Andrea Kaston Tange
@aktange.bsky.social
Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
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I'm going to take a walk every day in December, I've promised myself, because it's far too easy to become a recluse in Minnesota winter. And I'm going to send you a picture to share my winter delight. Today, rabbits are going for a walk too.
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Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
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okay so the second and arguably even funnier part of this story is: so my dad was a university president, right? And there’s another university in that town. heated sports rivals, etc, etc, you know how it is
One time the local Staples (office supply store) went out of business and had a liquidation sale and my sister’s boyfriend and a couple of his friends went and bought about a thousand boxes of post it notes for 10 bucks total and six months later they did this to my dads office
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
okay so the second and arguably even funnier part of this story is: so my dad was a university president, right? And there’s another university in that town. heated sports rivals, etc, etc, you know how it is
Student having a loud phone conversation on the chair right outside my office, and the door has to be opened for office hours, so it's not even my fault that all I can do right now is look for antique fountain pens online.
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Student having a loud phone conversation on the chair right outside my office, and the door has to be opened for office hours, so it's not even my fault that all I can do right now is look for antique fountain pens online.
Sure it's cold out, but just look at that pollen forecast
#UpperMidwesternOptimism
#UpperMidwesternOptimism
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sure it's cold out, but just look at that pollen forecast
#UpperMidwesternOptimism
#UpperMidwesternOptimism
Plays a starting role in the all-muppets 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. (Captain Nemo played by Michael Caine, of course)
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Plays a starting role in the all-muppets 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. (Captain Nemo played by Michael Caine, of course)
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
Today, my dear friend showed up unannounced with a loaf of exquisite, homemade, sourdough cinnamon-raisin bread. It happens every year in December, and *every single year it is a surprise* and I carry the precious loaf into my kitchen and proceed to make an absolute slab of toast with good butter. ♥️
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Today, my dear friend showed up unannounced with a loaf of exquisite, homemade, sourdough cinnamon-raisin bread. It happens every year in December, and *every single year it is a surprise* and I carry the precious loaf into my kitchen and proceed to make an absolute slab of toast with good butter. ♥️
If I wrote a novel in which SCOTUS said the 14th Amendment doesn't mean what it literally says I'd be made to revise the absurdity
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If I wrote a novel in which SCOTUS said the 14th Amendment doesn't mean what it literally says I'd be made to revise the absurdity
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
Writing is also realizing how faulty is memory. Because actually the great-grandmother's machine on which you learned to sew was not a Singer. It was a Necchi, which launched a popular model in 1925 to sell outside of Italy, in direct competition with Singer.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Writing is also realizing how faulty is memory. Because actually the great-grandmother's machine on which you learned to sew was not a Singer. It was a Necchi, which launched a popular model in 1925 to sell outside of Italy, in direct competition with Singer.
This might be my favorite, but the whole thread is superb
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This might be my favorite, but the whole thread is superb
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Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection.
Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
.
Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
.
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection.
Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
.
Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
.
Casablanca Strikes Back
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Casablanca Strikes Back
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
paging @hesterblum.bsky.social and @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social — SURELY one or both of you have an upcoming event that needs one of these?
At a party with a Moby Donut 🍩 🐋 and this is true literary goals of it weren’t to celebrate a new stout.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
paging @hesterblum.bsky.social and @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social — SURELY one or both of you have an upcoming event that needs one of these?
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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Aaaaaand ACIP just voted to delay the vaccine and remove the universal recommendation for it
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Aaaaaand ACIP just voted to delay the vaccine and remove the universal recommendation for it
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Trump’s xenophobic comments about Somalis in Minnesota are disgusting, hateful, and unbecoming of the President of the United States.
I’m proud to stand alongside @ilhanmn.bsky.social and the Somali community. Read her op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/ilhan-omar-somalia-trump.html
I’m proud to stand alongside @ilhanmn.bsky.social and the Somali community. Read her op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/ilhan-omar-somalia-trump.html
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Trump’s xenophobic comments about Somalis in Minnesota are disgusting, hateful, and unbecoming of the President of the United States.
I’m proud to stand alongside @ilhanmn.bsky.social and the Somali community. Read her op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/ilhan-omar-somalia-trump.html
I’m proud to stand alongside @ilhanmn.bsky.social and the Somali community. Read her op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/ilhan-omar-somalia-trump.html
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
Finished typing all the red-ink scrawl from my print copy into my book manuscript. So now I can start writing again. I definitely have a better sense of the arc of the whole, which feels exciting.
#acadecawriteathon
#acadecawriteathon
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Finished typing all the red-ink scrawl from my print copy into my book manuscript. So now I can start writing again. I definitely have a better sense of the arc of the whole, which feels exciting.
#acadecawriteathon
#acadecawriteathon
If we keep this up long enough, soon we won't be able to tell who originally had stars upon thars and who didn't. With any luck, then the machine will break, and all districts will become absolute squares of varying sizes, just with edges at the edges of the states.
Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.
Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If we keep this up long enough, soon we won't be able to tell who originally had stars upon thars and who didn't. With any luck, then the machine will break, and all districts will become absolute squares of varying sizes, just with edges at the edges of the states.
"Nice jeans, mom!" said my 21-year-old son, while we were doing the dishes, and I felt like I just won the lottery.
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Nice jeans, mom!" said my 21-year-old son, while we were doing the dishes, and I felt like I just won the lottery.
This is a very important thread.
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is a very important thread.
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
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“That sounds illegal”
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“That sounds illegal”
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Writing is asking the internet whether electric sewing machines were widely available in 1926, finding out that Singer released a very popular new model that year, clicking on a link to see what it looked like, and feeling completely breathless. 1/4
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Writing is asking the internet whether electric sewing machines were widely available in 1926, finding out that Singer released a very popular new model that year, clicking on a link to see what it looked like, and feeling completely breathless. 1/4