relieved to see I'm not an unethical outlier in the replies! I strive to be an ethical actor! I can see why we value anonymity but sometimes non-anonymous feedback is really useful and generative, especially if offered with full transparency. idk.
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
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relieved to see I'm not an unethical outlier in the replies! I strive to be an ethical actor! I can see why we value anonymity but sometimes non-anonymous feedback is really useful and generative, especially if offered with full transparency. idk.
I'd write to the editor and say you know the author. If you prefer to recuse, yes, of course, opt out. If you think you can be a fair and useful reviewer, even so, I think you could ask the editor to decide, with full transparency. (This may be sacrilege but our fields are shrinking).
he's not beating the allegation that white men are terrible
Until I die, I mutter: nativism is stoked by nativists not caused by immigrants
We can do good things!
Stephens is bait and we all have things to do today
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
One lesson I’m holding on to from the early 1990s is: a fever can break.
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Now that it’s September my spouse is acting like it’s Kier, PE out here, he misses summer so much
It’s fiction—would be for fun and aplomb! 😂
Have you read Anthony Marra’s Mercury Pictures Presents? I enjoyed it, and felt it put me in the time and place
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Man fuck these brimelow ass white nationalists
I think every good shower is a miracle, and I am thankful for municipal water every time!
I love my city
Like freedom was an important lane in US political culture for kind of a long time, and nobody is even going to try to claim it now? Just grim order? Come the fuck on
And it’s Jeffries saying it to us 😬
It’s wild how quickly we are in don’t believe your own lying eyes territory
Be loud for America.
I love my babies so much I want them to grow up to be free
old enough to remember when a lot of people were willing to kill a bunch of people to prevent "learning loss" -- unless of course the politics of that moment was not actually about children's education
unlike national politics, Philly schools are full of people who give a shit, who give far more than a shit, and it's appalling that we are failing them and our children so badly.
You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
you either think self-determination should be the goal or you are an authoritarian
no don't do it they cannot enter your house unless you invite them
one thing the restrictionists really wanted was a temporary moratorium on all immigration because they assumed they could only win on "temporary" and also that they could easily make it "permanent" anyway excited for all these temporary authoritarian changes in our country
🤡 an electrical issue forcing early dismissal from school on what was supposed to be my own first full day of the academic year
ugh I love the set design of the 1980s, golden girls, who's the boss, a feast for the eyes, spaces that just feel like comfort.
that sounds good, thanks!
what's the correct range of number of sources students should include in a grad historiography essay?
Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.
"AI is mid" is really the politest way to explain my policy on the syllabus, Dr. Cottom is a genius
Thinking about how the characters on the abc family series GREEK (2007-2011) have more commitment to excellence and integrity than the vast majority of today’s political leaders
“I have to go now. My planet needs me.”
Probably a thing that is wrecking us more than we think is how private equity is destroying the end of retail?
Context collapse is a big problem
Why did I watch the vhs of a fish called Wanda so often before 5th grade? Nobody knows, it’s probably fine
During the pandemic didn’t we decide it should be happy birthday sung through twice
This summer my children finally let me swim laps at the pool, which felt very sustaining of my life and health
Great side effect of “going to the movies” being a thing everyone did all the time, we got a variety of interesting movies and families made weird but understandable choices
As if “branching out” is what’s needed for this powerhouse of community colleges, regional publics, state flagships, private liberal arts colleges and universities, rather than just … adequate public funding
Need to figure out how pumped to be about the new semester
Unfortunate that every possible future is filled with political violence since we are already steeped in political violence now.
Yeah but there would also be spontaneous celebrations on a scale I can’t imagine and many third children would be joyously conceived
Imminently
I wonder what it does to learning to have every adult in charge decide that nothing matters no one needs to learn to read or write etc
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
I don’t know all the ways it is transforming the experience of fandom, but the sudden rise of m sports betting (and fantasy?) has to be the most systemic change in how sports is consumed
He was a loser even when he was alive
I have fingers crossed for you that it gets sorted out in the next weeks as people figure out what is happening
Discogs told me the tariffs should not really apply to records
Sure but I doubt you can do better than stock room
This was a great hairstyle
The lies these people tell are terrifying for those of us who exist in reality
Spouse had seen the news but not read the statement so I made him read it at the playground
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
Signals got crossed
Rudy can’t fail 🎶
This is so so weird
I don't think I've used this word much, if ever, to talk about public policy. But some of the things being both said and implied about migrants are evil. And we should say that.
Is there anything the US manufactures like trauma
Congratulations!
Personally I don’t think we shouldn’t accept a status quo where US authorities can treat you this way even if you lack status and have a removal order. What if a deportation regime is incompatible with democracy for any of us?
Just hedging our grift bets!
All the businesses at the navy yard could be lumon
I can
Rehearsing is very important!
It seems like everyone enjoys conjuring an alternate reality now and then
Idk why so many people saw Hollywood depictions of dystopia and thought it was a roadmap
I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
The best!!!
Syllabusted
Even if the assignment was death… didn’t she leave her in the middle of it?
Omg
Fair enough! 😊 clearly would have been put to ill use in his case, had it been present
What I find most dangerous is the purchase wellness eugenics has across the political spectrum. A lot of people will clock Miller’s violence but quietly give credence to RFK because of deeply ingrained antifatness etc. it’s all the same eugenic project though.
I think it’s nice that we expect a person to have some positive characteristic, somehow (but no)
Americans voted for Trump II because they have been conditioned to expect major characters to have sequels
“Amateurs only”
❤️
I’ve just finished season 1 of severance, is there good writing I should read about the show that won’t spoil season 2 for me?
What’s changed maybe is there are fewer social costs to behaving rudely which means more people do it and it becomes even harder to conjure shared expectations about polite or kind behavior
I was recently on a crowded Amtrak and asked if I could sit in an empty seat and the guy was just like: no. I don’t know that it’s generational but shared spaces in 2025 have a lot of profoundly antisocial behavior? Like an absence of shared norms hitting a million iterations of anxiety and contempt
Excuse me but hydration matters
I’ve never been in charge of anything but I think you can
If you think this is an inadequate response from @rweingarten.bsky.social about her partnership with OpenAI, please call the AFT, ask for the president's office, and tell them to STOP PUSHING "A.I." INTO SCHOOLS. (Pls be nice to the person answering the phone.) 202-879-4400
Sometimes I teach students about the 1944 Philadelphia transit strike, in which white workers imperiled the war effort in protest that Black workers would be promoted: philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/phila... exhibits.temple.edu/s/civil-righ...
Embrace the haterade
What a lovely, sharp and deeply engaging review by @vivienlchang.bsky.social this is! Thank you. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...
News stories like this that are horror stories really make me more confused by the army of regular people glumly telling me AI is inevitable and therefore we need to embrace it. Like, it’s very plain what this is, right?
The act itself is the answer!
I guess knowing the future was exactly on brand
Shoulda made this a poll (my money on weed)
That is so so much better
I would be marginally more curious to read whatever the fuck he wrote in that paper I turned in
there's actually a little known law that says if kyle schwarber hits four homers in one game they have to fund septa
