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Ah, yes, a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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It was disturbing to be in court today. As I wrote: [I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

Reviving this quote from the historian Marc Bloch, killed in 1944 while resisting the Nazis in France. #medievalsky "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds." (Macbeth, 4.3.45-47)

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This article is a helpful look at the impact that Trump and DOGE are having on Kansas City. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Then maybe we should stop wasting money canceling contracts, causing justified lawsuits, and paying to incarcerate people in other countries, and instead spend on expanding /revising immigration courts.

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The divergence here from two companies with very similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 14 days ago • 1622 comments

Yes

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

submitted 14 days ago • 362 comments

"The idea that caring about others could end civilization may seem extreme, but it comes amid a growing wave of opposition to empathy from across the American right." (Not a comfortable read in places.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

NASA’s budget would be slashed nearly in half under Trump’s current proposal to Congress—a move that would wipe out billions in ongoing and future missions. Wonder who that benefits? (Sarcasm, of course.)

submitted 18 days ago • 77 comments

This is a really important point about how the NEH and the Perseus Project has made the ancient world open to all. The cutting of funding this past week continues to break all of our hearts but also to put the walls and silos of traditional academia back up.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

This sort of shit scares me way, way more than the downfall of capitalism.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

How your email finds me:

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

O.o

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

They are Wednesday Afternoon massacring the IRS in service of committing possibly the largest privacy violation ever.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Listening now. What I'm hearing as an alum & as a humanist: 1) lack of due process or investigation in what govt did to Columbia. Q: was antisemitism really the concern? A: there was no due process to investigate. Q: how does this compare to '50s Red Scare? A: threat to academic freedom is paramount

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

submitted 19 days ago • 251 comments

No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Want to know more about a general strike? Here's a helpful explainer from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @ladyizdihar.bsky.social. #AltGov

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

I can't be at the #handsOff march here in Atlanta, but I am marching in spirit!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

👇👇👇

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To academics who are currently organizing conferences: 1st, thank you! 2d, if your conference will be in the UK or Canada, pls consider hybrid options that would enable grad student presenters, those esp who are now in the US as international students, to present remotely.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

submitted 25 days ago • 428 comments

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Wesleyan Michael Roth on Trumpism’s exploitation of anti-antisemitism for other ends.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

What I really don't understand is why they had to get to the "find out" stage before getting worried ......

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

AHA member @kawulf.bsky.social writes in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: "We must know, and share, what information we have about the vital role and situation of Humanities research and infrastructure across the country, and the impact in communities across the country." 🗃️

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The layoffs have already started this morning at all of the major US auto manufacturers. Meanwhile, Trump went golfing with his Billionaire Saudi pals for the next 4 days.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

when CNBC picks up what you’ve been saying FOREVER →

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow's Coffee Morning open to all Bodleian Staff, at the Visitors Scholar Centre in the Weston Library. Tea and coffee provided!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Very sad to see this www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 28 days ago • 601 comments

Leave your leaves!🍁 Let them accumulate at the bases of trees and in between them. Larval fireflies live in that leaf litter. You’ll notice that most of your adult fireflies lift off at night in stands of trees and brush. Beautiful to watch in midsummer.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I'm watching Cory Booker right now on C-SPAN trying his best to do this filibuster! Go Corey, Go Corey!

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Cory Booker is literally making a stand tonight. Will any other Democratic Senators join him? Will they speak the anger and frustration voiced by their constituents? We are angry af. Are you, our chosen leaders?

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.

submitted 28 days ago • 131 comments

The Politics of Misadventure at Camelot www.medievalists.net/2020/03/the-... #Arthurian

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