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Matthew L Reznicek

@drreznicek.bsky.social

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Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Nov 6

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 3h

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not a political strategist or a social psychologist, but to me this seems true and important. Values must be activated. Surviving a real crisis takes real leadership.

Highlighted: “We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated. That takes conflict and controversy-powerful imagery and language that rivets attention.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

From @jamellebouie.net: “[L]ike the slave owners and their minions, the MAGA movement and its allies are opposed only to those aspects of government that they can’t wield against their political enemies”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 2h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I hadn’t seen this!!!!

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Awww thank you!

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Come you masters of war […]
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4h

The articles are so interesting and stretch across a wonderful range of texts.

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4h

Really excited to see these proofs for @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of Studies in the Novel on Disease and Disability in the Novel

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 16h

It’s hilarious that Bondi gets all indignant when she declares “I’m a career prosecutor,” as if there has never been a dishonest lawyer

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19h

The 'compact' sent to US universities is a fundamental threat to universities and their faculty. It needs more attention and opposition.

@brendannyhan.bsky.social & @lkfazio.bsky.social unpack it here.

Yield and be "forever subservient to the whims of the government"

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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17h

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 17h

I actually think Smith uses language that can be tied to care ethics in interesting ways, but obviously also the language of sympathy and sensibility get picked up in the broader framework of care

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 17h

Do I want to try to write something on care and the legacy of The Theory of Moral Sentiments?

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t know why we don’t call them puppy naps

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Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 19h

Happy to announce that both my departments—English and Black & Latino Studies (BLS)—are hiring for TT positions this year!

In English, we're hiring in Anglophone South Asian.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 18h

This is all but literally one of the things that King James II did that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the English Bill of Rights in 1689. (Want to guess who used that document as a model in the 1770s and 1780s?)

avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 22h

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 20h

Angela Wright on editing Radcliffe’s Udolpho open.spotify.com/episode/0ORt...

Editing The Mysteries of Udolpho

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