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Jordan Windholz

@jwindholz.bsky.social
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Prof at Shippensburg U, Shax and Renaissance Lit. Author of The Single Life, out now from University of Alabama Press, and the poetry collections Other Psalms (Vassar Miller Prize), and The Sisters (Black Ocean). www.jordanwindholz.com

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 8h
The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How did Olivia Miles become one of the most creative passers in the WNBA? I asked Miles, along with the people who guided her in her youth. From ancient Greek philosophy to soccer stardom, here are the influences that helped shape a genius: www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/minn...
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Lessons from Aristotle, Dostoevsky, and a Jersey coaching legend: How Olivia Miles honed her court vision | Sporting News
Olivia Miles' trainers and coaches explain how she developed her unbelievable court vision.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Jordan Windholz @jwindholz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I do this, but I've also been scheduling sustained silent reading days for my gen-ed lit students every semester. They often tell me they have never read for 75 minutes straight.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
true and at the same time we are living in an era where so much public discourse prefers puts stance taking, alignment, and appraisal over content. Your stance on an issue or a text takes precedence over what the issue or text actually is. “I didn’t watch the movie but here is my take”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not an accident or fuck up. This is part of their scheme to enslave us. bsky.app/profile/john...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not an accident or a fuck up — part of the conservative plot to destroy universities and higher education generally
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026
Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey, Republican NFL fanatics: Climate change is doing this
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nationalize these companies (after the current administration is gone)
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...
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Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
part of this is obviously national political conditions but don't underrate the extent to which a bunch of these incumbent republicans have never had to run a competitive general election campaign and basically do not know how to do it
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't like having to do this, but I have to. This is not what happened. What happened was that a handful of scholars tried to legitimate an ahistorical argument and were criticized because of it. They then spent a year engaging in abject sophistry and caricaturing their critics. They still lost.
Just after the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara earlier this year, a concerted social-media push cast a small group of originalist scholars as arch-villains for “normalizing” the view taken by three of the justices—namely, that the Constitution does not require a policy of universal birthright citizenship. For some, universal birthright citizenship is so sacrosanct that any disagreement or debate is unacceptable. The only reason the question was remotely in doubt was that originalists sold their methodology for partisan gain.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 18/09/2026
Still seeing faculty talk about how they had Chat write a thing and then had students critique what was good or bad about it as if this is a pedagogical innovation for the ages
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026
"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Ed @ed3d.net · 17/09/2026
🪿🪿 WHAT MANDATE 🪿🪿
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Johnson literally sends Congress home to save Whiskey Pete
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/09/2026
17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs. Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”
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