@samwmarks.bsky.social
Playwright (The Joke, Nelson, Delling Shore). TV for HBO and CBS. Former Golden Gloves Boxer. I teach playwriting at Harvard.
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Insane how hard this guy’s own party is working to punish him for his charisma.
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Insane how hard this guy’s own party is working to punish him for his charisma.
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Boston showed up for No Kings Day!
June 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Boston showed up for No Kings Day!
He cannot stay in his position
Chuck Schumer is very clear that he and the Democratic Party are not going to come to the aid of higher education against Trump’s assault. He agrees with it. Quibbles on details but supports forcing universities to crack down harder against alleged antisemitism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
March 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
He cannot stay in his position
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
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The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis
On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach
www.parapraxismagazine.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
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We're hiring! A Senior Lecturer in Fiction. Come teach creative writing!!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14590
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14590
Senior Lecturer on Fiction
The Department of English seeks to appoint a senior lecturer on fiction. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2026, but may begin January 1, 2026. The senior lecturer will be responsible fo...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
January 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We're hiring! A Senior Lecturer in Fiction. Come teach creative writing!!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14590
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14590