Saw Palm literary journal display table at AWP conference
The Saw Palm team ventured forth from the depths of Florida to make an appearance at this year's AWP conference in Baltimore!
I'm serving as managing editor and fiction editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Saw Palm, a Florida-themed literary journal published by the University of South Florida. Submissions are open until October 1, 2025! Send us your best (or weirdest) work related to Florida!
Murkowski voted for every Trump cabinet nominee except Hegseth. She listened to the RFK Jr confirmation hearing and decided she was fine with putting him in charge of public health.
I don't care what she has to say. I care what she's going to do. And the answer, so far, is absolutely nothing.
The thing I hated about teaching history was the realization that students rarely learn about linkages and trends over time. Simply pointing out that a lot of the economic crisis of the 70s and 80s was due to other countries finally getting back up to capacity is mind blowing for them.
First genuine laugh I’ve had all day
Real takeaway here is that these are not smart people and things are getting out of hand.
They might as well be reading sheep entrails. I can’t believe anybody listened to anything these people had to say about the election last year.
Like, the fact that the markets briefly rallied based on a completely unfounded rumor on social media (which defied literally everything the administration said over the last 72 hours) is objectively insane.
My takeaway from this is that investors are idiots driven completely by the belief Republicans are good for business and Democrats are bad for business and are willing to act on any rumors or inclinations that confirm those priors despite any evidence to the contrary. apple.news/AZdZOz_rQThK...
As if we needed more proof, but the fact that the markets are wildly swinging based on online rumors should tell you everything you need to know about the “realist,” “clearheaded” thinking of financial experts.
There’s no greater tell that somebody is full of ahistorical bullshit than when they try to tell you they’re a “actually more of a Whig.”
Oh, you mean the party that was vaguely libertarian before fracturing into irrelevance because it couldn’t take a stand on the morality of slavery?
Listening to “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and I’m having 2 reactions so far:
1: I’d forgotten how unbelievably shitty Pat Buchanan was.
2: The fact that anybody took anything fucking William Buckley ever wrote seriously deserves to have their head examined.
Oh my god, this is absolutely insane…
As a former history teacher, I feel like we’re reaping the consequences of not teaching students that a huge factor in American economic success post-WW2 was the reality that the industrial and financial capacity of peer countries was literally destroyed in the war and took decades to recover.
The free pass this guy gets for comments like this is crazy. Carter was pilloried mercilessly for encouraging Americans to wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat during the 70s energy crisis and that earnest comment was a millstone around his neck for the rest of his life.
I’m sure plenty of people have said this here already, but just imagine level of media meltdown that would be happening if Obama or Biden said this after deliberating doing something to tank the economy.
S&P 500 down 223 points.
Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.
This is completely validating my belief that the Obama administration should have prosecuted the hell out of financial industry executives in 2009 and told the pearl clutching business lobbyists and pundits screaming about market confidence and the sanctity of contracts to get bent.
I hate the fact that Democrats chose not to pursue more extensive reforms post 2008 because they were afraid of what these people would say about them. It was all bullshit predicated upon their (correct) belief that Democrats don’t want to appear hostile to business. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
This isn’t being pointed out nearly enough.
House of Leaves randomly came up in one of my grad class this week and I was excited to share this bit of knowledge and rave about how good of an album Haunted is.
Who is responsible for this decision? 1992 called and somebody needs to put it back into the grave.
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
Good god, these people…
Good god, the quotes in this story betray a shocking level of magical thinking. None of these people should be managing anyone’s money. apple.news/AcaDSb7b9Ri6...
I really can’t get over how utterly bizarre it is to see the Speaker of the House having a full blown meltdown over a rule change that would allow new mothers in Congress vote remotely while on maternity leave, especially when the proposal is coming from a reliably rabid member of his caucus.
Yeah, at least Henry Ford had lawful evil integrity.
(Looks at poster profile)
Oh, what a shock. They’re a computer scientist. I never could have see that coming…
This is obviously disgusting and unAmerican, but if you lived through the post-9/11 era, this sentiment will sound very familiar. This authoritarian, anti-dissent impulse runs deep among many conservatives.
