Stephanie Porras
@periodeye.bsky.social
Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
People asking me about my sabbatical plans - I may just try and BECOME this woman
I’m sitting at a bar grading essays while my kid has class and a woman my age just rocked up *with her own pool cues* ordered a beer and has commandeered the pool table on a Monday night…and I now have the largest crush on this absolute boss
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
People asking me about my sabbatical plans - I may just try and BECOME this woman
I’m sitting at a bar grading essays while my kid has class and a woman my age just rocked up *with her own pool cues* ordered a beer and has commandeered the pool table on a Monday night…and I now have the largest crush on this absolute boss
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m sitting at a bar grading essays while my kid has class and a woman my age just rocked up *with her own pool cues* ordered a beer and has commandeered the pool table on a Monday night…and I now have the largest crush on this absolute boss
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Listen to this man. LISTEN AND LEARN.
At the heart of every woman she’s essentially a food… figure out the kind… figure out the order and you can live as a god forever
Get ya ears off the charger and listen:
“I don’t know what I want” doesn’t mean I’m not hungry. It means I’m about two inhales from being violently hangry & lack the executive function to navigate a menu. Know what I like to eat and FEED ME so no one gets hurt.
“I don’t know what I want” doesn’t mean I’m not hungry. It means I’m about two inhales from being violently hangry & lack the executive function to navigate a menu. Know what I like to eat and FEED ME so no one gets hurt.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Listen to this man. LISTEN AND LEARN.
Also took the teen and tween thrifting this morning and a lovely Honduran abuelita berated me (nicely) for my kids not speaking Spanish - I was surprised she was so chatty and then realized this was the shirt I am wearing today…everyone recognizes the mazapan logo, lol
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Also took the teen and tween thrifting this morning and a lovely Honduran abuelita berated me (nicely) for my kids not speaking Spanish - I was surprised she was so chatty and then realized this was the shirt I am wearing today…everyone recognizes the mazapan logo, lol
Today is a perfect day for running errands uptown on my bike. Highly recommend
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Today is a perfect day for running errands uptown on my bike. Highly recommend
Watching the Disney animated Robin Hood with youngest and realizing this film gave me my politics (and of course the fox was my first crush)
a cartoon of a bear and a fox in a tree
ALT: a cartoon of a bear and a fox in a tree
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Watching the Disney animated Robin Hood with youngest and realizing this film gave me my politics (and of course the fox was my first crush)
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
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New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.
It’s not that I think that people can’t or don’t change, but there is also something so delightful in seeing someone you first met 20 years ago and recognizing everything you liked about that person then, there and in bloom
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It’s not that I think that people can’t or don’t change, but there is also something so delightful in seeing someone you first met 20 years ago and recognizing everything you liked about that person then, there and in bloom
This is tonight! Hope to see you there!! I have the job of introducing him and I’m quite nervous
New Orleans writers, photographers, and other friends. We are so delighted to host Teju Cole for the 2025 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture this Thursday, 11/6 at 6 pm, in Freeman Auditorium (use Newcomb Art Museum for directions then follow signs).
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is tonight! Hope to see you there!! I have the job of introducing him and I’m quite nervous
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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Hell yeah. No one on the team who gives a shit about the city should be anywhere near the White House right now.
HAPPENING NOW: Immigrant workers calling on Dodgers to refuse invitation to White House #iceoutofLA
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hell yeah. No one on the team who gives a shit about the city should be anywhere near the White House right now.
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"Separation of powers" - mmm: might it also apply to actions like firing federal employees, impoundments, eliminating of agencies? Or just taxes.
Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Separation of powers" - mmm: might it also apply to actions like firing federal employees, impoundments, eliminating of agencies? Or just taxes.
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
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Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
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A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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Fellow bitter southerners,
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Fellow bitter southerners,
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote