Dr. Mark J.B. Wright
@illiterature.bsky.social
New Book : The Destruction of Jerusalem ed. w/
Kara L. Mcshane from METS.
Director, Classical Association of New England Summer Institute, 2025 (July 7-11, Stonehill College, Easton MA.)
Kara L. Mcshane from METS.
Director, Classical Association of New England Summer Institute, 2025 (July 7-11, Stonehill College, Easton MA.)
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pretending that what the supreme court is doing is even vaguely recognizable as "law" is a distortion at this point. they are partisans using power to advance a partisan agenda. they are republicans acting as such.
July 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
pretending that what the supreme court is doing is even vaguely recognizable as "law" is a distortion at this point. they are partisans using power to advance a partisan agenda. they are republicans acting as such.
You ever think people might be leaving Twitter partly because your weaponized idiocy and smug incuriosity are being force fed to us by the algorithm? Of course not, you're incapable of self-reflection.
Sorry, blue sky. I know it’s been the Hamas commie power hour over here.
But people are leaving Twitter and it’s time to get Libed up by true American Patriots 🫡🇺🇸
But people are leaving Twitter and it’s time to get Libed up by true American Patriots 🫡🇺🇸
November 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM
You ever think people might be leaving Twitter partly because your weaponized idiocy and smug incuriosity are being force fed to us by the algorithm? Of course not, you're incapable of self-reflection.
Not sure what's worse on Twitter--the smug centrists like Yglesias, who bray that the Dems should do what just made them lose, but MORE; OR the fascistic little shits popping in on every post going "your body, my choice" or "Trump won, you don't like it, then leave!"
November 15, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Not sure what's worse on Twitter--the smug centrists like Yglesias, who bray that the Dems should do what just made them lose, but MORE; OR the fascistic little shits popping in on every post going "your body, my choice" or "Trump won, you don't like it, then leave!"
It’s not just that Hilary people STILL can’t forget or forgive 2016. It is that they have to be very obtuse and forgetful about everything she did in 2008.
September 24, 2023 at 9:31 PM
It’s not just that Hilary people STILL can’t forget or forgive 2016. It is that they have to be very obtuse and forgetful about everything she did in 2008.
Saddened to learn of the death of one of the great ancient historians, Kurt Raaflaub.
www.providencejournal.com/obituaries/p...
www.providencejournal.com/obituaries/p...
September 16, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Saddened to learn of the death of one of the great ancient historians, Kurt Raaflaub.
www.providencejournal.com/obituaries/p...
www.providencejournal.com/obituaries/p...
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"If there was ever a question that the New York Times has been on a crusade against transgender youth, and willing to distort the science and platform known liars in order to undermine the medical care of vulnerable children, this story should answer that question once and for all."
New NYT abomination of a story about gender-affirming care just dropped:
NYT Treats Key Source’s Many Lies as an Aside in Latest Anti-Trans Smear — Assigned
Azeen Ghorayshi provides no evidence that any of Jamie Reed’s allegations
were correct. In fact, her reporting for the New York Times only reinforces
the likelihood that Reed lied repeatedly. So, ...
www.assignedmedia.org
August 24, 2023 at 4:46 AM
"If there was ever a question that the New York Times has been on a crusade against transgender youth, and willing to distort the science and platform known liars in order to undermine the medical care of vulnerable children, this story should answer that question once and for all."
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It's hard to convince younger people the economy is actually great, when they're able to directly compare what they get for their money - ESPECIALLY when it comes to housing - with what their parents and grandparents were able to get.
August 23, 2023 at 3:01 PM
It's hard to convince younger people the economy is actually great, when they're able to directly compare what they get for their money - ESPECIALLY when it comes to housing - with what their parents and grandparents were able to get.
If Wayne Barrett were still with us, he might have died of joy and schadenfreude today.
August 24, 2023 at 1:27 AM
If Wayne Barrett were still with us, he might have died of joy and schadenfreude today.
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Sequence breaking into the "fix my spine" phase of the run, skipping multiple stages. This is a huge time save and maybe a new record for the Lowtax% category.
August 7, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Sequence breaking into the "fix my spine" phase of the run, skipping multiple stages. This is a huge time save and maybe a new record for the Lowtax% category.
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I was a grad student in the 90s when centrists were saying that we needed to engage with Charles Murray's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism. Now I'm in my 50s and centrists are saying we should engage with Richard Hanania's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism.
August 6, 2023 at 4:49 PM
I was a grad student in the 90s when centrists were saying that we needed to engage with Charles Murray's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism. Now I'm in my 50s and centrists are saying we should engage with Richard Hanania's Harlan Crow-funded pseudo-scientific racism.
One of my first jobs at OSU classics was working on and contributing to this database. It is a vital resource!
Re-sharing via John Ma over on Twitter: Will you please sign this petition to preserve and expand the vital resource of the Packard Humanities Institute Greek inscriptions Database ?
Sign the Petition
The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), over the years, has created a comprehensive database of ancient Greek inscriptions. It's a priceless resource that has been extraordinarily beneficial to an int...
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August 4, 2023 at 11:40 PM
One of my first jobs at OSU classics was working on and contributing to this database. It is a vital resource!
Twitter will completely collapse in 3 weeks and Will Stancil will still be there screaming that the economy is great, actually while people fling shit at him.
August 2, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Twitter will completely collapse in 3 weeks and Will Stancil will still be there screaming that the economy is great, actually while people fling shit at him.
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when the cops think a poor person has a joint they smash through the wall of their house with a tank, but when rich people flagrantly violate safety regulations they're like "oh please mr oligarch may we examine this building you aren't paying rent on? no? thanks anyway"
X / Twitter won't let city building inspectors check out the giant X logo on the roof of their HQ
inspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure
inspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure
July 31, 2023 at 12:39 PM
when the cops think a poor person has a joint they smash through the wall of their house with a tank, but when rich people flagrantly violate safety regulations they're like "oh please mr oligarch may we examine this building you aren't paying rent on? no? thanks anyway"
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The anti-Semitic entertainer got his Twitter account back and the guy who exposed the anti-Semitism still doesn't even have his phone back https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/journalist-tells-fbi-to-give-back-devices-seized-during-extremely-questionable-investigation-into-leaked-fox-news-footage/
July 30, 2023 at 6:59 PM
The anti-Semitic entertainer got his Twitter account back and the guy who exposed the anti-Semitism still doesn't even have his phone back https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/journalist-tells-fbi-to-give-back-devices-seized-during-extremely-questionable-investigation-into-leaked-fox-news-footage/
Father in Law’s cat having a lazy Sunday.
July 30, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Father in Law’s cat having a lazy Sunday.
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If you look at everything they’re doing with book bans, anti abortion laws targeting speech, anti discrimination law and more, they are trying to create a litigation risk for engaging in what they perceive as left wing behavior. https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3k3qhf5hezx2c
I think it’s pretty simple, they want to make it very easy for powerful people to silence their critics even if what the critics are saying is true. The entire right wing legal strategy now is based on chilling effects. https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3k3o7r7jfhe25
The dismissal of Trump’s thuggish and performative defamation claim against CNN for “big lie” rhetoric is obviously right, and that’s good. But to me it illustrates why the Right’s goal of overturning New York Times v. Sullivan is deeply concerning and ambiguous in scope. /1
July 30, 2023 at 12:23 PM
If you look at everything they’re doing with book bans, anti abortion laws targeting speech, anti discrimination law and more, they are trying to create a litigation risk for engaging in what they perceive as left wing behavior. https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3k3qhf5hezx2c
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i’m generally not an accelerationist, but if Congress passes ethics rules and SCOTUS ignores them, it would force a lot of people to confront the scope of what’s happening with this Court. it’s not that it would cause a constitutional crisis as much as it would reveal that we’re already in one.
July 29, 2023 at 5:28 PM
i’m generally not an accelerationist, but if Congress passes ethics rules and SCOTUS ignores them, it would force a lot of people to confront the scope of what’s happening with this Court. it’s not that it would cause a constitutional crisis as much as it would reveal that we’re already in one.
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all we are saying is there has to be other ways into the literary world besides going to Iowa Writers Workshop having your work appear in the New Yorker and having your debut novel come out on penguin random house, no one heard of any of this, open the gates
July 29, 2023 at 2:28 PM
all we are saying is there has to be other ways into the literary world besides going to Iowa Writers Workshop having your work appear in the New Yorker and having your debut novel come out on penguin random house, no one heard of any of this, open the gates
Fascinating that the people who are quickest to scream “groomer” are so quiet and grasping at straws when people point our their connection and support of Dom Lucre.
July 29, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Fascinating that the people who are quickest to scream “groomer” are so quiet and grasping at straws when people point our their connection and support of Dom Lucre.
Got asked to do my first peer review today, and am wondering if they recognized merit in my thoughts on Horace's Satires (the only real merit is I picked up on the right trend at the time), or they're that desperate.
July 28, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Got asked to do my first peer review today, and am wondering if they recognized merit in my thoughts on Horace's Satires (the only real merit is I picked up on the right trend at the time), or they're that desperate.