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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Insanity 😡

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Back in my blogging days, I used the phrase "Excellence Without Money" to chide universities for all the happy talk about doing more w/ less as public support for higher ed was gutted. We're way past time where real talk is needed about what we are losing. Perry is right. Time to change the story.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN

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The Big Lie aka La Gran Mentira

This analysis exposes Donald Trump and his allies’ disinformation campaign around immigrants and voting.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Co-signing, in thunder, as a longtime DC-area resident.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Looking forward to the sequel: WaPo interviews dozens of disillusioned Rethugs at Trump International Airport or Trump Ken Cen or Trump Penn Station or a Cracker Barrel on the Trump Turnpike to Hell. Not holding my breath. Different parties, different rules. #MediaFail

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/09/2026

I'm really into all the sportsmanship, healthy masculinity and honest human emotion we've been seeing out of the US Open So many ways to be a man that don't involve narcissism, bullying, pouting, snarling, and/or cheating.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Must read. Rest in power, Gloria Steinem. Your work goes on.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”

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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

America, believe in yourself as much as Dolly Parton believed in you. Look to the light!

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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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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Freedom of expression is always worth fighting for." Amen, Ms. Attiah, and congratulations on a righteous, much deserved victory. Write on!

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thoughtful and illuminating as always and today Goldberg adds a couple of titles to my late-summer reading list. Thanks!

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“My warrant to be here was never anyone’s to hand me, and so it is not anyone’s to revoke. It was secured before I drew breath—by people forbidden on pain of the lash to learn their letters.” www.thenation.com/article/soci... AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!

thenation.com

The Machine That Came for Jason Arday

It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Faculties," by @cathyndavidson.bsky.social & Jody Greene, is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a “how to” guide for academics who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/rx7fwx7

Cover of Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times by Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene. The cover has a deep purple background with bold white, orange, and pink fonts. The title dominates the center. The author's names are in overlapping speech bubbles on the top left. The subtitle is in orange letters below the title, bottom right. The title and subtitle appear again, hugging the right side of the cover and cut off.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is an extraordinary and gorgeously written piece by Julia Curlee: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a beautiful, perfect sentiment, and one we (profs) would all do well to remember.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

👇💯 Unfortunately, some apples haven't fallen far enough away from the tree of Bernie Sanders. Ahem.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The great Sherrilyn Ifill is shaken. Read her reflections on the confirmation of Todd Blanche and you'll be shaken, too, but we all need to be shaken into action to save what remains of democracy and the rule of law in the United States. Read and act accordingly.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great thoughts from Brian here:

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/07/2026

Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Glorious thread in response to a stunning set of reflections by @hesterblum.bsky.social on the hot, queer web of connections between "Heated Rivalry" and "Moby-Dick." Here, my friends, is the verve, the passion, and keen attention that demonstrates why CLOSE READING WILL NEVER DIE. Carry on!

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Rubin at her righteous best. An excellent Monday morning wake-up read.

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EC @prairiecrab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This was his post and I don’t want to hear any lectures from those MAGA dirtbags on decorum….

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Interesting: "Our findings don’t just tell the story of young people becoming less heterosexual or young women becoming more queer. Instead, we believe they support the idea that heterosexuality may no longer organize gender in quite the same way for women and men."

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Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much

The boundaries of heterosexuality are bending for women but not for men, who appear to have less room to explore and are bound to a more rigid, traditional concept of masculinity.

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switchgrasscollective @kitatvt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Anyone who cares about progressivism, or purports to want to build a better world, can’t treat sexism as an acceptable trade-off….In a moment when that fact is up for debate in half the country, we need a movement that’s crystal clear about where it stands. (And it can’t be just short of rape.)”

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“purity tests are killing the left” - some guy who spent all of 2024 yelling at people for doing GOTV for Kamala Harris because of her genocidal policies when you say credible rape allegations against a Senate candidate are disqualifying

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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In honor of our brothers on both sides of the aisle, we need to reflect on how hard it evidently is for them not to rape people

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

He can never not talk like an abuser.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thanks, SCOTUS!

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Democracy dies when a once great national newspaper becomes fixated on sleep while downplaying the many threats posed by the most corrupt administration in history. But, please, do go on about coffee and sleep trackers and the importance of going to bed at the same time every night. We're riveted.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"On April 2, 2025, #DOGE terminated the final year of funding from a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Willa Cather Archive, a loss of about $100,000." "There’s no explanation. There was no justification […] It was just a kind of destruction." #NEH

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Pitch Mr. Perfect @michaelwaterloo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Loved having Coach on the show this week. Fantastic insight into her 25 years at Maryland as well as her viral moment from the #NCAAWBB Tournament

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/06/2026

O slow-wing’d turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?

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Marilee Lindemann @marileelindemann.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

No Kings, but long live the Queen Who Was Right about Everything.

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