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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! 🎄
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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We do not have to live this way.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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.
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 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.
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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
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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
Gorgeous reading of a gorgeous poem.
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
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...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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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
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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-...
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
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Perfect.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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/...
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Here ya go
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Quiet, Piggy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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."
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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
Democracy dies in obfuscation.
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
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
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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 where the cool jobs at
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM