Anise K. Strong
@anisekstrong.bsky.social
Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
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was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same
Since everyone's posting about the "Lion's Den," it's worth noting that Daniel was likely a eunuch. Thus this story (like many in the Bible) deliberately chooses to heroize & emphasize the bravery of someone not conventionally gendered. Daniel's also a prophet for Shia Muslims & honored in Islam.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Since everyone's posting about the "Lion's Den," it's worth noting that Daniel was likely a eunuch. Thus this story (like many in the Bible) deliberately chooses to heroize & emphasize the bravery of someone not conventionally gendered. Daniel's also a prophet for Shia Muslims & honored in Islam.
Way back in 2016, after HRC's first debate with Trump, my reaction - which terrified me - was that I expected that if Trump was POTUS and I had 20 minutes alone with him & could b.s. him I could walk out with a named Chair, & if I actually had real charisma I could walk out with an Ambassadorship.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Way back in 2016, after HRC's first debate with Trump, my reaction - which terrified me - was that I expected that if Trump was POTUS and I had 20 minutes alone with him & could b.s. him I could walk out with a named Chair, & if I actually had real charisma I could walk out with an Ambassadorship.
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The weird thing is with Donald Trump just said about Zohran Mandani is what every Democrat should’ve said about Zohran Mamdani the moment he secured the Democratic nomination.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The weird thing is with Donald Trump just said about Zohran Mandani is what every Democrat should’ve said about Zohran Mamdani the moment he secured the Democratic nomination.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
We are about to celebrate the U.S' favorite holiday, which literally honors mass migration to this continent as well as "the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge... and the increase of science (G. Washington)."
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We are about to celebrate the U.S' favorite holiday, which literally honors mass migration to this continent as well as "the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge... and the increase of science (G. Washington)."
Automatic transcription services are going to generate so many more of these...
Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Automatic transcription services are going to generate so many more of these...
There is One Simple Trick and It Is UBI.
Weird how this works
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There is One Simple Trick and It Is UBI.
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
They really do honestly believe that they could take out vastly their own numbers in a fight, don't they? How pathetic.
In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
They really do honestly believe that they could take out vastly their own numbers in a fight, don't they? How pathetic.
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In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Oh, we premodernists are happy to provide some tips and context for "adversarial poetry." :)
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Oh, we premodernists are happy to provide some tips and context for "adversarial poetry." :)
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Fabulous news: a major project has been funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social on the history of smallpox & measles in the ancient & early medieval work. At last! A proper edition & translation of Rhazes' 10thC text on these diseases. A transitional moment in infectious disease history. #EpiSky
...the amazing Rebecca Flemming, and included in the team are myself and Siam Bhayro from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, and David Leith and Dan King from Classics and Ancient History. Stay tuned for announcements concerning post-docs and PhDs. 2/2
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fabulous news: a major project has been funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social on the history of smallpox & measles in the ancient & early medieval work. At last! A proper edition & translation of Rhazes' 10thC text on these diseases. A transitional moment in infectious disease history. #EpiSky
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imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
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Trump's National Guard deployments have cost over $473 MILLION.
A disgusting misuse of federal resources, taxpayer dollars, and US troops’ service.
Doing this while firing federal workers and kicking millions off of healthcare is just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire that is the Trump admin.
A disgusting misuse of federal resources, taxpayer dollars, and US troops’ service.
Doing this while firing federal workers and kicking millions off of healthcare is just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire that is the Trump admin.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump's National Guard deployments have cost over $473 MILLION.
A disgusting misuse of federal resources, taxpayer dollars, and US troops’ service.
Doing this while firing federal workers and kicking millions off of healthcare is just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire that is the Trump admin.
A disgusting misuse of federal resources, taxpayer dollars, and US troops’ service.
Doing this while firing federal workers and kicking millions off of healthcare is just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire that is the Trump admin.
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Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
Even if you don't believe in basic human equality & dignity, a socially pragmatic reason to disincentivize harassers is that women spend so much energy defending ourselves & miss out on opportunities. 100Ks of productive hours are lost annually to escorting that friend or taking a longer route.
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Even if you don't believe in basic human equality & dignity, a socially pragmatic reason to disincentivize harassers is that women spend so much energy defending ourselves & miss out on opportunities. 100Ks of productive hours are lost annually to escorting that friend or taking a longer route.
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Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina?
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina?
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreid5rog4gjpv3qeneunmoyqxoesnuxac2srp3u6ppnjdxphfv7jcoe@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...