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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re in Phoenix, call David Schweikert (House R) and blame him for shutting down the government: (480) 946-2411, (202) 225-2190. Call him a radical.

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman

Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman

Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 9d

The staircase Harriet Jacobs was pushed down (producing injuries so extensive that she “was unable to turn myself in bed for days”) is in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem and examined now by @molliebarnes.bsky.net and Susanna Ashton:

theconversation.com/a-staircase-...

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.

theconversation.com

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 10d

Guy I know passing me at the line at the coffee shop: “Hi Chris; how are you?” Me: “Reeling, thanks, how about you?” Him: “Good, thanks, see you later.”

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 18d

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota:
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

Against the Environment

But what if 'the environment' is actually the problem?

open.substack.com

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 22d

“A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturalized by removing to the state to reside, and taking an oath of fidelity: and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen […]”

Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks! I’ve taught Folsom and Bushyhead but didn’t know they wrote about sectionalism or national division so much as they addressed settler colonialism.

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 24d

I was thinking of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch even though it’s Irish

Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 24d

I haven’t read it, Rachel. I’ll take a look for sure.

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 24d

Eternally grateful for recommendations on texts to include!

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 26d

From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Project MUSE - The Friction Has Its Universities

muse.jhu.edu

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 27d

Now they’re going to get the sixties they wanted

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · Sep 6

Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us:

"Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat."

muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter

muse.jhu.edu

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Sep 5

@emersonsociety.bsky.social
@c19americanists.bsky.social
@the-ala.bsky.social
@modernlanguage.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social

Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Sep 5

I decided to write about the backlash against Emerson’s Divinity School Address as a controversy over college students receptive to radical moral independence.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Project MUSE - When Harvard Canceled Emerson, or, Anticipatory Obedience in 1838

muse.jhu.edu

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

More info:
american-philosophy.org/saap2026/

SAAP2026

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy53rd Annual MeetingMarch 12–14, 2026University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Fantasy, Reality, and Ideals SAAP2026 CFPDownload Submit Here!

american-philosophy.org

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Jul 21

The first query I made just over a year ago; the second, just this morning.

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · Jul 11

Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · Jul 11

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Jul 3

Woman next to me on the train just asked if I’d watch her pockabook while she finds the toilet and I know I’m in Massachusetts

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · Jun 10

www.nokings.org

No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

www.nokings.org

Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · May 23

We were all just so hungry for more Star Wars and into that vacuum rushed all these B movies

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · May 22

Like it says on the facade of the Boston Public Library: “THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY”. 2003 all over again, it’s a Massachusetts court that says enough.

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