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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm in a coffee shop right now the name of which is a Biblical pun, but then Waylon and Willie are playing on the speakers so it's kind of a break even situation.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really can’t impress upon you just how shamelessly racist the Mike Rogers campaign is.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, one candidate was just straight up shamelessly racist.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

boo for honking! (not an endorsement of phone looking)

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Student in the infrastructure class today gave a sobering presentation on fifty years of problems with the Palisades nuclear plant on the coast of Lake Michigan. On the eve of restart, the hits just keep coming. (attn @annakornbluh.bsky.social) www.mlive.com/environment/...

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Federal regulators investigating tilted fuel assembly at Michigan nuclear plant

Engineers are working on a plan to retrieve the tilted fuel assembly and return it to the spent-fuel pool.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

can we extend this for, say, several more weeks?

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Randomly, mention of your Washington Press reminded me of this crazy story. Do you know of it? Many years ago my wife and I bought some printing equipment (not a press) from his former studio her in MI after the whole thing went bust. The presses had all been sold already. archive.ph/F8Bvq

archive.ph

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fun teaching a novel about an English major working in the oil industry-- @lydiakiesling.bsky.social amazing Mobility-- in a class for English majors that is mainly about oil.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, Murphy did the unthinkable: he got hold of Small Sam and pretty much ripped his heart out. He is a very very bad dog.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes for their final exam we’re going to the Detroit Model Railroad Club in downtown Holly

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Student in the infrastructure class today ended a presentation on Michigan's interurbans (electric passenger trains in the first couple decades of the 20th century), saying, "We need trains to remind us how to be human beings." Brought the house down.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

and since we've got nothing else to do we might as well do everybody else's jobs. for free.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

email from my university today asking faculty to take time to promote and market an important event on campus because our Communications and Marketing division won't promote and market it "so budget can be directed toward a new branding launch."

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

and slaveholders' cruelty was caused by abolitionists. they've been playing this tune for 250 years.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it's prob been 30 years since I've read Denis Johnson but this is such a nice reminder of why I loved his prose so much back then.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

not only poetry. The literature of infrastructure.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We read “To a Locomotive in Winter” in the infrastructure class today. First student comment: “Whitman really wants to fuck that train, doesn’t he?”

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enjoyed this conversation with Gary, who has been a great reporter covering the Great Lakes for a long time.

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Gary Wilson @garyglx5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interview: Line 5 Activist Jeffrey Insko. The genesis of his anti-pipeline work, praise and criticism for MI Gov. Whitmer, corporate profits and a cautionary message for the public. garyglx5.substack.com/p/interview-...

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Interview: Line 5 Activist Jeffrey Insko

Insko reveals the genesis of his pipeline activism, he praises and criticizes Gov. Whitmer and explains why corporate profits are an issue. Plus, a cautionary message for the public

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chanterelle season means omelettes for dinner

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's a goddamn scandal is what it is!

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just a reminder that Enbridge spilled more than a million gallons of natural gas liquids in Wisconsin and it didn't even make national news and then they restarted the line over the objection of state officials because fed regulators no longer do their job. Nbd. wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/15/l...

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Line 5 reopens after spill despite DNR warning • Wisconsin Examiner

Enbridge Line 5 went back online Monday, three weeks after a spill released 1.3 million gallons of natural gas liquids.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't usually like to brag but I have always disliked Ed Sheeran and his stupid, lazy songs.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah. Incredible-- and incredibly lucky-- that the water protector Joe Bates was filming with his drone. We might never have seen this at all!

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

yeah, I said the same thing more than a week ago bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

hey great news everybody! my university is rolling out some new software something something to do something. and we are invited to learn how to use this new software to do whatever it does!

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Gary Wilson @garyglx5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A well-respected anti-pipeline advocate comments on Michigan Gov. Whitmer's late in her tenure action on thee Line 5 oil pipeline. A good read. @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/its-about-...

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It’s About Time

Free at last.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I haven't seen Nolan's Odyssey, but I know lots of you have. I also know that my colleague Katie Hartsock is very smart and a fabulous poet and I pretty much trust whatever she says. This is what she says: fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/simulacrim...

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Simulacrimae Rerum: On Christopher Nolan’s Relentlessly Gloomy Odyssey

Katie Hartsock reviews Christopher Nolan’s recent film, The Odyssey

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today my students taught me about James Charles.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

not on topic but I have to admit that this sentence made me laugh: "Comparative Literature and English professor Homi K. Bhabha, who is teaching one undergraduate course this fall..."

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