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I’m sorry but “we were successful where we campaigned!” is a bit like saying “my garden isn’t a total mess in the small, familiar area that I have devoted my energies to gardening intently (helped out by a small army of gardening volunteers)!”

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I’ll be on Instagram for the foreseeable future, find me there! @johnowen82

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I was today years old when I realized that Frank O’Hara was Irish.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fellow Blue-Sags, rise up! ♐️

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“Really holding space with that and feeling power in that… I’m in queer media, so…”

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I think it is best for everyone involved that we do not compare this space to Twitter.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I think it is best for everyone involved that we do not compare this space to Twitter.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m not an expert, but I feel like this was also an argument behind Brexit. And it didn’t work. But paging the experts! @stephenkb.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

But there is an intellectual movement behind immigration restriction that seeks to reshape the relationship between employers and their sources of labor.
According to this rising conservative faction, most closely identified with Vice President-elect JD Vance, cutting off the supply of vulnerable foreigners will force employers to seek out U.S.-born workers.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The stones. The slaps. The feet. 🪨👋🦶🏻

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

@johnowen82 is my Instagram handle btw, not the Other Thing. Here right now but always there!

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Second or Third edition... it's a really tough call.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“Snow on the Ground! ~ What is to Become of Us?” Jane Austen, March 7, 1814.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I am going to be so productive after I binge another four episodes of “Say Nothing.”

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I just spent three hours on a train sitting next to a girl who took several photos of her copy of Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo but did not open it once.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today I give you: the carrot (pen & ink and watercolour over pencil, V&A)

A drawing of a costume for a carrot with an orange upper with tapering end and a green base

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m not an expert, but I feel like this was also an argument behind Brexit. And it didn’t work. But paging the experts! @stephenkb.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I really, *really* enjoyed this I was really not expecting to!

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“Snow on the Ground! ~ What is to Become of Us?” Jane Austen, March 7, 1814.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's great to finally have a social media site organized around recessive action.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This site is already becoming a home for dangerous extremism!!

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Second or Third edition... it's a really tough call.

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Eric Allen Hatch @ericallenhatch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Every new image from the Bob Dylan biopic gives me less confidence in the project

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Someone on Twitter said Bluesky is "like a faculty meeting, but you have to read it" which is mean but funny. So far it seems more like the pleasant murmurings of a library cafe, which is fine. Not what I was expecting, but it's fine!

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Someone brought some attitude to Bluesky. Good for you, Barnes & Noble!

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I think I look squinty but my boyfriend said I look like I am “gazing into a brighter future” and should post this on Bluesky so 🤷‍♂️

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

And Penguin let us put foliage on the spine! 🍃

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My edition of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN in "The Atlantic."

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi! This is my website. Link is showing an enormous picture of my face, for some reason. www.johnhavard.me

johnhavard.me

John Havard

John Havard writes about literature and political culture and teaches at the State University of New York.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm "Actually 'trying to save the world' is the wrong framing, what do you think about THAT?"

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Trump's share of the popular vote is below 50%!" yes it is such a relief that he won e.g. the majority-Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan with 40-something percent because of the Third Party vote.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh no am I on a block list now? 🫣

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My edition of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN in "The Atlantic."

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Environmentalism and laments for “our beautiful planet” will only get us so far. See you at Earth Day. What we need is politics and politics is fucked right now. So what we also need is a way to recharge our sense of possibility. And yes I do talk about all this in my book.

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John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Local jails are getting paid to house prisoners for ICE. If you'd like to learn more about the new geography of mass incarceration in the U.S.—and activism!—I recommend this excellent new book. I organized a conference with some of the participants in the spring. www.versobooks.com/products/303...

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The Jail is Everywhere

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are...

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