V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My cousin Michael made it out of the WTC on 9/11 and helped others do so. He acted heroically. I wish that his heroism, the heroism of others, and the deaths of all those innocents, had not been debased by our using the attacks to justify the Forever War. 0120
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Went to Brazil this summer where the Association for Philosophy and Literature was kind enough to honor my book. There’s now recording of the panel available. DM for a link. Topics include: skepticism, impersonality, poetry, Stanley Cavell, postcritique, teaching, Larry David. 051
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3 103131613223
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJoel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/04/2026Just finished this very rewarding read by @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social and can’t recommend it enough. The poems chosen to discuss are lovely to read, and the close readings taught me so much. 0145
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Moving my library and came across one I forgot about 140
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Didn’t think I could feel worse than when we invaded Iraq for transparently bullshit reasons 23 years ago. But I do. We have learned nothing. 1160
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsAnnulet @annulet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Annulet returns with Issue (9) and (10), a double decker that features the first iteration of our open folio "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025." So much is here for you to read. We're so happy to be back. 1145
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsDC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 15/02/2026CBP didn’t exist until the creation of DHS in 2002 as part of post 9-11 right wing fever dream. It became operational in 2003 and effectively has been a bastion of misconduct and human rights abuses every sense. Throw the whole thing out and start over. 2229100
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsLaura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A barn-burner essay from @manshel.bsky.social in the recent issue of ALH!!! “High School English and the Making of American Readers.” academic.oup.com/alh/article/...academic.oup.comHigh School English and the Making of American ReadersAbstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars 0318
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Mom turned up an end-of-term comment from my freshman year of high school 😬😬😬 180
Reposted by V. Joshua Adamsashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator 331628210
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsFrederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...twincities.comSt. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detentionNasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled 6823231107
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 985209898428
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026He really is doing all of it. 14864291967
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsMobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 14/01/2026At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state" 156139702015
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsElliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12/01/2026They keep saying this “didn’t you learn your lesson?” bit like murdering Renee Good was a flex and we’re all supposed to bow to their dominance. 241158275
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America. 8384559010819
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15898643121167
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsMadeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026Minneapolis. 22223955349
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted. 7664073812379
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason 421111872511
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it. Don’t miss it.chronicle.comThe ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology. 214969
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/01/2026“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” - Mark Twain 0288
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers 1154244385793
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJoel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/12/2025Thomas Merton, translating Chuang Tzu 0102
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I find it funny that Bari Weiss's new initiative is all about bringing SERIOUS DEBATE about IDEAS THAT MATTER back to television news, but the combatants are all podcasters or dudes like Stephen Pinker, who is being asked to weigh in on a subject very far outside his actual lane. 827226
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJoel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 20/12/2025Gorgeous new handmade book from Ange Mlinko and Foolscap Poetry www.foolscap-poetry.com 0121
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsDawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Chicago is having none of this administration's BS. 120198704119
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsDurrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year 206189954810
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Year(ish) in review: published a monograph, concluded a reading tour, read Hegel, took a good office selfie. 1180
Reposted by V. Joshua Adamserin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 15/12/2025one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true 5861270
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025"Die Hard is a Christmas movie" Die Hard is a nostalgic allegory in which the mythical values of the American frontier triumph over technofuturist global capitalism. Grow up 1124345
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsJoel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/12/2025George Oppen, doing his thing: 0144
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsContemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporariespost45.orgContemporaries – Post45Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver... 1239
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsHyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 2829
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards" 313554745
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 05/11/2025It’s a beautiful evening to be a democratic socialist 0290
Reposted by V. Joshua AdamsL @banalplay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025what terrifies these people most is that Mamdani started off in single digits and now he's got Staten Island magas liking his policy proposals. there's no role for the consultant class in an ecosystem where people run on principles 425038