Southern Poverty Law Center's decision to gut its immigration work at this moment, when immigrants rights are under attack by both major parties, strikes me as reflective of where mainstream liberals have landed on the matter: abandoning migrants and not even pretending to care.

The Menswear Guy tweets are like: I’m gonna explain to you why you, a man who wears things, shouldn’t put a tailored elbow coat with a shoulder hat. By shoulder hat I mean a hat that is supported by your shoulders & neck & head such as a beret, bowler hat, flatcap or the like.

the decision to criminalize homelessness was made by a reactionary republican court, but it will be wielded by proud democratic party mayors who have been looking to cruelly punish the most vulnerable people in our society for a very long time.

We must condemn all forms of political science

Not so fun fact but interesting: In segregated Appalachia — on the Black side of town and across many hills and hollers nobody knows a who JD Vance is, or Hillbilly Elegy. It’s interesting to watch who this JD conversation includes but mostly (for me) who is not there.

What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte (2018) is an absolutely iconic book I recommend & unfortunately she doesn’t get any money from her books. (Unlike Vance probs, hm!) Her work complicating hillbilly elegy is also in the anthology Appalachian Reckoning.

“A community of resistance is a demonstration of the lives we want—individually, we may be stuck in the real world, but collectively, we inhabit another real world.” Jubilee House Ryan Cagle is a Redneckromancer 🖤

“oh, you found em” - gas station attendant, relieved, as if released from a heavy burden of some kind

Sitting on a friends everything chair and hinting that I want to borrow their dress

pretty hard not to draw a straight line between the suspension of the University Guide Service and the new Youngkin appointed Board majority’s position that the Guides have become too woke.

when a song got timpani

Trailers and manufactured homes have long served as a lifeline for struggling families. A warming world has made them a perilous place to live. Ayurella Horn-Muller & Jake Bittle report from the aftermath of Helene for grist: grist.org/article/helene…

hamburger cake from the publix bakery catalogue🫡 awe inspiring for man and dog

testing a fancy crockpot .. it works just about exactly like an unfancy crockpot! Anyway for the cost they should consider a small camera for checking in on the roast throughout the day.

this is what it was like to be 6 years old before slime hit the market

(tweet that could be my last mainly bc because twitter is bad for my brain) 🎶 I gotta wristwatch that’s a fingerwatch 🎶

academic twitter! im working on a feature on our reliance on frozen dinners (which has resulted in mass expansion of frozen meal offerings). is there anyone in the field of consumer/groceries/historical comms/media studies that would be interested in chatting with me?