JenniferG.
@theabsentprofessor.bsky.social
Writer, professor of English, lover of subterranean resistance movements, labor activism, travel, bookstores, kitchen table conversations, reproductive rights, and media that depicts middle-aged women as sexy and intellectual. All opinions mine alone.
Never knew I would post so much about a Pope but he does offer a welcome contrast to our current administration and their denial of the heterogeneity and nuance that actually makes the U.S. an interesting place...Here, an article about his Creole, multiracial background...
New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Never knew I would post so much about a Pope but he does offer a welcome contrast to our current administration and their denial of the heterogeneity and nuance that actually makes the U.S. an interesting place...Here, an article about his Creole, multiracial background...
The world is burning, but Dying for Sex is such a gorgeous and tender exploration of friendship and kind and sex in the face of death. What more could you ask for in a show?
April 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The world is burning, but Dying for Sex is such a gorgeous and tender exploration of friendship and kind and sex in the face of death. What more could you ask for in a show?
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Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.
April 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.
Terrifying!
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Terrifying!
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Sharing one last time: "to the extent that any of this is about the safety of Jews, it’s not about safety for all Jews. It’s not even really about the safety of some Jews because they are Jews, but rather because they adhere to a certain political or ideological program."
forward.com/opinion/7109...
forward.com/opinion/7109...
Is this extremist Zionist group trying to protect Israel — or just punish left-wing Jews?
The extreme Zionist group Betar wants Israel to issue lifetime bans for certain left-wing Jews. That's a giant boon to antisemites.
forward.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Sharing one last time: "to the extent that any of this is about the safety of Jews, it’s not about safety for all Jews. It’s not even really about the safety of some Jews because they are Jews, but rather because they adhere to a certain political or ideological program."
forward.com/opinion/7109...
forward.com/opinion/7109...
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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
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I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.
April 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.
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"A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by ICE...in the tiny hometown of...“border czar”, Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by ICE...in the tiny hometown of...“border czar”, Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
April 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
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“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I don't know if it was thinking about the current state of the world or the play's topic--a woman exploring her dead mother's past in the women's movement-but the audience was weeping by the end of the gorgeous Liberation. I guess theater can still do Aristotelian catharsis like no other medium.
April 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I don't know if it was thinking about the current state of the world or the play's topic--a woman exploring her dead mother's past in the women's movement-but the audience was weeping by the end of the gorgeous Liberation. I guess theater can still do Aristotelian catharsis like no other medium.
Hiding from the horrors of higher ed with a short trip to NYC to eat all the oysters and see all the plays like the cosmopolitan Jewess that I am.
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hiding from the horrors of higher ed with a short trip to NYC to eat all the oysters and see all the plays like the cosmopolitan Jewess that I am.
How do we stay in higher ed and watch our students lose their visa status and face deportation?
Visas of 'a small number' of University of Cincinnati international students revoked
The revocation for students at UC comes as a handful of students at universities across the country have had their visas revoked.
www.cincinnati.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
How do we stay in higher ed and watch our students lose their visa status and face deportation?
80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimation of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway). Corey Booker is doing a good job though!
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimation of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway). Corey Booker is doing a good job though!
Please sign if you are a Columbia or Barnard alum and feel as I do:
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Columbia Alumni Statement Condemning Columbia's Collaboration with ICE and DHS and in Defense of Academic Freedom and Student Activism
We, the alumni of Columbia University and Barnard College, unequivocally condemn our alma mater’s collaboration with ICE to detain Mahmoud Khalil, and condemn the University’s decisions to capitulate ...
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March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Please sign if you are a Columbia or Barnard alum and feel as I do:
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
I feel like this stems from the fundamental mistrust of expertise and education represented by Trump and his supporters. Both the "drain the swamp" and the anti-higher education rhetoric come from the same twisted root. The result: people who do not know how to protect our national security.
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I feel like this stems from the fundamental mistrust of expertise and education represented by Trump and his supporters. Both the "drain the swamp" and the anti-higher education rhetoric come from the same twisted root. The result: people who do not know how to protect our national security.
We need these principles even more today than we did in 2016.
The Anti-Authoritarian Academic Code of Conduct -- from 2016 but freshly relevant.
We all need to be thinking about where our lines are.
dailynous.com/2016/11/29/a...
We all need to be thinking about where our lines are.
dailynous.com/2016/11/29/a...
March 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We need these principles even more today than we did in 2016.
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‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Barack Obama finally showing up on Bluesky in order to talk about the ACA rather than the fascist takeover of our country is a little too on point for the Democratic response to the moment
March 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Barack Obama finally showing up on Bluesky in order to talk about the ACA rather than the fascist takeover of our country is a little too on point for the Democratic response to the moment
This is America in 2025. This is who we are.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is America in 2025. This is who we are.
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now