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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/09/2026

One thing I miss so much about Mike Davis is his ability to balance attention to base and superstructure, explain the political economy without skimping on the finer whorls of ideology. It's a rare talent.

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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amen. The world is a profoundly emptier place without her.

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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today, I used @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's work to start an amazing conversation with a group of Detroit teachers about how close reading and the stances that support it can help us resist cynicism about readers and reading. booksupclose.substack.com/p/dan-sinyki...

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Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This might be the funniest thing I have ever seen.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengths… Hearteningly delightful contemporary music-making.“ www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review – Pulitzer winner stirs gorgeous improv patterns

By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengths

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

RIP to one of the greats. A brilliant thinker and teacher.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A blurb from Jonathan Flatley of the University of Chicago reads: "This is a major book by a brilliant critic at the height of his powers. By way of a revelatory argument about the New York School poets and the importance of queer sharing to the aesthetic experiences they offer and promote, Glavey here develops a thrillingly original theory of oversharing and relatability. I know of no book that speaks so insightfully and movingly about how we read, teach, think and feel today." A second blurb, from Anna Kornblugh of the University of Illinois Chicago reads: "In Brian Glaey's charming and piercing readings, poetry is an aspiration to mutuality as much as it is a representation, and anything like the singularity of a queer poem flutters fortuitously towards the generality of utopian expanse. A smart and lovely book."

A burb from Stephanie Burt at Harvard reads: "The academic world is full of hedgehogs and people with hammers, but Brian Glavey is a friendly fox. I learned a ton from this book and loved the process of learning." A second blurb, from Andrew Epstein at FSU, reads: "This brilliant book provides a crucial new paradigm for understanding the preoccupations of our age, tracing the contemporary compulsion to share, and overshare, back to an unexpected source: The New York School pets, who anticipated the relational logic of our social media age decades before it arrived. Brian Glavey turns 'relatability' itself--a concept often mocked or derided--into a rigorous, illuminating category of aesthetic experience, offer a bracing revisionary reading of queer theory along the way. Wonderfully written, witty, and refreshingly personal, with dazzling close readings and provocative insights on every page, this is a major book."

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The best writing I've encountered on this perfect show.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 02/07/2026

I’m a birthright citizen born to two people who were green card holders at the time, married to a naturalized immigrant, with extended family that includes refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented folks. The 4th is just a reminder to me that we’ll be American a lot longer than Donald Trump will.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

there are an absolute fuckload of American companies whose origin story is a variant on “immigrant salesman hooks up with Delaware sailor who has pickle industry ops expertise, plausibly” and it feels pretty good when they let you know they remember

A Community Proposition
It all started in the mid 1920s with Shickrey Baddour, a Lebanese immigrant from nearby Goldsboro, who saw opportunity in the wasted cucumber crops of area farmers. Baddour came up with the idea of buying the cucumbers, putting them in a brining tank and selling the brined cucumbers, or brine stock, to other pickle firms. Baddour enlisted the aid of George Moore, a sailor from Wilmington who had worked in a Castle Hayne pickle plant. The plan didn't work the way they had envisioned, however: they had no buyers for their product.
By January 1926, a new plan was put into place through the efforts of a group of local business people who formally established the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc. to pack and sell its own pickles. Thirty-seven original shareholders put forward the capital to get the company started in what all viewed as a "community proposition." The board of directors hired

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I am among the dozens of people in Croatia supporting Ghana this evening (no disrespect to Croatia, a beautiful and intoxicating land, or its football side, which I also admire).

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

public pleasure in public goods is winning winning

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My brother, along with Juan Villoro and Andrew Potter, on the ambivalent resonances of this North American World Cup: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

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Opinion | The World Cup Is a Global Celebration, Shared With Neighbors. It’s a Trump Nightmare.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“This country is great because of us, despite how they have treated us. And when I think about what I’m willing to live or die for, I would not sit idly by and let someone else come in and take away what we’ve built, despite some folks not recognizing the role that we played in building it.”

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Rest easy, Peabo Bryson 🕊💙

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annika🇵🇸 @annikaw.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

good morning to the premier league champions

Declan Rice, Jurrien Timber, Eberechi Eze, and Bukayo Saka outside of the emirates via Eze’s Instagram

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

They're going to lose & they know it & this is going to finally lead to major institutional reform. It's going to be very ugly before we get there. But we're going to get there this time.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beyond the obvious racist intent and effect of the recent VRA decision, it strikes me that it was also designed—in its timing and general obtuseness—to sow procedural and legal chaos, which Republicans will then point to as evidence of a compromised ("stolen") election, once they lose in November.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Robert Frank, Funeral, Saint Helena, South Carolina, from the series 'The Americans', 1955

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/04/2026

‘The surviving population of Gaza has been reduced to a condition of bare existence, subject to unrelenting hunger and thirst under the ever present hum of killer drones and bomber jets.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Excellent new issue of NOVEL, on "Belief in Fiction," to which I make a small contribution (unrelated to the issue's theme—a review of Regina Martin's MODERNISM AND FINANCE CAPITAL): read.dukeupress.edu/novel/issue/...

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Volume 58 Issue 3 | Novel | Duke University Press

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wow—there are SO MANY good books in poetics coming out these days. Feels like a real high-water-mark moment!! Here are just 2: @keegancf.bsky.social’s Poetry In General from @columbiaup.bsky.social and Amy De’Ath’s Behind Our Backs from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Exciting times!

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

“If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.” Walter Rodney was born on this day in 1942. In celebration of his legacy, all Rodney's titles are 40% off through the week

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Walter Rodney Bookshelf

Walter Rodney described himself as a guerrilla intellectual, committed to studying the concrete realities of the working class. He believed in the centrality of education in revolutionary struggle and...

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Jafari Allen on "The Erasure of Black Studies"—an excellent and urgent essay: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies

A report from the undoing of a field.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 18/02/2026

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

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