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medievalist. law & literature (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | 📍los angeles carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories elisedwang.com
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"specifically telling press to leave the area" is a phrase that makes my stomach hurt. in an age where every protester has their own camera, it's futile, but they don't want us to see what happens next.

submitted 2 hours ago • 20 comments

Maxine Waters is 86 years old. I would love to know where Newsom is.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

I’m going g to be honest with us all here. If you don’t know anywhere to organize local to you, that’s a choice. I seriously see engagement EVERYWHERE.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

For LA residents who are not used to protesting, please remember to turn off location and Face/Touch ID on your phone. If you do not, police can legally force you to unlock it for them. US v Brown 👇🏽

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I was talking with some friends about when they would join the protests and it occurred to me that everyone thinks they have a “line.” But they kind of expect that line to be self-evident, to happen *to* them. But every line is a decision. You decide to go out or you have decided this is fine.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

BY ANOTHER COP The media is so used to the exonerative tense that it even uses it when other cops are the victims

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Mayor Simon Laushull and his thugs, and how the people of Northampton (almost) held them to account. In 1327, Simon was the former mayor of Northampton.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NO MORE LONG RIDES HOME NO MORE OF YOUR STATION I DIDN'T LIKE IT ANY WAY

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Searchlight is a great name for this new both-sides think tank because they have no moral center, they’re just casting around for whatever sticks

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Mayor Simon Laushull and his thugs, and how the people of Northampton (almost) held them to account. In 1327, Simon was the former mayor of Northampton.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The British Library has acquired a Hebrew dictionary produced at Ramsey Abbey in the Fens, which was (believe it or not) the centre of Hebrew studies among Christians in medieval England

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Turns out acting decisively against fascism is not only morally right, it’s popular too! Who would’ve thought.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 5 days ago • 321 comments

Also I would like to point out that no photographer on earth suggested this “I’m a little pretzel boy” pose. He chose it and practiced it in front of the mirror, like a lot

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote an article with @daveaddison.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social entitled "Capitalism Is Changing, but Not Into “Neofeudalism." We wade into the debate over capitalism, feudalism and where America (and the world) finds itself now. Read: jacobin.com/2025/05/capi... 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

this is very inspirational

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments