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@nonmodernist.com
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alex
@nonmodernist.com
· 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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at the end of the day i think stranger things had an interesting premise, a couple of iconic images, and a few moments of accidentally compelling writing… but not much else :/
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 PM
at the end of the day i think stranger things had an interesting premise, a couple of iconic images, and a few moments of accidentally compelling writing… but not much else :/
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Welcome to the Public Domain, STRONG POISON (1930) ☠️
📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay
📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Welcome to the Public Domain, STRONG POISON (1930) ☠️
📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay
📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay
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A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
January 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
blocking this 🐈 so he can become a cushion !
December 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
blocking this 🐈 so he can become a cushion !
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The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
saving this to send my dean
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
saving this to send my dean
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For those working on next semester's syllabi: www.aaup.org/about/progra...
Academic Freedom Syllabus Language
Academic Freedom Syllabus LanguageOne way to develop a greater understanding of academic freedom is to introduce the concept into our classes. That is, to explain to students what academic freedom mea...
www.aaup.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For those working on next semester's syllabi: www.aaup.org/about/progra...
if john podesta wanted to do anything other than vomit buzzwords, he would probably have learned that united auto workers represents over 36,000 academic laborers in the UC system alone
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
if john podesta wanted to do anything other than vomit buzzwords, he would probably have learned that united auto workers represents over 36,000 academic laborers in the UC system alone
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A huge proportion of the instructional college faculty doesn't have access to employer health insurance, let alone a special faculty lounge.
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A huge proportion of the instructional college faculty doesn't have access to employer health insurance, let alone a special faculty lounge.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
season 5 of macgyver has an episode about earth first-adjacent forest defenders with a faux judi bari who is trying to unite the loggers and environmentalists in a common cause???? also there’s a yakuza guy in the mix
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
season 5 of macgyver has an episode about earth first-adjacent forest defenders with a faux judi bari who is trying to unite the loggers and environmentalists in a common cause???? also there’s a yakuza guy in the mix
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HIRE BRADFORD NOW!!! literally one of the best sports journalists out there right now
Friday news dump? I was recently laid off by McClatchy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I loved expanding into politics/policy reporting, and pursuing stories about communities underserved by their local paper.
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in mind?holler@bwd.nyc
Eager for correspondent-level work? Or, have something else in mind?holler@bwd.nyc
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
HIRE BRADFORD NOW!!! literally one of the best sports journalists out there right now
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someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
okay speaking of tubi, i have been watching macgyver on there and i am so hot for 1987 bruce mcgill, it’s embarrassing 🙈
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
okay speaking of tubi, i have been watching macgyver on there and i am so hot for 1987 bruce mcgill, it’s embarrassing 🙈
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
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Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards
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Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama
By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity
givebutter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
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in this episode, the @thedugoutpod.bsky.social crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public. 1/2
Defending Dissent In Texas: DFW Prairieland Defense Committee | The Dugout
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December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
in this episode, the @thedugoutpod.bsky.social crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public. 1/2
bored at the airport pickup lot. let’s fight about the best bond theme song. it’s “the world is not enough”
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
bored at the airport pickup lot. let’s fight about the best bond theme song. it’s “the world is not enough”
how long till a rian johnson riff on mikey and nicky starring jgl and noah segan becomes viable
Elaine May and Rian Johnson: Together again for the first time!
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
how long till a rian johnson riff on mikey and nicky starring jgl and noah segan becomes viable
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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I hope our names are touching 🫶
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I hope our names are touching 🫶
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
you’re in the heart of texas whenever you get an email from a stranger who saw your name on the news and it’s about his personal experience of kennedy’s assassination
for the curious: you are in the heart of Texas whenever a drunk old man tells you something that by all rights and any sense of decency should get you got arrested in any decent nation
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
you’re in the heart of texas whenever you get an email from a stranger who saw your name on the news and it’s about his personal experience of kennedy’s assassination