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Visual Studies. Art History. Visual Art. Urbanism. Catastrophe. Travel enthusiast. Forever curious and a life long learner.
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This really is an amazing show IMO. Unlike this writer, I don’t find it lacking at all. It’s multiple genres at once (sci-fi, zombie, mystery, drama…) and full of details that signal our current moment: the dystopian realities of the utopian promise of AI, issues of free speech, loneliness & more.
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“Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan’s much anticipated follow-up to “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” asks the question: What if everyone else’s paradise is your personal hell? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dpzLhB
The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus”
The new sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist can agree on.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Here’s a great guide on how to stay safe at a No Kings protest today.
How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
www.wired.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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drdemetre.bsky.social
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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pwhickey.bsky.social
Must read -
Powerful warning to the nation as @drdemetre.bsky.social resigns as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and posts this post on X.

Well done, Sir! 🔥💪

“My resignation letter from CDC.

Dear Dr. Houry,

1/x
August 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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sarasilverstein.bsky.social
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching
@uoregon.bsky.social
"I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously- consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, l've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point."
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
lmodigliani.bsky.social
Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...
Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission
For a few days in June 2023 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, was illuminated by an uncanny amber glow. Outside, an orange sky hung heavy with particulate matter and the atmosphere was haz...
contemporary.burlington.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
lmodigliani.bsky.social
Newark airport today midday. Crumbling infrastructure & labor shortages with absolutely no good reason I’ve heard of as to why it had to be this way.
May 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
lmodigliani.bsky.social
Thanks to Shannon Constantine for this thoughtful and smart review of my book Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City. Check it out! asapjournal.com/review/revie...
Review of Leah Modigliani’s Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action
Leah Modigliani. Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. Routledge: 2023. Borders, barricades, and walls have long served as tools and symbols of state oppression, functioning materially and metaphorically to delineate the d...
asapjournal.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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generalstrikeus.bsky.social
It’s almost time for the #HANDSOFF protest!

We need YOU to share about the General Strike at this event. We’re all volunteers - help us pass out flyers this Saturday!

drive.proton.me/urls/CNRXQTD...
April 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
This is only the beginning. Follow us and join the movement!

#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #NoKingsDay @polrev.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Interesting data in light of current events. More about welfare queen Elon Musk: www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...
February 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
lmodigliani.bsky.social
If you are at #caa113 please stop by to hear our panel “Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes, and the Urbanoscene” at 4:30. My paper is about the Grenfell Tower disaster and artist responses to it. Pictured: Chris Ofili, Requiem, 2023 and Steve McQueen, Grenfell, 2019
February 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM