David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 18habsolutely! when the weekly protest in Inglewood continued long after vaccine passports and mask mandates had been discarded, I figured this was now an Identity more than Issue 000
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 18htoo late, I have already depicted myself as the poised and articulate El-Sayed and you as the stunned and tilting Rogers 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 21hgreat episode + thorough treatment of an emergent moral panic that feels pretty easy to diagnose 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 23h“(According to unconfirmed reports, Carson is currently in discussion with New Directions about the feasibility of packaging a new prose poem in a wooden box that will contain authentic wind from Hvannadalshnúkur.)” 0133
Reposted by David B HobbsJacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this “Short Talk” by Carson sums up my childhood and my entire life actually 152
Reposted by David B HobbsNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4354198
Reposted by David B HobbsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.thecut.comThe Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual ViolenceThe “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail. 221246464
Reposted by David B Hobbs🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of the first things Americans did, even before declaring independence from Britain, was invade Quebec in September of 1775, which meant not arriving for the big battle in Quebec City until November and December, losing the battle, having wrongly thought they'd be welcomed as liberators. 1155
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a more honest job post would just say “we want to hire a rich person, so rich they would never really need a job” 020
Reposted by David B HobbsEvan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Forgive the self-indulgence but I just got a draft of the index for my New York School book and I need to share some excerpts 3143
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it’s true — growing up I was small for Southern Ontario at 6’1 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026very very pleased that Prime’s Reacher is filmed in Southern Ontario standing in for Georgia 120
Reposted by David B HobbsSara D Gore @crouton.bsky.social · 22/09/2024Always thinking about Tobi Haslett: "certain kinds of critics [...] are invested in displaying their exhaustion with politically inflected art. And I think: What are you exhausted with? Your closest experience to agitprop is Sesame Street. Your fatigue is so unearned, I can’t stand it." 0182
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026rewatching the X-Files and obv Anderson and Duchovny have ridiculous chemistry but I’m now really enjoying just how much they’re on screen — the streaming version of a show like this would pad out the cast to make up for only getting them for two days per week 020
Reposted by David B HobbsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power. 561573348
Reposted by David B HobbsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This thread is inspired by a University of Utah alum who reached out after the New York Post wrote they had the highest reporting rate in the country. In Utah’s case, some crucial context is that there have been multiple high-profile murders of students in the past decade. 1448
Reposted by David B HobbsCourtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Make Alberta America again? The fantastic Globe crew unearths even deeper ties between Alberta separatists and Republican officials, including a pledge to give the U.S. some of our resources in exchange for backing sovereignty www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 29214113
Reposted by David B Hobbsrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor 521167146
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026iirc the system-wide decline in hiring really hit the “pay to post your job ad here” aspect of their business, which spurred the rage-bait dependency 010
Reposted by David B HobbsAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education: 21519122
Reposted by David B Hobbsweird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026 43211
Reposted by David B HobbsAndrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New piece in the University of Alberta paper on the administration’s recklessly cruel decision to slash 100% of funding to affiliated child care centres on campus The effects continue. They refuse to budge despite the harm. “Have you dropped out, yet?” thegatewayonline.ca/2026/10/the-...thegatewayonline.caThe effects of the defunded on-campus child care - The GatewayCampus child care was defunded by the U of A leaving student parents struggling and the university’s dedication to ACB is nowhere to be found. 02214
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026sorry 2 English Prof but Fredric Jameson’s essay on The Shining is I think the best treatment of the movie + my fav essay of his: scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/histo...scrapsfromtheloft.comHistoricism in “The Shining” – by Fredric Jameson | Scraps from the loftIn this essay, "Historicism in The Shining" (1981), Fredric Jameson theorizes the use of genre pastiche as a further basis of postmodernism. 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026a friend who regularly rode the 6 told me that it became unusably dangerous when she became visibly pregnant 030
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026absolutely! was so glad to see it in IMAX last winter 120
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026celebrate another morning in Hell by listening to @stuwatson.bsky.social + Michael discuss Baudrillard’s “America”: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.com140: I Dream of RainPodcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · September 29 · 1h 4m 011
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026damn I wonder what happened in 2008 that would make someone stop supporting the Democrats 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026also like — and I mean I would, English prof — but I think the sequencing of the questions suggests a narrative arc in the case that they’re making 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I read #6, 8 & 9 as about increasing the province’s authority over the organization, funding distrubtion & guiding values of gov’t services — so yes, “constitutional whining,” but about amending the constitution to be able to more officially white/Christian and officially limit access by others 100
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I got my mail-in ballot yday and it’s eight questions about “dangerous migrants” and then the separatism question 100
Reposted by David B HobbsMichaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026not sure why I made this but now you have to see it 10895773651
Reposted by David B HobbsJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115972877
Reposted by David B HobbsKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 663025992
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My dog watching me start to make dinner at 9:15pm when bed time should have been immediately after his last walk 030
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026we as a profession owe David Lodge deep thanks for bursting the dangerously inflated Stanley Fish Bubble 1101
Reposted by David B HobbsMohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social 131395541
Reposted by David B HobbsAlexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Require heat in wintertime" and "Ban beige-only classroom decorations" seem obvious to some, though few evidence-based studies exist. 061
Reposted by David B HobbsDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026$18 EXTREMELY WELL SPENT! Get at it folks. This book is brilliant. 0112
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026real jobscels know that you shouldn’t bring a drink to an interview because a free coffee may be the only thing you get out of it 081