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Margaret C. Flinn
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Scholar of movie and comics things at Ohio State. Spaniel wrangler, with cat. Fan of indie dyed yarns. Parent of a teen. Happiest with trees.
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French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol:

"Because of Elon Musk's actions... Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right totems."

@teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown
French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol
A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association wi...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
New special issue co-edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Martín Veiga and myself, out now!
🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights.
Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG
@ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social@eedgington.bsky.social #envhum
June 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights.
Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG
@ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social@eedgington.bsky.social #envhum
June 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Mark my words: today will be revealed as a pivot point in the relationship between Trump and Vance. It’ll be recognized as the first moment when Vance did significant bet hedging with his silence and Trump noticed and it became A Thing between them over time.
June 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
_Drawing (in) the Feminine_ has been shortlisted for a 2025 CCS award for Best Edited Book. 🎉 It’s available open access through the Ohio State University Press website—check it out!
2025 Comics Studies Society Awards Shortlist
comicsstudies.org
May 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Big dogs on campus here at Florida State.
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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God bless historians. How else would we know what shit we’re in
March 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming:

🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
March 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Robyn Denholm, who presides over the board of Tesla, has been so generously compensated in that role that a shareholder lawsuit forced her to return part of her fortune, and a judge criticized her for approving a record-setting payout for chief executive Elon Musk reut.rs/41QWX21 1/5
March 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
March 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🇫🇷 French MEP Raphael Glucksmann calls for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America no longer upholds the values it was gifted for.

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.”

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French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'
A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US…
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March 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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51 so ... "nice." Nice point one, to be precise.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
March 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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okay what is this obsession with the "faculty lounge" in the American and British media?
Have y'all had a look at the state of most higher ed institutions?
At my last job, they ripped out the phone in my office to save money.
Hey Guardian. Did the republicans write this?
March 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers:

“I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid”

"It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. "

#SOTU
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.
BREAKING: Federal judge issues a nationwide preliminary injunction against the medical provider funding prohibitions in Trump's EO seeking to restrict gender-affirming medical care for those under 19 and the "gender ideology" funding restriction in his Jan. 20 "sex"-defining EO.
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Hundreds present at Ohio State protests against the university’s “sunsetting” of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and against SB1, the “Higher Education Destruction Act”…
March 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Love this! Today’s the day! It’s just the beginning. United we stand, divided we fall. It was nice that a bunch of people asked me if they could use my poster like this.
February 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
February 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM