Jesse Cromwell

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic The Root

RIP. D'Angelo was a genius. Voodoo is a sensual sermon about our wants, our sins, our needs, and our joys. It is a perfect album. And this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Uh huh...

Richly deserved Marcy! My grad class loved reading the book last year (even as it ran circle around us all!).

this is the shit i want to see

Freedoms Lost in Translation In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is not about one comedian who said something he should not have said. The Trump administration and its enforcers want to control your speech, your behavior, even your public expressions of mourning. You are not allowed to criticize the president’s associates. You do not even retain the right to remain silent; you must make public expressions of emotions demanded by the administration and its allies or incur its disfavor, which can threaten your livelihood. This is the road to totalitarianism, and it does not end with one man losing his television show.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

Ufff! And how!

Can we hand the Mamdani social media team the keys to all the DNC comms and lock everyone else out of the room?

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

that Alcaraz fake-dropshot, slice drive is so potent in this matchup

wrote about it in CHANGEOVER

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

Nah, he's a good guy and very active with other scholars.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

Any Senators here?

I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.

RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.

He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.

He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.

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Antczak, Konrad Andrzej ANTCZAK, KONRAD ANDRZEJ Departament d'Humanitats Colonialism, Gender, and Materialities (CGM) Tenure Track professor 2703 konrad.antczak@upf.edu ORCID PPC Konrad A. Antczak is a Venezuelan...

For all things early coastal Venezuela (salt pans in particular), Konrad Antczak is your guy. Lots of publications if you type him into Google scholar. www.upf.edu/en/web/human...

Very kind of you, Lou!

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Totally true. I always wish I could buy the ladies version of my tennis shoes. Way better combos.

Hell. Yes.

special place in valhalla for bartenders who take extra good care of kids, kings and queens, all of 'em

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Thank you for this. It's very level-headed. I'm forwarding it to my chair.

Me knowing everything this bard recites as I argue household temps in Mississippi with my kin.

Talarico on Fox: "If Republican policies are so popular, why do they have to redraw the maps before the election? ... this is like two football teams coming out of the locker room at halftime and the team that's ahead says they want to change the rules for the second half so they can win the game."

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.