Jacob Babb

The cover of the book "The Legacy of Leatherface: Essays on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series" featuring Leatherface himself with his dirty and degraded mask of human skin and wielding a big chainsaw.

"My family's always been in meat." "The Legacy of Leatherface" traces 50 years of the Sawyer clan and their BBQ-lovin' lifestyle. Ed @shanehw.bsky.social w/ @realtopekapeople.com @jacobbabb.bsky.social and other contributors. New from @mcfarland.bsky.social.
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Glad that you'll be part of the panel!

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.

100% serious here.

Other than The City We Became, which is definitely one of them? I'd say China Mieville's The City & The City.

Hey, look at this great book! I bet smart people worked on this one.

Happy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day to all those who celebrate 🍖

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

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"Thank goodness we’re simultaneously experimenting on millions of students. This is a very good way to generate reliable data.

A large language model would have a hard time detecting the sarcasm in that previous sentence, but I hope it’s clear to my human readers."

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Basic fitness for writers No, seriously!

Wrote a thing because I want to yell at writers and anyone who works sitting down to take care of themselves. Thanks for reading!
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

So excited about this book! I just heard @kashana.bsky.social describe student loans as a way to punish the working class for trying to better themselves. Which is, obviously, why we need to do heists to get rid of student debt!

History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.

"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."

Republicans are stealing a North Carolina judicial race. They won't stop there. It's January 6 without the insurrection.

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I've always said it as though you just cut the "ic" off of rhetoric. But I always joke with my students that because I'm a North Carolinian (as are most of them, but still), it often comes out more like "rheter."

I've taught your first MB novella a few times in an undergrad SF course, and we've had conversations about how we as readers end up gendering Murderbot as we read, but because Murderbot never uses any gender-specific terms that our imagining can tell us more about ourselves as readers.

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Schumer a few weeks down the road, probably: “Okay, so he defied the Supreme Court. Big deal.”

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Which is why they want to destroy it.

Good time to remember that an executive order is not a law and that multiple other EOs of this corrupt regime have already been blocked by the courts.

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
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“Because what we are witnessing is not just an attack on academia or a set of fiscal reforms or a painful political rebalancing. It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist. We may not yet know its full cost, but we will feel its consequences for decades.”

Image of a text message where the No Surrender Fund asks for a donation to retake the House majority in 2026.

After I literally just said I wasn’t giving a dime to the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future, this text arrives. The nerve to ask for money after 10 Dem senators voted yes on cloture today.

Blake Allen on Twitter: “Be prepared for an eruption in base anger that Democrats have not really experienced in a long time if they give Republicans the votes for cloture. They are not happy with the direction the party is going, and it will be seen as a surrender to Trump’s impounding of funds/DOGE”

We want Democrats to play hardball and use their leverage to stop the Trump-Musk coup.

I 100% understand that.