Mike MacDonald

White coffee mug with orange and pink Dunkin’ Donuts logo

I’m all in on Dunkin lately - it must be small town NH nostalgia

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Even the Black Panthers framed automation (context was Detroit autoworkers getting injured) as a workplace and dignity issue autonomy issue.

For anyone interested in sharing elsewhere, Knowledge Commons ( @kcommons.bsky.social ) provides a fantastic alternative: a scholar-run, open platform for profiles, an IR, and more.

The "Works" section would be a great home for everyone's deleted papers! hcommons.org

It’s MACDonald

Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them

Francis Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle

28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month 28 Films to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

What a list from @mayascade.bsky.social for the @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social!

blackfilmarchive.substack.com/p/28-films-f...

Same! I spite read very often

If Marx was alive today he would be really old

Sure but we should note: Homelessness rates increased quite a bit 1990-2000: The McKinney–Vento Act paved the way for service providers ... [But] In the 1990s … homeless numbers rose and remained high from 1990 to 1999 according to the "coalition for the homeless" webpage. (Wikipedia)

Sure but we should note: Homelessness rates increased quite a bit 1990-2000: The McKinney–Vento Act paved the way for service providers ... [But] In the 1990s … homeless numbers rose and remained high from 1990 to 1999 according to the "coalition for the homeless" webpage. (Wikipedia)

assemblage portrait of Queen Elizabeth II made of multiple materials including plastic flowers refuse, beads, Black baby doll parts including heads and hands, and skills embedded, hanging on museum wall museum text: Hew Locke OBE RA Born 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland Europa, 2007 Plastic, metal, fabric, and wood. Hew Locke creates this portrait of Queen Elizabeth Il from mass-produced plastic objects as part of his House of Windsor series. Born in the United Kingdom and raised in the newly postcolonial Guyana, Locke recalls being reprimanded for defacing images of the Queen in his youth. As the Queen of England for seventy years, Elizabeth symbolized imperial power-her image on currency and in textbooks, and her role in governing distant territories, some of which she rarely, if ever, saw herself. In this work, Locke underscores the postcolonial contexts that made this object portrait possible, including the global supply chains and inexpensive labor that make its materials widely accessible.

Hew Locke created this portrait of Queen Elizabeth Il from mass-produced plastic objects.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised in newly postcolonial Guyana, Locke recalls being reprimanded for defacing images of the Queen in his youth.

Europa, 2007
Plastic, metal,fabric, wood
Hew Locke OBE RA

Hell is too good for him

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Get your ass to MN then

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

Pats fan here and I hated Lew until I saw “cat dad.” Carry on lew 🐈🐈‍⬛

Attention all killer whales

The Inuit of Greenland: A Brief History, by Malik, published in Akwesasne Notes (1975)

Maye second half was a ⬆️ for me. I didn’t notice a ton of drops myself? Chargers Def also pretty strong in the first half but then pats def kept moving the ball as they’ve done all season

Doing this tomorrow. I’m no valued Hilton member but hey - might as well take up their time

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:

Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.

Please donate what you can.

www.2harvest.org

Update:
Minneapolis resisters have 350 of the 500 dash cams needed.
Its a practical way to help, if you are able.

From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...

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