David Glenn
actsinds.bsky.social
David Glenn
@actsinds.bsky.social
Nurse.
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I used to have the notion
I could swim the length of the ocean
I'd plumb the depths of every sea for you
The Only Ones - The Whole of the Law
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November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
EPISODE 4 (dir. Ken Loach): Stuart Hall (Idris Elba) visits Hogwarts and delivers a lecture on prospects for deprivatization under New Labour.
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I was a little floored by the author's ID at the end of this great NYRB essay.
A Woman’s Burden | Anne Diebel
Freezing eggs has been marketed as a panacea for ambitious professional women supposedly hungry for more time to focus on their careers, when in reality it’s often a last resort for women negotiating ...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
this book might have been cited somewhere else in this thread, but if not: it impressed me when I read it 15 or 20 years ago
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground
During the tumultuous Civil War era, the border state of Maryland occupied a middle position both geographically and socially.  Situated between the slave...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by David Glenn
BTW it is tempting to ignore these tweets

But Republican lawmakers take them seriously

So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it

Great way to make policy!
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Would those two events be causally connected? Almost definitely not. But this could be an attractive post hoc fallacy/stabbed-in-the-back narrative for Trumpists if the economy goes to hell.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Three or four times a year I crack open a beverage and trawl through seasonal catalogs.

I've updated a "book wish list" Google doc since the spring of 2008.

(The Halle Butler isn't from a catalog trawl. I spotted it at Type Books in Toronto in August. Is it as good as it looks?)
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM