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English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.

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Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

13.03.2026 19:50 👍 61508 🔁 11576 💬 1800 📌 487
Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

10.03.2026 12:13 👍 172 🔁 38 💬 9 📌 0

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

05.03.2026 15:13 👍 4214 🔁 965 💬 63 📌 21
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She fucking nailed it. 😆

25.02.2026 18:33 👍 9077 🔁 1561 💬 210 📌 106

I don't demand polish but woe be unto you if your talk runs long.

15.02.2026 18:28 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
TPUSA halftime performer Lee Brice took a heroic stand against country music's trans cartel
TPUSA halftime performer Lee Brice took a heroic stand against country music's trans cartel YouTube video by The Daily Show

This is kinda funny but one addendum to Jon Stewart mocking this guy for being brave and unique for standing up to the Trans Cartel of country music is that the culture war within the Nashville scene is actually very interesting youtube.com/shorts/9M42e...

14.02.2026 20:32 👍 65 🔁 8 💬 8 📌 1

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all.
The system does not hold people accountable.

11.02.2026 17:05 👍 1293 🔁 411 💬 5 📌 12

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

08.02.2026 04:42 👍 10250 🔁 1654 💬 113 📌 65

Just heard back from DHS on why they abruptly expedited Ramos' asylum hearing:

“These are regular removal proceedings. This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process."

(This is not standard procedure.)

06.02.2026 19:49 👍 1341 🔁 210 💬 21 📌 16

remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”

29.01.2026 02:29 👍 5423 🔁 1071 💬 61 📌 19

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

26.01.2026 19:54 👍 1138 🔁 144 💬 17 📌 4
User @backintimeag: 
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

25.01.2026 22:21 👍 14138 🔁 2621 💬 102 📌 105

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

22.01.2026 19:52 👍 2230 🔁 774 💬 16 📌 13

ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols.

It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).

They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.

20.01.2026 19:53 👍 252 🔁 88 💬 5 📌 2

Someone said mean things to me and now I’ve got internal bleeding, this sucks

14.01.2026 20:59 👍 122 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 2
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This dude rules

15.01.2026 03:32 👍 11120 🔁 2754 💬 325 📌 548

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

14.01.2026 02:09 👍 9426 🔁 2279 💬 66 📌 52

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

10.01.2026 01:47 👍 38592 🔁 12309 💬 1809 📌 821

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.

They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

07.01.2026 21:47 👍 4233 🔁 1230 💬 55 📌 55

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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06.01.2026 13:23 👍 3770 🔁 2222 💬 66 📌 178
AGAINST AI -

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term

you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:

we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

04.01.2026 14:59 👍 214 🔁 86 💬 6 📌 3

I went to bed in 2026 and woke up in 1898.

03.01.2026 16:55 👍 234 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 2

One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.

31.12.2025 18:03 👍 1049 🔁 127 💬 23 📌 18
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JD Vance’s statement is an echo of a Klan leader in Florida, who declared in 1990: “Why should we apologize for being white?” 4/6 🧵

22.12.2025 15:32 👍 237 🔁 85 💬 5 📌 1
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Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

22.12.2025 23:28 👍 760 🔁 346 💬 16 📌 18

I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.

19.12.2025 20:47 👍 1164 🔁 108 💬 32 📌 8

Some of those pages are so redacted you’d think Parson Yorick just died

20.12.2025 00:22 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 3

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

09.12.2025 14:20 👍 5498 🔁 1191 💬 104 📌 44
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Senator Murray Condemns Egregious Use of Force by ICE as Constituent is Mauled by Attack Dog, Demands Release from NWIPC to Receive Appropriate Medical Care - Senator Patty Murray ***(WARNING: Graphic Content) Photos of Wilmer’s injuries, photos of Wilmer and his children, and partial video of his detainment are available to the press HERE*** Washington, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Sen...

There’s no telling how many similar stories are not being told for fear of retaliation.

By now, everyone should realize Trump is not going after violent criminals or the worst of the worst—he is terrorizing everyone, including U.S. citizens, and their loved ones.

06.12.2025 02:41 👍 2960 🔁 797 💬 83 📌 23
a combination urgent care and taco bell

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

04.12.2025 03:17 👍 22718 🔁 4418 💬 62 📌 427