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I am a US citizen, and I support Ukraine; I support Palestine. I believe in the right of the Ukrainian and Palestinian peoples to live and thrive unmolested, under their own sovereignty. Words can’t be everything, but they’re also not nothing. And this feels important to say just now. 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

The United States doesn’t support Ukraine as a favor, but because it serves our security. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky. Putin started the war, not Zelensky. Yelling in the Oval Office and siding with Putin is shameful and a danger to democracy around the world.

submitted 11 hours ago • 78 comments

This is great coverage for Communities of Liberation, so good to see.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Just to clarify: they have already taken away teaching, research, and travel opportunities—they want to take more. This isn’t a reasonable way to run an educational institution—I hope you’ll agree and join in!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Strike days have been announced at Newcastle. PGR students, come out to the picket lines!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Last spring I was asked to write a piece with tips on how to suss out AI-generated images. I countered that that premise weakens democracy by promoting the idea that everyone can claim expertise regardless of their credentials, a key tenet of anti-democratic technoutopianism. What strikes me now…1/n

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

If you only have one cat I highly recommend a second cat so you can have a lap warmer over the blanket and a side warmer for under the blanket as well

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is not a new observation but it's really hard to just go about my day and wash dishes and do my little emails when every headline is either TRUMP DECLARES HARAMBE NEW NATIONAL BIRD or RUBIO SAYS USA WILL ANNEX MOON, DEPORT ILLEGALS THERE

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

McConnell being the lone no vote on any of this is like Godzilla offering to repaint a window sill after destroying Tokyo

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

I’m preparing for the upcoming @stationerscomms.bsky.social Archives Evening dedicated to women’s involvement in the Company, and this is one of my favourite finds so far: receipt of Mary Woolaston, who served “as Butler on the last Venison Feast August last,” dated 20 September 1720

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Saw some nice bishop’s marks today (an early postmark—here on the far left, next to the tear on the edge). This one is on a letter aptly sent to a bookseller working at a shop named “the Bishop’s Head”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not on TikTok but I need everyone to know that Mt. Washington is the best mountain because it will absolutely stone cold murder you. All 6,288 feet of it. Even in summer.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

A lot of the material I’m working with this week are receipts that have been unfolded and placed in mylar, but today I found this tiny survivor that retains its folds. A simple receipt, tucked up and once sealed, to make its own envelope!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Spent over two hours today in the British Library’s exhibition on medieval women. They did such an amazing job with this. Go see it if you can!

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Yesterday: My mom, perennial worrier: “…and London is safe, right??” Me: “London is very safe.” Today: /man follows me determinedly around a Tesco Express, meowing/

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

No reason for perfectly good forms to go to waste just because of regime change

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

History has consistently demonstrated that direct support for authoritarianism is relatively narrow. It thrives through surrender and acquiescence by elite institutions.

submitted 39 days ago • 17 comments

Well well well, if it isn’t the leopards, indiscriminately eating faces! Sad

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

vance is lying and knows he’s lying but even if he weren’t, “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” may be true in some other political system but it has never been true in the american political system

submitted 19 days ago • 252 comments

I don’t understand why liberal politicians are trying to brand themselves as “just right wing enough” instead of forging their own path leftward. I mean, when I say I don’t understand, it’s mostly because I know why—they were always much the same as their conservative colleagues from the start.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re from NH, please call or email our democratic senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and ask them why the heck they’ve voted to confirm 8(!) nominees, including Chris Wright, Scott Bessant, and Marco Rubio.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

This new collaborative CDP PhD between York and @nationaltrust.bsky.social on the material culture of Angelica Kauffman sounds excellent!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments