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Dr Whales

@kmwhales.bsky.social
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PhD in Literature and Theology (University of Glasgow), current religion assistant professor in FL. I mostly write about trauma and grief and theopoetics. A gen z-er once told me I was iconic. She/her womenintheology.org

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Dr Whales @kmwhales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scotland friends, particularly!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Before I was a politician, I was a proud union member. I’m honored to stand with my union brothers and sisters on Labor Day and every day. In the Senate, I’ll fight to raise pay, lower costs, and empower Texas workers.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One of the worst cancers!!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Come on. This is too much. First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry. 😞 www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...
tmz.com
Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Dr Whales @kmwhales.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It feels like they’re all getting out before it gets really bad. 😭
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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Dr Whales @kmwhales.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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In Memory of Dolly
Dolly Parton has died, and I am bereft. A Dolly mural in Ringgold, Georgia, where she married her love Carl. I don’t claim special connection. I don’t even feel I had a parasocial relationship—I kn…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/08/2026
You’ve got to see this. Angie Nixon’s Café Resistance is so much more than a bookstore. It’s a community hub offering FREE tutoring, a food pantry, Black history classes, mentorship, mental health workshops, music lessons, healthcare resources and more.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sure seems like a cascading series of contaminated food making Americans sick should be a massive scandal for the USDA and Secretary Brooke Rollins
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Natalie Harp, the child aide being viciously attacked for being a helpless young girl, is 35 years old.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a massive scandal. Not "should be," but "is."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.
Alex Jones saying there's going to be a national draft in 3 weeks.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
😬😬😬😬😬😬 bsky.app/profile/chan...
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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Personally my favourite line from her review is: “There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” Which at least made me laugh! I am passing her review on to my child (doing classical studies at Winchester) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
thetimes.com
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I mean. We keep getting stories like this.
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Dr Whales @kmwhales.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some important distinctions throughout about “being smart” and the knowledge/expertise that is developed. It’s important to acknowledge that people trained as experts should have an assumed degree of, you know, expertise. This doesn’t conflate “natural” intelligence with developed knowledge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Literally broke the law to write his name on public buildings
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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The more you know... the more you should be angry as fu@k about this situation. IJS.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Stunning reporting. “The killings raise questions about…Washington’s intensifying campaign in the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of strikes have been carried out…in a legally ambiguous, secret war…Testimony indicates that it is highly probable the US drone teams knew children were in the vicinity.”
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Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?
Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Here’s a must read critique of that “report” on the humanities/soc sciences. “But you know how when someone says ‘I don’t want to say X, but,’ the only important part of the sentence is the part that comes after the ‘but’?” @michael-berube.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Report on the State of a Report (on the Humanities) - Pittsburgh Review of Books
On June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has
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PJ @septemberrising.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Glasgow now, there is no place in Scotland for racism or fascism.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
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John K. Wilson @johnkwilson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Academic Authoritarianism in New Attack on Humanities Scholars
There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Humanities prof here, trying to do my job well (and not mainly for the modest pay). Kinda tired of being cast as the villain when all these grotesquely rich comic book villains destroy lives & livelihoods, bring back eradicated diseases & flesh eating worms, kill millions in developing counties…
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been protesting for over a week to revolt against their corrupt govt as well as criminal slumlord traitor Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka for plotting to seize their land. Americans could learn a thing or two on how it’s done.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
the 2024 vibe shift -- in conjunction with the disinhibition and insulation from consequences provided by obscene wealth -- has destroyed many US elites' ability to think down the game tree
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You see how little this administration cares about you, my fellow Americans….
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
wate.com
Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/05/2026
I am outraged that a swastika flag was raised overlooking Washington Square Park.
This hateful antisemitic act was meant to spread fear among and intimidate Jewish New Yorkers. It has no place in our city.
Our administration is committed to fighting antisemitism in all its forms and protecting the safety of Jewish New Yorkers.
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating this despicable act, and l am confident those responsible will be held accountable.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/05/2026
Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This 👇 - They have failed both the Judicial Oath and the Constitutional Oath. They are not impartial, neutral arbiters of the law and don't even try to hide that they are influenced by their own personal political preferences.
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