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And the library infrastructure for print books continues to crumble. No more binderies, no more distributors. Getting pretty bleak!

this is already a huge problem, and it’s about to get much worse as the economy goes into recession

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443 Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

The collective action that thee nine universities need to take is to unequivocally reject the compact.

Danielle Allen, who is a wonderful and thoughtful person, seems to be imagining possibilities for good faith negotiations here that plainly do not exist. The government does not share her goal.

This will not happen unless the mayor directs CPD to arrest ICE in violation. At this point, he will discover why it is a problem that the CPD does not answer to the mayor. If only some well-organized movement in 2020 had pointed this out.

sneaky lil action of white dominance is hearing "step out of the spotlight for a sec" as "never talk again you're worth nothing" literally not the same thing

Step Out Of The Spotlight For A Sec remains good practice for us Good Smart White Kids, we will be fine

get bigger or get bitter are the choices on the table and there's only one of those that leads to greater life for all so come on you roving gamblers

Oh!

This isn't about that but I listened to the TMC/EK episode this weekend and all I could think was that Klein is an A student whose classes did not prepare him to understand or think about this moment but who cannot imagine any other kind of knowledge.

A government job. Part of why we need to politically fight for a government (instead of privatization) while reimagining what public work is.

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

"The project—[Weiss'] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new *liberal*media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." The dream of Marty Peretz on far grander scale.

It must be that using metaphor is a kind of seeing that permits double vision and extends it. Roadside bush clover, beloved of bees, covered in tiny white flowers—is exactly what it is. From Pointilisms by Éireann Lorsung in her new collection Pattern-book

my eyes are full of this—simultaneously dazzled and opened wide

Close-up photo of a page of poetry. Text is "Bramble Cutting" by Éireann Lorsung. 8 couplets. Begins: "Five-petaled, milk-white--say/thin as milk, as wholesome:"

Admiring this one by Éireann Lorsung again this morning. What an ear! Sights and sounds, mind all engaged. Love it.

Oh that's so lovely. Thank you for telling me. Those two poems really are meant to be read right together and Dickinson is part of the Big Why

The GRA was passed in 2015 with very little fanfare following years of courageous campaigning by trans people. We have yet to see any negative ramifications in society - and we won't.

We simply *cannot* have a President of Ireland who speaks about trans women or their human rights in this way.

The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has always been, about labor protection.
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Normally I’d say just wait for the outcome but with tension such as this I think even us everyday people need legal details. The blow-by-blow of the national guard hearing just completed. (Thanks to Anna Bower.)

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This seems like a guy who bent a lot of rules, including immigration laws, while also being a successful leader. If he was in tech we would have several tomes written about his rise and grind/move fast ethos

GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Actions Against Professor Cheyfitz Violate Academic Freedom, Faculty Governance and Due Process The Cornell AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom writes against Provost Kavita Bala's non-compliance with a unanimous Faculty Senate decision vindicating Prof. Eric Cheyfitz of alleged discrimination in...

“The Cornell administration’s actions violate Professor Cheyfitz’s academic freedom and due process rights under Cornell’s policies and under the principles of the AAUP. But it is not too late for the Provost to rectify the situation.”

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.”

The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

Can any of my academic or philanthropy friends help me with a couple grant questions I have please 😭 I’m getting confused on what an indirect vs direct vs consulting cost is for budget

On September 17th I bought 100 whistles from one seller for $23.03. They are now charging $120.88 for the same 100 plastic whistles.

Please keep posting links to cheap whistle options you find. Others will use them.

SIMILE How does a simile work? -Place something next to something and say, here. (The here is where the somethings touch.) The rainy night, like Debussy. There on the shelf, a piece of grapevine in a blue vase. The world is so much like itself it can be hard to see. Tomorrow I will try again to understand: what is a simile? All night, all day: the rain comes in vertical lines, then horizontal lines, like a drawing made on the world I can perceive. How does the simile do whatever it is it does to us? The world is touching the world itself and touching me. My hand, this pencil making all these marks. A drawing of the world that is the world, that I can make. That's making me.

"The rainy / night, like Debussy." is a perfect break in a perfect line, to me

Éireann Lorsung, from Pattern-book

Photo shows the cover of Pattern-book, by Eireann Lorsung.

"Walking the meadow, there is little
to want but walking, and
a meadow." -- Eireann Lorsung

Oh! Thank you so much

3 people hospitalized after apparent Edisto Beach house fire, SLED investigating Three people were transported from the Town of Edisto to a local area hospital as a result of a fire on Saturday, a spokesperson with Colleton County Fire-Rescu

While eyes are on the goofy ass plan to terrorize citizens across the country with federal troops, the house of a South Carolina circuit court judge caught fire yesterday.

Diane Goodstein blocked the DOJ’s attempt to get voter data last month.

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