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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!

The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 1d

Out of the Archives: a 1992 letter from Judith Butler in the papers of Hortense J. Spillers. Butler is giving the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Wednesday, November 5. Tickets have sold out, but the lecture will be recorded and available on our YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....

Image shows a typewritten letter to Professor Hortense Spillers, signed by Judith Butler, Professor of Humanities. The letter is on Johns Hopkins University stationary.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d

brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown

standstrongbrown.org

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 27d

OMG. It truly is!

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 27d

Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27d

"This defiance, of course, had its costs—material, social, + psychic. My father lost his income + his pension; my parents lost friends who shunned them for fear of being implicated in their politics. And then there was the betrayal by those once considered comrades who went over to the other side."

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 29d

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 29d

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social: You are the coolest!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes y’all really do test me.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 29d

What’s that about? I mean as writers, we just write. No need to gossip.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Sep 1

We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · Aug 31

The critique that police aren’t workers hasn’t been helpful to abolition.

It’s not about welcoming carceral industries in the labor movement. It’s about dealing with how the economy, public sector jobs, and budgets are entangled with carcerality. And organizing for a new public with different work.

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Birthday to The Women! The film was released September 1, 1939.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Sep 1

John Wood Jr. giving us an always useful reminder that advocates for bipartisanship, depolarization, etc. are almost always just opposed to you having any ideas which they don't agree with.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 1

Make it stop

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 10

counterpoint

criticism is the art of animating crap.

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · Aug 4

I sometimes read these very well-educated critics writing their hearts out on crap, and I'm depressed because they're wasting so much first-rate intellect on such low-grade material. (2001)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · Jul 25

Do you know about their Mother's Day and Father's Day ice cream special? Single scoop cones are 99 cents for everyone!

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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · Jul 4

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you @dem8z.bsky.social

Em Gunter 顧安 🍉 @emgunter.bsky.social · Jun 28

Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · Jun 19

I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly!

A few quick thoughts… 1/

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · Jun 18

OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jun 18

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · Jun 17

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jun 17

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums

"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

www.404media.co

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · Jun 9

I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it

Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · Jun 8

French Culinary School Announces Every Student Will Use Microwave to Make Every Dish

www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent …

www.nbc4i.com

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · Jun 11

Attention @cmceleney.bsky.social

Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · Jun 11

I love the cover art as homage to Clueless and am totally looking forward to reading this book.

Chase Gregory (they/them) @chazegregoir.bsky.social · Jun 11

my book (dukeupress.edu/as-if) has official cover art now and yes I am looking at a picture of it on my phone every five minutes for my mental health thank you for asking

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 3

Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭

Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · Jun 3

Hurricane season started June 1st. New FEMA Chief David Richardson didn’t know hurricane season is annual. He is months behind on a plan, gutted key programs, and brought in unqualified DHS staff. Now he’s explaining disaster response with fruit metaphors.

Several top FEMA officials have departed the agency in recent weeks, as Richardson has brought on staff from the Department of Homeland Security, according to personnel announcement emails sent to agency employees. Those DHS officials, many of whom don't have emergency-management experience, have been largely in charge of crafting the agency's new approach, according to people familiar with the matter.
During a May meeting, Richardson said the agency needs to break its goals into various tasks, which he explained using fruit metaphors.
"Some of those tasks will be kind of orange-like tasks,
" he said, according to a video recording of
the meeting viewed by the Journal. "And by orange, I mean the fruit orange, but they might be tangerines, they might be blood oranges, it might just be a little bit grapefruity, all those will go in one bin.

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