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Amy Kahrmann Huseby
@akhuseby.bsky.social
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Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
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akhuseby.bsky.social
Next up: they'll confirm Area 51 really does have aliens 🛸
rexhuppke.bsky.social Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · Jul 21
The White House is just gonna release the files on every conspiracy theory ever cooked up to run cover for the Epstein scandal.

"QUICK, WHAT DO WE HAVE ON BIG FOOT? PUT OUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ON AREA 51. AND SOMEBODY GET ME THE FILES ON CHEMTRAILS, STAT!!!"
July 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
Here is your reason to stop doom scrolling for a moment: Clio's eyes 💙💙
July 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
WGA standing up for writers 💪✍️📑
wgawest.bsky.social Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · Jul 18
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
Very excited to share the beta test, soft launch of SEL's new graduate student partner publication, Marginalia! Check it out for book reviews, interviews, and essays about what studying literature writ large means and the countless forms it takes ✍️📝📑✍️
sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Jul 15
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large.

📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds

Link in bio!
July 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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makenakelly.bsky.social
superman was so very good but i’m still wondering what CMS gunn had the Daily Planet publishing from
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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newrepublic.com
This is not a budget bill, it is a debt and deportation bill—and one built on the fascist foundation laid by the Heritage Foundation’s now-notorious Project 2025. https://trib.al/1biZ06X
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
trib.al
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
July 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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josiahhawthorne.bsky.social
“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker
“From the depths” by William Balfour-Ker. A lavish party of the wealth is interrupted by an upraised fist breaking through their dance floor; underneath we can see the entire party venue is built on the shoulders of the marginalized and lower classes.
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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gracienlucy.bsky.social
A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Jun 26
Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm.

We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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theonion.com
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
June 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
akhuseby.bsky.social
HUGE NEWS. A cure for HIV is much closer 🙌🏼
June 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
😂 #austenshade
drbeard79.bsky.social Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jun 4
Other people when they read Persuasion: ‘elegiac’, ‘mature’, ‘superlative’

Me: wow Austen really hated this dead sailor she made up
The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were, that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea, because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before. "Ah! Miss Anne, if it had pleased Heaven to spare my poor son, I dare say he would have been just such another by this time." Anne suppressed a smile, and listened kindly, while Mrs. Musgrove relieved her heart a little more; and for a few minutes, therefore, could not keep pace with the conversation of the others. — When she could let her attention take its natural course again, she found the Miss Musgroves just fetching the navy-list,'—(their own navy list, the first that had ever been at Uppercross); and sitting down together to pore over it, with the professed view of finding out the ships which Captain Went-worth had commanded. There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth's face at this speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth, which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs. Musgrove's kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who understood him less than herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected and serious; and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which she and Mrs. Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings. They were actually on the same sofa, for Mrs. Musgrove had most readily made room for him; —they were divided only by Mrs. Musgrove. It was no insignificant barrier indeed. Mrs. Musgrove was of a comfortable substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humour, than tenderness and sentiment; and while the agitations of Anne's slender form, and pensive face, may be considered as very completely screened, Captain Wentworth should be allowed some credit for the self-command with which he attended to her large fat sighings over the destiny of a son, whom alive nobody had cared for.
June 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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kylekulinskishow.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
akhuseby.bsky.social
We are moving the cat tower out. They have staged a sit in. #weprotest #hellnowewontgo
Two cats sit on a cat tree
May 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
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lincolnproject.us The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · May 16
Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.
May 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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alexkirshner.com
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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nytimes.com
Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.

Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma
ALT: A large, framed, yellowing document. Text reads: "Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original." Photo credit: Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School
May 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
akhuseby.bsky.social
Yep. What methods are folks developing to respond to students when they push back like this?
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · May 14
The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor
ncrenic.bsky.social Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · May 14
This is bleak reading
May 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln
May 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
It's not enough for this administration to defy the Constitution. Now they're willing to ignore the Magna Carta 😐
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 11
Klobuchar on Stephen Miller saying the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: "He's doing it because they don't want to focus on what's really in front of them, and that they have created havoc in our economy ... no, they're not gonna reverse habeas corpus in the Congress."
May 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
akhuseby.bsky.social
What a shock, said no one ever 😒
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · May 11
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM