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🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
How Isaac Asimov Inspired a Star Romance Writer’s Swoony New Novel www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.
The only AI I tolerate. Talking dog mini podcasts (!) are my favorite unguilty pleasure. Two pups talking. The Dogpack: www.instagram.com/reel/DVwFFkR...
maybe I'm a fellow ego freak, but I feel the same way. Also v annoying when I've just concluded an interview (a thing I've done for 35 years) and it wants to shove a summary of what was discussed in my face. No, for that I have this thing above my neck called my BRAIN.
This!!!!
Maybe I just have a big ego (no maybe about it), but when I’m in various writing applications and am inundated with buttons that beg to let some uninvited AI parasite to “Write” “Revise” “Polish,” my only thought is: You wish you could do this as well as I do.
It’s amazing. This topic is apparently the most polarizing thing in america since you know who got elected president.
The best picture race has been so nuts that I’ve been flip flopping every single day on who’s winning best picture.
I spoke on @bmluse.bsky.social’s It’s Been a Minute on NPR with Nadira Goffe about the state of the race.
Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏
This morning I felt like I’d been punked when I woke up and saw the time on my phone. And I did not remember about the shift.
Sixty-one years ago today, on Bloody Sunday, Alabama law enforcement attacked peaceful civil and voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They broke John Lewis’s skull. 🗃️ #EduSky nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
We are all going to HAL
As someone who had great (rigorous and moral) religious schooling early in life this drives me crazy.
Quite an opening paragraph.
Daryl Hannah responds to her depiction in Love Story with a the New York Times oped. Honestly good for her on bravery and calling out the bs in this venue.
As someone who teaches in Florida I’m really not sure what to do with this.
you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."
Election Live Updates: A Record-Setting Texas Senate Primary Goes to the Voters www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the war against Iran was ‘not going to take years,’ as the conflict widened with Israel attacking Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Iran hitting Gulf states that host US bases. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4tW44U6
Well said!
Sorry but Yasmin’s soul has been dead for a while. She’s like a zombie who will not stay down. Amoral. Predatory. The millennial Lady Ghislaine. I like #Industryhbo but I don’t get why this is supposed to be ambiguous.
She’s Gotta Have it. 1986
Born 99 years ago today.
The US and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades. Trump's biggest foreign-policy gamble comes after he campaigned for re-election as a 'peace president' and after saying he preferred a diplomatic solution to the Iran standoff reut.rs/4clLkHk
As others have noted, this is on the White House website:
Me watching Bridgerton:
Ominous. Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...