Nick Fleisher
@nickfleisher.bsky.social
Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
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okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.
Grammar/syntax/semantics
Wisconsin politics
Academic freedom and shared governance
Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports
Modular synthesizers
Open source software
Stockholm, Sweden
All things Donald Fagen
Wisconsin politics
Academic freedom and shared governance
Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports
Modular synthesizers
Open source software
Stockholm, Sweden
All things Donald Fagen
Probably the stupidest last 2:30 of a football game I've ever seen
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Probably the stupidest last 2:30 of a football game I've ever seen
I would like to hear Joyce Carol Oates's thoughts on play selection and clock management in tonight's game
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I would like to hear Joyce Carol Oates's thoughts on play selection and clock management in tonight's game
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They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
Showing all the old Monday Night Football logos just reinforces how bad the current one is
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Showing all the old Monday Night Football logos just reinforces how bad the current one is
Ah yes, the president is a dupe, many such cases
Amazing.
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Ah yes, the president is a dupe, many such cases
Ron Johnson getting half a million dollars in taxpayer money for participating in a conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 electoral count might actually break me
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ron Johnson getting half a million dollars in taxpayer money for participating in a conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 electoral count might actually break me
More specifically, if on seeing the word you immediately hear Chris Parnell rapping "I prefer Mapquest"
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
More specifically, if on seeing the word you immediately hear Chris Parnell rapping "I prefer Mapquest"
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
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Great thread by one of the smartest Congress-watchers out there ...
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Great thread by one of the smartest Congress-watchers out there ...
Very tired of seeing journalists screenshot Trump statements on tariffs without explaining that the revenue comes 100% from US sources
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Very tired of seeing journalists screenshot Trump statements on tariffs without explaining that the revenue comes 100% from US sources
Marshall is a doctor (so he definitely understands) and is up for reelection next year (in a state that currently has a Democratic governor)
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Marshall is a doctor (so he definitely understands) and is up for reelection next year (in a state that currently has a Democratic governor)
How has this not been a Tina daydream sequence?
Sorry I can’t go. I have horse rehearsal. I have rehorsal. We rehearse the horses, all kinds. Usually there are a few of us at rehorsal and everyone has different kinds of horse for it. For horse rehearsal. Rehorsal
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How has this not been a Tina daydream sequence?
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people are wondering why they caved right after the election. I think it's pretty straightforward. they didn't want to cave before the election because they worried it would kill momentum. they figure this is the moment since elections are as far away as they can get. 1
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
people are wondering why they caved right after the election. I think it's pretty straightforward. they didn't want to cave before the election because they worried it would kill momentum. they figure this is the moment since elections are as far away as they can get. 1
Whoever came up with the FAA flight reductions maneuver to put the screws to Senate Dems is about to get promoted
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Whoever came up with the FAA flight reductions maneuver to put the screws to Senate Dems is about to get promoted
Grice wept
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Grice wept
Also the little saran wrap cutter. I don't care if it's up or down but we need a stringently enforced national standard
I know nothing about the issue but I don’t care, I will vote for anyone who makes it Illegal for the gas tank refueling to be on different sides of different cars. Illegal, punishable by public humiliation
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Also the little saran wrap cutter. I don't care if it's up or down but we need a stringently enforced national standard
Small states should simply attract more people. Wyoming's population is small? Skill issue.
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Small states should simply attract more people. Wyoming's population is small? Skill issue.
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the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
A protection racket can't function without clients. Cornell, Columbia et al are providing critical support for getting the Trump administration's extortion scheme off the ground. It's wildly shameful.
Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A protection racket can't function without clients. Cornell, Columbia et al are providing critical support for getting the Trump administration's extortion scheme off the ground. It's wildly shameful.
Take it from the mask-dropping experts
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Take it from the mask-dropping experts
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This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
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Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
An institution of Cornell's size and wealth can maybe justify this to itself as an investment in its own security but (a) this administration is not a normal or minimally reliable counterparty and (b) you are failing the most basic test of moral leadership, with consequences for the entire sector
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An institution of Cornell's size and wealth can maybe justify this to itself as an investment in its own security but (a) this administration is not a normal or minimally reliable counterparty and (b) you are failing the most basic test of moral leadership, with consequences for the entire sector
God-tier sitcom character, the acting and writing are so so good
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
God-tier sitcom character, the acting and writing are so so good