in Late-Victorian Britain
muse.jhu.edu
I guess I’ll start with my first academic publication. “Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday: The Geography of Class in Late-Victorian Britain.”
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#VictorianLit #PopularCulture #AllySloper #Victorian #Comics #Class
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#VictorianLit #PopularCulture #AllySloper #Victorian #Comics #Class
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Immigrant families held at a detention facility in Texas describe prolonged stays, despondent children, limited access to potable water and agents offering money for families to voluntarily leave the country, according to new court declarations. https://cnn.it/4pr3VW5
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Immigrant families held at a detention facility in Texas describe prolonged stays, despondent children, limited access to potable water and agents offering money for families to voluntarily leave the country, according to new court declarations. https://cnn.it/4pr3VW5
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Important news in this piece:
—Missouri organizers say they’ve collected over 300,000 signatures to block the GOP gerrymander. (They have until Thursday to submit roughly 110,000 valid ones.)
—Federal judge rejects GOP lawsuit to toss the petition. missouriindependent.com/2025/12/08/f...
—Missouri organizers say they’ve collected over 300,000 signatures to block the GOP gerrymander. (They have until Thursday to submit roughly 110,000 valid ones.)
—Federal judge rejects GOP lawsuit to toss the petition. missouriindependent.com/2025/12/08/f...
Federal judge rejects Missouri AG’s push to block referendum on gerrymandered map • Missouri Independent
A federal judge Monday refused to back Missouri’s Republican leaders efforts to block a statewide vote on a gerrymandered congressional map.
missouriindependent.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Important news in this piece:
—Missouri organizers say they’ve collected over 300,000 signatures to block the GOP gerrymander. (They have until Thursday to submit roughly 110,000 valid ones.)
—Federal judge rejects GOP lawsuit to toss the petition. missouriindependent.com/2025/12/08/f...
—Missouri organizers say they’ve collected over 300,000 signatures to block the GOP gerrymander. (They have until Thursday to submit roughly 110,000 valid ones.)
—Federal judge rejects GOP lawsuit to toss the petition. missouriindependent.com/2025/12/08/f...
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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I'll never forget how Sandwich Guy's attorney started her closing:
"This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper"
"This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper"
Jurors in sandwich thrower case talk about their deliberations in his trial in Washington, D.C.
Sean Dunn, who threw a "submarine-style sandwich" at a CBP officer in downtown D.C. in July was found not guilty of misdemeanor assault in November.
www.cbsnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I'll never forget how Sandwich Guy's attorney started her closing:
"This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper"
"This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper"
Trump pardoned this guy.
Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Trump pardoned this guy.
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Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Weird. Weird af.
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation..."
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
BLS to Skip October PPI Report
The BLS will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation, and will instead roll those figures into a postponed November report to be published on Jan. 14.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Weird. Weird af.
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“U.S. authorities said upon his sentencing to 45 years in prison that he had played a central role in ‘one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.’
Mr. Trump formally pardoned the former president on Dec. 1.”
Mr. Trump formally pardoned the former president on Dec. 1.”
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“U.S. authorities said upon his sentencing to 45 years in prison that he had played a central role in ‘one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.’
Mr. Trump formally pardoned the former president on Dec. 1.”
Mr. Trump formally pardoned the former president on Dec. 1.”
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The best way I can summarize that half of football is I take notes while watching the game and about ten minutes ago I just started drawing a picture of Santa
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The best way I can summarize that half of football is I take notes while watching the game and about ten minutes ago I just started drawing a picture of Santa
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“It’s the most toxic political culture.”
“But YOU contributed to that.”
Here’s where Marge lashed out at Lesley Stahl for calling out her hypocrisy instead of owning it - and showed she still has a lot of growing up to do
“But YOU contributed to that.”
Here’s where Marge lashed out at Lesley Stahl for calling out her hypocrisy instead of owning it - and showed she still has a lot of growing up to do
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“It’s the most toxic political culture.”
“But YOU contributed to that.”
Here’s where Marge lashed out at Lesley Stahl for calling out her hypocrisy instead of owning it - and showed she still has a lot of growing up to do
“But YOU contributed to that.”
Here’s where Marge lashed out at Lesley Stahl for calling out her hypocrisy instead of owning it - and showed she still has a lot of growing up to do
Griffin serves on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, making her one of RFKjr’s replacements after he removed all 17 prior members in June. Its new lineup voted Friday to update decades-old guidelines that called for newborns to be vaccinated for hepatitis B at birth.
Louisiana’s new surgeon general is a vaccine skeptic aligned with anti-abortion forces • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana’s next surgeon general is part of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s panel that’s implementing his anti-vaccine policy recommendations.
lailluminator.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Griffin serves on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, making her one of RFKjr’s replacements after he removed all 17 prior members in June. Its new lineup voted Friday to update decades-old guidelines that called for newborns to be vaccinated for hepatitis B at birth.
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FOX: Interim U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, Alina Habba has resigned. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she accepted the resignation after a court's decision disqualifying Habba from serving.
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
FOX: Interim U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, Alina Habba has resigned. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she accepted the resignation after a court's decision disqualifying Habba from serving.
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More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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This meme has a wild school finance history: this guy’s name is Jim and he’s voting against the town of Arlington, VT selling a school bond to rebuild their local school in 1940. The building had burned down, but Jim didn’t want to pay more taxes. He was the only one voting no.
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This meme has a wild school finance history: this guy’s name is Jim and he’s voting against the town of Arlington, VT selling a school bond to rebuild their local school in 1940. The building had burned down, but Jim didn’t want to pay more taxes. He was the only one voting no.
The Trump Bailout.
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Trump Bailout.
Bribes. He believes in bribes.
CNBC: Do you sense that the president is in your corner here?
DAVID ELLISON: What I would say is I'm incredibly grateful for the relations with the president, and I also believe he believes in competition
DAVID ELLISON: What I would say is I'm incredibly grateful for the relations with the president, and I also believe he believes in competition
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Bribes. He believes in bribes.
Fishing for another bribe.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Fishing for another bribe.
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a corrupt act everyday. appropriate he's there with melania since she just set up a company to collect bribes.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
a corrupt act everyday. appropriate he's there with melania since she just set up a company to collect bribes.
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As article notes, they're saying explicitly that the President is on their side so the merger the companies want is doomed. The guy in the picture, Ellison's failson typifies the corrupt crony capitalism of the age.
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix wins bidding war
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As article notes, they're saying explicitly that the President is on their side so the merger the companies want is doomed. The guy in the picture, Ellison's failson typifies the corrupt crony capitalism of the age.
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? - New York Magazine
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? — New York Magazine
The list of prominent people associated with Epstein keeps growing and growing.
apple.news
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? - New York Magazine
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
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They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Sure Jan.
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Sure Jan.