Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Happy to report that my essay "Nanci Griffith and the Sound of Sense" has just been published by House House magazine. Reimagining Nanci Griffith's imagist genius - with some considerations of Frost, Yeats, and Amy Lowell. www.househousemagazine.com/nanci-griffi...househousemagazine.comNanci Griffith and the Sound of Sense | Tom Powell — House House Magazine 000
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A compelling account of the coordinated and systematic rightwing assault on Monticello. What Broke Monticello prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...prospect.orgWhat Broke Monticello - The American ProspectHow a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Yes, please. As the most interesting work being done becomes more and more transdisciplinary, the silos begin to look more and more silly and outdated. 010
Reposted by Tom PowellAgasgani @agasgani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Some of you are still posting about politics and I need you to understand that Bluesky is now a Cabo Verde stan platform thank you for your attention 142021331
Reposted by Tom PowellWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Democrats, and many non-MAGA folks, still don't realize that Republicans are playing for all the marbles. They're all in. If they can't get power, they will burn it all down. Trump is not leaving peacefully or legally. We have to prepare. 1142049607
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Your scholarship and your energy are worthy of great respect. Unlike the exploitative system so many gifted academics in this country continue to labor under. 110
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026“A half pound of prime matter, please, yes the unleavened if you would, oh and throw in a bag of those ontological parasites, there’s a good chap.” 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Idle question: why does anyone choose to be the “Never Happened” Guy? Related question about the “Well, Actually” Guy …. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026When my first child was born, the building super at work gave me a very good bottle of whiskey. I thanked him and asked what on earth I did to deserve it, and he said “you are one of the few people here who talks to me even when you don’t need something.” We are not doing our best. 010
Reposted by Tom PowellMark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 15/04/2026"You will be blocked in the order in which your bullshit was received." 1162
Reposted by Tom PowellAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14735699116896
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Isn’t that a lovely poem? I love imagining the mouse as a Homeric hero. 😁 120
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A resolute and intrepid little guy, to be sure! “And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea” …. 110
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Sartre Attic Greek Archery Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 17th Century English Poetry 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026We finally have our marching song. Please broadcast it as far as your voice can. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...youtu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 000
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025“Cognition bender” enters the lexicon … “… the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it’s an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.” - John Marshall, Talking Points Memo 000
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025About a half century ago when I applied for my job at an independent book and record shop in DC I was asked to identify Boris Gudonov. That was such a cool place to work. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I wonder if Trump’s new National Security Strategy reads better in the original Russian? 021
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 02/12/2025All across the country today some pretty great college students are raising money for Camp Kesem, a program for kids who have a parent with cancer. I would sure be grateful if you could help, either through this link or elsewhere. Thanks! donate.kesem.org/fundraiser/6...donate.kesem.orgKesem 2026{{MetaTags.description}} 000
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2025So do most of the Democratic power brokers, who still carry the Clintons’ water — and for this reason they will inevitably soft pedal their already lukewarm-at-best fervor to release the Epstein files. 020
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Just after they install half a dozen eight foot tall chocolate fountains festooned with golden cherubs. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025So now 135 pages of manuscript and I finally believe this will be a book. 020
Reposted by Tom PowellDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/12/2024NEW FOLLOWERS: you MUST have a profile pic (not neccessarily of yourself!) and/or a header image, a biog + a couple of posts or I'll assume you are a bot/troll/bad faith person and block you. Please do the *minimum* to show you're not a scammer! 2529223
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025O-o-h Child, by the Five Stairsteps youtu.be/dguz0IsCuKU?...youtu.beThe Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child (Audio)YouTube video by LegacyRecordingsVEVO 040
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Yes. I recall a thought experiment from grad school: if the universe will end momentarily, and the last thing you can do is press or not press a button that will allow one last flower to bloom for five extra minutes, would you press the button? A thousand times yes. 030
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Yes indeed. I am researching/writing about the parallels, which as you suggest are eerily close in a number of ways. I think that perhaps the English universities recovered in less time than ours may. 110
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025This is quite small, but I just picked fresh Greek basil and green aji rico peppers for tonight’s stir fry and am listening to classical music with an ever-hopeful Malamute while watching the sun set. 140
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Thanks, JSTOR, but I find that my Non-Artificial Intelligence Research Tool works just fine. Been using it for decades. 020
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I am delighted to report that my daughter is editing a new literary magazine that is already getting great reviews! Do please check out the debut issue - and consider making a submission. www.househousemagazine.comhousehousemagazine.com[ ] House House Magazine 020
Reposted by Tom PowellDr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social · 15/05/2025It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴☠️ Rules: like this post and be following me for 1 entry. Share this post for another entry! Winner will be randomly selected and announced at 9:00 am (ET) on Friday, May 23rd!media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with the words `` the opportune moment '' written on the bottom .Alt: a close up of a pirate Captain Jack Sparrow’s face while he speaks with the words “the opportune moment” written on the bottom. 48235
Reposted by Tom PowellThe Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Because this heartfelt story is so important, so vital in the course of our history and the pattern of this moment, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has very kindly shared it here in its entirety, as a thread. #IslandOfFlowers #IslandOfFriends #OldFox 🦊🧡 13113
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Thank you, Anne Louise Avery, for this gift. I stand in gratitude with the Stoat. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025So this country is in the hands of a malign, sadistic, narcissistic version of Chauncey Gardiner. Oh, good.us.country.country | HarmonyHarmony's .country domains allow a seamless transition between Web2 and Web3. You can use your .country domain for both traditional websites and decentralized applications, making it easier to access everything you need from one place! 000
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Seconded. Penzey’s spices are excellent and the owners are good people. I just placed an order yesterday for as much of their Trinidad spice as I could rationalize. Which is kind of a lot, not gonna lie. 010
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Yes, that seems entirely compelling. And so it is in part a way of banishing personal unease by “taming” the other? 110
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025There’s something deeply wearying to me about the laziness, and sometimes malice, of being reduced to just one aspect of ourselves and then being expected to live only and always in whatever silo that may be. The quiet fascism of ein Fach. 110
Reposted by Tom PowellDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This is how your email finds me. 11932126
Reposted by Tom Powell"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a *consent decree* on Columbia demonstrates. They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate. 544387
Reposted by Tom PowellJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity. 6746761326
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I suspect that friendships and even otherwise promising marriages have foundered over omelet philosophies. 110
Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is more trivial, but …. how to cook an omelet. Really, how to cook period. 110
Reposted by Tom PowellAnsley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Thrilled to see this collective approach, demanding that the 60 (now) targeted institutions work together and against anti democratic threats to higher ed. Sign! 13210