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Excellent news.

Higher Ed needs to find as many ways as possible to fight back against this administration’s attempts to destroy it.

She is the cutest floof!

A painting of a fluff ball of a black-capped chickadee, in white, black, and pink, against a swirling pink background.

I shopped locally yesterday and brought “Maude” home with me from The Bird Gallery in Wiscasset.

This painting makes me so happy! #chickadees

Artist: Rachel Altschuler

Was just reading a novel snuggled in a cozy blanket and the hubs brought me a cocktail and a plate of cheese.

Reader, this is why I married him.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

Yes, please.

And woodsy walks. And a nap.

Absolutely not. We’re going to eat at 1pm, which leaves the rest of day open for a full slate of football and leftovers.

Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Tourists at National Parks

WTAF.

Because what all travelers really love is waiting in even longer lines at park entrances as staff try to figure out who is a “foreign” tourist.

Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Tourists at National Parks www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

This is the way.

Let’s talk the real #history of #Thanksgiving & the #LostCause history of the #CivilWar Follow @karencoxhistorian “Forgotten America” is available on @thegreatcourses plus & @Audible TikTok video by PhDRachel

Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️
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Gorgeous!

There are so many things to be angry about right now, that I find it especially egregious that the film “A House of Dynamite” was so infuriating. Et tu, Bigelow?

#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...

With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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late-breaking contender for the word of 2025: lizza, verb

lizza’ed, lizza’ing.

transitive verb

1) to sully one’s own reputation while sullying someone else’s reputation, but doing greater damage to one’s own reputation.
2) to suck, generally.

Ooooh, love High West Campfire! 🥃

Woot! Happy Book Day, @timgalsworthy.bsky.social!

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Ha!

Clearly, they want to make a lot of cheddar.

Trump’s comments are vile. I am just as angry at the media outlets that bothsided Jamal’s murder, wrote puff pieces for MBS (Atlantic).

And, the Washington Post opinion page that dismantled the platform that Jamal wrote for, ended the fellowship in his name, and purged its human rights writers.

Notebook!

The NYT feature noted that the press pushed the pub up by 3 weeks (so she would not compete with Cheryl Hines). That's not a ton of time, but maybe they skipped a copyedit or three?

The answer is coming from inside the question.

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I stopped giving money to Harvard years ago because of their consistent policy of doing almost nothing to punish proven sexual assaulters and bullies among the faculty.

At most, they will announce that he is "on leave" in the spring. He'll still get paid, of course.

There is so much ick happening in this piece, and Summers’ behavior is disgusting and enraging.

Kudos to Patel and Srivastava for excellent reporting.

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

"there are about a thousand of us"

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