Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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You know this, of course, but it worked the other way: we were asked if we wanted to stay at a place where Thiessen’s voice would be a part of the majority. And we did not.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You know this, of course, but it worked the other way: we were asked if we wanted to stay at a place where Thiessen’s voice would be a part of the majority. And we did not.
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These guys managed to get people who have spent decades long political careers running away from a declarative sentence like it was a brain eating zombie say "oh yeah they fumbled that" and now we're supposed to rally around? ok
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
These guys managed to get people who have spent decades long political careers running away from a declarative sentence like it was a brain eating zombie say "oh yeah they fumbled that" and now we're supposed to rally around? ok
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who are the comms people letting the cavers and their supporters get this much media time/thread posting? They somehow managed to lose the left, the center, third way, and Cilizza in the same moronic play and we're supposed to listen to how quite literally everyone is wrong actually?
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
who are the comms people letting the cavers and their supporters get this much media time/thread posting? They somehow managed to lose the left, the center, third way, and Cilizza in the same moronic play and we're supposed to listen to how quite literally everyone is wrong actually?
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Apparently Interlibrary Loan in my library system has a mascot. I am annoyed that he came to my campus & did not visit me, given that I'm a #1 power user of ILL & he's a very cute little library bear!
(& yes there are real things to be annoyed about but let me distract myself with something idle!)
(& yes there are real things to be annoyed about but let me distract myself with something idle!)
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Apparently Interlibrary Loan in my library system has a mascot. I am annoyed that he came to my campus & did not visit me, given that I'm a #1 power user of ILL & he's a very cute little library bear!
(& yes there are real things to be annoyed about but let me distract myself with something idle!)
(& yes there are real things to be annoyed about but let me distract myself with something idle!)
“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”
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I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
From @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt…understood that the best way to avoid an American version of ‘eat the rich’ was to fix the ‘let them eat cake’ distortions of capitalism. We would greatly benefit from successors to the two Roosevelts today.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt…understood that the best way to avoid an American version of ‘eat the rich’ was to fix the ‘let them eat cake’ distortions of capitalism. We would greatly benefit from successors to the two Roosevelts today.”
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Let Them Eat AI-Generated Cake
Elon Musk and the coming twilight of the elites.
www.thebulwark.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
From @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt…understood that the best way to avoid an American version of ‘eat the rich’ was to fix the ‘let them eat cake’ distortions of capitalism. We would greatly benefit from successors to the two Roosevelts today.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt…understood that the best way to avoid an American version of ‘eat the rich’ was to fix the ‘let them eat cake’ distortions of capitalism. We would greatly benefit from successors to the two Roosevelts today.”
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you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
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I mean, yes, but we probably want to workshop a different term than “American system” 🤔🤷♂️
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“no fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least $100,000 to stop Mamdani… Terminally online hedge fund manager Bill Ackman donated $1.75 million, while failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg donated $8.3 million”
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“no fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least $100,000 to stop Mamdani… Terminally online hedge fund manager Bill Ackman donated $1.75 million, while failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg donated $8.3 million”
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Apart from anything else, "Abigail Spanberger" is a great name. If you're lucky enough to have a surname that's a dactyl and you don't give your children a first name that's also a dactyl you're wasting everybody's time.
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Apart from anything else, "Abigail Spanberger" is a great name. If you're lucky enough to have a surname that's a dactyl and you don't give your children a first name that's also a dactyl you're wasting everybody's time.
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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