Marilee Lindemann
@marileelindemann.bsky.social
English prof & academic administrator at University of Maryland; sporadic blogger; queer, feminist, non-geek fascinated by social media, politics, & pop culture; fan of women's basketball & wire fox terriers. Making life up as it goes along. Opinions mine.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
I’m a proud third-generation alum of Indiana University. In my family, an IU education was the pathway to careers in teaching, business, law, and journalism. It breaks my heart to read this detailed analysis of the systematic weakening of the institution that has occurred over the past three years.
Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)
Indiana University on November 3, 2025 by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I’m a proud third-generation alum of Indiana University. In my family, an IU education was the pathway to careers in teaching, business, law, and journalism. It breaks my heart to read this detailed analysis of the systematic weakening of the institution that has occurred over the past three years.
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A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
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An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My prayers go out to her and her family.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Damn, there goes my retirement plan. 🎸
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Quiet, Piggy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Quiet, Piggy.
I want a t-shirt and I want it NOW. "Quiet, piggy," with the biggest, piggiest caricature of Trump the world has ever seen. I'd put it on and go stand in front of the White House for the next three years.
Btw, Newsom's trolls are given Trump some of his own "Quiet Piggy" medicine.
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I want a t-shirt and I want it NOW. "Quiet, piggy," with the biggest, piggiest caricature of Trump the world has ever seen. I'd put it on and go stand in front of the White House for the next three years.
I’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!
In all of this awful, I'll say that I'm very much looking forward to this evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library discussing Dickinson, Jane Austen, and their marvelous legacies--please join us December 9th!!! www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
The Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Celebrating Jane Austen at 250 | Folger Shakespeare Library
This year, our annual birthday tribute to American poet Emily Dickinson will also honor English novelist Jane Austen on her 250th birthday, with noted scholar Martha Nell Smith and romance author Nikk...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’ll be there! Smash the patriarchy—Read women writers!
So, um, Willa Cather is in the Epstein files!?! @maddow.msnbc.com, if you'd like to talk about that, this queer Cather scholar is at your—and the nation's—service.
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So, um, Willa Cather is in the Epstein files!?! @maddow.msnbc.com, if you'd like to talk about that, this queer Cather scholar is at your—and the nation's—service.
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Such wonderful, important work by my dear colleague @jasonr75.bsky.social -- today.umd.edu/book-club-op...
Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women | Maryland Today
UMD English Professor Co-leads Volunteer Program Set to Add Graduate Students Following Bequest
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Such wonderful, important work by my dear colleague @jasonr75.bsky.social -- today.umd.edu/book-club-op...
Democracy dies in obfuscation.
WaPo puts the Sleepy Trump piece on Page One.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Democracy dies in obfuscation.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
Job alert! Come work with me and my wonderful staff in College Park Scholars, a group of 13 interdisciplinary living-learning programs for first- and second-year students at the University of Maryland. Posting is here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Job alert! Come work with me and my wonderful staff in College Park Scholars, a group of 13 interdisciplinary living-learning programs for first- and second-year students at the University of Maryland. Posting is here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
JOB ALERT! Administrative Coordinator position with College Park Scholars at University of Maryland. Scholars is a community of living-learning programs for first- and second-year students. Be a part of the best darn staff on campus! (And work with me!)
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Administrative Coordinator
Job Description Summary Coordinate projects and contribute to the overall administration of College Park Scholars, an academic residential community for academically talented freshmen and sophomores i...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
JOB ALERT! Administrative Coordinator position with College Park Scholars at University of Maryland. Scholars is a community of living-learning programs for first- and second-year students. Be a part of the best darn staff on campus! (And work with me!)
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
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American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
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everyone: we don’t want kings
rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king
the entire trump administration:
rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king
the entire trump administration:
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
everyone: we don’t want kings
rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king
the entire trump administration:
rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king
the entire trump administration:
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This "No Kings" song from Jesse Welles is giving me Dylanesque vibes and flashbacks to earlier eras of protests for peace and civil rights and women's rights. Those led to big things. This is starting to feel big, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWD...
No Kings
YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic
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October 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This "No Kings" song from Jesse Welles is giving me Dylanesque vibes and flashbacks to earlier eras of protests for peace and civil rights and women's rights. Those led to big things. This is starting to feel big, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWD...
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My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
October 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.