j alfred postrock
@seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social
books and sad songs. illustration? look I don’t know
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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Assuming there’s actually an issue here, the solution is just to slightly increase scrutiny on ieps at rich schools. This will not happen. We’re much more likely to get a crack down on poor kids with ieps and rich kids just get more benefits.
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Assuming there’s actually an issue here, the solution is just to slightly increase scrutiny on ieps at rich schools. This will not happen. We’re much more likely to get a crack down on poor kids with ieps and rich kids just get more benefits.
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Dead children never moved the right’s view on guns and I doubt the post-Covid vaccine aversion will change much when their kids start dying of preventable diseases. Because to them politics is like choosing a football team and there is no higher loyalty when they all think they’re on God’s team.
NEW: In an interview w/ me, new chair of ACIP says they are planning to vote on ending practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether childhood immunization schedule is behind rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Dead children never moved the right’s view on guns and I doubt the post-Covid vaccine aversion will change much when their kids start dying of preventable diseases. Because to them politics is like choosing a football team and there is no higher loyalty when they all think they’re on God’s team.
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers https://theonion.com/trump-announces-5000-increase-in-all-numbers/
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers https://theonion.com/trump-announces-5000-increase-in-all-numbers/
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
I still can't believe Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix thinking it would be a flop, but are betting that basketball movie with a goat is going to be a huge hit in cinemas.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
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"My step-mother is a gift card."
As I Lay Buying
DARL Jewel and I come up onto Macy’s fifth floor. We cannot find a present for Pa and we are in bed and bath and lost. The beds look like shorn she...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"My step-mother is a gift card."
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Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.
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J. D. Salinger (to Kohl's employee): “If you want to hear about the last place I saw my mom, you’ll probably wanna know where I was born, about my lousy childhood, and how many of your dressing rooms have ‘fuck you’ etched into the walls.”
Famous Authors Lose Their Moms in Department Stores
James Joyce: “Maaaaaam, oh, maaaaaaaaa…” Albert Camus (to a concerned Big Lots manager): “Lost maman in home goods today. Or maybe it was yesterday...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
J. D. Salinger (to Kohl's employee): “If you want to hear about the last place I saw my mom, you’ll probably wanna know where I was born, about my lousy childhood, and how many of your dressing rooms have ‘fuck you’ etched into the walls.”
I named my fists Art Blakey and Philly Joe Jones because come hell or high water, they’re staying in the mf pocket.
named my fists simon and garfunkel 'cause if you fuck with me all you're gonna hear is the sound of silence
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I named my fists Art Blakey and Philly Joe Jones because come hell or high water, they’re staying in the mf pocket.
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
I can’t overstate how deeply Backlisted has impacted who I am over the last six years. The encouragement and enthusiasm for a particular kind of book and way of reading has pushed me into some truly all-time favorites: Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brookner, Jean Rhys, Penelope Fitzgerald. Treasures.
The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
1. J. L. Carr - A Month in the Countr — Backlisted
In the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss J.L. Carr's A Month In The Country. If y...
www.backlisted.fm
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I can’t overstate how deeply Backlisted has impacted who I am over the last six years. The encouragement and enthusiasm for a particular kind of book and way of reading has pushed me into some truly all-time favorites: Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brookner, Jean Rhys, Penelope Fitzgerald. Treasures.
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The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
1. J. L. Carr - A Month in the Countr — Backlisted
In the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss J.L. Carr's A Month In The Country. If y...
www.backlisted.fm
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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“You’ve been extra needy lately,” says the punkass who needs half a water tower just to call itself daddy.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“You’ve been extra needy lately,” says the punkass who needs half a water tower just to call itself daddy.
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Flannery O'Connor
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Flannery O'Connor
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*Fewer
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
*Fewer
As an English teacher, this is powerful in the way Winant articulates that students must believe that they deserve to take their own thinking seriously. And this, in tandem with the time and space to pay close attention, to notice, can be empowering for students.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
As an English teacher, this is powerful in the way Winant articulates that students must believe that they deserve to take their own thinking seriously. And this, in tandem with the time and space to pay close attention, to notice, can be empowering for students.
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imagine capitulating just as the disapproval rate hits 60 percent, absolutely humiliating shit
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
imagine capitulating just as the disapproval rate hits 60 percent, absolutely humiliating shit
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Remember: every accusation is a confession.
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Remember: every accusation is a confession.
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
Great first line for a short story, though.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Great first line for a short story, though.