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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The ghosts of Adam Smith and Ricardo teaming up for one last job

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just because someone else has killed, why should I, as a citizen responsible for the actions of the state, be made into a killer in revenge?

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Robinson, Black Marxism, pgs. 80-81

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is not just. The state should not have the power to execute.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is just way too much decisive importance in the fact that Thomas Malthus was the first English professor of political economy and that his appointment was at the East India Company College from 1805-1834.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mephistopheles to Doctor Faust:

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Western Mass is starting to autumn

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“…for that way is worthless, Callicles.”

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Miami (Ohio) will be hiring a tenure track position in public law/judicial politics. We need someone who can teach con law and participate in the Miami community as a teacher-scholar. More info: miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

Job Description Summary
The Political Science Department at Miami University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. This is a full-time, tenure-track position that will begin at the start of the academic year in August 2027.

Job Description

The successful candidate will teach courses in American constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, and a capstone or elective course in the candidate’s area of expertise for the undergraduate major; advise students; conduct relevant research leading to a record of published scholarship; and provide institutional and professional service, as part of Miami University’s teacher-scholar model.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your vibe is trending sinister, my guy

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey man, have you have ever considered that you’re doing supervillain stuff?

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me, to myself; “Oh, I didn’t realize that it’s been twenty years since The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America came out! I really enjoyed listening to that in college.” Me, seconds later:

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Matt Damon: Ageing Transformation

Alt: Matt Damon: Ageing Transformation

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is the Lockean proviso a vestigial example of what E.P. Thompson called customary consciousness? Seems kind of perverse to ask of Locke, but I think it might be so.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

IMO compares favorably to mirror universe episodes (which I generally don’t like very much)

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am shocked that the plagiarism machine is made out of plagiarism.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yet this is nothing

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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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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the very near future, universities will be measured by the degree to which they frankly acknowledge and address the damage to learning that AI inflicts on every student. In the meantime, administrators race to prostrate themselves before SV for crumbs. It's gross. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*rock chalk intensifies*

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a Kansan, I’m so sorry that Missouri happened to you. (Rock chalk)

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The crew politely struggling to stay awake during Data’s poetry readings got it right imo

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something that Star Trek got right is that even if sentient AI emerges and is granted rights, the art it produces will still be mind-numbingly terrible

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We really messed up when we abandoned typewriters

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"At the time the game was paused, the temperature in Topeka, Kan., was 99 degrees with a heat index of 108... By rule, the game could not resume until the wet-bulb thermometer temperature dropped below 92.1 degrees...After a lengthy delay, the game was called."

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College football game ends in tie after 108-degree heat index makes OT untenable

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Without exaggeration, the arch is meant to celebrate the triumph of Trump over the American people. Since Napoleon, imperial arches have signified the defeat of republics by emperors.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

colleges shouldn't give their students cheating tech

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“For transphobes, a reckoning”

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is not my beautiful panel, This is not my beautiful discussant

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

time to reformat a document

a photo of me having years of my life drained from my body

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

APSA PSA, cont’d: - Think your suit is too large? Wrong, it should be larger - Are you sure about that? Yes, way larger - But why? You must intimidate your opponents - Like an animal? That’s right. You should look as huge as possible - Don’t be afraid to be gigantic Burn your grandeur into memory

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The first year that I did this, I had students do both every week and they got a little burned out / revolty over the assignment.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have students do with discussion questions and make sure to check the posts before class so that I can incorporate them into the lesson if possible. In alternating weeks, students write discussion questions or write an answer to another student's question due on that Friday.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026

August 31st or, as it is conventionally known amongst academics, À la recherche du temps perdu

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Honestly, it's one of the honors of my life that I got to write this essay that put into words what so many people feel and do, fight for and love. Here it is again, and thanks always to everyone sharing it and @bostonreview.bsky.social for publishing it. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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The Claims of Close Reading

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

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