Andrew Israel Ross
@aiross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
All I want is to be able to take the train from Baltimore to Pittsburgh but this route apparently does not exist. Unreal.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
All I want is to be able to take the train from Baltimore to Pittsburgh but this route apparently does not exist. Unreal.
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In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
Just thinking about the folks applying for that environmental history job at Texas a&m. Definitely nothing to say about race and gender there
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just thinking about the folks applying for that environmental history job at Texas a&m. Definitely nothing to say about race and gender there
Because Trump and Epstein were actually friends. Probably Trump's one and only in his entire life. Wonder what they had in common
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Because Trump and Epstein were actually friends. Probably Trump's one and only in his entire life. Wonder what they had in common
Pluribus has the best pilot episode of a drama that I have seen in basically forever.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pluribus has the best pilot episode of a drama that I have seen in basically forever.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
Lol
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Lol
Happy to have an essay on archives in what looks to be an amazing new volume reflecting on queer history and memory in France #skystorians www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Queer Realms of Memory | Home
Archiving LGBTQ Sites and Symbols in the French National Narrative
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy to have an essay on archives in what looks to be an amazing new volume reflecting on queer history and memory in France #skystorians www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
lol
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
lol
My entire life right now.
I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My entire life right now.
Seems probable the lesson many feckless Dems took from last week is "we don't need to be popular to win"
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Seems probable the lesson many feckless Dems took from last week is "we don't need to be popular to win"
Now is a specially good time to call your senators if you like me hate talking to people on the phone. Just left my voice mails.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Now is a specially good time to call your senators if you like me hate talking to people on the phone. Just left my voice mails.
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I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
With respect to the judge he has given up actual power for...what exactly? A friendly write up in the atlantic?
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
With respect to the judge he has given up actual power for...what exactly? A friendly write up in the atlantic?
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Shameless and craven. Profascist even. www.adl.org/resources/pr...
www.adl.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Shameless and craven. Profascist even. www.adl.org/resources/pr...
Not the main thrust of the episode but the most recent @onthemedia.bsky.social features a harvard professor who votes for trump in 2016 because he's a one-issue voter: end the afghan war. Guess who he voted for in 2024 after Biden ended the afghan war?
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not the main thrust of the episode but the most recent @onthemedia.bsky.social features a harvard professor who votes for trump in 2016 because he's a one-issue voter: end the afghan war. Guess who he voted for in 2024 after Biden ended the afghan war?
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there are two schools of thought on protecting Jewish safety in America: we either fight for a pluralistic democracy where we are safe because minority rights are protected or we seek junior partner status in the MAGA white nationalist alliance
the ADL has chosen a side
forward.com/fast-forward...
the ADL has chosen a side
forward.com/fast-forward...
ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks
The removal took place after FBI Director Kash Patel said he would cut ties with the ADL, though it is unclear if that has happened.
forward.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
there are two schools of thought on protecting Jewish safety in America: we either fight for a pluralistic democracy where we are safe because minority rights are protected or we seek junior partner status in the MAGA white nationalist alliance
the ADL has chosen a side
forward.com/fast-forward...
the ADL has chosen a side
forward.com/fast-forward...
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these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I have to admit to being flummoxed here. I still call some of my parents' closest friends "aunt" and "uncle." Does this really resonate with anyone?
Awful piece. Just because so many white people are culturally ignorant and don’t know that Aunt, Auntie, Cousin are all terms to describe family members or close friends of our parents - even if that’s not their blood connection. The racism, the desperation, the sheer…..smallness of these attacks!
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I have to admit to being flummoxed here. I still call some of my parents' closest friends "aunt" and "uncle." Does this really resonate with anyone?
Surrounded by masked stormtroopers. Straight out of a scene from Watchmen.
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino arrives at the Federal Building in Chicago's Loop this morning.
#OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social
#OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Surrounded by masked stormtroopers. Straight out of a scene from Watchmen.
Little marco really sucks, but it is clear he is barely keeping it together here
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Little marco really sucks, but it is clear he is barely keeping it together here
Looking forward to next year's degenerate art exhibit presumably at the Smithsonian
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Looking forward to next year's degenerate art exhibit presumably at the Smithsonian
Just completed a survey for a major publisher on integrating AI into their textbook offerings and my basic ask was "please don't do this."
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just completed a survey for a major publisher on integrating AI into their textbook offerings and my basic ask was "please don't do this."