Lee Behlman
@lbehlman.bsky.social
Professor of English, Montclair State University
I write about things Victorian with teaching sidelines in the Bible and crime fiction. Movie fan. Thelma Ritter acolyte.
I write about things Victorian with teaching sidelines in the Bible and crime fiction. Movie fan. Thelma Ritter acolyte.
Queen
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Queen
Moby Dick is a perfect book except for this: not enough Queequeg. I need vastly more Queequeg.
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Moby Dick is a perfect book except for this: not enough Queequeg. I need vastly more Queequeg.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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I loved being my mother's son
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I loved being my mother's son
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What's with all the handsome grandsons
In these rock band magazines?
What have they done with the fat ones?
The bald and the goateed?
In these rock band magazines?
What have they done with the fat ones?
The bald and the goateed?
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What's with all the handsome grandsons
In these rock band magazines?
What have they done with the fat ones?
The bald and the goateed?
In these rock band magazines?
What have they done with the fat ones?
The bald and the goateed?
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Police: have you been watching movies?
Me: a few
Police: a few what?
Me: a few
Police: a few what?
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Police: have you been watching movies?
Me: a few
Police: a few what?
Me: a few
Police: a few what?
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Need someone with talent (not AI) to sub in Bari Weiss’s face on Gina Gershon in this clip
Christopher Plummer as 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace from "The Insider" (1999)
YouTube video by robhozour
m.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Need someone with talent (not AI) to sub in Bari Weiss’s face on Gina Gershon in this clip
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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“Will no one rid me of this turbulent press?”
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent press?”
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Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
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In case people need a refresher:
The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there.
Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.
The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there.
Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In case people need a refresher:
The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there.
Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.
The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there.
Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.
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[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]
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People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
There it is.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There it is.
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Normalize hanukiah posting throughout Hanukkah as the lights get more abundant and the darkness gets pushed back.
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Normalize hanukiah posting throughout Hanukkah as the lights get more abundant and the darkness gets pushed back.
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you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing
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It demeans and disgraces the English language to use it in this disgusting fashion.
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It demeans and disgraces the English language to use it in this disgusting fashion.
A thousand times this.
as a man raised by a single mother in the 80s and 90s who showed me via words and actions that women can in fact do it all, im so offended that in 2025-6 we're seriously even discussing "women, are they asking too much by asking for basic equality?"
shut the hell up. go shut up.
shut the hell up. go shut up.
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A thousand times this.
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The ADL does not operate in good faith. It aligns itself with known white nationalists and should no longer be considered the arbiter of what is and isn't anti-semitic.
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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the trans agenda is for me and my friends to fucking survive.
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
the trans agenda is for me and my friends to fucking survive.
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I preferred it when history had ended, quite frankly.
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I preferred it when history had ended, quite frankly.