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Matthew L Reznicek
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Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Nov 6
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams
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seancasten.bsky.social
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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gipperfish.bsky.social
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
drreznicek.bsky.social
For being one of the ur-villains of the Gothic, Montoni really deserved a better death than offstage and in prison.
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
One appeaser, Sen. Angus King, explained his decision with, “Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.”

Well sure, when you prematurely fold rather than see a fight through, you fail. And why should Trump opponents vote for anyone who thinks standing up to Trump isn’t worth doing?
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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austenmicrocosm.bsky.social
Mr Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again. I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Wut?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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aktange.bsky.social
If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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qjurecic.bsky.social
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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metacramer.bsky.social
Very happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making; This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate globa...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
drreznicek.bsky.social
325lbs/148kg in squat today. LFG.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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adrianna.bsky.social
This work is so important, especially in the context of how modestly (if at all) outreach efforts improve retention.

Also important: the work requirements that need to be implemented by the end of next year may prove much harder to automate than standard eligibility redeterminations
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
Breaking: Kansas Senator finds millions of people paying into Social Security under 65 and never withdrawing benefits!
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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lindstorian.bsky.social
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wihorne.bsky.social Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 18h
What I'll never understand abt "moderate" Dem enthusiasm for risking it all to do a deal w Republicans is that the regime has ALREADY SHOWN that they will act in defiance of existing civil rights & appropriations laws. Why on earth would you expect them to comply with the stipulations of any deal?
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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joshspero.ft.com
"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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lmacthompson1.bsky.social
Almost done with my entire book draft. "Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights: The Medical Politics of the American Birth Control Movement" is a project that is more than a decade in the making. A story we think we know well. Turns out we don't.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
A writer of books, films, music and operas about nature, climate, landscape, people and place, and Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities @cam.ac.uk, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social reflects on writing for music. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4665
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
drreznicek.bsky.social
The fact that it was led by New Englanders right after the administration said they would cut winter fuel subsidies seems pretty telling. The regime's willingness to make people suffer wasn't going to change--and this capitulation doesn't seem as if it will force any changes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
Oscar Isaac as Victor hugging little William goodbye with subtitle reading: And there [University of Edinburgh], for decades, I tried to… Present day Victor with beard and bandages, perfectly poised in front of a porthole and two windows letting in Arctic light, finished his sentence ‘[I tried to] expand the narrow limits of academia’
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
*me, trying to get the school to pay for food and drinks at events
child Victor Frankenstein thinking "and there, for decades, I tried to..." grown Victor Frankenstein saying "expand the narrow limits of academia"
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
drreznicek.bsky.social
Slowly inputting the changes from the proofs into the .pdf. This is the point where you decide never to read another word you've written yourself ever again
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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daveshootsbooks.bsky.social
#OliverGoldsmith was born on this day in 1728...this lovely ca.1929 edition of the #VicarofWakefield was #illustrated by #ArthurRackham, and has its #dustjacket and matching #box!
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1693... #Booksky #literature #art #prettybooks #oldbooks #giftworthy
www.daveshootsbookseller.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM