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Lindsay DiCuirci

@ldicuirci.bsky.social
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English Prof @ UMBC | Early American Lit | Book History | Mom x2 | Novice Gardener | Dog Snuggler

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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And here I thought 2026 was looking up
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Love this thoughtful work from the brilliant @mollyhardy.bsky.social
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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830. #printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This rules
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 15/11/2025
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Keep thinking about how this acetaminophen announcement is about blaming women for not “toughing out” their pain. Especially after listening to two seasons of Susan Burton’s excellent podcast “The Retrievals,” which is all about how women in pain are rarely heard, believed, or appropriately treated
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I wish this headline didn’t take up space in my brain, but alas….
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
NEW: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the gutting of the Institute of Museum & Library Services is likely unlawful. This is the SECOND federal court to rule against the slashing of the only federal agency dedicated to library funding. Learn about ALA's own legal case: ala.org/IMLS-lawsuit
Second federal judge rules against dismantling IMLS. In response to a lawsuit from 21 state Attorneys General, a federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services is likely illegal. This is the second federal court to rule against the slashing of the agency, following a ruling in ALA’s separate legal case in Washington. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association.
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fascinating (horrifying) to watch RW media sell people on American manufacturing jobs and leave out the parts where there’s no unions or health benefits, no OSHA or FMLA or ADA compliance, no child labor laws or whistleblower protections. Welcome to The Jungle, I guess.
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I found this helpful
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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
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Aditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Save the NEH, my job, and the jobs of thousands of culture workers who are supported by NEH funds and programming. This link takes you to a SUPER simple form to email all of your reps. It took me 15 seconds and I got email replies from my congressman and both senators. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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URGENT: Save the NEH
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This morning’s opening bell #stockmarket
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a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near
ALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
starting to think that centering your campaign around the most viscerally offputting man in history isn’t a reliable winning strategy
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WISCONSIN 🫡
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For nearly 70 years, a segregationist held the record for the longest the filibuster in order to block civil rights. Today @booker.senate.gov broke that record to advance justice and defend democracy. Grateful for your leadership, Senator.
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thinking of dear friends and colleagues at NEH 💕💕
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Me looping my husband into the national security group chat
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...
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Anthony Soto @anthonysoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Schumer (202) 224-6542 no vm Hassan (202) 224-3324 Peters (202) 224-6221 Durbin (202)224-2152 no vm Schatz (202) 224-3934 King (202) 224-5344 Shaheen (202) 224-2841 vm full Fetterman (202) 224-4254 Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542 Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Shameful, harmful, and sadly unsurprising.
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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
The NEA has released their updated literature grant guidelines. They are appalling.
Tupelo Press will not be altering our 25-year mission to promote contemporary poetry and literary prose by emerging and established writers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including, especially, women and writers of color, as well as the LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Native American communities. We aim to develop wider audiences for, and deeper understanding of, innovative, multi-cultural writing by essential participants in this conversation. At the same time, we undertake to enhance the reading experience itself by publishing and distributing gorgeously designed and produced books.
If adherence to our principles means that we will be ineligible for NEA grants going forward, so be it.
Compliance with the new regulations would be immoral.
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Refs have their orders, I see 🙃 #SuperBowl59 #SuperBowl
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
All the post-election spicy takes on how Harris should have toned down the threat to democracy language have aged like a tuna sandwich in a hot car
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Never make an enemy of the Friends.
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Quaker groups, including in Philadelphia, sue to keep ICE out of religious sites
The lawsuit says “the very threat" of ICE enforcement deters congregants from attending services, violating First Amendment rights of religious liberty.
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Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Had so much fun talking “book history on a budget” w/ @ldicuirci.bsky.social at the Bibliographical Society of America this weekend (also featuring MARCH makerspace researcher Sophia Westfall and her experiments with ink and paper!) Am so grateful for the great conversations all day long
Table with material ephemera, syllabus, books with scalpels on top for book anatomy experiments, examples of experiments in organic books, and examples of weird books to explore at our panel
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Wrote this up more fully, same bottom line on Washington: there is no carve out for slavery. "Slavery was not an incidental factor in his life. It was part of all that he did and accomplished. His world was made by, and bound by, the centrality of slavery." 1/ time.com/7173647/geor...
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Even George Washington Was a Tyrant
We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Has anyone written a good piece on the kind of stylistic tells of an AI-generated essay? Not how to spot AI as a teacher, but more an analysis of the organizational, syntactical, stylistic, and rhetorical moves it tends to make?
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Student referring to something fairly recent as happening “back in the 1900s” has me feeling like
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson boxing. Paul is punching Tyson in the face.
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
you know #Bluesky has made it when your timeline is once again full of plagiarized viral jokes.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
mental health break? you bet it did
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Lindsay DiCuirci @ldicuirci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
my department:
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
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