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alex
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· Aug 22
I've been building a database documenting how ~500 American women writers shaped Hollywood from 1910-1963. The site just soft-launched with about 1130 films & some initial data analysis
Read more about Pickford's strategic use of women's literature:
herhollywoodstory.com/patterns/mary-pickford.html
Read more about Pickford's strategic use of women's literature:
herhollywoodstory.com/patterns/mary-pickford.html
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Never forget that the greatest damage to higher education by the House Unamerican Activities Committee was voluntarily self-inflicted by universities against their own faculty.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Never forget that the greatest damage to higher education by the House Unamerican Activities Committee was voluntarily self-inflicted by universities against their own faculty.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
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6 afternoon flights from lax to dfw and the airline cancelled exactly one: mine
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
6 afternoon flights from lax to dfw and the airline cancelled exactly one: mine
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Obviously.
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Obviously.
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"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly.
That should terrify anyone who cares about academic freedom."
www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
That should terrify anyone who cares about academic freedom."
www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly.
That should terrify anyone who cares about academic freedom."
www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
That should terrify anyone who cares about academic freedom."
www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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It's been almost 2 weeks since THE BEST OF ALL-STORY LOVE: 1929 went live! Do you have your copy yet? If not, don't miss out on this forgotten part of #romance history—the stories that existed in the pre-paperback #pulp magazines. 14 in total, all w/ their original illustrations. 💕 #romancelandia
The Best of All-Story Love: 1929
Amazon.com: The Best of All-Story Love: 1929: 9798269287560: Staron, Lucynka: Books
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November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It's been almost 2 weeks since THE BEST OF ALL-STORY LOVE: 1929 went live! Do you have your copy yet? If not, don't miss out on this forgotten part of #romance history—the stories that existed in the pre-paperback #pulp magazines. 14 in total, all w/ their original illustrations. 💕 #romancelandia
im now at the “receiving mean emails” phase of having published this article about being harassed by extremists
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
im now at the “receiving mean emails” phase of having published this article about being harassed by extremists
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Bone deep disappointment with my alma mater
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Bone deep disappointment with my alma mater
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"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly."
Powerful testimony about the state of academic freedom and higher ed in Texas.
Powerful testimony about the state of academic freedom and higher ed in Texas.
Yesterday: Alexandra Edwards lays out the simple, four-step plan extremists can follow to dismantle vital University programs like the one she used to work for.
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"TCU is a private institution. The Texas Legislature didn’t force this decision. No law required the school to close these departments. They did it willingly."
Powerful testimony about the state of academic freedom and higher ed in Texas.
Powerful testimony about the state of academic freedom and higher ed in Texas.
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“Des's indictment should shock us all, as all that is alleged is the movement of a box of political ‘documents and propaganda’ (i.e. zines) from one place to another.”
The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“Des's indictment should shock us all, as all that is alleged is the movement of a box of political ‘documents and propaganda’ (i.e. zines) from one place to another.”
can someone please ask the expensive tapestry company where my expensive frog needlepoint kit is
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
can someone please ask the expensive tapestry company where my expensive frog needlepoint kit is
there’s no such thing as conservative feminism
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
there’s no such thing as conservative feminism
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His victory reminds me that, though Black Studies is under attack, though Black Studies has not been immune to the elitist liberal capitalist politics of many institutions, it’s politically imaginative potential is still possible and yet to be realized.
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
His victory reminds me that, though Black Studies is under attack, though Black Studies has not been immune to the elitist liberal capitalist politics of many institutions, it’s politically imaginative potential is still possible and yet to be realized.
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Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”
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It’s these kinds of choices that led me to retire from TCU in 2020.
“There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time…What’s the political cost of supporting our own people versus the cost of quietly surrendering?” Powerful words from a TCU colleague. www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It’s these kinds of choices that led me to retire from TCU in 2020.
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“There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time…What’s the political cost of supporting our own people versus the cost of quietly surrendering?” Powerful words from a TCU colleague. www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time…What’s the political cost of supporting our own people versus the cost of quietly surrendering?” Powerful words from a TCU colleague. www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
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“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”
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WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.
today i'm in the texas observer with an op-ed about how it feels to watch my university cave to racists and extremists by eliminating the departments they've been attacking for years www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
today i'm in the texas observer with an op-ed about how it feels to watch my university cave to racists and extremists by eliminating the departments they've been attacking for years www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
Huffman ran non-stop “antifa is coming to eat your babies” ads and even spent money to text me (a registered dem). It rules that he wasted all that money for crickets
Wow. Democrat Taylor Rehmet heading to a runoff with Wambsganss after getting 47.5% of the vote in a +18 Trump district. More than $4 million was spent by/in support of her two GOP opponents, with big checks from Miriam Adelson and billionaire Tim Dunn.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
In Texas 9th SD, Democrat Taylor Rehmet is leading three candidates-including Leigh Wambsganss, a well-known Christian nationalist activist who was supported by Trump, Texas GOP leaders and far-right donor Tim Dunn. The district includes Tarrant County, a +5% Trump county + bellwether for the state.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Huffman ran non-stop “antifa is coming to eat your babies” ads and even spent money to text me (a registered dem). It rules that he wasted all that money for crickets
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Wow. Democrat Taylor Rehmet heading to a runoff with Wambsganss after getting 47.5% of the vote in a +18 Trump district. More than $4 million was spent by/in support of her two GOP opponents, with big checks from Miriam Adelson and billionaire Tim Dunn.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
In Texas 9th SD, Democrat Taylor Rehmet is leading three candidates-including Leigh Wambsganss, a well-known Christian nationalist activist who was supported by Trump, Texas GOP leaders and far-right donor Tim Dunn. The district includes Tarrant County, a +5% Trump county + bellwether for the state.
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Wow. Democrat Taylor Rehmet heading to a runoff with Wambsganss after getting 47.5% of the vote in a +18 Trump district. More than $4 million was spent by/in support of her two GOP opponents, with big checks from Miriam Adelson and billionaire Tim Dunn.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
Rehmet spent $68,000.
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I don’t care about the hypothetical condemnation of fascists in a future history book; the fascists should be afraid of the strength of humanity here and now, they should either run and hide from the light for eternity or reject their wicked ways and atone for their actions
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I don’t care about the hypothetical condemnation of fascists in a future history book; the fascists should be afraid of the strength of humanity here and now, they should either run and hide from the light for eternity or reject their wicked ways and atone for their actions
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Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)