Brandon Menke
Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism
- Reposted by Brandon Menke1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeThe Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
- Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.
- “There's tens of millions of people who are looking at the odds. And it's mid-hundreds of thousands of people who are trading,” says Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. His ultimate goal? A billion users. cbsn.ws/3KiKkIs
- I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeThis is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeAs you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkePost-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
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- Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeWe have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
- Reposted by Brandon Menke“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””
- Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.
- Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
- Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeOver the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...
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- An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
- Reposted by Brandon Menke“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
- Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
- I love everything about this.
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- I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
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Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... - Reposted by Brandon Menkei think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year
- Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeFortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
- What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?
- Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeSen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeWhy are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
- Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeJust a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeIf you use chatgpt you're stupid. It's confirmed
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeI signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeZohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...
- This just happened to Sen. Alex Padilla, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. Totally abhorrent, thuggish behavior.
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- Reposted by Brandon MenkeAlice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeWe need something like a Fair Trade or EnergyStar logo for outlets that promise zero slop. Rigorously audited, zero tolerance enforcement. Then let consumers decide what that's worth.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeWill never understand those who look at the homeless and understand *themselves* as victims—of inconvenience.
- Reposted by Brandon Menkelol. she thinks it's a town lending library?
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeOkay just one more. Fresh fruit slices on a panel by Margaret Fabrizio. Seen at her gallery in San Francisco. #quilt #art
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- Reposted by Brandon MenkeThis statistic blew my mind
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeIsraeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeGonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeAs the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic. cbsn.ws/4ionCJG
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- Reposted by Brandon MenkeIf we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again. Trump killed it on day 2.
- A thing of beauty for April 14, 2025: "Amaryllis" (c. 1923), watercolor over graphite, by Charles Demuth.
- Another way is possible.
- Reposted by Brandon Menke"There are a lot of fake White Houses in the US. Most of them can be found in or around the area of McLean, Virginia, the ground zero of DC blob sickos whose job it is to mete out the ratio of lethality and economy for weapons manufacturers."
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeHouse Republicans voted to overturn the CFPB's cap on excessive overdraft fees — which was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually. The House also struck down CFPB oversight over payment apps run by Big Tech companies. The GOP is the party of letting you get ripped off.
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- Reposted by Brandon MenkeAccording to the U-M President, 22 international students have had their visas revoked in the last week.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeBREAKING: AFSCME, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and @democracyforward.org sue the Trump Administration to stop the wrongful closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. www.afscme.org/press/releas...
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeThis is a criminal administration whose leaders need to be removed from office and tried for their crimes.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeDans la danse du jour 2024 Encre de chine et encre pigmentée sur papier 20 x 21,5
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeReal mystery as to why this happened. Looking forward to the NYT and other major US news outlets spending years pretending that there’s no clear motivation for this.
- Reposted by Brandon MenkeIf "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead
- Reposted by Brandon Menkebut then i suppose that if you spend all day reading trash like bari weiss’s rag you will come away knowing less than nothing
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- Reposted by Brandon MenkeI have made CHEESE BOYS
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