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Allison Whitney

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
AMERICAN COMEDY: It’s funny because they “tell it like it is” but also there’s always an underlying optimism BRITISH COMEDY: It’s funny because it’s sardonic and pessimistic, but self-deprecating CANADIAN COMEDY: I have no fucking idea why this is funny but it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Texas Universities are taking censorship into their own hands. Read more from PEN America about the policies and guidance that have resulted in a “disaster” for college students’ freedom to learn in Texas. pen.org/texas-univer...
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Texas Universities are Taking Censorship Into Their Own Hands
Academic freedom is under attack in Texas, with courses at universities being audited, censored, and canceled. Here's why.
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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Rian’s Holiday Rickroll
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Joan Crawford in Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) as Congresswoman Agatha Reed.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 16/09/2025
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
FYI you don’t actually have to make good decisions in life. Some of them should be for narrative value in the movie adaptation
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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/08/2025
NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m planning to take an Amtrak train this summer and I’m psyched about it.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 31/05/2025
“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 23/05/2025
🖋️ “Expand Covid vaccine access for all Americans” hit 500 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PXEICD to 50409
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Expand Covid vaccine access for all Americans
Text SIGN PXEICD to 50409 — The FDA's decision to restrict access to Covid vaccines for many Americans under 65 is concerning. Vaccines have proven highly effective at preventing severe illness and death from Covid-19. Limiting their availability puts public health at risk by leaving a significant portion of the population more vulnerable. While some may have built immunity from prior infection, vaccines provide a more robust and longer-lasting protection. Widespread vaccination coverage is crucial for suppressing transmission and preventing new variants from emerging. No one should be denied the opportunity to get vaccinated and protect themselves due to overly restrictive policies. I urge you to advocate for expanding vaccine eligibility this fall. All Americans, regardless of age or risk factors, should have ready access to updated Covid boosters. Vaccination is a vital tool for safeguarding both individual and community health. We must ensure equitable access to these life-saving vaccines for everyone.
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Feminist film theory
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Kyle Rable for Congress @rableforwesttexas.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
West TX deserves someone who will fight for us in D.C. My name is Kyle Rable and I am running for congress to bring the power back to the people of CD-19.
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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Folks I need to raise money to keep this project going. If you can offer ANY support, I’d hesigrateful. We need help keeping this work going. Buildsoil.net Venmo.com/buildsoil Ko-fi.com/buildsoil
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Film programming is important
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
God love Ryan Coogler for taking his clout from Black Panther and David Zaslav’s money to make a horny, gory, morally grey, politically complicated, very funny original adult art movie shot on IMAX 65mm for real—that a bunch of industry insiders were rooting for to fail.
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Dr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It was the Dunninge of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is insane. They are going to destroy the entire planet.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dualnuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted.
Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
going back in time to tell myself this image is going to end the human race
The original Shiba Inu doge meme
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
London cinephiles: mobilize
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours. Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year
Historic newspaper headlines reading The Nome Nugget, Diphtheria Epidemic Threatens District, Nome Anxious While Dogs Race On with Antitoxin Situation Still Critical
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.
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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Support disabled workers right to earn a living wage. Submit your comment before 1/17 at 11:59 EST. Labor rights must include disabled rights.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/01/2025
"It's time to get back to our roots."
Left: Mark Zuckerberg "It's time to get back to our roots around free expression".

Right: Zuckerberg's original Facebook site, a hot-or-not style site that used stolen images in service of toxic bro culture to rank women students at Harvard.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I appreciate Dr Noor cutting right to the heart of the matter. Criminalizing masks = forced infections. Masks are a public health tool. They make spaces accessible. If you ban them, people will either need to stay home or consent to forced infection. We should ALL be angry about this.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 02/01/2025
Heads up🔥 The GOP just released their 12 priority bills. They are all horrific. Pay attention to this one about voting: 10. A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Dynamic Square ❤️
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🌄🐵▪️🦴🛰️🌔🧑‍🚀💀🎆👶🌍
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
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Trekademia @trekademia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Attention, this is the Captain speaking. Make sure to share our page with other #popculture and #StarTrek researchers 🖖🏼 If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us here or at @azaij.bsky.social for assistance. #trekacademic #popularculture #academicsky
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a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on his chest is making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on his chest is making a funny face .
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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 20/11/2024
I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people
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Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’m thrilled to be part of this forthcoming collection, edited by Andrea Wood and Jamie McDaniel. My essay is on the wonderful and weird HAUNTED CASTLE 3D www.routledge.com/Broadening-t...
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Broadening the Horror Genre: From Gaming to Paratexts
This collection assembles a wide range of scholarship addressing the intersections, influences, and impacts of the horror genre’s proliferation across multiple forms of media. Covering film, televisio...
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Greetings, Bluesky! What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP! Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
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