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Joseph Rezek

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English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/

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We are dads (loved Ken Burns Revolutionary documentary) and also gay (now watching Heated Rivalry).

07.12.2025 00:36 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Mayor Wu do your thing

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It’s a whole ven diagram! A perfect match!

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We are dads (loved Ken Burns Revolutionary documentary) and also gay (now watching Heated Rivalry).

07.12.2025 00:36 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
67 filled out on Mad libs page

67 filled out on Mad libs page

Doing mad libs and when I tell you they screamed when I said “number”

06.12.2025 22:36 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This took a turn

06.12.2025 06:00 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

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The onion just prints the news now

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University Of Southern California Layoffs Now Total More Than 900 Since July, the University of Southern California has laid off more than 900 employees, as it attempts to reduce a deficit that exceeded $200 million in Fiscal Year 2025.

I had somehow missed that USC fired more than 900 (!) people

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

05.12.2025 22:10 — 👍 82    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 5

*stopping a wedding guest

LIBRARIANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE!

06.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 78    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

Such a giant, such a loss. So many SoCal feelings

05.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
gehry, santa monica, around the corner from me for ages

gehry, santa monica, around the corner from me for ages

gehry venice, peak

gehry venice, peak

gehry minneapolis, water and titanium ripple play begin

gehry minneapolis, water and titanium ripple play begin

gehry dtla, enemy sun

gehry dtla, enemy sun

the things i have taught and thought and drafted of these buildings, the way they scaffold ideas,,,,

an acute loss, compounding jameson's

05.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

I am proud to announce that I have been awarded the Cracker Jack Peace Prize. The plastic ring is but a small token of the 14 wars I have ended and billions of lives I saved.

05.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 209    🔁 30    💬 19    📌 3

When the raccoon got home his dad gave him two Advil, a Gatorade, and made him rake the lawn. “I hope you learned your lesson, kid.”

05.12.2025 17:56 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sharp!!!

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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

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Opinion | How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men

I can think of one solution!

05.12.2025 14:42 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

However insane you remember The Tempest being, it is more insane than that.

05.12.2025 02:18 — 👍 420    🔁 29    💬 12    📌 1

Our plans are measured in centuries

05.12.2025 01:44 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

If I am watching TV with you I will always point out when someone is left-handed

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To be clear, it is also a patriotic documentary. Just one that allows for real misery and ambiguity to come through

05.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

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a group of cartoon characters are standing in front of a christmas tree and looking surprised . Alt: a group of cartoon characters are standing in front of a christmas tree and looking surprised .

Me watching Ken Burns murder Hamilton

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And like a Bat Signal, I really can't put off watching this anymore can I.

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I can write this up if anyone’s paying ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Ken Burns asks the brave question, what if women actually played an important role in the Revolution???

05.12.2025 01:29 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

“Here come the GenerAL” committing Indigenous genocide in upstate New York

05.12.2025 01:26 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Dude barely figures, first of all. And second, this “civil war” argument: absolutely brutal

05.12.2025 01:24 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Ken Burns really did kill “Hamilton” with this documentary, once and for all

05.12.2025 01:23 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 2

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