Dr. Lorna N. Bracewell
@lornab.bsky.social
Political theorist, author, professor, Florida apologist. Author of Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era. Putting the homo in Homosassa since 1983. Views are mine, not my boss's.
Help! I'm developing opinions about which Healthy Choice Power Bowls are the best.
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Help! I'm developing opinions about which Healthy Choice Power Bowls are the best.
I'm bringing my first edition with me to class. Gotta let the kids know I'm an OG. #feministflex
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm bringing my first edition with me to class. Gotta let the kids know I'm an OG. #feministflex
Friends, I am prepping a lecture on federalism and I am genuinely enthralled by and excited about it. I may have received my PhD in political science 10 years ago, but I don't think I truly became a political scientist until today.
September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Friends, I am prepping a lecture on federalism and I am genuinely enthralled by and excited about it. I may have received my PhD in political science 10 years ago, but I don't think I truly became a political scientist until today.
An example irony of which I'm sure Alanis would have have availed herself were she an American: The man Richard Hofstadter once called "the Marx of the master class" doing disparate impact analysis to defend the rights of aggrieved southerners. I love my job.
September 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
An example irony of which I'm sure Alanis would have have availed herself were she an American: The man Richard Hofstadter once called "the Marx of the master class" doing disparate impact analysis to defend the rights of aggrieved southerners. I love my job.
It strikes me that Charlie Kirk was precisely what he imagined the professors on his watchlist to be: a rigid and obtuse ideologue who exploited campus cultures of comparative openness and freedom to mobilize young people in the service of an exclusionary and illiberal political agenda.
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It strikes me that Charlie Kirk was precisely what he imagined the professors on his watchlist to be: a rigid and obtuse ideologue who exploited campus cultures of comparative openness and freedom to mobilize young people in the service of an exclusionary and illiberal political agenda.
I am so tired of Democratic pundits and politicians talking about midterm strategies as if the party needs to choose between messaging about the economy, costs, inequality, affordability, etc. or democracy, due process, rule of law, Trump's authoritarianism etc.
September 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I am so tired of Democratic pundits and politicians talking about midterm strategies as if the party needs to choose between messaging about the economy, costs, inequality, affordability, etc. or democracy, due process, rule of law, Trump's authoritarianism etc.
Proud to have contributed a little piece on pedagogy to this fantastic history blog. Little known fact: All my lesson plans involve T-Pain.
Looking to persuade your students to develop humanistic writing skills before leaning on AI? Invite T-Pain (sans Auto-Tune) to your class.
@lornab.bsky.social offers a riveting lesson plan about AI and the power of honing our voices. 🗃️#academicsky
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@lornab.bsky.social offers a riveting lesson plan about AI and the power of honing our voices. 🗃️#academicsky
clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/09/02/t...
T-Pain Against the Machine: How Mid-2000s Hip Hop Can Inspire College Students to Skip the AI and Find Their Own Voice
T-Pain’s stunning, stripped-down vocal performance on the Tiny Desk version of “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” makes it clear that he’s got the organic vocal chops to “sound good” without any dig…
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September 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Proud to have contributed a little piece on pedagogy to this fantastic history blog. Little known fact: All my lesson plans involve T-Pain.
If our irreparably broken and stupid political culture makes it so all the gays and feminists have a moral obligation to eat at Cracker Barrel now, I am gonna be such a happy camper.
August 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If our irreparably broken and stupid political culture makes it so all the gays and feminists have a moral obligation to eat at Cracker Barrel now, I am gonna be such a happy camper.
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Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.
Three Republican presidents were male cheerleaders in college: George W. Bush at Yale, Ronald Reagan at Eureka, and Dwight D. Eisenhower at West Point.
I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
August 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.
Classes start one week from today. Time to start relearning how to talk and wear pants again.
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Classes start one week from today. Time to start relearning how to talk and wear pants again.
Whenever I use a stud finder, I feel like a medieval peasant desperately trying to make meaning out of inscrutable signs. A short beep, a long beep, a flash of light! Ah, yes. Here it is. Here is where ye shall drill thou pilot hole.
August 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Whenever I use a stud finder, I feel like a medieval peasant desperately trying to make meaning out of inscrutable signs. A short beep, a long beep, a flash of light! Ah, yes. Here it is. Here is where ye shall drill thou pilot hole.
Desantis went for "Deportation Depot" when "Rip Away from Home Depot" was right there. He is such a weak and sad little monster.
August 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Desantis went for "Deportation Depot" when "Rip Away from Home Depot" was right there. He is such a weak and sad little monster.
When I read the Nat Con drivel Vance is always cribbing from I'm haunted by the thought that I've stood for the national anthem at baseball games next to these guys and the whole time they were fantasizing about how we were part of some mystical organic unity together. Gross.
August 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
When I read the Nat Con drivel Vance is always cribbing from I'm haunted by the thought that I've stood for the national anthem at baseball games next to these guys and the whole time they were fantasizing about how we were part of some mystical organic unity together. Gross.
The Airbnb ad urging you to rent your house to ren fest carnies is the most compelling recession indicator I've seen.
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The Airbnb ad urging you to rent your house to ren fest carnies is the most compelling recession indicator I've seen.
If the person throwing the dildos at the WNBA athletes is doing so in a spirit of misogyny and homophpbia, then they can go $%*# themselves. That said, my first response when I saw this news story was to gaze off wistfully into the middle distance and think, "Noone ever throws dildos at me anymore."
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If the person throwing the dildos at the WNBA athletes is doing so in a spirit of misogyny and homophpbia, then they can go $%*# themselves. That said, my first response when I saw this news story was to gaze off wistfully into the middle distance and think, "Noone ever throws dildos at me anymore."
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"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
I'm not proud to admit it, but I loved the Presidential Fitness Test as a kid. Flexed arm hang, push ups, pull ups, sit and reach, 1 mile run. I crushed them all. I would have made an excellent child soldier.
August 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm not proud to admit it, but I loved the Presidential Fitness Test as a kid. Flexed arm hang, push ups, pull ups, sit and reach, 1 mile run. I crushed them all. I would have made an excellent child soldier.
Others may have caught this already, so forgive me if I'm late to the party, but JD Vance called Harry Jaffa "Henry" Jaffa in his Statesmanship Award acceptance speech at the Claremont Institute a few weeks ago. So perfect.
July 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Others may have caught this already, so forgive me if I'm late to the party, but JD Vance called Harry Jaffa "Henry" Jaffa in his Statesmanship Award acceptance speech at the Claremont Institute a few weeks ago. So perfect.
For week 2 of my new Politics in the U.S. course, I'm assigning those famously prophetic excerpts on race from Democracy in America. In an effort to alienate as broad a swath of students as possible, I'm calling that week "A 19th-century conservative French aristocrat invents Critical Race Theory."
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For week 2 of my new Politics in the U.S. course, I'm assigning those famously prophetic excerpts on race from Democracy in America. In an effort to alienate as broad a swath of students as possible, I'm calling that week "A 19th-century conservative French aristocrat invents Critical Race Theory."
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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
We still have an Establishment Clause. Hooray!
May 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We still have an Establishment Clause. Hooray!
I have a nomination for Most Cursed Artifact of the 20th Century. @ifbookspod.bsky.social, whaddaya say?
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I have a nomination for Most Cursed Artifact of the 20th Century. @ifbookspod.bsky.social, whaddaya say?
Political theory job alert! The School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida is hiring a VAP of Instruction. Details here: fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction-SIGS
Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction - School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies (SIGS)
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April 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Political theory job alert! The School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida is hiring a VAP of Instruction. Details here: fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION.
Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.
bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.
bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION.
Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.
bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.
bit.ly/CampusLettersTally