Caitlin G. DeAngelis

"Dolls! Real American dolls!"

We've got some prejudice from the white truckers directed at the Black truckers, but also some budding friendships.

And Red has history with the new lieutenant. Tension! (Checking to see if there are any fics for this film . . .)

"I'm fed up with promises! I want gasoline and gasoline and more gasoline!"

movie poster for The Red Ball Express in bold primary yellow, blue, and red, showing soldiers and military trucks from WWII, along with actors: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Judith Braun, Charles Drake, Jacqueline Duval, Sidney Poitier, Hugh O'Brien

I have a cold, so I am snuggled up on my couch ready to watch Sidney Poitier win WWII through the power of LOGISTICS!

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

The paperback version of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution.

My book, The Contagion of Liberty is coming out (in January) in paperback, and I got some preview copies of this cheaper, more flexible version with new blurbs on the cover!

For the 250th anniversary, it argues that American independence was only achieved through inoculation and public health.

One by one from a series of Bristol F2s.

Who can forget that combat jump in the Argonne Forest

Screenshot of message from UPS: Hi Adam, All import fees must be paid prior to delivery. Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied. Total Amount Due 119.20 USD Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes. Pay Now ›

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Lawyer (on left) talks to regime agents before they seize his phone at Terminal C

Regime grabs immigration lawyer's phone at Logan
www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...
#Boston #lawsuits

Our #bikebus is hosting local bike champion candidates for Council! So far we’ve had:

* Ned Melanson
* @councillorsiddiqui.bsky.social
* @burhanazeem.bsky.social (and Schools Cmte candidate Eugenia Schraa Huh)

Next week, @marcgov.bsky.social!

I care less about whether they sit or clap or whatever and more that they apparently shrug and say, "ok, boss, sounds legit" when Pete decides to murder another boatful of civilians.

For the life of me, I do not understand why Democrats have decided that the winning message is healthcare premiums rather than, "Trump breaks laws, so why would we help him pass a law he will definitely break?"

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “arme...

How, exactly, does this order get executed? When Pete decides to murder civilians in a boat, to whom does he give the order? To a general or admiral who was in that auditorium? A lot of people are talking about whether they clapped or not, but who cares if they are still willing to murder civilians?

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Elon Musk Fans Are Still Losing Ridiculous Amounts of Money to Crypto Scams

I FOIA'd the FTC for consumer complaints about crypto scammers who pretend to be Elon Musk.

People are cashing out their retirement accounts and losing ridiculous sums of money.

Snippet from James Graham's book of 1779, pronouncing, 'I have not got the finest, most complete, and most valuable collection of drawings of diseased eyes, perhaps in the whole world'

Weird flex but ok dude 👀

Trump posted an image showing Democrats like AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe and Jill Biden. The text: THE PARTY OF HATE, EVIL, AND SATAN pe The Democratic Party is Dead! They have no leadership! no message! no hope! their only message for America is to hate Trump!

Trump is posting up a storm on Truth Social right now

I am genuinely interested to know what center-right people think of this. Like, people who voted for Trump but don’t own any merch. What do they think when they see this imagery contrasted with the Dems in suits at the end?

Congrats!

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Nadine is correct and this Palestinian wants nothing, whatsoever, to do with you or your performative bs “solidarity”. You’re a repugnant rotter and a stain on our just cause. Our suffering is not your springboard to dismiss, excuse and “what-about” the legitimate pain, suffering and fears of Jews

This is a perfectly appropriate message in response to a horrific event, and the responses to this post are filling me with sorrow.

Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024 Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …

We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.

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It sounded good! I hope they find an agent!

fwiw, I think Covid does sound pretty relevant to the novel being queried, which is about whale-human relationships on the whales’ terms. It seems important to think about an abrupt/brief pullback of human activity in that context!

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

If this conversation interests you, go listen to the most recent episode of “The Shit No One Tells You About Writing.” The format is 2 literary agents critiquing query letters and first five pages. (The Covid discussion is in regards to the second query of the episode.)

Maybe it will take us time to appreciate the sharp specificity of works written during that time — "dated" as in extremely revealing about a particular moment rather than "dated" as in no longer relevant.