Richard Menke
@richardmenke.bsky.social
Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Our current moment, explained: imagine that keeping your car idling 24/7 solved mad libs that told you to put glue on pizza
May 24, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Our current moment, explained: imagine that keeping your car idling 24/7 solved mad libs that told you to put glue on pizza
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why is it that the only two stately things are Kublai Khan's pleasure dome and Wayne Manor
December 7, 2023 at 10:21 PM
why is it that the only two stately things are Kublai Khan's pleasure dome and Wayne Manor
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Twitter was dead, to begin with.
November 24, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Twitter was dead, to begin with.
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Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.
October 31, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.
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This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart.
The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.
slate.com
August 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM
This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
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Continually amazed at the conservative conception of free speech, which is so amorphous it can protect election fraud but so narrow it excludes drag queens
August 4, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Continually amazed at the conservative conception of free speech, which is so amorphous it can protect election fraud but so narrow it excludes drag queens
Little Mary’s gift; little monkey’s grift
July 28, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Little Mary’s gift; little monkey’s grift
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Babe, is everything ok? You’ve hardly posted on your 9 different social media accounts where you are mutuals with the exact same 200 people
July 28, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Babe, is everything ok? You’ve hardly posted on your 9 different social media accounts where you are mutuals with the exact same 200 people