Matthew L Reznicek

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

Did @jvl.bsky.social file this?

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

NEW: U.S. District Judge April Perry's 51-page written opinion in Illinois v. Trump is in.

Full opinion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/6d/6a/8d3a44...

a man stands in front of a sign that says ' sutton ' on it Alt: An older white man with white hair looks perplexed while saying “Great Scott”

The new U of MN strategic plan “Forward to the Future” was announced this week. And the only thing it’s missing is this guy

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

"In his tearful farewell speech, excerpted in the Graham documentary, Nixon seemed to convey the self-knowledge—the shame—that he had blown it. But shame is no longer a factor, much less a defining factor, in public life."

We few, we lucky few, we band of ribbits

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops

Good thing Americans don’t buy a lot from China. Otherwise prices might really skyrocket.

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

The few, the proud, the amphibious

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

"Weiss’s triumph is owed ... to a president’s abuse of power to trample [liberal] values and strong-arm his critics," writes @cathyyoung63.bsky.social.

"Someone who holds true to core journalistic principles would have spoken out against those tactics. The Free Press has largely remained silent."

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025 Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE CONTRIBUTORS Shinjini Chattopadhyay Joshua Brorby Tim Clarke Yasmin Akhter Chandrica Barua Philip Tsang Stefano Evangelista Bassam Sidiki Caylee Weintraub Giles Whiteley Tom Crewe Kate Hext Megan Girdwood Neil Sammells

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2

CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads: VIVE LA RIBBITSTANCE

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

New reading of Heaney's Death of a Naturalist just dropped

My money is on Meursault for the next PM

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Bari Weiss evokes Musk, demands CBS staff tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’ ‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

“We’re all being DOGE’d,” a CBS News journalist told The Independent. “And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.”

The source pointed out that Weiss has made it clear “she wants to bring her own people in,” all while “layoffs are coming.”

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

a woman in a white dress is dancing on a stage with gears in the background and a caption that says what is this feeling ? Alt: a woman in a white dress is dancing on a stage with gears in the background and a caption that says what is this feeling ?

Me to my inbox today

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

Very excited to start a new Winter Lecture Series with the fantastic @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social discussing the letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots 🪶💌👑

Registration details below!

Editorial: Book bans harm students’ education Students can benefit from learning about experiences different than their own.

I'm in the newspaper again!

(I did not write this editorial I'm just quoted in it) www.theshorthorn.com/opinion/edit...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like? What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

Yesterday, @jvl.bsky.social wrote about late-stage capitalism. Today, he wrote about late-stage democracy.

Read the latest Triad, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...