Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Huh--it's like Project 2025 is actually a thing. Who would thunk that Trump and his minions were lying about that? So out of character! 040
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025She is a hero, & we ALL need to hear this message and to see how to speak truth to power. It will almost certainly have no effect on its target audience, who has a blackened mass of dead worms where his heart should be, and it sickens me we have to plead for decency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...youtube.com1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar BuddeYouTube video by Washington National Cathedral 060
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Yes, we should point to the outrage of pardoning rioters who did grievous harm to police officers. But let's please not lose sight of the fact that even if no police officers had been injured, Trump just pardoned more than a thousand people seeking to overturn a fair democratic election. 040
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025 Our democratic republic is in grave danger. We need to figure out how to preserve it and to protect the most vulnerable among this. My hate for this woeful failure of a human being is just one smidgen less than my love for my country--I hate him in part BECAUSE I love my country. 030
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Not listening to The Great Bloviator. Saving my energy for the fight ahead. 020
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Sen. Reed is doing a fine job laying out why it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as SecDef. If only I were more confident that the truth of his awful record on so many fronts were sufficient to lead to his rejection by the Senate. 040
Reposted by Steve NewmanInternational Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴 🌐youtu.beWorking in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’YouTube video by IASSL 082
Reposted by Steve NewmanRebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...noaa.govWildfire climate connectionClimate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ... 12193967514705
Reposted by Steve NewmanMorgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this 597344217689
Reposted by Steve NewmanKellie Steinberg @kelliesteinberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025We can't get bogged down in every little thing he does and says. He's trying to burn us out and make us give up. 054
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I am NOT apologizing to the rest of the world for this grasping, corrupt, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, and otherwise-bigoted lunatic. ALONG WITH SO MANY OF YOU, I WORKED MY BUTT OFF TO STOP HIM FROM GETTING BACK IN POWER. But those who voted for him should. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...nytimes.comTrump Suggests Taking Greenland and Panama Canal by Force: Live Updates 120
Reposted by Steve NewmanAnnastea 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ (Anna Na Maus) @annastea-p.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The French version of the Cass review. Make yourself aware of it and tell everyone. It even goes as far as to say that Cass is wrong. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...lgbtqnation.comNew French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ NationThe medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review. 25884199
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Well, at least there's ONE piece of good news on this dreadful day. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/n...nytimes.comRudy Giuliani Is Held in Contempt of Court in Defamation CaseRudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has failed to turn over his assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a defamation lawsuit against him. 010
Reposted by Steve NewmanMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget 9836011258
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025If you voted for Trump, you not only betrayed this brave veteran and police officer, you betrayed the American ideals he put his life on the line for. No policy difference, no philosophical position could justify this undermining of our most fundamental beliefs or processes. tinyurl.com/muxm6y58tinyurl.comAs Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed'A police officer defended the Capitol from violent rioters on Jan. 6. With President-elect Donald Trump poised to pardon the rioters, he now asks, "what did I risk my life for?" 130
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025If you haven't read Elspeth Barker's _O Caledonia_ (1991), I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a brilliant, brief novel that combines the Gothic and bildungsroman in a particularly compelling way--luminous natural history writing combined with razor sharp social observation. #Bookthreads 010
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I just got into a very unedifying 'debate' on Threads with a male TERF from the UK. When I asked him why he was so hostile to transwomen and not transmen, this was the response. Embarrassing and damaging incoherence and characteristic of the exchange on the whole. 020
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Utter, imperialist lunacy being normalized by a network watched by millions. Try not coddling the wannabe dictator so enthusiastically @cnn.com. 020
Reposted by Steve NewmanSeth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Right wing voters' capacity to believe that none of the horrors GOPers *promise to do* will happen to them is nearly limitless. Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone. 061
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024That face-eating leopard is gonna needed Ozempic. P 030
Reposted by Steve NewmanJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️🌈 1604469339095
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Recipe for a public health disaster: 1) Elect a destructive, narcissistic ignoramus openly contemptuous of anybody's expertise but his own "stable genius." 110
Reposted by Steve NewmanKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Trump is promising to create "a second-class tier of children who could be expelled with their parents as part of Trump’s promised mass deportations." Horrendous man, political malpractice by everyone involved to let Stephen Miller get a second shot at this. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...msnbc.comOpinion | One of Trump’s most vulnerable Day One targets: newborn AmericansThe president-elect's day one plans include an executive order to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship, rewriting the 14th Amendment. 313534
Reposted by Steve NewmanJason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQasecs.orgGeorge E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS 03224
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Brave and crucial work from @texasobserver.org. Particular thanks to the investigators Steven Monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social and Tristan Lee @trislee.bsky.social for their expert work! www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...texasobserver.orgRevealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X AccountsAnonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms. 030
Reposted by Steve NewmanAngela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Still time to book your tickets for what promises to be a splendid lecture by Professor Michael Gamer. Friday 13th December, Mappin Hall, Sheffield Uni @6pm. 052
Reposted by Steve NewmanJeffrey Doshna, AICP @jdoshna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024My faculty union, TAUP, is hiring a part-time organizer to work alongside our amazing full- and part-time staff. Please share to anyone looking for a higher ed labor job in the Philadelphia region. unionjobs.com/listing.php?...unionjobs.comStaff Organizer - TAUP : Pennsylvania — Union Jobs ClearinghouseStaff Organizer - TAUP : Pennsylvania — Union Jobs Clearinghouse 043
Reposted by Steve Newmankenduque @kenduque.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Sending this out to the students of #KatyISD 053
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Mike DeWine and everybody supporting this bill are reprehensible bigots punching downward to make life harder for a vulnerable group of people just trying to live their lives. Trans people I know are super-tough--they have to be to survive such poisonous stupidity. But they shouldn't have to be. 110
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I am sure I am not the first person to say this, but "me, too" means the fucking opposite of "Yes, I also sexually harassed or raped a woman or am so.ehow complicit in such actions and am thus an excellent candidate for The Filth's cabinet." #Trump'sCabinetofHorrors 020
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024This is one of the security lines for the Philly Half Marathon, 10 mins after start time. Luckily, we picked another fate for Sasha and he got in on time. But real logistical fail here. 010
Reposted by Steve NewmanJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...propublica.orgGeorgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two DeathsIn a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs... 15377934500
Reposted by Steve NewmanThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/11/2024Leak the report. Pass it on. 13548179018859
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The McMahon nom is just more evidence that he is out to wreck any system that opposes his willfully ignorant, cruel view of the universe by putting people in charge contemptuous of the missions of the agencies they are leading. _Idiocracy_ an optimistic forecast. 020
Reposted by Steve NewmanRhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Well, this is a very good idea! @scottlyall.bsky.social and I would be happy to see your submissions on any aspect of Scottish literature for the peer-reviewed Scottish Literary Review. All welcome! Find out more about the journal and @scotlit.bsky.social👇 and asls.org.uk/publications...asls.org.ukScottish Literary Review – Association for Scottish Literature 063
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This was an odd movie to be taken to as a seven-year-old. But I decided to make it theme of my life. I mean, it was either that or _Star Wars_. I think I made the right choice. 030
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n... There is no bottom to the greed and cruelty of these oligarchs. But they are mitigating this in the arch-conservative 5th Circuit. So this outrageous suit stands a chance.npr.orgAccused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor boardSpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize. 110
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Happy to be here! English prof at Temple specializing in 18th c. British, esp. Scottish, former President and active member of my local (TAUP/AFT #4531), proud father of a son and queer daughter, fortunate husband, unapologetically Jewish and anti-Occupation, novice birder, Duke alum (T'92). 292
Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The NYT just called the House for the GOP, and the difference in one of those seats (CO-8) was attributable to one candidate running to dismantle the two-party system and another as a pro-Peace/pro-Palestinian advocate. Excellent work! 🙄 030