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oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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Doing some role playing this week with a recreated Trial of Socrates & whether or not to reinstate democracy or oligarchy in Athens after the Peloponnesian Wars. Am currently selecting which dice seem most appropriate for animal sacrifice & Alcibiades' attempted coup... Big decisions. #RTTP #RPG

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Texas peeps, it's getting closer. If in doubt that you've had two doses, go get another. Costco was happy to give me a booster.

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My teaching assistant Cassian with his doppelgänger

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Some good replies here. One more plug though - Maintenance Phase @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social did 4 (!) cool episodes on Oprah. She’s not great y’all

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Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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The entire thread here is fabulous, but today I’m loving the thread-within-a-thread on Edmonia Lewis 🖤

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Mikvehs and monks: Vivid hues link rare Jewish and Christian finds in Judean Desert | The Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/mikvehs-and-...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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Illinois Gov Pritzker: "Tyranny requires your fear ... Democracy requires your courage."

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WTF

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As always, @rtraister.bsky.social is right. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Happy birthday to Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture & science and built the Cheomseongdae moon & star-gazing observatory. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬🔭#histsci Known for her intelligence, wisdom & 🧵

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My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

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Sigh. Maybe he’ll let me work on it tomorrow

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Thanks, Paul, for pointing to this. Am going to do a thing I rarely do, which is post without footnotes! Three points: 1. The way to defund the humanities has always been through de-legitimizing the value of humanities research and teaching. Not new, but an accumulating menace . 1/

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It IS happening and has been since 2019. FL was the testing ground for it by 2020

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Good advice, FYI

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We are really on our own now

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Promoting diversity is not a crime.

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It is important to celebrate the wins when we get them.🥳 President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Cleaning to 70s Funk and Soul because joy and resistance in equal measure are good for my health today

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Day 14: Early Modern Black Boys w/ Parrots In paintings where the central figures were yt & had Black figures in the background, that framing sometimes depict status & wealth. We undo those readings & focus on the marginal figures who were special ppl in their own right. 🧶 #BHM #indieyarndyer 1/8

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On Valentine's Day, gotta love this fan from @wellesley.edu Davis Museum featured in a post @ #Enfilade18thc #18thc today: "Land of Matrimony" / "Land of Celibacy" 💘 💒 enfilade18thc.com/2025/02/14/e...

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Delighted to be giving an invited talk on the origins of NPR, PBS, and public media, for affiliates and stations themselves. It’s an open talk and all are invited to sign up.

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I have been struggling to articulate how the NEA’s grant changes make me feel & what to say about it because it feels like a moment where finding the right words is a matter of profound importance I found them in my inbox today in an email from New Harmony entitled “Our Values Are Not For Sale”

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A depressingly well-argued case, from my friend Eric Schnurer, that things are worse than they seem. ericschnurer.substack.com/p/inevitabil... (He is, among other things, an expert in PA politics. Around 9pm Nov 5 I was talking with him. "She's not going to get enough votes from Philly...")

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I work at a Hispanic-serving institution where we’ve never asked for citizenship before. Now I wonder how many of my students will fail to show up for classes at all. It’s a travesty and while we won’t all suffer equally, we WILL all suffer from this

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