Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan

When we talk about America's secular religion, we are NOT talking about praying over the secular documents.

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Lovely. But what happened to all the mantelpieces????

I took psychic damage from this.

If I didn't already know, I could tell you're a dad just from this post. 😄

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.

Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.

A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."

I only just made it out.

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

Hey, show of hands: Who among y'all has heard of the Catonsville Nine?

***This question is asked purely for public history purposes, nothing more***

Yeah I heard the news at about 5:30 and I'm definitely still reeling.

Actually I wandered into the office and my husband said, "Do you want to hear the bad news?" And I said, after a groggy pause, "Are we at war with Iran?"

Well.

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No, nope, absolutely not, please take a long walk on a short pier.

My history department had a lounge with bookshelves and a big table, open to faculty and students (grads and undergrads) alike. One time I was studying and pointed out a misstatement to the textbook author, who was the prof sitting next to me at the table.

*considers booking flight to west coast*

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

They've figured out that their salary depends on people not knowing anything, which includes what they're doing.

(With apologies to Upton Sinclair.)

Cover of The Lancet:

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[sweary remarks on archival institutional websites that do not say where they are located]

I've bandaged my forehead and come back to say THIS IS WHY BUSINESS SCHOOLS WERE A BAD IDEA.

And on that note, I'm going to quit doomscrolling and get back to these manuscripts I'm reading so I can put together this presentation next month.

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We were sent home early from elementary school, I think, and I remember walking home as the first wave of snow started falling. Not impressive at first, but it was scary once it really got going.

For me, it hasn't beaten the Blizzard of '78.

Made pancakes for dinner, extra for the next couple days too.

... Oops, did I put them in the fridge?

You could stay in your kitchen and have fried chicken fingers in less time, no?

Revising. Still proud of the phrase "profligate appropriation of Native American words and cultural symbols."

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“Recover, Replant, Return”: Talking Nuclear History, Writing, and Food with Kate Brown - Public Books “Were people in the past like me, did they feel like they were in some historic maelstrom? If they did, how did they scrape by?”

Kate Brown tells the story of her project turning a transcript (purchased in a cloak and dagger transaction) of a top-secret politburo meeting with Gorbachev into a screenplay with footnotes—and the reaction of the historical review where she submitted it.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

It's a science fiction scenario. Probably Bridgeport and Stamford seceded from Connecticut but New York wouldn't take them, so the rail line has to go around them. 😉

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british