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see, I think if "the humanity of all" includes supporters of an ethno-national state young people it's so easy to condescend to. But I'm sure you were a prince at 18 and never did anything stupid.

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people do things we think are stupid. They're not the reason we haven't stopped the genocide.

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again, I wouldn't have joined the protest, I don't think it's good strategy. But I think it's odd to say we need to be sympathetic to people we disagree with when talking about Zionists, but then say people angry about the genocide get no grace

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 15h

I don't see anything in those tweets that's lack of respect for humanity. He's not even defending the protest. He's trying to make someone understand why some might find the calls to shared humanity hollow. Part of shared humanity is understanding why someone might feel that way.

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Alex Colston was on the flotilla that tried to break the siege. Disagree with his points but get the facts right.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I moved to NYC @ 22 in '96. most would say past the Voice's heyday but I loved reading Tom Robbins & Wayne Barret's exposes of Giuliani, J Hoberman on film, Greg Tate on music Tom Tomorrow's cartoons, Dan Savage's sex columns . . .Hell Gate comes the closest to that spirit of anything around now.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ugh solidarity. At another stage of this now since I was researching the IEP process and so now I get miracle vitamin cures for every need a kid might have, low low price, link in the comments. it's so draining

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In your experience, has the rise of AI/automated calling systems made dealing with health insurance/making reservations easier or harder? I know my answer for sure.

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true and I'll say we have such amazing faculty and students we make it work despite the lack of resources and infrastructure. other places where academics are being fired and programs closed won't be so lucky

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

whoops saw that you already mentioned it was great for kids! Anyways, seconding and thirding this insight ;)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!

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He Built This City

Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was so great and would just add is great for kids including my often museum-adverse 8 yo geography loving-nerd. Nerdy obsessive and ND kids will love the artist's story

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are the machines as smart as us" is a question you might ask if you decide caring for a baby, nursing the sick, cooking a meal, making ethical choices and building relationships are not features of intelligence.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

when I was a kid in the suburbs teens couldn't buy toilet paper or eggs at certain times and when the cops came to do scared straight half of it was about "teepeeing" or egging houses

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The very first entry in my commonplace book.

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” —Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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Lazy Susan @tempusflexus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah. One of the greats Annie Dillard

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the greatest who is making our best traditions anew

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a BS issue doesn't respond to compromise. Transphobia like xenophobia doesn't respond to a real problem so there's no way to neutralize the issue by catering to the fear. Has deporting people *ever* led to, "ok, he fixed immigration, now we can go back to healthcare?" Blood demands more blood.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm no expert but from my experience with unions it's often about control more than money.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I learned this from teaching adults. If an adult student is publicly embarrassed, you've lost them for that class and maybe for the whole course.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Movie holds up super well for the whole 6-teen set

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I had no idea what this was and thought it was the AI bad mom horror movie

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

sure, but I think that makes it sound like an intellectual thing like if you're smart enough to know stuff is random you can take it. I think it's more malleable and smart people can fall into depression that makes the irrational beliefs irresistible

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

yes, and if you are depressed about the situation/have low energy/dealing with aging, feeling unappreciated by the family, wellness gurus are more appealing than a 10 minute visit with your GP

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this. MAHA may appeal to the upper middle class because they are used to good customer service, and medicine doesn't give that except to the uber wealthy

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can’t wait for the 18 part series in the Atlantic about “The Crisis at Business Schools” which will detail of every instance of academic fraud at the nation’s top business schools, the coverups, lack of accountability, and their implications for business ethics and academic standards at B schools.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"WHY ARE THEY IGNORING AI?!" My college = opening sessions panel are 100% about AI 😂

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I teach at a cc and I basically say it's like walking into a 7 train and teaching everyone there.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

in the urban context: reclaiming small spaces for greenery and urban farms - small in terms of carbon but more soil and less concrete means less flooding and more shade to adapt to heat

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Heaven is not good enough for Bel and hell is not hot enough for the people who murdered him

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The university is pleased to deliver..." Nope. My raise is thanks to @psc-cuny.org and nobody else. We won this.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Anyway that’s how you wind up in this rhetorical game of whack-a-mole where every concept associated with Black people is transformed into a “politically divisive” term to be avoided- DEI, woke, defund, CRT, intersectionality, identity politics, police and prison abolition, affirmative action etc-

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the point was .. . going to a theater at midnight with your friends and having fun and being silly and a little less precious?

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it's so pathetic that my peers in our 40s/50s with college age kids try to act like they have some direct historical knowledge their kids don't. Like, you grew up in the 80s in Great Neck, c'mon

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

during COVID my then 8 year old listened to hundreds of hours of Mike Duncan so his playground conversation when they returned was . .. interesting. luckily he found some fellow history nerd kids and they're all still buddies now starting HS

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

when I was young and single and dating the idea that less conventionally active/shorter/nerdier men would automatically be "nicer" really messed me up. ain't necessarily so

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Best labor movie and labor anthem of all time. Best successful work of feminist popular culture of the last century.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My top 5: 1) In short, Libya is a study in contrasts. 2) In a way, we're all winners. In another, more specific way, he is the winner and you are the loser. 3) Lisa, I would like to buy that rock. 4) D'oh! A dear! A female dear! 5) Mel Brooks was Jewish??

Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I would lose shortly thereafter, but I was worried the name of the neighborhood would make it look like I was rich and make the union look bad. This kind of shit is insidious.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In 2000 or so, when I was involved in grad student unionization at NYU, where I made 13K a year as a TA teaching (not assisting) two classes/semester, a reporter from the Times wanted to profile some of us. I said no because I lived in Park Slope w/2 roommates in a below-market situation (1/2)

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

all the dynamics of rich old man/younger woman who feeds him with admiration and does his life for him except he's too decrepit for sex which makes the deal for her better

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

lots to choose from but today's heart is taking me here:

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I thought the end of the 2021 documentary was very powerful for how it ended with a kind of self-indictment about the problems of lionizing someone whose story ends the way Tonys' does

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the idea that this is any better because she's not fucking him is funny.