Mary Beth Corrigan
@mbmuse.bsky.social
Librarian of Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation at Georgetown University
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That's right. 🥪
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
That's right. 🥪
This is important.
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is important.
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When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
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1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
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White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground
(thread) 🗃️
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Turns out that trying to prove you’re not really a misogynist by proving you are most definitely a racist isn’t as persuasive as the consultant class thought. But how could they have known??
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Turns out that trying to prove you’re not really a misogynist by proving you are most definitely a racist isn’t as persuasive as the consultant class thought. But how could they have known??
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This
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This
Yeah, marble bathrooms were all the rage in Civil War Washington. It was just the water that was so putrid, leading to Willie Lincoln's death of typhoid fever.
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Yeah, marble bathrooms were all the rage in Civil War Washington. It was just the water that was so putrid, leading to Willie Lincoln's death of typhoid fever.
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social
Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social
FFS
Service members with shaving waivers are not allowed to attend the event with Hegseth, which will be held at Camp Humphreys, per email from 51st Fighter Wing at Osan Air Base, South Korea, which was posted on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco page. AF official confirmed the email is authentic.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
FFS
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Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.
This is the President of the United States. At this point, I should not be shocked by his petulance. But yet. . .
Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is the President of the United States. At this point, I should not be shocked by his petulance. But yet. . .
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.
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"Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."
-Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus
-Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus
Trump claims he and Netanyahu are seeking "eternal peace in the Middle East"
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."
-Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus
-Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus
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this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart
September 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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HAPPENING NOW: AFT and @aaup.org are in Washington DC to launch our new campaign, to show the country that #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone.
Follow along in the thread below!
Follow along in the thread below!
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
HAPPENING NOW: AFT and @aaup.org are in Washington DC to launch our new campaign, to show the country that #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone.
Follow along in the thread below!
Follow along in the thread below!
Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social
Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social
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A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.”
The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.
🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...
The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.
🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...
Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’
Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.”
The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.
🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...
The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.
🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...
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I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.
by RFK Jr.
by RFK Jr.
RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.
by RFK Jr.
by RFK Jr.
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The Supreme Court:
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Supreme Court:
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For everyone at a Jesuit school especially but not exclusively
www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
At Jesuit universities, the government’s D.E.I. crackdown is an attack on religious freedom
Now more than ever, it is urgent to stand up for our university’s autonomy to make curricular decisions based on its Jesuit mission.
www.americamagazine.org
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
For everyone at a Jesuit school especially but not exclusively
www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
The Fox chyron: Department of War Revival
Well, they got one thing right.
Well, they got one thing right.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Fox chyron: Department of War Revival
Well, they got one thing right.
Well, they got one thing right.