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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest 🕸️💀🔮🧹
@majq.bsky.social
Midwesterner at heart
Year round spooky enthusiast
Too many interests and never enough time
Here to enjoy life
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My sense is that this is why the humanities in general, and literary studies in particular, are so put off by this shit. We're practiced at recognizing linguistic nothings.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Scrolling through Instagram someone posted a video talking about cancel pointless friendships and the thought hit me, this is why there's a loneliness epidemic right now. Because those friendships that people consider "pointless" are necessary to a sense of belonging and community.
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Slàinte mhòr!

To brighter days ahead!

Happy Solstice!

#SolsticeToast2025 #becurious
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...

... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Well, the renewal of my website hit. I’m back to square one.

0 of 400 CND to get out of over draft. If we reach the goal this month, I’ll release a new Palestinian folkloric fantasy story ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...
💕 💸
#HelpSky
#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #DisabledCrowdfund #Disabled #Poverty
Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee
Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!
ko-fi.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Jerry trying to reinvent the Chile Relleno *smh*
they should invent a turducken that's made out of stuffed peppers
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And hear from someone who has had a chance to sneak peek the book here:
www.instagram.com/p/DSaOOQkjSY...
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Super excited to read my good friends' debut short story collection "A Woman's Guide To True Crime" @marythor.bsky.social ! If you're into Gothic, dark, beautiful writing, please check it out:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7RVX1VF
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"The 'War on Drugs' has never been anything but military -backed non-compete agreement."

That's probably the most succinct description of it I've heard.
Then there's "Enforcement." We don't stop the trade, we just pick the winners.

In 1989, the Senate's Kerry Committee confirmed the US government worked with drug traffickers to supply the Contras. The "War on Drugs" has never been anything but a military backed non-compete agreement.
The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Declassified U.S. government documents demonstrate official knowledge of Contra drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers
nsarchive2.gwu.edu
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The eternal pendulum from “You are exaggerating and your prediction could never happen” to “nobody could predict this ever happened” 🤡
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable)

call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line

trans people deserve so much better
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.

The bill passed only 216 to 214.

4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Where did you study all this goodly speech?
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Bovino back in a familiar hunting ground – the Uber lot at O’Hare.
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.
Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My winter ear worm

(For fans of New Pornographees, Sharon Van Etten, St Vincent, etc.):

youtu.be/zKVOPB7e5N8?...
Wolf Alice - White Horses (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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F*cking ICE helicopters are back. Third flyover today. 🤬 #Chicago

##AbolishICE ##RemoveTrump
December 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sounds like they're moving again from the HD at Oakton - unclear if they're heading to Rogers Park or Albany Park, but Chicagoans be on the lookout- they're heading south again
Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM