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Aaron Lecklider

@aaronlecklider.bsky.social
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Professor of American Studies and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture (UC Press)

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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Violent Femmes. Loved blasting it in my bedroom.
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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Herbert Marcuse, influential 20th Century philosopher & political theorist of the Frankfurt School, was BOTD in 1898 & died in 1979 at 81. His most famous works are "Eros and Civilization" & "One-Dimensional Man." As a Marxist he influenced protest movements of the 60's & 70's
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Truly do not understand how anyone thinks that AI stealing shit made by humans to repackage poorly as “AI generated music” is not both theft and a damning indictment of the very idea that our future relies on AI. Seems pretty clear that AI’s future relies on humans making shit without it???
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Literally wtf is wrong with these people
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Not only is this $300B of our money to reopen a shipping lane that was already wide open for free but the entire SNAP budget is $100B/year and I was told we couldn’t afford to feed American children fruits and vegetables
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Supreme Court said Biden couldn't forgive student debt
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Bring back the John Reed Clubs
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It’s just mind blowing that this is a world anyone wants to live in.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
independent bookstore day tomorrow! what's your fave? Downbound Books is a jewel of big ideas and beautiful design! www.downboundbooks.com @downboundbooks.bsky.social
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Downbound Books
An independent bookstore in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood.
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Universities want to reorient our entire profession to train students to do this.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy to report my Rep is a co-sponsor. Let’s do this!
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Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A powerful article in @newsweek.com from new @umasspress.bsky.social author Todd Weissman on a tough diagnosis of #parkinsonsdisease. We publish his book, The Light That Endures: Stories of Courage, Compassion, and Resilience at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in next few weeks. #Boston #DanaFarber
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Matt Garcia published his very good biography of César Chávez 12 years ago. This piece is useful. calmatters.org/commentary/2...
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Opinion | To many people, César Chávez had become 'too big to fail'
Many of the women who had dedicated themselves to the farmworker movement were overlooked or driven out by César Chávez's corrosive behavior.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
So @universitypress.cambridge.org sent me a survey about peer review, something I care a lot about. Turns out it was about USING AI FOR ACADEMIC PEER REVIEWS.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
let us pray
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Zach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Molly Geidel offers an amazing read of the sexual metaphors used in the exercise of 60s global imperialism in her book “Peace Corps Fantasies,” but I don’t think even she anticipated this.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
slinging last minute gifts at Downbound Books! come by till 4pm
Richard Scary mini print vending All You Fascists Bound to Lose print
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Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Said goodbye to this perfect pup exactly one year ago today. Almost 14 years with him. Still miss him everyday if I’m being honest.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Here's a better view of the now-deleted photo showing Trump with Epstein and Trump with a group of young girls. The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OX6fOyHCRgeKJd5dHLMa7Q#/registration
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Nurses are the best.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/11/2025
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
something good: Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat! www.downboundbooks.com
pickle car!vending machine!
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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/10/2025
If there's one thing Jesus loved it was dumping loads of diarrhea on his opponents.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKoons
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Based on what?!? Vibes? What is this?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2025
Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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