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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"My family's always been in meat." "The Legacy of Leatherface" traces 50 years of the Sawyer clan and their BBQ-lovin' lifestyle. Ed @shanehw.bsky.social w/ @realtopekapeople.com @jacobbabb.bsky.social and other contributors. New from @mcfarland.bsky.social. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

The cover of the book "The Legacy of Leatherface: Essays on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series" featuring Leatherface himself with his dirty and degraded mask of human skin and wielding a big chainsaw.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Glad that you'll be part of the panel!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/12/2025

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Other than The City We Became, which is definitely one of them? I'd say China Mieville's The City & The City.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hey, look at this great book! I bet smart people worked on this one.

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Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Happy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day to all those who celebrate 🍖

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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Thank goodness we’re simultaneously experimenting on millions of students. This is a very good way to generate reliable data. A large language model would have a hard time detecting the sarcasm in that previous sentence, but I hope it’s clear to my human readers."

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Wrote a thing because I want to yell at writers and anyone who works sitting down to take care of themselves. Thanks for reading! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/basic-fitn...

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Basic fitness for writers

No, seriously!

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So excited about this book! I just heard @kashana.bsky.social describe student loans as a way to punish the working class for trying to better themselves. Which is, obviously, why we need to do heists to get rid of student debt!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/05/2025

History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."

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Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools

A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Republicans are stealing a North Carolina judicial race. They won't stop there.

It's January 6 without the insurrection.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I've always said it as though you just cut the "ic" off of rhetoric. But I always joke with my students that because I'm a North Carolinian (as are most of them, but still), it often comes out more like "rheter."

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I've taught your first MB novella a few times in an undergrad SF course, and we've had conversations about how we as readers end up gendering Murderbot as we read, but because Murderbot never uses any gender-specific terms that our imagining can tell us more about ourselves as readers.

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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Education is under attack. All who stand for the freedom and flourishing of the US postsecondary education system can sign on to a statement affirming and committing to core values that shape education. Read: bit.ly/DemocracyAnd... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #DisabilityStudies #DisabledInAcademia

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Schumer a few weeks down the road, probably: “Okay, so he defied the Supreme Court. Big deal.”

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Which is why they want to destroy it.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Good time to remember that an executive order is not a law and that multiple other EOs of this corrupt regime have already been blocked by the courts.

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“Because what we are witnessing is not just an attack on academia or a set of fiscal reforms or a painful political rebalancing. It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist. We may not yet know its full cost, but we will feel its consequences for decades.”

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

After I literally just said I wasn’t giving a dime to the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future, this text arrives. The nerve to ask for money after 10 Dem senators voted yes on cloture today.

Image of a text message where the No Surrender Fund asks for a donation to retake the House majority in 2026.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/03/2025

We want Democrats to play hardball and use their leverage to stop the Trump-Musk coup.

Blake Allen on Twitter: “Be prepared for an eruption in base anger that Democrats have not really experienced in a long time if they give Republicans the votes for cloture. They are not happy with the direction the party is going, and it will be seen as a surrender to Trump’s impounding of funds/DOGE”

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I was just looking at your abstract in the Cs program this afternoon and thinking it sounds super interesting. Also, yep, that’s a whole lot for anyone to do.

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Eli Savit @esavit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Department of Education is (was?) responsible for: ✅Distributing & monitoring spending for special-ed & low-income students; ✅Facilitating postsecondary financial aid; & ✅Civil rights enforcement Impossible to see how dismantling it will do anything but hurt kids & students.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/03/2025

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“Unusual governing arrangement” is an interesting way to characterize illegal pillaging of the federal government and the American people.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Regime just cut off $400 million worth of federal funding for Columbia University in NYC because of the Gaza protests that took place there in 2023. This is an incredibly sinister attack on first amendment rights. MAGA despises universities as much as anything else. This is an egregious attack.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's good to see some institutions standing up.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I reached that point this week as well! Blurry high five!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/03/2025

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:

Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests.
Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm glad to see that the National Council of Teachers of English has signed onto a letter urging that Congress immediately reverse the DOE's cancellation of teacher preparation and development grants. ncte.org/blog/2025/03... #4C25 Read the letter here: aacte.org/.../02/Grant...

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Congrats! I subscribed to Fangoria because @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social kept shouting out your column in ads.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/03/2025

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I've absolutely done this! I like sitting in hotel lobbies grading or catching up on email and sometimes being interrupted by conversation with a friend walking by. I refuse to grade on the plane. That's my time for reading, napping, and/or lowkey anxiety.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm getting a "Page Not Found" message when I click on the link, FYI. I tried a couple of different browsers to make sure the problem wasn't on my end.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My oldest was 1 when that movie came out, while I was struggling to finish my dissertation. She loved that movie, and it bought me time to write many times, so I feel a lot of affection toward it.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I recommend rejection sometimes, but I’m generally pulled toward that wide middle category of R&R. I don’t think I’ve ever recommended accept on a first round review.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It probably wasn't really my first one, but I have a distinct memory of being absolutely terrified of the opening scene in Return of the Living Dead when I was 5 or 6.

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