docprudentia
@docprudentia.bsky.social
Retired college/university prof (medievalist), and Dean of English and Humanities. Episcopalian to my core and a longtime progressive.
The best Christmas carol to start your Advent: "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christina Rossetti) by Chanticleer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRX.... Second best?
Chanticleer - In the Bleak Mid-Winter
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The best Christmas carol to start your Advent: "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Christina Rossetti) by Chanticleer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRX.... Second best?
But … (big sigh here—with the requisite hand slap to the face): It is the journalists’ job to ask questions and report the answers; it is not their job to make news by making replies that make them news. Being a blank slate on which Trump’s bizarre answers fall highlights his depravity.
It is so vile that the press lets him get away with this scurrilous behavior!
It would have been so effing funny though, if she would have said very loudly, "Whatever you say goes back to you. I am rubber, and you are glue."
Or, "Actually it was you that caused all the problems in Afghanistan."
It would have been so effing funny though, if she would have said very loudly, "Whatever you say goes back to you. I am rubber, and you are glue."
Or, "Actually it was you that caused all the problems in Afghanistan."
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
But … (big sigh here—with the requisite hand slap to the face): It is the journalists’ job to ask questions and report the answers; it is not their job to make news by making replies that make them news. Being a blank slate on which Trump’s bizarre answers fall highlights his depravity.
Trump’s crimes are piling up. If he is not impeached during this term, our democracy is irreparably damaged as it will set a precedent for future administrations of either party. How long do we wait?
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trump’s crimes are piling up. If he is not impeached during this term, our democracy is irreparably damaged as it will set a precedent for future administrations of either party. How long do we wait?
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Powerful.
I interviewed at MLA conferences 2008-2014--almost always in hotel rooms with predominantly male interviewers. I was middle-aged then, and the age discrimination, especially from young men on the interview committees, was pretty blatant.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I interviewed at MLA conferences 2008-2014--almost always in hotel rooms with predominantly male interviewers. I was middle-aged then, and the age discrimination, especially from young men on the interview committees, was pretty blatant.
Just want to share an evening photo of the sunset tonight in Mendocino, CA.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Just want to share an evening photo of the sunset tonight in Mendocino, CA.
LOVED Newsom's victory speech!
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
LOVED Newsom's victory speech!
It's wonderful that we Californians made a difference tonite. We're often ignored in national politics b/c we are a safe bet to vote blue. But this vote-to combat gerrymandering in other states (looking at you TX)--puts us back in play as a state who can make a difference. Thanx Gov. Newsom!
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It's wonderful that we Californians made a difference tonite. We're often ignored in national politics b/c we are a safe bet to vote blue. But this vote-to combat gerrymandering in other states (looking at you TX)--puts us back in play as a state who can make a difference. Thanx Gov. Newsom!
Fifth generation Californian here. Don't screw with us. In 40 minutes you will see proof of that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Fifth generation Californian here. Don't screw with us. In 40 minutes you will see proof of that.
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Dodger Blue!!! Whoop!!
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Dodger Blue!!! Whoop!!
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Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
Someone explain to me how the Trump lackey legislature can carve an exit strategy from the box they've willingly, stupidly, trapped themselves in? In other words, what is their least destructive way for them to save face to get a budget passed? I'm not seeing it--other than LYING UP THE YIN-YANG.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Someone explain to me how the Trump lackey legislature can carve an exit strategy from the box they've willingly, stupidly, trapped themselves in? In other words, what is their least destructive way for them to save face to get a budget passed? I'm not seeing it--other than LYING UP THE YIN-YANG.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
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Well said, Joe.
He is a horrible, terrible person.
He is a horrible, terrible person.
Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Well said, Joe.
He is a horrible, terrible person.
He is a horrible, terrible person.
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The video Trump posted as a king dropping shitbombs on protesters is at once the low point in American civilization; an act of degradation that aptly encapsulates his presidency; an embarrassment that GOP officials will pretend they haven't seen; and a story the bollixed media will underplay.
October 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The video Trump posted as a king dropping shitbombs on protesters is at once the low point in American civilization; an act of degradation that aptly encapsulates his presidency; an embarrassment that GOP officials will pretend they haven't seen; and a story the bollixed media will underplay.
Please tell me why a President—the President!!!—thinks it’s okay to post a meme of him flying a jet ejecting shit on Americans expressing their constitutional right to protest IS OKAY? WaPo and NYT- will you say anything about it on your pages tomorrow???
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Please tell me why a President—the President!!!—thinks it’s okay to post a meme of him flying a jet ejecting shit on Americans expressing their constitutional right to protest IS OKAY? WaPo and NYT- will you say anything about it on your pages tomorrow???
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This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
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From a friend who was driving north on I-5 this am:
“The five freeway will be closed today from noon until 3 PM to accommodate the live ammo demonstration from Camp Pendleton.”
This is going to create a huge traffic jam since there is no detour around it. Why the f**k are they using live ammo?
“The five freeway will be closed today from noon until 3 PM to accommodate the live ammo demonstration from Camp Pendleton.”
This is going to create a huge traffic jam since there is no detour around it. Why the f**k are they using live ammo?
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From a friend who was driving north on I-5 this am:
“The five freeway will be closed today from noon until 3 PM to accommodate the live ammo demonstration from Camp Pendleton.”
This is going to create a huge traffic jam since there is no detour around it. Why the f**k are they using live ammo?
“The five freeway will be closed today from noon until 3 PM to accommodate the live ammo demonstration from Camp Pendleton.”
This is going to create a huge traffic jam since there is no detour around it. Why the f**k are they using live ammo?
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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October 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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held accountable 🐥 Prison ‼️
held accountable 🐥 Prison ‼️