Elizabeth Alsop
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, writer, unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2019)
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1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.
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Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
For the Monday morning crowd! My take on THE MASTERMIND and the politics of the heist film for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
Rebel Without a Clue | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
For the Monday morning crowd! My take on THE MASTERMIND and the politics of the heist film for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
so it’s neither morally justifiable nor politically efficacious, I just went to make sure I understand the nuances of this lose-lose strategy
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
so it’s neither morally justifiable nor politically efficacious, I just went to make sure I understand the nuances of this lose-lose strategy
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I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.
watching ep 2 of Pluribus and feeling slightly concerned by how strongly I identify with Rhea Seahorn’s character
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
watching ep 2 of Pluribus and feeling slightly concerned by how strongly I identify with Rhea Seahorn’s character
just look at this day we had yesterday
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
just look at this day we had yesterday
just wait and see what ChatGPT can do once they've worked out all those bugs
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
just wait and see what ChatGPT can do once they've worked out all those bugs
guys I think this sweet potato might grant me three wishes
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
guys I think this sweet potato might grant me three wishes
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
Rebel Without a Clue | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
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We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
a minor point in a magnificent finale, but I love that Lee Raybon writes his tour de force article in what appears to be a free text editor
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
a minor point in a magnificent finale, but I love that Lee Raybon writes his tour de force article in what appears to be a free text editor
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A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
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Today is the opening day for AAUP v. Trump, in which a historic coalition of unions is suing the Trump administration for using funding threats to suppress free speech. I just listened to the judge's opening remarks and they were SCATHING to the defendants. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today is the opening day for AAUP v. Trump, in which a historic coalition of unions is suing the Trump administration for using funding threats to suppress free speech. I just listened to the judge's opening remarks and they were SCATHING to the defendants. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360...
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If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.
did women what now
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
did women what now
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Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
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November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
listen I know Sliwa and Adams have abhorrent politics but could we also just give them an extremely short-lived cable access show together, I feel like we’d get a lot of insane bang for our buck
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
listen I know Sliwa and Adams have abhorrent politics but could we also just give them an extremely short-lived cable access show together, I feel like we’d get a lot of insane bang for our buck
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
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It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
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Andrew Cuomo used public funds for billions in opaque corporate welfare as governor—$4.4 billion from New York in 2018 alone, per the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission. Local governments doled out $5.6 billion more.
Some of the secretive subsidies went to his real estate and corporate donors:
Some of the secretive subsidies went to his real estate and corporate donors:
Cuomo’s Hidden Billions in Corporate Welfare ⑉ Brick House
Opaque state subsidies of more than $4.4 billion per year have helped Gov. Cuomo to consolidate his political power over the past decade.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Andrew Cuomo used public funds for billions in opaque corporate welfare as governor—$4.4 billion from New York in 2018 alone, per the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission. Local governments doled out $5.6 billion more.
Some of the secretive subsidies went to his real estate and corporate donors:
Some of the secretive subsidies went to his real estate and corporate donors:
Oh this? It's nothing, just a little Mamdani victory cake
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Oh this? It's nothing, just a little Mamdani victory cake