Patty Dignam
@pattydignam.bsky.social
Faculty Affairs pro. Tedious Ulysses fanatic. Efficiency skeptic.
Pinned
“The big question… is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death being buried under the weight of technocracy…” (May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude, 1973).
“The big question… is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death being buried under the weight of technocracy…” (May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude, 1973).
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“The big question… is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death being buried under the weight of technocracy…” (May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude, 1973).
Pretty winter shore effect. #swampscott
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Pretty winter shore effect. #swampscott
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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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 🔥
For any #publichealth peeps, some helpful guidance on current NIH planning… open.substack.com/pub/1fullyhu...
NIH Unified Funding Framework
"WTF happened to paylines???!!!" and other questions
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
For any #publichealth peeps, some helpful guidance on current NIH planning… open.substack.com/pub/1fullyhu...
The barbarians are already here. Cavafy’s “Ithaka” is such an apt representation of all our infernal preparations… www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/... #literature #poetry #democracy
Waiting for the Barbarians
Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The barbarians are already here. Cavafy’s “Ithaka” is such an apt representation of all our infernal preparations… www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/... #literature #poetry #democracy
@benandjerrys.bsky.social Bring back Wavy Gravy
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@benandjerrys.bsky.social Bring back Wavy Gravy
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Talked about this article somewhere else and someone wanted me to talk a bit more about it so here ya go! First, gift link. Second, my overwhelming takeaway is that, in a world where we rebuild in the coming decades, a good chunk of universities need new leadership.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side
ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Talked about this article somewhere else and someone wanted me to talk a bit more about it so here ya go! First, gift link. Second, my overwhelming takeaway is that, in a world where we rebuild in the coming decades, a good chunk of universities need new leadership.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Such a sharp analysis of “the class of people who decide things.”: How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Such a sharp analysis of “the class of people who decide things.”: How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
#DIY progress shot (had no idea there were pocket doors!) Next up: replacing the all my lead paint loaded trim in a craftsman style using my new mitre saw! Lumber order has arrived!
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#DIY progress shot (had no idea there were pocket doors!) Next up: replacing the all my lead paint loaded trim in a craftsman style using my new mitre saw! Lumber order has arrived!
Thanksgiving in Swampscott.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thanksgiving in Swampscott.
Amazing reporting. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Amazing reporting. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Yesssss…. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yesssss…. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard: “Because Larry Summers asked his close friend, a convicted sex offender and the leader of a vast pedophilia ring, for advice on making sexual advances on a young mentee, we are cutting off all his responsibilities except close contact with undergraduate women.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Harvard: “Because Larry Summers asked his close friend, a convicted sex offender and the leader of a vast pedophilia ring, for advice on making sexual advances on a young mentee, we are cutting off all his responsibilities except close contact with undergraduate women.”
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A huge win!!! Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms!
Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.
www.texastribune.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A huge win!!! Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms!
Don’t feel too bad for Larry’s wife. In one email to Epstein she recommended he read Nabokov’s Lolita. So SHE FUCKING KNEW all about him.
www.commondreams.org/news/larry-s...
www.commondreams.org/news/larry-s...
Institutions Urged to Cut Ties With Larry Summers After Latest Epstein Revelations | Common Dreams
Former Harvard President Larry Summers faces scrutiny for maintaining a friendly relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
www.commondreams.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Don’t feel too bad for Larry’s wife. In one email to Epstein she recommended he read Nabokov’s Lolita. So SHE FUCKING KNEW all about him.
www.commondreams.org/news/larry-s...
www.commondreams.org/news/larry-s...
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seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com you guys really doing ads for WALMART?! JFC.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com you guys really doing ads for WALMART?! JFC.
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Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
Oh, the delicious disgrace. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. The ...
www.thecrimson.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Oh, the delicious disgrace. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...