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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I heard this news while in the middle of teaching the novel last Fall. I am BEYOND EXCITED for this!!!

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is not the usual budget woes, MN folks. These cuts will fundamentally damage our flagship university, one of the biggest economic drivers of the state, possibly irrevocably.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a fainting couch and whiskey if you need it.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is very like how when I can’t remember the words to a song I’ve spontaneously started singing, I just meow instead.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At what point do they get to the point where there’s just nothing left to cut where we just stop having universities? The U of M is one of the biggest economic engines in the state and we keep on shrinking it down

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fine you may pet me I guess NOT LIKE THAT MOTHER

Cat, annoyed at getting pets she clearly just asked for while sitting on my lap

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mother I would like to go outside mother Mother it is raining MOTHER You have BETRAYED ME mother BETRAYED

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

…causing herself, a TA, and 70 students to go into sudden adrenaline-rush-fight-or-flight mode? [gestures to self with thumbs] …this gal…

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello yes hi who’s got two thumbs and is a Grown Up Dignified College Professor and got her shirt caught in a handle on the front podium (science bldng classroom) accidentally turning on a high-powered air jet in the middle of lecture…

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There’s an “Our Lady of the Highway” on US 2 going through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!

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Salacious B. Cummin @marshalplugnut.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I see yer ma's got a new warning sign

Sign on a funfair ride that states 'this is a boisterous ride'

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After a quick survey of my past, I can confidently say “sometimes.”

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Poutine is the food equivalent of that friend who you know is not a good person but you can’t help falling in with their shenanigans.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Enigmatic marmots Where do they all swim from Enigmatic marmots Why do they like boba

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me, uncovering deck furniture and singing a little song to all the critters who scramble for cover Isopod Isopod Does whatever an isopod does Does it know I’m a friend? I guess not! There it goes Hey there Hey little isopod

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My side-hustle is being a music librarian for a brilliant and eccentric church choir director. I get to giggle at titles (“what is this lovely fragrance” aka WHO FARTED) and composer names (Edward TITCOMB! Heinrich SCHEIDT!). Plus I totally get to yell at the tenors who don’t turn in their music.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ah yes we call that the Elizabethan Ruff of Embarrassment (as opposed to the Cone of Shame). He wears it well. ♥️

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I shoulda taken a pic of my very similar glass of white in Duluth just now!

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Crying over crop art, as one does.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I would have been very happy to make extremely questionable decisions with Tim Curry. And every single one would have been the RIGHT decision. Dolly would likely not have made those same decisions, but she’d have my back for sure.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

folks SAY they want kindness but this is not always the case. the most controversial thing that i ever post is 'the best way to make inroads in any creative profession is to be kind'. i get SO much pushback, because it is a scary idea for those who have trained themselves to be unkind as a defense

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/08/2026

This thread will sneak up on you! And yes, it is about Dolly.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/08/2026

"Right-wing media is lousy w/depictions of Ds living better than — and therefore condescending to — their lessors: humble heartland Americans. Ossoff delivered this same appraisal of Trump in fewer words than a William Faulkner sentence. His quip was a Thomas Nast cartoon sketched with 4 sentences."

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“Travel with Natalie”

How three words from Jon Ossoff prompted an epic MAGA crashout.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Station wagons are grown up hatchbacks!!! My two favorite cars were my grad school 90s era Honda civic and an early parenthood 90s Benz wagon! I HAVE HAULED SO MANY THINGS AND KIDS

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Me: so you’re telling me my hips are mysterious, how interesting, tell me more My doctor: ma’am I said your hip pain is a mystery

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And St Olaf isn’t an anomaly! The upper Midwest was settled by Scandinavians who brought over a very robust choral tradition. There are tons of great choirs here, college and community ones as well as excellent church choirs.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When we analyze literature, we aren’t particularly concerned with what the author “intended.” Even if we know? We don’t have to agree with them.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Okay now the cat is just rubbing it in

Cat, reveling in her superior position on the couch

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

DECK DRAMA Bianca (dog) just spent 5 minutes whining at me while refusing to make eye contact because the cat is in her (Bianca’s) spot next to me on the deck. She has finally settled down a few feet away, passive-aggressively ignoring both of us. Meanwhile, Endora (cat) does not give a fuck.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Okay okay okay so The Odyssey is truly amazing AND you are ENTIRELY NOT READY for how they handled the scene between Circe and the men. NOT READY

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

IT IS OFFICIALLY PEAK LEO SEASON AND I WILL GLUT MYSELF SILLY ON SWEET CORN AND HEIRLOOM TOMATOES UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY WHICH I WILL SPEND WITH MY FEET IN THE KIDDIE POOL EATING CHIPS AND SALSA

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

it’s my 45th birthday month and I’m excited to make everything about me for 31 days like a very small child hopped up on sugar

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This, THIS, this is it folks, the sound of Peak Midwest Summer, of humidity and heat and decadence and everything ripe and glorious, sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, feet in the kiddie pool, mint juleps, iced tea, baseball on the radio, and you’ve been sweating so long you no longer care.

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! Menfolk! Here’s a thing you could do!

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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The only text that achieves this same level of immediate WHAT-THE-FUCK-ness from students is Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Both are a joy to teach.

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