Laura Tanenbaum

Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

When I was in middle and HS, no one at my HS was out, and teachers made gay bashing jokes to bond with the kids.

This is one of the most powerful and beautiful essays on Trump's America I've read, from a friend and colleague. Proud to be associated with @ktbuddhamag.bsky.social: killingthebuddha.com/mag/damnatio...

Moved by her mother's death, Laura Tanenbaum writes on grief. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB. www.aprilonline.org/the-grief-sy... @ltanenbaum.bsky.social @ktbuddhamag.bsky.social #Grief #Religion #Reflection

I moved to NYC @ 22 in '96. most would say past the Voice's heyday but I loved reading Tom Robbins & Wayne Barret's exposes of Giuliani, J Hoberman on film, Greg Tate on music Tom Tomorrow's cartoons, Dan Savage's sex columns . . .Hell Gate comes the closest to that spirit of anything around now.

This is true and I'll say we have such amazing faculty and students we make it work despite the lack of resources and infrastructure. other places where academics are being fired and programs closed won't be so lucky

"Are the machines as smart as us" is a question you might ask if you decide caring for a baby, nursing the sick, cooking a meal, making ethical choices and building relationships are not features of intelligence.

Ah. One of the greats Annie Dillard

One of the greatest who is making our best traditions anew

a BS issue doesn't respond to compromise. Transphobia like xenophobia doesn't respond to a real problem so there's no way to neutralize the issue by catering to the fear. Has deporting people *ever* led to, "ok, he fixed immigration, now we can go back to healthcare?" Blood demands more blood.

I'm no expert but from my experience with unions it's often about control more than money.

I can’t wait for the 18 part series in the Atlantic about “The Crisis at Business Schools” which will detail of every instance of academic fraud at the nation’s top business schools, the coverups, lack of accountability, and their implications for business ethics and academic standards at B schools.

Heaven is not good enough for Bel and hell is not hot enough for the people who murdered him

Best labor movie and labor anthem of all time. Best successful work of feminist popular culture of the last century.

My top 5: 1) In short, Libya is a study in contrasts. 2) In a way, we're all winners. In another, more specific way, he is the winner and you are the loser. 3) Lisa, I would like to buy that rock. 4) D'oh! A dear! A female dear! 5) Mel Brooks was Jewish??

Breaking: a socialist has a job.

lots to choose from but today's heart is taking me here:

Great conversation. I also find it interesting that the re-issuing of Dahl's books without their most racist images was treated as a "cancellation" or woke amock or whatever but the pillorying of him in Giant has been lionized.

My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.

Summer is not over but it's never a bad time to listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbE...

A few years ago, we couldn't imagine Monsanto-hating moms joining Trump’s coalition. But MAHA happened. @astra.bsky.social and I see something similar happening today with animal rights — which, if the left doesn’t wake up, could be very bad for all of us. newrepublic.com/article/2137...

It says a lot about which academic stories get media coverage that multiple non-academics I know asked me about the Jason Arday story, but no one I know outside of the academy had heard about the University of Minnesota paying $250,000 for rescinding a job offer to Raz Segal due to donor pressure.

This is so, so good

What's Yiddish for so fucking exciting?

Huh I wonder what happened to that mayor since then and if he turned out to be a good role model for statesmen to emulate. Someone should check in on that guy.

"Literature is rejecting men because they naturally gravitate to a best selling author of 1000 page books who has entire conventions of his fans."

Me: Ok, so I *finally* finished the Bund book; now I can discuss it with everyone, write up my thoughts and . . the world - first part of @thedigradio.bsky.social interview with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social just dropped and it's over two hours .. RIP my to do list

And this is also a the essence of the problem with mainstream Democrats who said Trump is a fascist before the election but that we had to work with him the day after

I'm weirdly upset by Stevens's gracious concession, because it makes her lie from just a few days ago that AES harbors personal animus against Jewish ppl all the more transparent. We should discourage lying to inflame tensions against two targeted religious minorities for personal political gain imo

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...