Ray Horton
@rayhorton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Murray State University
Studies American literature & religion and literature
Proud union member: United Campus Workers, KY
Plenty of opinions, all my own.
Studies American literature & religion and literature
Proud union member: United Campus Workers, KY
Plenty of opinions, all my own.
It was an objectively bad vote. But valuing empty symbolism over building long term, durable power is for liberals, & the left should be smarter. The “two things can be true” lesson is that the left needs to better keep its electeds disciplined AND it should stop taking this divide and conquer bait.
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It was an objectively bad vote. But valuing empty symbolism over building long term, durable power is for liberals, & the left should be smarter. The “two things can be true” lesson is that the left needs to better keep its electeds disciplined AND it should stop taking this divide and conquer bait.
An amendment that had no chance of passing but would be replayed endlessly by centrist liberals trying to sabotage her, more aggressively than anything the DNC did to Bernie in 2016 and 2020, if AOC had voted yes?
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
An amendment that had no chance of passing but would be replayed endlessly by centrist liberals trying to sabotage her, more aggressively than anything the DNC did to Bernie in 2016 and 2020, if AOC had voted yes?
Honestly, the discourse around AOC on the extremely online (but rarely organizing) left, going back to when podcasters got mad about “force the vote” in 2021, is giving COINTELPRO vibes. We’re on the verge of getting a socialist mayor in NYC so we’re fighting about a procedural vote on an amendment?
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Honestly, the discourse around AOC on the extremely online (but rarely organizing) left, going back to when podcasters got mad about “force the vote” in 2021, is giving COINTELPRO vibes. We’re on the verge of getting a socialist mayor in NYC so we’re fighting about a procedural vote on an amendment?
May 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hal’s book, Continuing Bonds with the Dead:
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081731902...
And while you’re there, check out the book for which he’s probably best known: Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age.
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081731902...
And while you’re there, check out the book for which he’s probably best known: Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age.
May 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hal’s book, Continuing Bonds with the Dead:
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081731902...
And while you’re there, check out the book for which he’s probably best known: Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age.
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081731902...
And while you’re there, check out the book for which he’s probably best known: Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age.
From left to right: there’s me, Andrew Ball (Emerson College), Hannah Wakefield (U Tenn. - Chattanooga), Brian Yothers (St. Louis U), Kenyon Gradert (Samford U), and Joseph Csicsila (E. Michigan U). I was so grateful for their company and their thoughtful presentations.
May 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From left to right: there’s me, Andrew Ball (Emerson College), Hannah Wakefield (U Tenn. - Chattanooga), Brian Yothers (St. Louis U), Kenyon Gradert (Samford U), and Joseph Csicsila (E. Michigan U). I was so grateful for their company and their thoughtful presentations.