David Glenn
actsinds.bsky.social
David Glenn
@actsinds.bsky.social
Nurse.
I used to have the notion
I could swim the length of the ocean
I'd plumb the depths of every sea for you
The Only Ones - The Whole of the Law
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November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
EPISODE 4 (dir. Ken Loach): Stuart Hall (Idris Elba) visits Hogwarts and delivers a lecture on prospects for deprivatization under New Labour.
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I was a little floored by the author's ID at the end of this great NYRB essay.
A Woman’s Burden | Anne Diebel
Freezing eggs has been marketed as a panacea for ambitious professional women supposedly hungry for more time to focus on their careers, when in reality it’s often a last resort for women negotiating ...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
this book might have been cited somewhere else in this thread, but if not: it impressed me when I read it 15 or 20 years ago
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground
During the tumultuous Civil War era, the border state of Maryland occupied a middle position both geographically and socially.  Situated between the slave...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by David Glenn
BTW it is tempting to ignore these tweets

But Republican lawmakers take them seriously

So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it

Great way to make policy!
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Would those two events be causally connected? Almost definitely not. But this could be an attractive post hoc fallacy/stabbed-in-the-back narrative for Trumpists if the economy goes to hell.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Three or four times a year I crack open a beverage and trawl through seasonal catalogs.

I've updated a "book wish list" Google doc since the spring of 2008.

(The Halle Butler isn't from a catalog trawl. I spotted it at Type Books in Toronto in August. Is it as good as it looks?)
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by David Glenn
tara goodzari and other parents of reyito del sol take the stage.

goodzari says she was helping the abducted teacher with her citizenship application.

“we are saddened, but we are also enraged,” she says, pointing out that the arrest happened by armed agents without out a warrant at a preschool.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM