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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…

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Bradley Morgan @bradleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, Chicago! I'm organizing a film presentation for @chirpradio.org where we will be screening "The Last Waltz" at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Band's legendary concert. There will also be a food drive. Tickets on sale now musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone’s going to court, someone’s going camping right after.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😂😂😂

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As 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.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have this for teaching and i love it. Straps are long enough to swing over your shoulder, top closes magnetically, stands upright, has pocket to fit over suitcase handle. evergoods.us/products/civ...

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Civic Daily Tote 24L | EVERGOODS

CIVIC Daily Tote 24L is a freestanding tote that blends thoughtful functionality with easy access and flexible organization. Kitted out with features prime for everyday and travel needs, it includes a...

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I tried it this summer at a BR in LA! So not fully discontinued? (It was great.)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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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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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THIS. Cool DNA study, but this has been settled since the late 1990s. Historical analysis isn’t just guessing. It’s no less provable than DNA analysis, & framing it otherwise warps our understanding of both ways of knowing. (And yes, read @agordonreed.bsky.social’s work!)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we're hosting a daylong workshop on how to track the financial interests of university trustees who offer such funding, how to work for legislative protections and workplace protections in the classroom and far beyond, join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On first glance I read the last word as “disassociate,” which is also an important part of the PhD process.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Individual trans people NEVER have to shut up and accept disrespect. Never. The people who need to shut up and stop disrespecting trans people are the POWERFUL and these include fucking elected officials. GET IT STRAIGHT IN YOUR MINDS.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Imagine the biggest bowl of pudding you can. It was bigger than that.

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 07/09/2026

✈️ If you’re flying today, try airportwtf.com at the airport and let me know what’s missing! I’ve rolled out several updates to this l’il side project since deploying it Friday. The idea is to give flyers the info they actually want (which I find existing airport maps don’t). Feedback invited.

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Airport Food Maps, Coffee & Lounges | Airport WTF

Find food, coffee, bathrooms, airport lounges, and more near your gate at 50 U.S. airports. Browse airport and terminal maps.

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh I do those. Mostly I tell students that if I can’t read it, I can’t grade it, so they should strive for readability.

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I thought that was just the University of Chicago, where it definitely came up in every seminar.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i have to be a big-time wife guy about this and brag that my wife collected these archival materials and the huge collection of artifacts related to menstruation. it has been a years-long project to get these collected, catalogued, photographed, and put online for research.

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The Menstrual History Collection: Attitudes and Advertising

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a good film. I'll be speaking with the director after the 9.20 screening. However, it is screening from 9/18 to 9/24. I've been talking about this case for a long time because it remains relevant today.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Happy Skyscraper Day! (architects dressed as their NYC buildings, 1931)

Black and white photo of Seven people each dressed in cardboard constructions of famous buildings like the Chrysler and Rockefeller Center.

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 03/09/2026

Time for my occasional ask for e folks that shops vintage or yard sales to look out for a set of VHS tapes called Pickin' For Merle. It's my lost media white whale and I'm 100% sure it's out there. If you see it buy it and I'll PayPal you immediately, or let me know where it is & I'll figure it out

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Historians and catalog enthusiasts: some hero has digitized Sears, Montgomery Ward, and JC Penney catalogs, 1930-2017. christmas.musetechnical.com

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Catalogs & Wishbooks

A collection of US retail Seasonal Catalogs & Christmas Holiday Wishbooks

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Eileen fisher boiled wool cardigan/coat

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026

‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…

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