@jeremyzallen.bsky.social
Historian at Lafayette College. Author of "American Lucifers," a labor/environmental history of the work of making artificial light.
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Been thinking a lot about this passage from Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story of the aging anarchist, Odo. In defense of mud:
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The article quotes Trump saying that "Cuba is ready to fall." That idea actually is 200 years old.
daily.jstor.org/cuba-annexat...
daily.jstor.org/cuba-annexat...
Annexation Nation - JSTOR Daily
Since 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was first introduced to the world, the US has regarded Cuba as key to its designs for Latin America.
daily.jstor.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
The article quotes Trump saying that "Cuba is ready to fall." That idea actually is 200 years old.
daily.jstor.org/cuba-annexat...
daily.jstor.org/cuba-annexat...
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Headlines are wild. "President Trump says the earth is flat, reviving a once-popular idea. We investigate his latest unorthodox claim."
With his attack on Venezuela, President Trump says the Monroe Doctrine is back, reviving a more than 200-year-old foreign policy idea. In Cuba, residents brace for what that could mean for them. n.pr/4q4KjY2
After Venezuela attack, Cuba watches the U.S. warily
With his attack on Venezuela, President Trump says the Monroe Doctrine is back, reviving a more than 200-year-old foreign policy idea. In Cuba, residents brace for what that could mean for them.
n.pr
January 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Headlines are wild. "President Trump says the earth is flat, reviving a once-popular idea. We investigate his latest unorthodox claim."
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the usual starter pack
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January 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
the usual starter pack
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once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
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Mandy Patinkin singing with the PS 22 chorus before @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Mandy Patinkin singing with the PS 22 chorus before @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration
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All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who didn't endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, is expected to attend his inauguration at City Hall set to start shortly, per a source.
Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.
Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.
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The best thing about being an author is getting responses like this absolutely delightful and most RAKESFALL-like review—I greatly enjoyed reading it and really it's the perfect capstone to this year for me
By far my favorite book of 2025 was
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
@vajra.me 's Rakesfall. I posted some brief thoughts on it here (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), written before it won the Le Guin prize.
Shyan's review of Rakesfall
5/5: Reviews of Rakesfall emphasize it as “hallucinatory,” “not an easy book to read,” the “memory of a dream” that can be enjoyed yet not fully understood. This review is about how Rakesfall is a v...
www.goodreads.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The best thing about being an author is getting responses like this absolutely delightful and most RAKESFALL-like review—I greatly enjoyed reading it and really it's the perfect capstone to this year for me
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In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."
December 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."
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The biggest mistake liberalism made was to watch conservatives worship the constitution and “the founders” like idols for decades and believe they really meant it.
The constitution and the rule of law they hold dear are the versions in their heads where they get to do whatever they are want.
The constitution and the rule of law they hold dear are the versions in their heads where they get to do whatever they are want.
December 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The biggest mistake liberalism made was to watch conservatives worship the constitution and “the founders” like idols for decades and believe they really meant it.
The constitution and the rule of law they hold dear are the versions in their heads where they get to do whatever they are want.
The constitution and the rule of law they hold dear are the versions in their heads where they get to do whatever they are want.
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What if, and stick with me here, The Outcomes are the part of politics people actually give a shit about and the process means nothing to anyone outside of it.
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
What if, and stick with me here, The Outcomes are the part of politics people actually give a shit about and the process means nothing to anyone outside of it.
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On behalf of the State of Maryland, congratulations to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and the Baltimore American Indian Center on the historic achievement of federal acknowledgment for the Lumbee People.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/g-s1-103223/lumbee-tribe-federal-recognition-137-years
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/g-s1-103223/lumbee-tribe-federal-recognition-137-years
North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe receives full federal recognition after 137-year effort
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure.
www.npr.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
On behalf of the State of Maryland, congratulations to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and the Baltimore American Indian Center on the historic achievement of federal acknowledgment for the Lumbee People.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/g-s1-103223/lumbee-tribe-federal-recognition-137-years
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/20/g-s1-103223/lumbee-tribe-federal-recognition-137-years
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didn't have "dudes will literally cross the Darien Gap instead of going to therapy" on my 2025 bingo card but the more you know
December 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
didn't have "dudes will literally cross the Darien Gap instead of going to therapy" on my 2025 bingo card but the more you know
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Please do join me in donating a couple of blankets to keep a family warm this winter, via RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project (h/t @workshops4gaza.bsky.social) chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Please do join me in donating a couple of blankets to keep a family warm this winter, via RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project (h/t @workshops4gaza.bsky.social) chuffed.org/project/1491...
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
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This is ultimately why those American Jews who thought we could remain in good stead with the Christian nationalists, as a specially protected minority who would receive special privileges by allowing ourselves to be used as pretexts to crack down on higher education, were so tragically mistaken.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is ultimately why those American Jews who thought we could remain in good stead with the Christian nationalists, as a specially protected minority who would receive special privileges by allowing ourselves to be used as pretexts to crack down on higher education, were so tragically mistaken.
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Oh is this what jd vance meant by “demographics?” bsky.app/profile/joel...
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oh is this what jd vance meant by “demographics?” bsky.app/profile/joel...
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Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
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You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
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When we had numbers like this in occupied Ireland we convinced a number of state and local governments in the US to apply sanctions to US companies doing business there.
I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
When we had numbers like this in occupied Ireland we convinced a number of state and local governments in the US to apply sanctions to US companies doing business there.