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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 19h

At that price, you can't afford *not* to buy it.

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

The playcalling on that last drive was . . . perplexing.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

thrilled this piece on bicentennial and sesquicentennial art and culture is now out online!

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm stoked to say that Beneath the Wage was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize--especially honored to be in the company of so many rad scholars, especially @alybatt.bsky.social, whose book Free Gifts is AMAZING!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Get in losers, we’re reading Sam’s new book of crazy sonnets press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A picture of Sam Amadon’s new book, Divers. The cover is a photo of a man in a raspberry colored bathing suit diving into a pool, his image captured at 3 different points of the dive à la Duchamps Nude Descending s Staircase

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 07/10/2026

realizing now i'd not heard him really speak until now, and i gotta say, it's refreshing to hear a guy who actually sounds like a logger from Fort Kent, with that New Brunswick French-Canadian-inflected accent and everything, in a political debate like this

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The issues with the secondary—the players frequently look utterly confused, as they did on that last play—are baffling to me, as that position group and side of the ball more generally has been pretty dependable under Clayton White.

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The sweetness of the air, perhaps? I love that song because of its bio-regional implications—the Maritime provinces and New England states are one transnational region, united by culture and ecology!

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One book I love to read, in full or in part, alongside/after THE BLACK JACOBINS, is David Scott's CONSCRIPTS OF MODERNITY. Just an extremely elegant text, which distills the philosophic and historical questions with great clarity.

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No, I've just been to the OBX a couple times. Those do look great—I'll aim to get there soon. If you've never been to Hunting Island, it's a really singular place—and the drive there, from Beaufort through Saint Helena Island, is incredible. (We are, after all, talking about one contiguous coast.)

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have, yeah. Very beautiful! But there is something about the less-developed SC coast, where the forest meets the sand/water, that is really extraordinary.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love NC—the mountains remind me of home (Vermont).

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nicer beaches than NC too, IMO (Edisto, Hunting Island, etc.).

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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

Episode 25

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Solar Bones is one of my favorite novels of the century. Extraordinary.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold; Hernan Diaz, In the Distance; Fiston Mwaza Mujila, Tram 83; Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead; The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake.

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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 · 06/08/2026

We'll see. I may have missed something, but his comments/positions on Israel strike me as in line with the great majority of Democratic voters, at this point. No doubt the right will paint him as antisemitic, but I see zero evidence of that; quite the contrary, in fact.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why would they feel the need to distance themselves? He—and other progressive candidates—are basically advocating for a New Deal for the 21st century, policy positions that were once utterly basic to the identity and platform of the Democratic party.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stevens spent 64 million (in a primary!), El-Sayed 7.5.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Because they won, despite all the party resources being directed toward the centrist? Bizarre headline.

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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 · 17/07/2026

Indeed. I just learned about that 2014/2022 history, which is wild, today.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Apologies. Just that the scandal is CBS (or whoever) even considering airing this obvious propaganda/nonsense, when networks have, in recent years, declined to broadcast Democratic addresses because of their purported "political" substance.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The major networks declined to air both Obama's 2014 speech on immigration reform, and Biden's 2022 address on democracy.

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I haven't read the piece, but one of his key arguments in Soccernomics is that Western Europe is good because of the intimacy of different footballing cultures—innovations in, say, Spain, quickly travel to Germany, etc., via coaching networks, the movement of players between leagues, etc.

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It would also be a powerful statement if Balogun himself refused to play the match (or if Pochettino left him out).

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Egypt is quality, will pose some problems for Argentina, I reckon. North Africa quietly a center of global footballing power.

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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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Eli Jelly-Schapiro @ejellyschapiro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With all due respect, that is not remotely true. Just one of myriad pieces contradicting this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

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The Demographic Trends That Shaped Mamdani’s Win

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