Anna-Lise Santella

It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.

Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.

BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history.

The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.

Pomodoro is the only reason I can still function in this environment

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

Yikes, hope you make it home in one piece!

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This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

My husband heard it and yelled “face off for the Blackhawks!”

There’s a soft spot in my heart for this one.

Much better than the one I grew up with:

While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All watching ITV,
The angel of the Lord came down
And switched to BBC.

finally meaningful bipartisan legislation

Image of the TIME book cover that says person of the year: Human Peer Reviewers

Hi I fixed it.

(seriously extremely grateful, always, for the HUMANS who peer review academic books)

YouTube video by Nor'west Arch The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame

RIP Raul Malo
youtu.be/QVcZALxO7f8?...

#BandcampFriday reminder. Musicians can use the support.

This is absolute perfection. And also, it Linda Shaver-Gleason would have loved this.

Photo of a medical ice pack reading Rester’s Choice—relieves pain easily

Getting my house prepped knee surgery recovery and why do medical supplies sound like they were branded by Homer Simpson?

Total chaos at all times

Nothing makes you feel like you’re back in NYC quicker than passenger pickup at JFK on a Saturday night.

Congratulations to Anabel Maler, whose book Seeing Voices, Analyzing Sign Language Music won SMT’s Emerging Scholar Book Award! @oupacademic.bsky.social

Author Thomas Forrest Kelly holding his book Melisma

Congratulations to Thomas Forrest Kelly on his new book Melisma @oupacademic.bsky.social !

OUP editor Norm Hirschy and author James O’Leary holding a copy of The Middle Brow Musical

Congratulations to author James O’Leary (and editor @normhirschy.bsky.social) on the publication of The Middle Brow Musical @oupacademic.bsky.social!

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

chart version of the info on the linked page

Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25