PJ Elliott
@beowulftx.bsky.social
I teach words, books, plays, and poetry to adolescents. I also raise two of them as a culinary engineer, event planner, and dungeon master.
I also write a newsletter about geek culture, running, and teaching. https://pjelliott.substack.com/
I also write a newsletter about geek culture, running, and teaching. https://pjelliott.substack.com/
For the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social crowd. Happy Thanksgiving!!
"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social crowd. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Fuuuuuuuun.
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Big follow-up to this story coming Monday. Watch this space 👀📚
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Fuuuuuuuun.
Going to check this out later.
It is fundamentally perfect and makes me want to run through a wall youtu.be/xPZigWFyK2o?...
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Going to check this out later.
Texas friends, get involved!
It's finally ready! October's most anticipated release, w/ the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl, is The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Elections. If you hate book bans, read this to know who to vote for and who to campaign against! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November 2025 School Board Elections
The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the November 2025 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Tuesday, November 4...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Texas friends, get involved!
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers. n.pr/4n46GLs
What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
n.pr
August 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers. n.pr/4n46GLs
This is madness.
CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BOOKS.
This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.
The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.
This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.
The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.
August 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is madness.
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Texas ended in-state tuition for undocumented students, reversing a 24-year policy in just six hours in June. The move blocks college access for thousands and may lead to higher tuition for all as enrollment drops. 19thnews.org/2025/07/texa...
Texas was first to expand college access for undocumented students. Now it’s leading the rollback.
After 24 years, the Texas Dream Act was dismantled in just six hours. Advocates warn the move could spread nationally — jeopardizing the future of thousands.
19thnews.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Texas ended in-state tuition for undocumented students, reversing a 24-year policy in just six hours in June. The move blocks college access for thousands and may lead to higher tuition for all as enrollment drops. 19thnews.org/2025/07/texa...
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State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
July 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Brilliant satire.
"Children understand the dynamic of a woman who attracts a fairy godmother through her tears. They cannot handle the benign existence of one class mom who attracted the other class mom during their first year at Oberlin."
Why I, Cinderella, Support the Supreme Court’s Book Ban
“Parents with religious objections to storybooks with LGBTQ. themes may withdraw their children from public schools when the books are discussed, t...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Brilliant satire.
@theferocity.bsky.social , I just wanted to alert you that Rihanna is the voice of Smurfette in the new Smurfs moving coming out (new tracks are promised). I hope you can break the news to @samsanders.bsky.social gently. youtu.be/_MQnZgH0ZmQ
Rihanna - Friend Of Mine (from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack)
YouTube video by RihannaVEVO
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June 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@theferocity.bsky.social , I just wanted to alert you that Rihanna is the voice of Smurfette in the new Smurfs moving coming out (new tracks are promised). I hope you can break the news to @samsanders.bsky.social gently. youtu.be/_MQnZgH0ZmQ
Time for a salty marg’ @strictscrutiny.bsky.social .
And to think, I didn't even know that Martha-Ann Alito was running the SBA!
NEW: A far-right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag was flown above the Small Business Administration's headquarters in DC.
The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home.
from me and @telliotter.bsky.social:
The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home.
from me and @telliotter.bsky.social:
June 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Time for a salty marg’ @strictscrutiny.bsky.social .
I look forward to not reading this, but listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social hosts rage/rant about this in a brilliant TLDR segment.
On the bench and in her opinions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks the language of the law. But she has given numerous speeches and lectures that help illuminate her personal outlook, life experiences and approach to her job. Take a look.
Justice Barrett: In Her Own Words
Off the bench, the Supreme Court justice has discussed her judicial and personal philosophies, having a son with Down syndrome and running away from television trucks in high heels.
trib.al
June 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I look forward to not reading this, but listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social hosts rage/rant about this in a brilliant TLDR segment.
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I want to remind everyone that the White House and the GOP have been systematically dismantling protections for abortion providers and clinics ever since Trump took office
June 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I want to remind everyone that the White House and the GOP have been systematically dismantling protections for abortion providers and clinics ever since Trump took office
Working at a summer camp in suburban Boston, and Jane Pauley comes in with son to look over the activities. At the time I am wearing multiple hats, mismatched socks, a monogrammed bowling shirt, and a toy ankylosaurus strapped to my chest. ‘Twas crazy dress day. She did not react.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Working at a summer camp in suburban Boston, and Jane Pauley comes in with son to look over the activities. At the time I am wearing multiple hats, mismatched socks, a monogrammed bowling shirt, and a toy ankylosaurus strapped to my chest. ‘Twas crazy dress day. She did not react.
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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
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"Ellen has five times the dowry as her sister Charlotte, but Charlotte is twice as attractive as Ellen, and three times as funny. How many times will each sister reject her initial suitor until each finally marries her initial suitor? What if this is a Jane Austen novel?"
Math Problems for English Majors
If Elizabeth Bennet’s house is ten miles away from Mr. Darcy’s house, how far will her mother go to arrange a suitable marriage? - - - An English m...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Ellen has five times the dowry as her sister Charlotte, but Charlotte is twice as attractive as Ellen, and three times as funny. How many times will each sister reject her initial suitor until each finally marries her initial suitor? What if this is a Jane Austen novel?"
Every June, for #Pride I do a rewatch of Sense8, and here’s what I wrote about it last year. open.substack.com/pub/pjelliot...
Eight Out of Eight
The Power of Sense8
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Every June, for #Pride I do a rewatch of Sense8, and here’s what I wrote about it last year. open.substack.com/pub/pjelliot...
Quaint little Amherst, Massachusetts, @maddow.msnbc.com !!!!
June 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Quaint little Amherst, Massachusetts, @maddow.msnbc.com !!!!
Excellent read.
Among the many juicy revelations in this story about Elon Musk and his drug use: As a govt contractor, SpaceX must maintain a drug-free workforce. But Musk received advance notice of what were supposed to be random drug tests. @kirstengrind.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Excellent read.
Don’t know if the Swifties are also sans of #eyesongilead, but I heard the theory that TSwift was actually one of the guards in the opening of that scene.
May 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don’t know if the Swifties are also sans of #eyesongilead, but I heard the theory that TSwift was actually one of the guards in the opening of that scene.
