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Tita Chico

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Prof of English @ U Maryland *Devices of Enlightenment* (current) *On Wonder* (Cambridge '25) *The Experimental Imagination* (Stanford '18/'20) Fellow @ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Amsterdam https://titachico.wixsite.com/home

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My review of Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life by Mary Helen Washington! Thank you @Yale University Press for the gifted copy! #bookreview #paulemarshall #maryhelenwashington #bookish TikTok video by Nico

Great review of the Great Prof Mary Helen Washington's new book, *Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life*, @yalepress.bsky.social

13/10 recommend!

www.tiktok.com/@overgrindni...

03.03.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in honor of beauty in the world with thanks to @liederfollower.bsky.social

03.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh, oh, oh! you have brightened my day! thank you

03.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes on everything you say, including chef's kiss! πŸ”₯

19.02.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING and GOOD news.

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It can still be 2025, or 2024, if needed. I promise! (good luck!)

17.02.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 A fixture in civil rights and Democratic politics since the 1960s, Jackson was once close to Martin Luther King Jr

Rip Jesse Jackson.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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17.02.2026 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

please appreciate the strategic adjective modifying "deadline." 😱

16.02.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

and with that 'click to send' just now, yours truly has met her final scholarly deadline for 2025!

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16.02.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

This painting depicts George Washingtion with bottom of face and chest covered by cascade of shredded paper.

The name of the painting and the document refer to an ad Washington placed for return of Ona Judge.

Absconded from the Household of the President of the United States, 2016
Titus Kaphar

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The conservative centers have same issue. Students aren’t particularly interested in them. They wind up having money/power and no legitimacy. That would be a problem if they were trying to institutionalize their ideology, but they aren’t. They’re trying to pick the institution’s bones

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Prof Mary Helen Washington is at @politicsprose.bsky.social tonight!

12.02.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The false symmetry of Jewish-Arab partnership Under conditions of apartheid, binationalism requires Israeli Jews to relinquish leadership and join the Palestinian-led struggle for decolonization.

Highly recommend Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's piece:

www.972mag.com/false-symmet...

12.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am a superfan of @eleanormorton.bsky.social and just had a re-watch of this gem

"We have AI now"

www.instagram.com/p/DN7qbsmjI_A/

12.02.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.

I agree: we need leadership in higher education. Not legal counsel masquerading as leadership.

See this op-ed by Arne Duncan and David Pressman

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

11.02.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thank you.

10.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this this this this this this this (and more, but also THIS, says the woman whose life is wrapped up in eldercare)

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Statistician: oof! Tough crash there; skiers go up to 50 mph on the giant slalom

Poet: Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.

10.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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DC local news deserves better than Jeff Bezos Help us build our local newsroom, by D.C. for D.C.

Help us be the newsroom D.C. deserves: 51st.news/dc-bezos-was...

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Join The 51st The 51st is a worker-led nonprofit news source for D.C. Our reporting is rooted in our conviction that local journalism is meant to make people’s lives better β€” no paywalls, ever. But that's only…

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

04.02.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 584    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 35

I'm a subscriber of @51st.news

Will you subscribe, too?

05.02.2026 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

terrible

support the trans community

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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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Public executions will continue until the citizenry is silent.

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

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A man wearing a black-and-white patterned jacket with a red zipper sits in the back seat of a car, looking at the camera, with bright daylight coming through the window behind them.

A man wearing a black-and-white patterned jacket with a red zipper sits in the back seat of a car, looking at the camera, with bright daylight coming through the window behind them.

36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso.

The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3

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Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?

Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

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Heavily Armed Protesters Gather Again At Michigan Capitol To Decry Stay-At-Home Order Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been threatened online with violence by opponents who have organized another demonstration at the State Capitol on Thursday.

When protesters came to the Michigan Capitol, armed with assault rifles because they were upset about Covid stay at home restrictions you know how many of them were shot and killed?

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www.npr.org/2020/05/14/8...

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National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: β€œThe nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.

This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

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