Rebecca Zorach

@rabbitrez.bsky.social

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art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
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Rebecca Zorach is an art historian and Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on early modern European art, contemporary and activist art. .. more

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Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Kevin O’Rourke, Ben Tonra , and 4 more Elizabeth Saunders, Kevin O’Rourke, Ben Tonra, Samantha Brennan, Simon Lester, Rebecca Zorach, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

WELKER: Is Greenland or NATO more vital to natl security?

BESSENT: That's obviously a false choice

W: Not to European leaders

B: They will come around & understand they need to be under the US security umbrella. What would happen in Ukraine if the US pulled support? The whole thing would collapse

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Lisa W. Fazio , and 26 more Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Lisa W. Fazio, Norbert Schwarz, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Tom Shakespeare, Steven S. Smith, Alan Lester, Ryan Enos, John Foot, Iikka Korhonen, Janet Murray, David R. Miller, W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael D. McDonald, Dana R. Fisher, Mark Robinson, Laleh Khalili, Mark Rice, Kent Johnson, Ann Bartow, Pauline Stafford, Brooke Harrington, Rebecca Zorach, Jeannette Sutton, Dunlap

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9d

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar

The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

www.semafor.com

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 9d

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT

The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

ictnews.org

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Du Toit, Steve Peers , and 4 more Rebecca Solnit, Du Toit, Steve Peers, Devon Greyson, Christine Kooi, Els Torreele, Rebecca Zorach

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 19d

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January

This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.

In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/C-D5r9RBkY9/

Reposted by Jesse H. Kroll, David Johnson, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls , and 1 more Jesse H. Kroll, David Johnson, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Rebecca Zorach

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20d

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

Reposted by David R. Miller, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Peter Jacobsen , and 2 more David R. Miller, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Peter Jacobsen, Daxton R. Stewart, Rebecca Zorach

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting that they seem to hate "white trash" economic migrants too. Are class/geographic inferiors also part of the 100 million?

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 23d

Until fairly recently it was standard practice at the elitest Ivies to grant promotion to associate for a 3 or 4 year contract before booting people, or, rarely, tenuring them

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 23d

Not at Harvard in 1991.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 23d

Reasons to retire to a soft gig in Florida
A. You're 70
B. You're a reactionary asshole who thinks liberal education is banning topics you don't like
C. Protecting each other from dying does not conform to your idea of a liberal education

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 27d

2018 story

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iRamona @iramona.bsky.social · Dec 23

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

www.justice.gov

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 23

"Free press," indeed

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 21

People are rightly upset about the image thing but wtf, "write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points"?!?!?

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 21

OK so where are my historians who are quitting the AHA over these hideous AI guidelines

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Dec 21

How blackouts in San Francisco this weekend shut down Waymo.

“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”

@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Dec 16

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡

@rani.bsky.social $TSLA
@mims.bsky.social
sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 16

Be sure to rest! I made the mistake of not resting enough

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 15

Like MILFs but terrorists

Reposted by Anna O. Law, John Horgan, Rebecca Zorach , and 1 more Anna O. Law, John Horgan, Rebecca Zorach, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 15

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 15

Feel better! It's no fun. I've had something similar for 5+ weeks. Hoping I'm finally seeing the other side of it now....

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Dec 15

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Dec 15

utterly incapable of grace

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Bunn, Richard S.J. Tol , and 23 more Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Bunn, Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Richard Betts, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, David Peetz, David Rothschild, Guy Grossman, Alan Lester, David S. Cohen, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Gerald Friedman, Robert B. Reich, Stephen Ryan, Samantha Brennan, Michael D. McDonald, Mark Rice, Joanna L. Grossman, Eugenio Proto, Rebecca Zorach, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Farah Mendlesohn

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Dec 15

utterly incapable of grace

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Dec 15

“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits

Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

www.texastribune.org

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, R. M. Wilson, Brian Keegan , and 1 more Shannon Vallor, R. M. Wilson, Brian Keegan, Rebecca Zorach

A faint, insistent buzzing just on the edge of hearing @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · Dec 15

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 14

Although exam review sessions are often held in rooms and at times that are not the scheduled room/time for the class

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Talia Schaffer, Mark Rice , and 1 more Rebecca Tushnet, Talia Schaffer, Mark Rice, Rebecca Zorach

Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · Dec 14

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

x.com/uaw7902/stat...

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Dec 14

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 13

OK students, you know what to do

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · Dec 13

From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · Dec 13

This isn't about "views." An employee can have whatever views they want without violating Title II of the Civil Rights Act.

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