Howell Jenkins's Collarbones
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Borsht Boi. Anti-anti-Esperantist. Gay. Bread and roses!
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Anyway hi @ [150 new followers], I think most of you think I live in Colorado, which I used to but do not anymore! You can unfollow me, it's fine! If anyone starts anything in my mentions ever I swear to God I will block you. In the meantime I skeet about Yiddish and my life I guess idk
There is very little more maddening to me than German Gentiles punishing anti-Zionist Jews for "antisemitism" (now at Indiana University!)
forward.com/news/783205/...
forward.com/news/783205/...
Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
How turmoil at Indiana University's prestigious Jewish studies program has exposed the tensions plaguing those studying Jews and Judaism.
forward.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There is very little more maddening to me than German Gentiles punishing anti-Zionist Jews for "antisemitism" (now at Indiana University!)
forward.com/news/783205/...
forward.com/news/783205/...
i have been invited to a deleuze-themed party, what does a body* wear to a deleuze party
*without organs
*without organs
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
i have been invited to a deleuze-themed party, what does a body* wear to a deleuze party
*without organs
*without organs
just got Stutchkoff's Yiddish Rhyming Lexicon from the library and every entry feels like a Latourian assemblage, I'm in love
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
just got Stutchkoff's Yiddish Rhyming Lexicon from the library and every entry feels like a Latourian assemblage, I'm in love
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It doesn't eliminate *all* traditional yard work, but it's amazing how much nature will actually do for you if you let it. This is especially true for traditional fall tasks. (Also: you do not need to "cut back" most things and in fact it's better for them if you don't.)
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It doesn't eliminate *all* traditional yard work, but it's amazing how much nature will actually do for you if you let it. This is especially true for traditional fall tasks. (Also: you do not need to "cut back" most things and in fact it's better for them if you don't.)
Recommended reading. I didn't know that the ban on PA came in response to a wave of juries acquitting PA activists—a great example of élite panic
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Recommended reading. I didn't know that the ban on PA came in response to a wave of juries acquitting PA activists—a great example of élite panic
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i can't go to the unveiling of the jeans and get my blue soup because it's after baby bedtime but can somebody go and report back.
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
i can't go to the unveiling of the jeans and get my blue soup because it's after baby bedtime but can somebody go and report back.
I'll tell you what I like. Petrushka by Stravinsky
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I'll tell you what I like. Petrushka by Stravinsky
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This is very good but I suspect it will not, in fact, become free for most undergraduate students, because most undergraduate students who attend JHU are extremely wealthy, for reasons unrelated to financial aid
Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.)
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
Johns Hopkins becomes tuition-free for undergraduate students from families earning up to $200,000
New tuition promise program will offer free tuition for students from more than 85% of American households and tuition plus living expenses for families earning up to $100,000
hub.jhu.edu
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is very good but I suspect it will not, in fact, become free for most undergraduate students, because most undergraduate students who attend JHU are extremely wealthy, for reasons unrelated to financial aid
keep Willa Cather out of your mouth
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
keep Willa Cather out of your mouth
Revise yesterday's post to *three* structural fires near me in Baltimore in only two years
The castle is on fire and it is creating apocalyptic smoke
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Revise yesterday's post to *three* structural fires near me in Baltimore in only two years
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🌏 The engine of climate policy is shifting east and south 🌍
Three-quarters of policies in the last year were adopted outside of North America and Europe. Moreover, in some policy domains the average level of ambition in Africa, Latin America, and Asia is HIGHER.
Three-quarters of policies in the last year were adopted outside of North America and Europe. Moreover, in some policy domains the average level of ambition in Africa, Latin America, and Asia is HIGHER.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🌏 The engine of climate policy is shifting east and south 🌍
Three-quarters of policies in the last year were adopted outside of North America and Europe. Moreover, in some policy domains the average level of ambition in Africa, Latin America, and Asia is HIGHER.
Three-quarters of policies in the last year were adopted outside of North America and Europe. Moreover, in some policy domains the average level of ambition in Africa, Latin America, and Asia is HIGHER.
Sarah Schulman came to Baltimore last year and said (paraphrased): join any organization you can stomach, and if you can't stomach any of them, get two of your friends together every week to read the news
That's basically it. Don't be a lazy fuck. Join whatever half wit org you want so long as it actually does something bc clearly these guys don't even have a quarter wit.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Sarah Schulman came to Baltimore last year and said (paraphrased): join any organization you can stomach, and if you can't stomach any of them, get two of your friends together every week to read the news
This will not be *catastrophic* for my parents, but it will absolutely hurt, and I am very angry on their behalf
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This will not be *catastrophic* for my parents, but it will absolutely hurt, and I am very angry on their behalf
okay here is a fun prompt that I have been debating with friends. what is the sexiest city in the US, and the sexiest city in the world, where sexiness is defined as being the most alluring city in which to have a secret lover
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
okay here is a fun prompt that I have been debating with friends. what is the sexiest city in the US, and the sexiest city in the world, where sexiness is defined as being the most alluring city in which to have a secret lover
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Need more coverage of the USGS critical minerals list written like it's covering celebs, like "big year for potash, in our potash era"
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Need more coverage of the USGS critical minerals list written like it's covering celebs, like "big year for potash, in our potash era"
דער חבֿר אַרבעטעט אין אָפֿיס אויף יענער זײַט דער טיר, מיאַוקיט מיר העכער נאָך העכער דאָס קעצל, אַז איך זאָל אים באַפֿרײַען
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
דער חבֿר אַרבעטעט אין אָפֿיס אויף יענער זײַט דער טיר, מיאַוקיט מיר העכער נאָך העכער דאָס קעצל, אַז איך זאָל אים באַפֿרײַען
Two years in Baltimore, two structural fires visible from my window. Wild that fires feel a more proximate threat here than they ever did in Colorado
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Two years in Baltimore, two structural fires visible from my window. Wild that fires feel a more proximate threat here than they ever did in Colorado
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What a magnanimous overlord!
My future and the future of my future self are in good hands 🙌
My future and the future of my future self are in good hands 🙌
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What a magnanimous overlord!
My future and the future of my future self are in good hands 🙌
My future and the future of my future self are in good hands 🙌
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shameful, pathetic, not going to work statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
shameful, pathetic, not going to work statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
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One aspect of US political history that I think is underplayed is that on several measures—health care, housing, transportation, basic assistance—by the late 60s/early 70s, the nation was headed in a similar direction as European social democracies. Domestic policy was ambitious & liberal.
And if that blew your mind, read up on the Family Assistance Plan, the proposal from Milton Friedman (!) that Nixon embraced -- would've been essentially a negative income tax for the poor in which they'd get cash payments.
The bizarre tale of President Nixon and his basic income bill
In 1969 President Richard Nixon was on the verge of implementing a basic income for poor families in America. It promised to be a revolutionary step – had the President not changed his mind at t...
thecorrespondent.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
One aspect of US political history that I think is underplayed is that on several measures—health care, housing, transportation, basic assistance—by the late 60s/early 70s, the nation was headed in a similar direction as European social democracies. Domestic policy was ambitious & liberal.
university administrators stop giving me a headache challenge (impossible)
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
university administrators stop giving me a headache challenge (impossible)