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Mark D. White
@profmdwhite.bsky.social
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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/

See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 20d
It seems "Batman and Ethics" is currently 25% off at Amazon: amzn.to/3NumZ7R
Batman and Ethics
Batman and Ethics
amzn.to

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3h
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 17h
Terrific!

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
I always thought that's what she meant.
a woman with her mouth open and fire in the background
ALT: a woman with her mouth open and fire in the background
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d
I can answer this one: no

(Boy, the New York Times' games section is really easy today)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
who wants to tell him?
No, Scott Adams is alive and actively posting on X as of today, February 5, 2026. The "RIP" post seems like misinformation or spam. Glad to clear that up!

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
"five people sitting at a booth in a restaurant"? We want names, backgrounds, interests, favorite movies... 😂

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2d
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
Oh, glad she cleared that up for us.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 3d
New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2026/02/06/a...
Avengers #45-46 and Thor: Godstorm #1 (October-November 2001)
These two issues continue the “Kang Dynasty” storyline that began in issue #41, and which Cap has relatively little to do with (even compared to other Avengers tales). Part of this is e…
thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 3d
Opeth

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d
NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...
Trump Administration Sued Over Cutting Off Funds for $16 Billion Tunnel
www.nytimes.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d
over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.

Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3d
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d
via @alexkrokus.bsky.social
Alex Krokus "life of a meme" comic about how brands ruin memes

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 4d
And I assume everyone in attendance just smiled and nodded like there's nothing wrong with this.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

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Executive Functions @execfunctions.bsky.social · 4d
Bob Bauer on how a now-missing DOJ manual may signal the administration's retreat from long-standing internal constraints on federal government intervention in elections: www.execfunctions.org/p/yet-anothe...
Yet Another Sign that the Trump Administration is Laying the Groundwork for Election Intervention?
DOJ may be retreating from long-standing internal constraints on federal government intervention in elections.
www.execfunctions.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 4d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 4d
As far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d
Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
Ink and glitter marker drawing of a black hole spewing out a rainbow, pouring into an earth shape surrounded by star dust

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d
Another batch of Trump's judicial nominees refused in their confirmation hearings today to publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which annoyed Sen. Richard Blumenthal enough for him to call them "monkeys" and "puppets"

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 5d
We will never forget what they are doing to the kids here.

“Neighbors are scared to leave the house. Bomb threats have been called in to schools. Events have been canceled. Friends are missing from classrooms. And parents have been taken.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
www.nytimes.com

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 5d
I think I'll be rereading this one for a while.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d
Commentators regularly assume that the courts should be highly deferential to a president's reading of facts on the basis for invoking the Insurrection Act. But that might not be so. [@ilyasomin.bsky.social]
The Case Against Deferring to Presidential Invocations of the Insurrection Act
Prof. Josh Braver questions the conventional wisdom on this issue.
reason.com

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 5d
i’ve always been told that taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society so like do we not have to do them this year or what.