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Amy Kahrmann Huseby

@akhuseby.bsky.social

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Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · 22d

Inglorious Basterds 🤷‍♀️

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 21

Next up: they'll confirm Area 51 really does have aliens 🛸

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · Jul 21

The White House is just gonna release the files on every conspiracy theory ever cooked up to run cover for the Epstein scandal.

"QUICK, WHAT DO WE HAVE ON BIG FOOT? PUT OUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ON AREA 51. AND SOMEBODY GET ME THE FILES ON CHEMTRAILS, STAT!!!"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here is your reason to stop doom scrolling for a moment: Clio's eyes 💙💙

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 18

In science, two instances are a coincidence; three or more are a pattern 😐

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 18

WGA standing up for writers 💪✍️📑

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · Jul 18

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 16

Love this! I'd also like to see your instructions for the Reaction Journal.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very excited to share the beta test, soft launch of SEL's new graduate student partner publication, Marginalia! Check it out for book reviews, interviews, and essays about what studying literature writ large means and the countless forms it takes ✍️📝📑✍️

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 15

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large.

📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds

Link in bio!

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Jul 12

superman was so very good but i’m still wondering what CMS gunn had the Daily Planet publishing from

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jul 6

This is not a budget bill, it is a debt and deportation bill—and one built on the fascist foundation laid by the Heritage Foundation’s now-notorious Project 2025. https://trib.al/1biZ06X

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 6

Notice how the majority of the alerts and warnings were apparently only posted on X, according to this article. Draw your own conclusions.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 3

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yes, you do. Don't tell us. Tell your colleagues to do their jobs.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · Jun 30

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

“From the depths” by William Balfour-Ker. A lavish party of the wealth is interrupted by an upraised fist breaking through their dance floor; underneath we can see the entire party venue is built on the shoulders of the marginalized and lower classes.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · Jun 30

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jul 1

And killing women. Pro-life is such a lie.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 30

Note: In the same county where Theresa Birrenpohl was assaulted by the sheriff and unidentified men at a town hall two months ago. Kootenai County, ID.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 26

👇🏼👇🏼

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm.

We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

At this point, you and your Dem colleagues should vote no on everything from this administration. Get a spine.

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

Shel Silverstein! Judy Blume! My childhood would've been so much emptier without all of the texts that are listed in that article.

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

Also, their failure to have a crystal clear rule about citing lines of poetry. Grumble grumble grumble.

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

Oooohhh! Timmy looks like a sweetheart. Someone give that baby a forever home!

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

No: their tactic is DARVO every time. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim to Offender. Textbook abuser behavior just applied in a different context.

Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Jun 24

*cough cough* You're God. Omnipotent, yes? You make it stop.