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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 2h

God how awful. That speech to the sailors on the Lincoln was bad enough.

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 4h

Howdja get that copy? The terrific Baltimore bookstore on 25th St?

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 4h

Also: literacy itself takes its current meaning quite late. Do you know Pat Crain’s work on this? She suggests that late C19 immigration panic cements the concept.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The classroom, when it’s going right, is such a balm.

Gah. Just chilling when you put the numbers side by side…

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve been eyeing this week as a slow motion disaster for weeks now. Mercy!

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I wish Emily Bazelon had read @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's recent article, "Polarization is not the Problem" (link later in thread). The polarization framework distracts from the fundamental issue of GOP extremism.

The main reason a new voting rights bill failed to pass is the same reason Congress has stopped responding to the court: partisan polarization, which ramped up in the 2000s. As conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans went extinct, bipartisan overrides ended. When one party is in control and can reject a court ruling on its own, the filibuster remains a barrier to such a bill passing.

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Ha! Meanwhile SAS scrapes the bottom of the barrel, raising enrollment caps in writing courses to squeeze out a few more dollars…

Glorious dahlias. Just when you need them most!

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

3 wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, & Iran. 3 tax breaks to the rich: Bush, Trump, Trump $10 trillion cost to the debt. All Republican failures. They have caused the financial mess.

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Forgot my keys this morning; stayed on the subway too long and missed my connection, leaving no breathing room whatsoever when I finally got to campus. Yeah, it’s that time of the year alright!

The interface is awful! Didn’t it used to be better? Plus, having to swat down all the ai generated suggestions is hugely annoying….

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Just really interested in how you approach a course like this!

We’ve been teaching DesBib lite with the BBP. I’m thinking about ways to reanimate old book history syllabi from a bibliographic angle…

Ooh — I’m very interested in developing something like this. Keep me posted?

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Someone in the local ad business missed the class on deictics in the poetry seminar!

Decrepit building on which hangs a banner advertising a local rental property: “Live here now”

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Deeply uncurious is the plague of the times. It part of what makes teaching so challenging right now. So much optimization, so little boundary-less exploration…

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Ha! In my latest investment in Luddism, I bought a thermal binder for student reading packets… back to the 1990s, at least…

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s exhausting, thinking of what it will take to regain some of this ground…

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AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Just lovely. And lucky to see such creatures. Very sorry for your loss —

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh LOL, I’ll miss your posts!

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As it is! One of the main drags downtown is Sigourney St, so it matters!

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They clearly take their job seriously!

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t know how you do it, Leon! I spent 3.5 hours with Lydia Sigourney correspondence on Friday and was cooked. And she has a lovely ladylike hand!

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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But, needless to say, that is not a university: that’s a taxpayer-subsidized engine for private capital accumulation that retains the external form of a university —a beloved brand, taken over by private equity, that’s now different & worse, but keeps the old name—which is of course the whole point.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interesting that democrats would be wrong to bring universities "to heel" on wokeness. The obvious implication here is that fascism is a natural. State that resistance to fascism is the aberration

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Geez Jared. Sounds awful. You are also hilarious, despite the horrors!

Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More ridiculous dahlia bounty. How I love this flower!

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Can't anyone here play this game?" --Casey Stengel

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's in the works in Congress, Rep. Pressley in terms of abolishing ICE. Is there legislation ready to go if Dems win the Presidency in 2028? Is Congress starting to hold hearings to discuss HOW ICE will be abolished? How will the public be marshaled?

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We’ve all been there! Bon courage.

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m having fun this semester with aspiring nobles in the court of Queen Elizabeth circulating sonnets and trying to outdo one another…. Students love imagining our current circumstances we’re otherwise.