Theresa Ventura
@theresaventura.bsky.social
Historian of US empire, environment, coconuts. Former provincial New Yorker turned Montreal outsider.
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Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Local media ❤️🔥
In furious despair at the @nytimes.com lack of front-page attention to yesterday's protests. But perhaps it matters more that papers in Dothen, AL and small Idaho and Arkansas towns are leading with these powerful photos and stories. See the collection of front pages below for reassurance.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Local media ❤️🔥
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Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?
On rewatch I was shocked that the bad guy government guy was from the EPA - maybe a not so subtle nod to 80s deregulation
the boy is home from school today and he wanted to watch GHOSTBUSTERS and so we’re watching ghostbusters. a few thoughts. i have not watched this in a minute and have kind of forgotten how (charmingly) shaggy this movie this is. also, hello annie potts 👀 and a special hello to sigourney weaver 👀👀
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On rewatch I was shocked that the bad guy government guy was from the EPA - maybe a not so subtle nod to 80s deregulation
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Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Montreal, folks. Montreal.
There was a man on the metro tonight who had a swastika, an SS symbol, and the letters KKK all drawn on his bag. I hope he trips and falls in a pothole.
October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Montreal, folks. Montreal.
Worth noting that young in this context is 18-40. Or as other people call it, adult.
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 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Worth noting that young in this context is 18-40. Or as other people call it, adult.
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“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
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It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
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October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.
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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
Well well well…
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Well well well…
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It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
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Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.
October 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Klein reminds me of the 2016 “no one does political history anymore” brouhaha. If you reduce politics to electoral persuasion, then winners do it right, losers wrong. TNC tried to broaden the political by grounding it in Black history. It didn’t work.
Klein doesn’t feel he can say what’s the right way to do politics (except by publishing pieces announcing who he thinks does politics the right way)
IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.
September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Klein reminds me of the 2016 “no one does political history anymore” brouhaha. If you reduce politics to electoral persuasion, then winners do it right, losers wrong. TNC tried to broaden the political by grounding it in Black history. It didn’t work.
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they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
Read this as Slaughterhouse case. Still a bunch of bastards.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Read this as Slaughterhouse case. Still a bunch of bastards.
“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”
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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
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Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
Fraud in defense of genocide - and on day when Israel is destroying Gaza City’s last remaining towers and ordering more than a million to the south.
My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
@tedmccormick.bsky.social wondering whether you signed the recent “scholars for truth about genocide” letter because if not, and like @nkalamb.bsky.social, your name would appear to have been added without your consent.
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fraud in defense of genocide - and on day when Israel is destroying Gaza City’s last remaining towers and ordering more than a million to the south.
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My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
@tedmccormick.bsky.social wondering whether you signed the recent “scholars for truth about genocide” letter because if not, and like @nkalamb.bsky.social, your name would appear to have been added without your consent.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Mine in today’s New Yorker. Greetings from America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes.” Read my cartoon-filled rant about this at open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Mine in today’s New Yorker. Greetings from America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes.” Read my cartoon-filled rant about this at open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...
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By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social