We’re about two months away from post-1857 Rebellion levels of anti-Indian racism here and it’s going to be very bad and look very weird

My general unarticulated sense is the first Trump go-round would’ve been way more intellectually productive and less annoying if liberals waded into late early modern “end of the republic” lit and stayed away from post-WW2 neofascism lit

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

For those who missed it, here is my recent article for Yes Magazine about the returning need for community self-defense on the left. With rising state repression and far-right violence, communities need to find a way to keep themselves safe.
www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

i am tired of your tim snyder quotes 😬

Hey friends can I ask you all to follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , an excellent project that facilitates artists, scholars, & others leading workshops where all receipts provide desperately needed support to Gazans?

Never listened to Rachmanninoff’s Liturgy of St John C before and I really wasn’t prepared for it when I casually threw it on

Does…the Atlantic writer not get that Michael’s hatred of Toby is played as comically deranged

you could ask your library to order if you want

“It’s not going to go well” exudes hilarious villain energy over a little website where friends post random little thoughts

I would just like to point out that this particular kind of grief is famously not “unspoken”

Wearing my partner’s Bernie 2016 tshirt at the gym, wanting to explain that my politics are way more annoying than that

I'm thrilled to report that my book has been nominated for the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association's Marilyn Gaull Book Award, "conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year." Exciting!

I’ve had enough blood taken from me over 10 months of weekly therapeutic phlebotomy to have completely exsanguinated me a bit more than twice. Today I learned my iron and ferritin levels are now like normies’ without a genetic iron thing. It remains funny that “bleed them!” is the best treatment

The AAR doing awards for good journalism covering the subject area of a largely academic org (religion, here) is a thing all major academic orgs should do. Great writing

https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/Publications-and-News-/Newsroom-/News-/2023/2023-Journalism-Awards.aspx

Is Freddie deBoer on here so I can yell at him for being a massive moron asshole who does fake rape accusations

When is Glenn Greenwald showing up here so I can bully him without being blocked

Fuck this. Love to West Philly

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/gunman-shoots-multiple-people-including-child-in-philly-police-say/3597629/

Is there an anarchist scene here yet or what