@citycrofter.bsky.social
Farmer, dogmama, faculty developer, scholarly editor and writing coach, gardener, anti fascist, maker of textile and fibery things, spinster, feral crone. Rage every day. Wonder every day. May or may not be affiliated with a big private university.
It was me. I am the favorite former boss. And that piece of paper is a treasure. Although who could ever really be Roopsi’s “boss”?
In non-AI news, my favorite former boss was cleaning out her desk upon retirement and uncovered a piece of paper where she had written down every Hindi curse word I could think of, with pronunciation markers and definitions. That’s my value add right there.
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It was me. I am the favorite former boss. And that piece of paper is a treasure. Although who could ever really be Roopsi’s “boss”?
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California takes public health leadership seriously.
Proud to partner with former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry to strengthen our work.
Proud to partner with former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry to strengthen our work.
Newsom taps former CDC leaders critical of Trump-era health policies for new initiative
Newsom taps former CDC leaders critical of Trump-era health policies for new initiative
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced a new California-led public health initiative, tapping former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials who publicly clashed with the Trump administration.
www.latimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
California takes public health leadership seriously.
Proud to partner with former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry to strengthen our work.
Proud to partner with former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry to strengthen our work.
About sums it up for us
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
About sums it up for us
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Automated license plate readers, DMV records, IRS data til a judge overruled it, TSA data. It does not end. And if you think this isn’t a problem for EVERYONE, not just our neighbors without papers, oh sweet summer child.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Automated license plate readers, DMV records, IRS data til a judge overruled it, TSA data. It does not end. And if you think this isn’t a problem for EVERYONE, not just our neighbors without papers, oh sweet summer child.
In the conference room of the faculty development center in the university library where I worked until last week, there’s a small door to the utilities area running up the side of the building. One day last year a security guard came in, unlocked it, and left it that way, and I was so grateful.
I do this every single semester. I take my phone to the bathroom in case I need to call my loved ones. I was tenured and i've never known a time before Columbine.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In the conference room of the faculty development center in the university library where I worked until last week, there’s a small door to the utilities area running up the side of the building. One day last year a security guard came in, unlocked it, and left it that way, and I was so grateful.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
Lived and worked in that county once upon a time. Can’t say this surprises me at all.
What began in the fall as a trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has since grown into an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people, prompted more than 250 residents to quarantine and unsettled many more.
A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Lived and worked in that county once upon a time. Can’t say this surprises me at all.
My last day of employment on the Emory campus. I’m having some feelings.
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My last day of employment on the Emory campus. I’m having some feelings.
Chip chip chip.
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chip chip chip.
I retire from 37 years of professional editorial work in higher education next week. Here is how I’m planning to spend a large chunk of my time.
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I retire from 37 years of professional editorial work in higher education next week. Here is how I’m planning to spend a large chunk of my time.
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MTG is utterly insufferable. I know she won’t actually get out of politics when she quits Congress, but hope there’s at least a substantial pause in having to hear from and about her.
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
MTG is utterly insufferable. I know she won’t actually get out of politics when she quits Congress, but hope there’s at least a substantial pause in having to hear from and about her.
Former fab Emory colleague @drdebhoury.bsky.social out there being fierce. Thank you, Deb! Keep speaking out! time.com/7338714/dr-d...
I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
time.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Former fab Emory colleague @drdebhoury.bsky.social out there being fierce. Thank you, Deb! Keep speaking out! time.com/7338714/dr-d...
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Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
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The only explanation for this is that federal strategy is DARVO, a term describing abusive behavior: deny, attack, reverse victim offender. Oh and gaslighting.
Real dark to read this while revising my Nazi section www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Trump national security strategy calls for ‘cultivating resistance’ in Europe and changing US’ role in Western Hemisphere | CNN Politics
The White House quietly released President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy late Thursday, a 33-page document that elevates his “America First” doctrine and sets out the administration’s ...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The only explanation for this is that federal strategy is DARVO, a term describing abusive behavior: deny, attack, reverse victim offender. Oh and gaslighting.
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"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
10000% the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century.
It's December 1, which means that I am exhausted and have no idea how I'll make it to the end of the semester, but also that it's time to indulge my abiding and sincere love for Fairytale of New York, the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN...
Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987]
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
10000% the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century.
Actually @roopikarisam.bsky.social the gluten free biscuit weren’t bad.
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Actually @roopikarisam.bsky.social the gluten free biscuit weren’t bad.
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Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?
Icy conditions in Atlanta today.
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Icy conditions in Atlanta today.
Maybe I need a scooter
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Maybe I need a scooter
Get your goddamn flu shot. And your Covid shot too.
The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
Early Signs Point to a Harsh Flu Season in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Get your goddamn flu shot. And your Covid shot too.
This is completely insane.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is completely insane.
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Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
China is winning.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
China is winning.
PLEASE do not be fooled. MTG is the same as she ever was.
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
PLEASE do not be fooled. MTG is the same as she ever was.