David M. Perry

Hello Bluesky #BookSky! The Public Scholar is out today from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. You can buy it everywhere books are sold. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 Order from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and I'll sign it - moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-... You can read an excerpt here. (1)

If you're a fan of my work, if I could ask a favor... Quote post the post below with what it is that you like most about the things I do. bsky.app/profile/kate...

Yeah, when ppl were saying “but algebra” I winced a little. Good intentions but not punching a hole in his dumb argument. As others pointed out, all of those prizes maintain *actual lists* of their awardees. Perusal shows just how enormous JFK’s lie is.

ffs stop it (a thread saying my point in much more detail)

I've been thinking and thinking about why this isn't treated as the HUGE news it is, and I think it's that the report comes from Democrats, which makes coverage seem partisan. (To be clear, that's really stupid if true.)

"Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee released a 52-page report titled 'We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up.' Within the report are new details…"

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

“In the classroom, [educator Ebony Webster] has noticed students asking for more food, or for leftovers of a friend’s meal. Sometimes the free school meals are the only ones students get, she said… With SNAP access decreasing, she has seen an increase in community need for food pantries.”

this (the book) is my next read. arrived from my library an hour ago.

It was actually better when the bigotry was subtext.

Guessing two things are going on: 1) the need to verify an extremely serious allegation, which I respect; 2) this story being “more of the same” or what we already think/know about Trump, which is problematic. Him being a good guy would be news, but him being accused of rape is just Tuesday

no amnesty

This feels related to how happy I am when a student paper has an awkward sentence or other indication that it was written by an actual human being. The work might not be perfect or even always good, but I'll choose that over cheap and fake every time. @ironspike.bsky.social @lollardfish.bsky.social

This resurfaces and again, highly credible and under-reported by the big political press: people.com/former-miss-...

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

I highly recommend hanging out with left-wing Brazilians right now. It will lift your spirits. 

this is not top of the list by any means but I would like to hear what NYU has to say for itself here

Now that's an October Surprise.

The children yearn for the medieval (laudatory) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I'm just going to put this here: wordtimecalculator.com/minutes-to-w... You're welcome #AARSBL26

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

It's a great day to unfollow @file770.bsky.social, which has become a Nazi bar.

Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Screening. First in Chapel Hill. This Thursday. See you there. www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/event/power-...

I hope it has a happy ending

I talk to a lot of people about starting magazines and they always reject my suggestion that a 1000-1500 word piece is a good solid length that new readers will start and finish. Everyone wants to publish long form stuff and they want to do it right away! Anyway that's what T's post brought to mind.

Oh no

I was blocked which is fair tbh

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.