Matthew L Reznicek

The Iran War is a political lay-up for Democrats YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

this one is an easy shot to take, i think youtu.be/tg51rOJS7n8?...

Portrait of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) / Wikimedia Commons

On this day (201 years ago), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)’s death date.

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00026

#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD

It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.

I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.

But just not liking books? Who are you?

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim sues OpenAI alleging they could’ve prevented attack

Eight people were killed by 18-year-old in Canada, who had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPT

The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.

--Derek Mahon

WOOOOOOOOT! This sounds amazing.

Ugh the Taymor version haunted me for weeks

So why is Coons on record saying he'd vote to fund this disastrous escapade in Iran?

BREAKING:

The DNC is suing the Trump admin to try to compel the government to say whether it is planning to put armed federal agents or military personnel at polling places and election offices this year.

Who put sad Cillian Murphy in charge of anything?

Modern Language Association Call for Papers. TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES. This roundtable invites papers from educators at all levels who are working with dystopian texts or at restrictive institutions to share pedagogical, political, and interpretive strategies. 200-word abstracts due March 15 by email to alexander.manshel@mcgill.ca Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Call for Papers for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles. The session is titled "Literary Studies Beyond the Academy." What forms of literary study, critical inquiry, and bookish identity-making exist beyond university literature departments? How have readers in marginalized communities and the Global South developed para- or even anti-academic institutions of interpretation? 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

🚨Just 5 MORE DAYS to submit proposals for these guaranteed sessions @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Los Angeles!

(1) TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES

(2) LITERARY STUDIES BEYOND THE ACADEMY

Please get in touch with any questions + thanks for sharing!

Dr Deborah Russell explains why 'The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne', Radcliffe's first - and often overlooked - novel deserves a resurgence of critical attention!

Listen to the full episode here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi...

@angelawright1794.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social

Heads-up, Radcliffe / Gothic people: here’s the brilliant Deborah Russell on Radcliffe’s first novel, ‘The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne’ (1789). 📣

The lie here is "Pluralism is a lie".

IN 1900, the percent of Americans who were recent immigrants was only slightly lower than when Donald Trump began his 2nd term in office.

Those immigrants, back in 1900, did not "destroy`" the country; they helped make America the 20th Century superpower.

GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”

“Pluralism is a lie”
 
That really is the consensus on the Right: It’s all a lie, no one actually wants it, it’s all just a conspiracy orchestrated by globalist elites, it destroys the nation.
 
It’s the one thing that unites all the factions on the MAGA right: A rabid disdain of pluralism.

Why do so many AI loving academics hate thinking?

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

This looks like the Millais painting of Ophelia

ChatGPT is Psychology’s Marlboro Man Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.

ChatGPT is Psychology’s Marlboro Man
By Chris Dabbs & Audrey Scaer

Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.
www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/chat...

Who gets permission to enjoy their education? From GCSEs to university, expectations around “realism” vary by background. Hannah Rolley considers what this means for widening participation and students’ freedom to choose what they study From GCSE...

'Maintenance support tied to “priority courses” and proposals to withdraw funding from degrees deemed insufficiently lucrative, do more than shape university provision. They send a cultural message about which kinds of thinking are worth public investment — and for whom.'

Actually moving to Texas “to protect” itself from “shareholder abuse.” 😒😒😒

We are at The London Book Fair!

Come by our stand to meet some of the team and check out our books (we're at booth 7C40, right next to @independentpublishersguild.com 😊📚)

#LondonBookFair #LBF #publishingcommunity

A thought I’ve struggled to put into words: all the Mulligans, all the impunity, all the incompetence we’ve allowed ourselves as a nation were made possible by being a hegemon; we’re losing that cop’s immunity & we’re going to see consequences like never before

I totally get the financial pressures, but I can think of a zillion different ways we could solve this problem other than less school or compressed curriculum.

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳… | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD stude...

📣 New internship 📣
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO).

Applications close 1 April 2026. For more details, please see: shorturl.at/pdO1r

#18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

“Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?… A quick look at the three bookshops is telling: they are antifascist, they are proud of it and they are institutions in their communities.”

Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship
Rachel Jean-Baptiste
newbooksnetwork.com/multiracial-... - this was quite a fascinating listen! #historiesofcitizenship

The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse? | CNN Business The Trump administration is currently trapped between the specter of a global economic recession and a naval catastrophe.

This #1 article on CNN right now is a bunch experts strongly implying there is no way out of a global economic recession unless the U.S. Navy turns every shore battery and naval base in Iran into a heap of ash, at terrible cost in lives on both sides

www.cnn.com/2026/03/09/b...

Fuck these people