Casey Brienza @caseybrienza

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

Why would you doctor a photo to make a blank-faced woman look like she's crying? Doesn't that make her *more* sympathetic?

To a normie, maybe it does. IMO, the ghouls in the White House probably thought the sight of her suffering would be *pleasurable*. Defaming her was just a bonus.

03.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How much longer before "Independent Scholar" (read: unaffiliated) becomes a mark of honor and intellectual integrity instead of just a euphemism for joblessness?

29.01.2026 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

"Sociology faculty at Florida International University are outraged that their department is requiring them to use a state-approved textbook to teach an introductory course as part of the university’s general education curriculum." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

29.01.2026 10:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why no, you dumb American, you can't have gov't-subsidized healthcare! Don't you know how expensive extrajudicial executions of nurses in broad daylight is?!

28.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

World war wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. No matter how hard I try, I'm just not pessimistic enough.

08.01.2026 05:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas Gift Ideas For Anime Fan That Go Beyond Typical Merch Discover unique Christmas gift ideas for anime fans that go beyond typical merch—thoughtful, creative, and deeply personal presents they'll truly cherish.

This holiday gift-giving guide recommends my book, 'Manga in America.' Wild. www.alibaba.com/product-insi...

31.12.2025 15:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #Bestof2025
Gripping and fantastically written story of what happens when ordinarily venal people are given extraordinary power.

31.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong #Bestof2025
A quirky yet exquisitely readable story that makes “the other” emphatically one of us.

31.12.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inequalities of Platform Publishing by Claire Parnell #Bestof2025
If the findings at times seemed predetermined, well, the story Parnell tells is no less urgent.

31.12.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan #Bestof2025
Critics who say it's his best book in years aren't lying. Gorgeous, layered, reminiscent of the best parts of Atonement.

31.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No More Tears by Gardiner Harris #Bestof2025
Cautionary tale of what happens when the state fails to regulate capitalist greed in lifesaving industries. Feels personal to someone living in New Jersey.

31.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett #Bestof2025
Second installment of a murder mystery series in a fabulously built fantasy world. Oddly appropriate callbacks to Star Wars.

31.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inequalities of Platform Publishing Uncovering race, gender, and sexual biases in popular self-publishing platforms The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, t...

Recently reviewed for CHOICE. www.umasspress.com/978162534906...

09.12.2025 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wan, wintry quality of late afternoon light...

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Twenty+ years and half a lifetime ago, I was all alone in my adoration of the Berserk manga by Kentaro Miura. Now they stock the omnibus edition in the nearest Walmart.

And if it doesn't seem that surprising, it just goes to show how much US cultural expectations have shifted.

12.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So happy to have found this! A list of all of my academic book reviews for CHOICE to date: go.gale.com/ps/advancedS...

04.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As of this month, the Trump administration's policies have officially started making me poorer.

07.08.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Toxic empathy" is the prosperity gospel of the 21st century.

18.07.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thnx lisa

01.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unexpected - History Today ("the world's leading serious history magazine") - plugging Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics by @caseybrienza.bsky.social in its monthly The Reading List column.

Like so.

27.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rest in peace, little guy.

29.01.2025 04:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this comment on a NYT op-ed for real, or just trolling?! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

14.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on GOP chopping block The menu of potential spending offsets has been circulated by House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington.

2025: The year the US will take away healthcare from poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

11.01.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own. The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.

Today's NYT op-ed, wherein Chris Hayes says some important things about the media ecology and Trump's electoral victories that I've personally thought to be true FOR YEARS. Give it a read. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

03.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0