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Audra Wolfe
@audrajwolfe.bsky.social
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I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · Oct 14
My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!
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When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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#Juntos grassroots donation campaign is in full swing! Help spread community safety resources! Why not give $20 for Christmas?

Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing deportation defense, community care, and more.

secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
Colorful graphic in green, red, orange, and yellow. The fancy font reads "Juntos for humanity."
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Only one person sent me revised files on Christmas Day. Progress! I am proud of you!
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I've always loved this illustration depicting Joseph and Mary looking for a room. I am finding it especially powerful this year
Everett Patterson's "José y Maria."
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
I love you all to pieces but stop sending me files on major holidays! Please and thank you!
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Beloved academics, this is your removed that schedule send exists! If you “must” draft things tomorrow or Thursday, please don’t send them on Christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Turns out MURDERLAND was a terrible audiobook choice for holiday tasks! Who could have predicted this. I gave up.
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#academiclife

goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
goldengatexpress.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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HIRING: We're looking for a statewide editor at Free Press Indiana! Job posting here: www.freepressindiana.org/jobs/statewi...
December 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.

Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...

Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...

The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Caroline Fraser’s MURDERLAND is fucking grim, even by my standards. Curious what environmental historians make of it.
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ok for real tho: pls be thoughtful in what you post, word is that CSAM material has been redacted less carefully than identifying info for white guys, because of course. CWs and good judgement exist for a reason folks, don’t traumatize your feed
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Slow news day huh
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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ELISE NAVIDAD
Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik While spending precious time with my family this Christmas season, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for Governor and will not seek re-election to Congress. I did not come to this decision lightly for our family. I am truly humbled and grateful for the historic and overwhelming support from Republicans, Conservatives, Independents, and Democrats all across the state for our campaign to Save New York. However, as we have seen in past elections, while we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York. And while many know me as Congresswoman, my most important title is Mom. I believe that being a parent is life's greatest gift and greatest responsibility. I have thought deeply about this and I know that as a mother, I will feel profound regret if I don't further focus on my young son's safety, growth, and happiness - particularly at his tender age. I am incredibly grateful to the people of New York's 21st District for entrusting me to represent you in the United States Congress. Thank you to my dedicated staff over the past decade. I am proud of the significant results that we successfully delivered for the hardworking families in our district and across America. It has been a tremendous professional honor to serve as your Congresswoman over the past eleven years. Thank you for your support and encouragement as my family and I look forward to the next meaningful personal and professional chapter. God Bless and Merry Christmas ✨ 3:59 PM · Dec 19, 2025 · 231.1K Views
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
audrajwolfe.bsky.social
Gimme the keys or else
Outdoors porch scene, looking down a blue pantleg with brown boot. A tuxedo cat with big green eyes is right next to the leg, looking directly at the photographer, asking if surely we can’t come to an understanding about “inside”
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
1964 photo of screaming Beatles fans 2025 promo of a CBS News town hall on feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The 2024 eclipse game communities a once-in-a-lifetime chance to “welcome the darkening sky,” says my sister, Sarah Wolfe, a former eclipse director extraordinaire who appears in this inspiring book theeclipseeffect.com
The Eclipse Effect
How to transform inspiration into action—and action into community. A strategic guide for leaders illustrated by the stories of organizing for the 2024 eclipse.
theeclipseeffect.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My alma mater continues on being hellbent on devaluing its degrees

(No relation to Patrick Wolfe)
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12d
This makes me physically ill.
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Chilling if true www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Authorities Search for a New Person of Interest in Brown Shooting
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM