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Tennessee Williamsburg

@oakmilk.bsky.social
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No-‘count river fellow | climate, politics, performance, queerdom, and The French

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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
AND bad bunny superbowl
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The Singularity+Epstein Files+Winter Olympics all happening at the same time is really the wildest possible timeline.
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~Littoral~ @littoral-ink.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The internet is suddenly seeing crustaceans everywhere. On Sartre, mescaline, AI agents, and what happens when we can't tell what's real anymore. New on Littoral: "The Age of Monsters" 🦀 littoral.ink/age-of-monsters [1/8]
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THE TIME OF MONSTERS: On Moltbook, mescaline, and agent carcinization
Just because something isn't real does not mean that it is meaningless.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
dear Ezra Klein,
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
adjunct teaching at multiple places is crazy rn bc the research universities are like “here’s how our $200M capitulation to fascism is #resistance” and the small colleges are like “email your dean the names of 5 people who could be fired by Monday to save cash (you may include your dean)”
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Labubu is meme made flesh. It was foretold.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
ugh I just do not have time to write the think piece on why “political theater” isn’t the putdown they think it is
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
“he wrote: “I thought it was quite normal to take a break from writing at two in the morning, saunter down to the piers, and have sex with 20 men in a truck”
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
chat what would postcolonialism say about King Charles giving a Canadian land acknowledgement the same week Brigitte Macron slaps her husband on a Hanoi tarmac?
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
so crazy how the 1960s were 300 years ago
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Has any US administration so nakedly manipulated stock prices (individual and index) so consistently?
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Do opposition pols in places where resistance has a spine (Serbia, Poland, etc) send sassy little impotent fundraising emails, too?
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I think we need to bring back the sea shanty craze but this time for union songs. I want 500 TikTok covers of Process Man
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
At this point he’s pushed governments leftward in Germany, Canada, and Australia, so why not the Vatican, too?
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“The eggs are broken, and the habit of breaking them grows, but the omelet remains invisible.” —Isaiah Berlin
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As an English major, I wonder if there’s anything to be made of the explosion of democratic movements around the launch of the printing press, followed by the explosion of authoritarian movements around the launch of algorithmic feeds. But only polls, not poems, are politics, of course.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
May Day got this agitated fasho egg all in his feelings
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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 01/05/2025
I want to be super clear. The United States has a responsibility to go get every single person they have deported to foreign concentration camps and bring them back. That is the just and humane thing to do. Any politician not willing to say that is not worthy of service.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It’s always so weird to see Mike Pence say anything other than “he tried to have me killed.”
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Opinion | Mike Pence: What the 47th President Can Learn From the 45th
Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Nvm
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Trump admin's record of direct interventions in elections: —JD Vance & Elon tried to boost the far-right in Germany. Other parties doubled down on a strong barrier to it. —Elon broke all records in Wisconsin. GOP lost big. —Trump's arrival & repeat boost of Tories... caused a Tory collapse.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How’s that focus on free trade instead of woke working out for WaPo?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
we need to elect this man as our mayor
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Americans (likely voters, to be precise) support impeachment by 52% in our most recent survey. This includes 55% of independents. And the plot thickens when you look at how they responded to other questions...🧵
Responses to survey question "Several members of Congress have recently come out in support of impeaching President Trump for violating Americans' constitutional rights and the law. To what extent do you support or oppose President Trump being impeached?"
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Threads is like: BREAKING: Joe Biden drops out of US presidential race.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Did Poland arrest judges, or just change how appointments worked?
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
(this is for exactly three people on this website *cough* #theatresky and I need them)
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
For Artistic Director Odin had two ravens: Dramaturg and FOH Manager
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
wow idk what I thought Mama P looked like at this point but I wasn’t ready for this
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
wow WSJ in their *feels* today
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“hoaxsters”
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
am I crazy or did America make more money “being the center of the global financial system” than “manufacturing”???
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What are the best books on Vichy? #booksky #historysky
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
not giving the people of Sparta any amenities until the Industrial Era
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
is that good?
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Thinking about NYC, has anyone combined the loss of tourists with the removal of migrant housing vouchers/programs? Gonna be devastating for what’s left of Midtown et al.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We have completely lost the meaning of “performative” as linguists & philosophers use it. Performative speech is language that enacts real change – so Van Hollen’s action was arguably performative, & that is good. But now the word is often used to denote an empty performance, the opposite meaning.
A Bluesky post: “Senator Van Hollen’s commitment to the Abrego Garcia case isn’t performative. Wearing an overnight maxi pad on your ear after an “assassination attempt” is performative.”
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
General Eisenhower famously became president after WW2 by waiting for the midterms to mount a defense and listening to both sides.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
NYC diaries: Going to Drag the Musical on Monday because the DSA town hall with Mélenchon is sold out.
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Bessent leaked this. He’s trying to show markets there’s an adult in the room—sometimes!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Jesus Christ has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
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Tennessee Williamsburg @oakmilk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
lol they’re trying to ctrl-z Stalinism
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