Marilee Lindemann
@marileelindemann.bsky.social
English prof & academic administrator at University of Maryland; sporadic blogger; queer, feminist, non-geek fascinated by social media, politics, & pop culture; fan of women's basketball & wire fox terriers. Making life up as it goes along. Opinions mine.
Just got my first email from an entity referring to itself as “The Trump Kennedy Center.” Never unsubscribed from anything so fast in my life. Out of my inbox, Satan, and stay out!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Merry Christmas! 🎄
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just got my first email from an entity referring to itself as “The Trump Kennedy Center.” Never unsubscribed from anything so fast in my life. Out of my inbox, Satan, and stay out!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Merry Christmas! 🎄
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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We do not have to live this way.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We do not have to live this way.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
Don’t sleep on this Maryland team, y’all. They are smart, talented, and tenacious as hell. Go, Terps! Read the story of their incredible comeback in their Big Ten opener against Minnesota.
Despite missing star guard Kaylene Smikle, Maryland put together an improbable comeback to win its Big Ten opener on Sunday.
@thomascostello.bsky.social explains how they did it and what the win means for the Terrapins.
www.thenexthoops.com/ncaaw/maryla...
@thomascostello.bsky.social explains how they did it and what the win means for the Terrapins.
www.thenexthoops.com/ncaaw/maryla...
How Maryland handled overtime and adversity to beat Minnesota - The IX Basketball
Maryland was down nine points with a minute left in double overtime, without star guard Kaylene Smikle. How they won and what's next.
www.thenexthoops.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Don’t sleep on this Maryland team, y’all. They are smart, talented, and tenacious as hell. Go, Terps! Read the story of their incredible comeback in their Big Ten opener against Minnesota.
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SHARE NOW: Texas just got a whole lot louder. Jasmine Crockett is running for the United States Senate and Republicans should be terrified. She’s smart, fearless, relentless, and she doesn’t back down from anybody. This is the matchup Texas deserves. Let’s go.
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
SHARE NOW: Texas just got a whole lot louder. Jasmine Crockett is running for the United States Senate and Republicans should be terrified. She’s smart, fearless, relentless, and she doesn’t back down from anybody. This is the matchup Texas deserves. Let’s go.
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I'm late to @johannawinant.bsky.social's wonderful essay. I love her practical, tactile guidance to students: "Point to a detail, one that’s really on the page and small enough to fit under your finger." Then you work out how that detail works with other details. Then you learn to make an argument.
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm late to @johannawinant.bsky.social's wonderful essay. I love her practical, tactile guidance to students: "Point to a detail, one that’s really on the page and small enough to fit under your finger." Then you work out how that detail works with other details. Then you learn to make an argument.
Gorgeous reading of a gorgeous poem.
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses”
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses”
The poem confirmed the ascent of a rare new voice—a mesmerizing voice that became indispensable to American verse.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Gorgeous reading of a gorgeous poem.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
I’m a proud third-generation alum of Indiana University. In my family, an IU education was the pathway to careers in teaching, business, law, and journalism. It breaks my heart to read this detailed analysis of the systematic weakening of the institution that has occurred over the past three years.
Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)
Indiana University on November 3, 2025 by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I’m a proud third-generation alum of Indiana University. In my family, an IU education was the pathway to careers in teaching, business, law, and journalism. It breaks my heart to read this detailed analysis of the systematic weakening of the institution that has occurred over the past three years.
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A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
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An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸
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Quiet, Piggy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Quiet, Piggy.
I want a t-shirt and I want it NOW. "Quiet, piggy," with the biggest, piggiest caricature of Trump the world has ever seen. I'd put it on and go stand in front of the White House for the next three years.
Btw, Newsom's trolls are given Trump some of his own "Quiet Piggy" medicine.
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I want a t-shirt and I want it NOW. "Quiet, piggy," with the biggest, piggiest caricature of Trump the world has ever seen. I'd put it on and go stand in front of the White House for the next three years.
I’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!
In all of this awful, I'll say that I'm very much looking forward to this evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library discussing Dickinson, Jane Austen, and their marvelous legacies--please join us December 9th!!! www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
The Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Celebrating Jane Austen at 250 | Folger Shakespeare Library
This year, our annual birthday tribute to American poet Emily Dickinson will also honor English novelist Jane Austen on her 250th birthday, with noted scholar Martha Nell Smith and romance author Nikk...
www.folger.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!
So, um, Willa Cather is in the Epstein files!?! @maddow.msnbc.com, if you'd like to talk about that, this queer Cather scholar is at your—and the nation's—service.
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So, um, Willa Cather is in the Epstein files!?! @maddow.msnbc.com, if you'd like to talk about that, this queer Cather scholar is at your—and the nation's—service.
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Such wonderful, important work by my dear colleague @jasonr75.bsky.social -- today.umd.edu/book-club-op...
Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women | Maryland Today
UMD English Professor Co-leads Volunteer Program Set to Add Graduate Students Following Bequest
today.umd.edu
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Such wonderful, important work by my dear colleague @jasonr75.bsky.social -- today.umd.edu/book-club-op...
Democracy dies in obfuscation.
WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Democracy dies in obfuscation.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
Job alert! Come work with me and my wonderful staff in College Park Scholars, a group of 13 interdisciplinary living-learning programs for first- and second-year students at the University of Maryland. Posting is here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Job alert! Come work with me and my wonderful staff in College Park Scholars, a group of 13 interdisciplinary living-learning programs for first- and second-year students at the University of Maryland. Posting is here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History