Meredith McGill
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
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These are murders on the high seas. Trump may have ‘immunity’ here, but none of his minions do. And none of them have immunity from international courts, in spite of their claims. Nothing says acknowledgment of guilt like making up justification for criminality.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
These are murders on the high seas. Trump may have ‘immunity’ here, but none of his minions do. And none of them have immunity from international courts, in spite of their claims. Nothing says acknowledgment of guilt like making up justification for criminality.
Spot on.
"I bet now you’d kill for a senior thesis based on my free, multilingual, publicly cited, text-based articles, motherfucker."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Spot on.
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Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: UConn's administration should consult its own experts
Genuine collaboration and shared governance - not outside consultants - should guide the decisions of a major university.
ctmirror.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.
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Both the authority and the imperative, as Toby Ziegler says
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Both the authority and the imperative, as Toby Ziegler says
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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
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LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team????????
LET’S GOOOOOO
LET’S GOOOOOO
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team????????
LET’S GOOOOOO
LET’S GOOOOOO
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The Barstool Sports Guy spends 183 days a year in FL to get out of paying taxes in NY
It is gonna be so funny watching the NYC bajillionaires scramble to get appointments with Mayor Mamdani after they all insisted they were gonna move to Florida if he won. First of all, most of you already have places in FL and claim it as your primary resident so you don’t have to pay NYC taxes
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The Barstool Sports Guy spends 183 days a year in FL to get out of paying taxes in NY
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Catholic Church stepping up!
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Catholic Church stepping up!
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This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
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"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Everyone knew and people didn’t gave a f—
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Everyone knew and people didn’t gave a f—
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So looking forward to the hometown launch of my book at Rutgers later 💗
Today at 4:30, join Kristin Grogan as she discusses her new book, STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD AT WORK at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. tinyurl.com/4pdupayn @kristingrogan.bsky.social #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So looking forward to the hometown launch of my book at Rutgers later 💗
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Every American’s blood should boil at the very idea T and his supporters are trying to shred the constitution and “try” for a third term. Every elected Republican needs to condemn this immediately or resign from office.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Every American’s blood should boil at the very idea T and his supporters are trying to shred the constitution and “try” for a third term. Every elected Republican needs to condemn this immediately or resign from office.
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This would have been worth mentioning when quoting him. (Or maybe as a reason be be cautious in relying for him as an expert on trends in higher education.)
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This would have been worth mentioning when quoting him. (Or maybe as a reason be be cautious in relying for him as an expert on trends in higher education.)
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And all while building a ballroom.
starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
And all while building a ballroom.
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I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
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The absolute lawlessness of this administration. Blatantly illegal deadly stuff happening all over the place.
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The absolute lawlessness of this administration. Blatantly illegal deadly stuff happening all over the place.
Lining up the weekend’s work…
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Lining up the weekend’s work…
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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Belgian AI scientists call on colleagues to keep AI out of the classroom. apache.be/2025/10/24/-...
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Belgian AI scientists call on colleagues to keep AI out of the classroom. apache.be/2025/10/24/-...
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It’s the most corrupt administration in American history and nothing else even comes close
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It’s the most corrupt administration in American history and nothing else even comes close
Monsters.
can you imagine being sent to a country you never have been to before and be incarcerated with no charges? That is what the USA is doing to people.
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Monsters.