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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 · 26/09/2026
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Smart.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can the pub date be several years / antidepressant regimens in the future tho haha
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tyranny!
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m so sorry, I hate myself too
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I hate to be a “reply guy” BUT (lol) I think someone mentioned Superstore, which was always the correct answer (aside from Somebody Somewhere, which was also correct but was really about a college town)
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
When Melville was in training the trainer would distinguish between her fur babies and her “skin babies,” not making this up
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
…and they were often so fun 😔
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am kind of shocked no one has said “with or without you,” if only because you can think about the last episode of The Americans while performing and produce authentic tears.
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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 · 12/05/2026
Need
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is very good: sunypress.edu/Books/D/Disc...
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Disciplining Women
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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
(But we don’t have to! Follow @annakornbluh.bsky.social and read up on — and contribute to! — against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Solidarity forever babe
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yesterday I forgot to put the pin in the weight stack on the pulldown machine at the gym so when I pulled down there was no resistance and I literally somersaulted backwards from the momentum across the floor of the gym… so I feel you
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Right back at ya
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It is
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
💯
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Amazing that you got that tour — would love to see it. Sex and Socialism!!
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Feels like Rachel didn’t have much of an opportunity to participate???
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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 · 23/03/2026
Arriving early is so gauche
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Stand to the right please.
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The first part is something I have nightmares about
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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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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Lydia Davis’s mother, Hope Hale Davis, wrote revolutionary romance fiction when she was a Communist in the 1930s. Who’s doing a film adaptation?
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I biked through one of these in Stockholm (not under a river, but under an overpass) and it was just so delightful
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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
I think we all can see where this is going. As we go down this horrifying road, it will be important to know which journals and publishers are using or encouraging peer reviewers to rely on AI in order to evaluate their authority and integrity.
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Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Not even subtle that I have to explain why I don’t want AI anywhere near peer review. Then I have to explain why I HAVE NOT used AI for peer reviews I have written.
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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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