Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Canaan Morse 莫楷

@canaanmorse.bsky.social

230 followers 180 following 1.1K posts

Postdoc @UVA 明清文学 ‘21 National Book Award Finalist scholar poet translator farm boy Poetry oral traditions DnD China

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · Mar 19

Current: The Invisibility Cloak (novel by Ge Fei 格非, NYRB Classics)
Peach Blossom Paradise (ditto)

Upcoming: The Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was (ditto)
Guide to Recollecting the Future (poems by Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨, Zephyr Press)

2 1 4

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 14h

We are clean on OPSEC

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

Reposted by Canaan Morse 莫楷

Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 1d

Damn it Democrats we don’t want any more old folks. It’s time to pass the torch to the oyster farmer

Tony

1 6 14

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

I made my weekly drive from Winston-Salem to Charlottesville, made it through a new episode of my favorite D&D podcast, then did two late hours in the office after a dinner of reheated chile rellenos. Finally, some fall chill in the air.

1 2

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

Hey so I made some pathetically minor but useful fixes to my mom’s aging house today

1 5

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

I voted for Mills twice. Im proud of her. But she’s an institutional pawn in this context.

I would suggest that Fetterman and Platner aren’t close at all. F is vocally pro-Israel, Platner pro-Palestine. Also, Platner’s not a troll, which Fetterman always was.

Reposted by Canaan Morse 莫楷

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

35 67 170

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

Graham Platner. Please at least get the name right.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

It’s in the handle. Stay out of my state’s politics, about which you know nothing.

I voted for Janet twice, loved her as governor. But this is a play by the National Dems to keep actual working-class voices outside the tent.

Platner 2026.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

Institutional liberals have been whining about David Hogg and other young Dems wanting to primary the old guard for months.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to do so.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

So young Dems primarying old Dems is wrong, but old Dems stepping in front of young Dems is okay?

I liked Janet Mills, but she’s 77 and not a member of the working class. This move has Chuck Schumer’s fingerprints all over it.

Graham Platner for Senate @mainedems.bsky.social

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

1 4

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Journal is: Bari Weiss’s blog

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

They have been powering the protests in North Carolina, that’s for damn sure

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Cher

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

I now know exactly how old you are.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have a further point beyond that you should go hear Pastor Gwen Fry speak at St. Mark’s in Waterville if you enjoy being made to think, and if you surmise that serious Christians would necessarily loathe this administration. Im no believer, but I’m glad to have her in my community.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Her observation that Jeremiah’s order to grow gardens and multiply would have been bitterly unpopular among his exiled people highlighted the unforseeability and the overwhelming urgency of displacement. For me, it also threw the difference btw who has power and who doesn’t into sharp relief.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

The first sermon of hers which I heard involved the woman in Luke 8 who grabbed Christ’s robe; her focus was not the miracle, but the transgressive state of the woman being a place that would have barred her. Yesterday’s was Jeremiah’s exhortation to captured Israelites to grow gardens in Babylon.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve heard Pastor Gwen do a half-dozen sermons so far - I take my mum to church when I’m up - and I’ve found myself looking forward to them. She reads closely, inhabits emotional contexts, focuses obliquely on the thing *next to* the overplayed scene, which is often uncomfortably relevant.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

feel-good pabulum recooked and served in the frame of some folksy anecdote to appeal to the youths. With zero intent to challenge or question, the sermon was something to be endured.

A couple years ago, my mother’s Episcopal church in Maine brought in a new pastor who did something different.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Re: the pleasant surprise of hearing interesting sermons in Waterville, ME.

Church services rub me wrongly in several ways: ploddingly chanted creeds, predictable music sung in an anti-acoustic box, affirmations of exclusive faith. And the sermons were often the worst part—

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, interesting - it’s been so long since I read 豆棚閒話 I would not have recognized the beans

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

Failing to meat standards

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. 楊爾曾, 《圖繪宗彝》

We have a sweet little 善本 in special collections. Ran into it while I was writing about the 《海內奇觀》for an article