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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jim Jordan honoring Dennis Hastert with a decades-long moment of silence.

Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just started watching Women in Love for the first time and somehow I had no idea that the screenplay was written by Larry Kramer—yes, that Larry Kramer.

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

I feel like the GOP is just the American Chopper meme now

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun game: watch what happens to me when someone in my vicinity calls it “sacrificing your child” to intentionally enroll in a school community that serves a disproportionate number of low-income Black and Brown children You can see the smoke coming out of my head for miles

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

4) the elementary school experience described in the article sounds very different than ours. My fifth grader, who I could not be less concerned about academically, read the article and I asked for her thoughts: “My school is a good school”

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been reading & itching to talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones’s piece in the NYT all day. I wrote about my experience choosing a segregated Black & under-resourced public neighborhood school for my White kids (whose parents are both professors) in the intro to my book. tinyurl.com/NWCRead

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

RIP to Patricio Guzman, a giant of documentary filmmaking. If you haven’t seen it, go right now and watch Nostalgia for the Light.

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 09/09/2026

We now have a first-hand account of Conman’s batting cage debacle. It doesn’t disappoint.

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A man has trouble at work because his home is frequently occupied.

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A young man works unsuccessfully a series of jobs.

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As someone who studies modernism, what the fuck is going on with the bizarre reference to “high modernists” here?

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new book is officially out today! I'm posting just as we all learned that Dolly Parton has died. As part of writing this I deepened my respect for those who, like she did with the Imagination Library, take the genius and potential of all children seriously--no matter how much money they have.

Book dedication open on top of another book with the cover NEW WORLD CALCULATION that reads For all the children of Columbus City Schools, past, present, and future, including my own. Every single one of you is a genius.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In New World Calculation, Molly Farrell (she/her) tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking. ow.ly/ZptB50ZEXVb #ReadUP

Book cover of New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America by Molly Farrell

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Pretty surprising TBH: Breathless Le Petit Soldat A Woman is a Woman Vivre Sa Vie Les Carabiniers Contempt Band of Outsiders A Married Woman Alphaville Pierrot Le Fou Masculin Feminin Made in USA 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her La Chinoise Weekend

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Driving randomly around small town Ohio, see signs for “Little Switzerland”, stop in front of “The World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock,” it’s 1:58, and then this happens…

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Odyssey discourse is really making me happy that I'm teaching my Bad Reviews class again this year--where we watch classic movies and then read negative reviews of them. Just a joy to teach, and I'll have to add The Odyssey and Emily Wilson's review to it!

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Two gifts for you to start the week: a photo of my new puppy checking out my author copies hot off the press; and a coupon to pre-order my new book for 20% off. Please share! (The puppy hasn't chewed my books yet even though he has destroyed two library books so far. His taste skews historical YA)

Small brown and white dog with open mouth places two white paws on a table next to four copies of the same yellow and blue book

Flyer from Stanford University press with book cover and text and coupon to receive 20% off at ww.sup.org with code FARRELL20

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Curious if Christopher Nolan was thinking about Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians,” cause the Sea Peoples twist at the end of The Odyssey really reminded me of that poem.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Very grateful to Lauren Rankin for this essential history and for mentioning my work on Benjamin Franklin reprinting an herbal abortion recipe here. Side note, you can buy that very recipe at Colonial Williamsburg, which has John Tennant’s Poor Planter’s Physician on sale in the print shop.

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When I heard that Taika Waititi was directing the adaptation of Klara and the Sun I was … worried. And after watching the trailer, woo boy I was right to be.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Excited to see that my @slate.com article on Franklin's reprinting of a (very accurate! and explicit! for the time) herbal home abortion recipe appears in @byreginamahone.bsky.social 's article in @thenation.com. Her co-authored book Liberating Abortion is absolutely essential reading

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Gonna tell this take to my 7 and 10 year-olds when they’re done laughing uproariously at Duck Soup and Chaplin and Keaton films.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America comes out Aug. 25th! I'm excited to share this with you. I wrote about the lessons about sex, race, class, and power Americans have always learned when they learned to work with numbers. Pre-order here: tinyurl.com/newworldcalculation

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New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thinking back to 13-year old me crying myself to sleep after listening to the fourth quarter of Game 7 in 1994 on the radio. Go Knicks—never thought it would happen! Mets are next (though not this year alas).

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/06/2026

the ruling regime knows they are losing in ohio, so this is how they are lashing out. you can learn more about what happened and why it matters at handsoffohio.org

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HANDS OFF OHIO!

Federal agents raided offices connected to the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a leading Ohio voting rights organization. Learn what happened, why it matters, and how you can stand up for democracy and...

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Was checking to see whether the lineup for the Ohio State Fair was better than the “Great American State Fair” (it is), and stumbled on this—all the bands you’re embarrassed to admit you were vaguely into in 1994, in one place!

Gin Blossoms, Blues Traveler, and Spin Doctors. All your dreams can come true at the Ohio State Fair!

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

He was my graduation speaker in college, and my roommates and I were all cracking jokes about them choosing such an asinine retread. That was 23 years ago.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In another @criterionchannl.bsky.social miracle, they’re going to be showing the Guyanese film The Terror and the Time next month—I stumbled on it a few years ago on archive.org and it was the best film I saw all year. Check it out!

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Check out my friend Andy Heisel’s great piece about the history of the phone and panic (or lack thereof) over it in the Times.

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Opinion | The First Phone Call Was 150 Years Ago. Where Did We Go Wrong?

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Really hoping the Mets pick him up so I have lots of opportunities to perfect a baseball/Mulholland Drive crossover joke involving “No Hay Banda”

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Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

ICE has recently re-started detaining people after court hearings in Franklin County. Here’s a link to write an automated letter to the municipal Court judges to encourage them to restrict ICE from courthouses. act.commoncause.org/letters/ice-...