mbbendt
American Studies PhDStudent: squeamishly fascinated by religion, capitalism, energy/environment, critical regionalism.
Mom of 2 young adults, 2 cats, about 102 plants.
God-stalker. Grace-freak. Rebel. Union member.
Cats, coffee, chocolate, cheese, chile
- Reposted by mbbendtA beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
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- That kind of nasty migraine day when I crawl into a dark hole with a handy bucket in case of puking.
- Demolish DHS.
- Lent and Ramadan are together this year. So anyone wanting a more interesting Lent than just skipping chocolate might consider contributing to neighbors in need.
- I've been saying since the last trump administration that neoliberalism is not dead, he's just "structurally adjusting" USA.
- I feel like @nuclearanthro.bsky.social needs to know about this library spokescat project
- For $100k/day I'd never need to be presentable in public ever again. So Nov 1 to May 1 ought to be doable.
- Reposted by mbbendtDoing the section on rape as a communal weapon of violence and state policies towards women in South Asia and writing this stuff, as a desi woman, takes it out of me. I have taught this as a core part of my survey of the region my whole career and, over a decade later, it doesn’t get easier.
- Reposted by mbbendtI woke up feeling ready to scrap again. I got some really good advice in grad school for dealing with setbacks and it still works: give yourself the rest of the day to mourn and really feel your feelings—be a caricature, wallow, use all your coping mechanisms. Go to bed, dust off, and move on.
- Reposted by mbbendt“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
- Reposted by mbbendtthere are grad students out there right now whose work is much, much better than that of these abusers we’re learning about today. i’m just saying.
- Ah, February, the FAFO month.
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- I started sobbing so hard the cat came to check on me. It is just such a relief to see him home. May all the families brutalized by this vile regime be quickly reunited to safe homes.
- Winter crop in the high desert. It harvested itself straight into my house. Too bad it is not also self-weeding.
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- Reposted by mbbendtit’s rarer to find an academic who writes about power and who actually brings a meaningful analytic for power to their everyday lives than it is to find an academic who writes about power and who is, in fact, an abuser. yeah, this is about chomsky. but also about academia. we’ve so much work to do.
- The only thing he's guilty of is making me think unchaste thoughts.
- A federal judge dropped two of the charges against Luigi Mangione — the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — making his case no longer eligible for the death penalty. n.pr/4bu41Z8
- I am mostly enjoying this round of writing. And then I have these moments where the imposter syndrome eats me alive and I spend half a day over-thinking and over-researching as if having a hundred more citations will somehow fix me.
- Microsoft word is currently having a tantrum over my preference for "an ubiquitous..." To which I can only say HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO TURN OFF COPILOT BEFORE IT IS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO STAY TURNED OFF.
- Reposted by mbbendtDr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
- "Lookin good, for a human" is going to be my new top backhanded compliment
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- This is also true for reality TV politicians
- Whoever is in charge of cookie procurement* in my house ought to be fired. She says "eat a carrot" like that means something? *it's me
- Behind a car on my way to work, license plate LANDBCK and whoever you are, you made my morning.
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- Pretty sure I read somewhere about all the waste people leave on Everest? Seems like these facts might be connected?
- Reposted by mbbendtI live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.
- Lofton's book Consuming Religion is VERY helpful to understanding some of how things operate these days. Highly recommend!
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- Today I am extra annoyed about mansplainers who think they just invented the parenting classic of "do you want the blue cup or the green cup?"
- Reposted by mbbendtThis hit so fucking hard today.
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- Way more useful than any "AI" writing assistant will ever be.
- But it's a dry heat
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- BRB, gonna go ask my kid to get sick tomorrow so we can have hot tea at home all day.
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- Reposted by mbbendtI just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border. Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE). Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
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- I tend to be a little suspicious of journalists who almost exclusively post cnn clips.
