Historiography for the masses. Cities, #mediastudies, #ethnicstudies, #publichistory #EastOfEast - *uncompromising solidarity with the people of Palestine*
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Our weekly round-up of the best reading recommendations across the internet, now with a hearty side of nihilism! @tropicsm tropicsofmeta.com/2026/07/07…
Great new piece by Catherine Tan on the mystery surrounding Lolita and Nabokov's own youth tropicsofmeta.com/2026/07/06…
Join Emily Dufton and Dr. Jerome Jaffe, Nixon’s Drug Czar for addiction treatment for a zoom discussion of Dufton’s new book and the longer arc of addiction treatment in the U.S. held by the Library of Congress on April 15, from 2pm to 3pm @emily_dufton tropicsofmeta.com/2026/04/10…
This is so awesome. Glad these people are our most trusted allies xitter.cf/i/trending/20206519492…
the fact that RFK Jr. and HHS are withholding childcare payments is such a great indication of how completely full of shit about whatever they supposedly care about these people are
We're ringing in the New Year with a great new essay from Dr. Kevin Anzzolin about material culture and the iconography of labor in mid-century Mexico! tropicsofmeta.com/2026/01/01…
This is a big deal, especially for ratepayers in Georgia who've been getting soaked by @SouthernCompany & @GeorgiaPower for ages. Bravo!!! georgiarecorder.com/2025/11/…
Honestly, nice to see friend-of-the-blog George back to being a nasty bitch who loves drama xitter.cf/MrSantosNY/status/1985…
Fuck you @CurtisSliwa I HATE YOU, your dumb wife, that stupid Beret of yours and all your fucking cats!
Zohran out here quoting mufucking Eugene Debs in his victory speech. His rizz is an inexhaustible resource nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-new…
Dr. Emily Lu on Fanon's radical approach to psychiatry
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Happy birthday to the hardest working man in the history business, and a total mensch
This is so fucking sad: the legend D'Angelo passed at such an early age metafilter.com/210695/Grammy…
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Many years ago, I was in college and also a huge fan of The Book of Hours by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Today I wonder if this was an adolescent infatuation — one of those things you get into fantastically but later feel embarrassed about... @tropicsm tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/28…
This is an important essay about family history and the memory of the Holocaust by professor Jonathan Ablard. Thank you for sharing it with us tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/19…
I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out... tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/30…
For your Sunday: our weekly #aneurysms reading recs. With a little side of Rilke and Italian pop! @BostonReview @askmetafilter @brainpickings @aeonmag @laist @jacobin @pochogreatermx tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/28…
Why public media like @kexp matter so much to us. We have to fight for this great public treasure that provides so much information and art to us. It's really really important. tropicsofmeta.com/2025/09/26…
The epically talented and wise Kamala Harris has a 300-point plan to carpetbomb any kind of legacy she has left. Now she's saying she wanted Mayo Pete as running mate but decided against because he's gay. Can you imagine making worse of a lose-lose out of this? Just stop talking
