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Jamelle Bouie’s argument that Trump/Vance/Hegseth view the presence of any person or color or woman in a position if power as automatic evidence of ‘DEI’ trumping merit is bolstered on a daily basis

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In 1976, 10.98M students enrolled in US higher ed, of whom 9.08 were white. In 2000, 15.31M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom 10.52M were white. In 2020 19.03M students enrolled in US higher education, of whom were 9.82M were white. All growth is non-white.

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Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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Reasons to fear lasting damage from the unrelenting Trump assault

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The worst ethnic cleansing in the West Bank since 1967 is taking place in the last few weeks. About 40,000 have been ordered to leave three refugee camps. This is from Jenin.

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Preliminary approval: Five years in prison for anyone who publishes information that will be used by the ICC. Legal expert: If the bill is approved, any journalist who publishes an investigation about a crime committed by soldiers will be exposed to imprisonment.

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AI mistakenly tagged an Excel spreadsheet of Palestinian high school students as a list of militants in the system that Israel uses to decide how to launch strikes. apnews.com/article/isra...

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The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

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Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

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Thank you!

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“The Cumberland Valley already has relatively poor air quality, so additional warehouses could be problematic,” Shippensburg University professor says: news.ship.edu/2025/02/14/s...

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That the Byzantine-Sassanian war of 602-628 CE is so little known popularly (which, making it into a quality movie could help) is too bad. Few events are as pivotal to that stretch of late antiquity, including the large role it played in the context of the rise of Islam.

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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Personally I’m just glad free speech and academic freedom are protected again, and we’ve gotten rid of all that political correctness www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I learned in grad school that most things necessary to understanding the modern world happened in the last 200 years. Then I did a bit more studying and it seems that was just when contemporary-focused people kinda stopped reading

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Join the discussion with @dieterichward.bsky.social on Wednesday, February 19th, at 12pm. This month's topic is African Americans in Pennsylvania Conservation History. #cradleofconservation #pahistory

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What's the next body of water to be renamed? Maybe Lake Assad Syria's largest lake, it formed when Tabqa Dam was built on the Euphrates River in 1974 Displacing thousands, the lake flooded archaeological sites dating to 13,000 BCE, including one with the world's first evidence of agriculture

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Listen to my Shippensburg colleague Dr. Christine Senecal on representations of Africans in medieval Europe!

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Historians: If you want to encourage the AHA Council to rescind its veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza and put the resolution to a vote of all AHA members, add your name to this petition: www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

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Legislators restricting academic programs – using “Return on Investment” as a smokescreen for ideological censorship – is “paternalistic overreach at best, intentional political censorship at worst.” Read more from PEN America’s Clare Carter here: pen.org/cuts-to-acad...

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The main thrust of my work on Turkish authoritarianism is that it leveraged pre-existing weaknesses in Turkish democracy. I see the same in the US. Politicized courts, a dysfunctional legislature, and a grievance fueled right which has given up on science and expertise. We didn't get here by magic

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Listen to my Shippensburg colleague Dr. Christine Senecal on representations of Africans in medieval Europe!

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"The book seeks to address major gaps about #Bollywood film circulation and how the film industries in India and the Middle East are connected. My research, by establishing the history of circulations, also makes sense of incomplete data on the history of the film industries"

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Everyone familiar with communist systems, or Baath governments in Syria and Iraq, knows what this means.

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This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

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This message is approved by Queen Margaret I & the Kalmar Union Foundation!

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And if the war resumes... I think we'll see "Trump Plan" in action. Ethnic cleansing of millions. Much sooner than I thought

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When I was a kid, we got water delivered in tubes that went straight into your house. Just like the Jetsons.

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The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested. The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city. via @nirhasson.bsky.social

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Weird to be posting about anything other than Trump’s madness, but as always, turning to women for hope! My piece @carnegieendowment.org explores lived experiences of women in Saudi study abroad programs & their role in the monarchy’s shifting gender landscape! carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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Thought this was pretty funny

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I'm reviving my classical Arabic literature account here, so if you want to follow it it's @arabicpoetry.bsky.social -- at the moment it's just the four or five things I've posted here but I'm aspiring to post something interesting once or twice a week.

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Excited that this is out! "A social and political history of how medicine, disease, and public health transformed life in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s oil boom"

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I’m thrilled to announce that my book, provisionally titled “Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade” is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Excited for it to be out in the world in 2026!

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What a historical moment. Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.

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Microsoft should simply remove the "like button/reactions" feature from Outlook. They are not compatible with the paradigm of email.

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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

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Is there an AI that does isnad-cum-matn analysis yet?

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