Sarah Chinn
@sarahchinn.bsky.social
Teaches 19th century US lit at Hunter College, CUNY. Lives in Brooklyn, with all the contradictions that implies.
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Sarah Chinn
@sarahchinn.bsky.social
· Dec 27
If you're going to be in New Orleans for MLA this January, come to a new book party for Adam McKible, Ben Bascom, John Ernest, Kristin Moriah, and me on January 9 at 6:30pm at Blue Cypress Books, 8123 Oak Street!
True: since Ford pardoned Nixon, almost everyone seems to get a "get out of jail free"/ don't go to jail in the first place card. Iran-Contra, Abu Ghraib, fomenting an insurrectionary riot etc etc etc. and no real consequences.
Some people seem not to like this claim, so allow me to invite you to consider the non-impeachment, non-prosecution, & subsequent incredibly lucrative post-politics sinecures in media, academia, finance, etc. of literally every senior person involved in the Reagan, GWB, & Trump I administrations.
👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
True: since Ford pardoned Nixon, almost everyone seems to get a "get out of jail free"/ don't go to jail in the first place card. Iran-Contra, Abu Ghraib, fomenting an insurrectionary riot etc etc etc. and no real consequences.
Guest artists: the US Colored Troops marching into Galveston to liberate the remaining enslaved people there, and elected Black federal members of Congress and Senate from the 1870s.
Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Guest artists: the US Colored Troops marching into Galveston to liberate the remaining enslaved people there, and elected Black federal members of Congress and Senate from the 1870s.
Sure scared the hell out of me.
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Sure scared the hell out of me.
Yes — it was a joyous celebration of community above all.
Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Yes — it was a joyous celebration of community above all.
I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
It seems like a lot of these olympians are like “I am 39 and at deaths door and none of my limbs work and I need more sleep than ever but let me crawl back on the mountain for one last time.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
Why have these people not learned that standing up to bullies works more often than not? And even if you get beaten up, at least you have your pride.
It's not new information that just saying "no" works but for some reason, many institutions have been paying the full ransom immediately
They're cooked.
February 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Why have these people not learned that standing up to bullies works more often than not? And even if you get beaten up, at least you have your pride.
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If you're local to Ann Arbor or Ypsi Nextdoor, here is the link.
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Ice is at Washtenaw Community College pulling kids out of class.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
If you're local to Ann Arbor or Ypsi Nextdoor, here is the link.
nextdoor.com/p/rNNGzY3cn7...
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In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.
www.5calls.org
Not one rep should have an empty voicemail by Monday ☎️
If you’re not calling, you’re not doing enough
Not one rep should have an empty voicemail by Monday ☎️
If you’re not calling, you’re not doing enough
January 24, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.
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Holy fuck they actually did it
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Holy fuck they actually did it
This, my friends, is what welcoming immigrants and sharing with them can do.
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
This, my friends, is what welcoming immigrants and sharing with them can do.
Lucy Dacus singing Bread & Roses for all the SLAC alums in the crowd.
January 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Lucy Dacus singing Bread & Roses for all the SLAC alums in the crowd.
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
Jumaane Williams is the best of us. Love him.
Jumaane Williams addressing his younger self as a young Black child and telling him he was always enough.
I’m not crying, you’re crying!!! 💙💙😭😭
#MamdaniInauguration
I’m not crying, you’re crying!!! 💙💙😭😭
#MamdaniInauguration
January 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
Yup, it all comes back to Reagan.
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yup, it all comes back to Reagan.
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
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I know it's a small part of a much larger story, but can we talk about how godawful hideous that ballroom is going to be?
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I know it's a small part of a much larger story, but can we talk about how godawful hideous that ballroom is going to be?
"I never thought they'd eat *my* face...."
Paging fellow Dartmouth alum Harmeet Dhillon, are you paying attention?
To AAPIs who think they can ride the racist MAGA wave and not drown in the undertow, a cautionary tale from a very weak mind.
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"I never thought they'd eat *my* face...."
And this is why we can't have nice things: all the billionaires who have monopolized pretty much everything (I'm typing on an Apple computer, our university has moved us all over to Microsoft 365, our student tracking software uses AWS servers etc etc) are bankrolling these delusions of grandeur.
This is more than just a list of those paying tribute.
It is a list of the people and corporations who paid for the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House.
They’d love to disclaim that, but Everything Trump Touches Dies™️, and they knew that going in. Everyone does. #ETTD
It is a list of the people and corporations who paid for the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House.
They’d love to disclaim that, but Everything Trump Touches Dies™️, and they knew that going in. Everyone does. #ETTD
All The Donors Financing Trump’s Ballroom As He Demolishes The White House
Trump may have destroyed American history by razing the East Wing, but at least these corporations and rich people get to buy access to the president.
www.huffpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And this is why we can't have nice things: all the billionaires who have monopolized pretty much everything (I'm typing on an Apple computer, our university has moved us all over to Microsoft 365, our student tracking software uses AWS servers etc etc) are bankrolling these delusions of grandeur.
What the actual fuck? A 70s style Black pimp? Injection sites for CRACK???? It's hard to tell that this is an actual ad rather than a parody of a Cuomo spot. Who on earth would be convinced by this? And is the Mamdani figure at the end AI? Isn't that, um, illegal?
This is vile
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What the actual fuck? A 70s style Black pimp? Injection sites for CRACK???? It's hard to tell that this is an actual ad rather than a parody of a Cuomo spot. Who on earth would be convinced by this? And is the Mamdani figure at the end AI? Isn't that, um, illegal?
Just saw this. WTAF? Are they just plucking people off the street?
This is so awful. Never forget that the first law in the United States written explicitly to deny people was targeted at Chinese immigrants and impacted people in this neighborhood.
This is historical continuity of the worst sort.
This is historical continuity of the worst sort.
More federal agents on Canal, counter protesters gather shouting the agents.
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Just saw this. WTAF? Are they just plucking people off the street?
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
What what what? Plus, is he so stupid that he doesn't realize that he should probably take that down if he's in a zoom meeting, or at least blur his background?
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.
According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What what what? Plus, is he so stupid that he doesn't realize that he should probably take that down if he's in a zoom meeting, or at least blur his background?