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Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
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Listen to these words delivered by Senator Raphael Warnock!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Correct. My European friends are quite reasonably appalled when I tell them that in the US you have to spend down your assets paying for nursing care until you qualify for Medicaid, and only then will Medicaid pay for nursing home care, while Medicare pays for medical treatments.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

"Cull." They're not deer, #BrokenTimes. They are public servants. They are people.

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

Today (Feb 22) in 1943, three courageous young people in the group White Rose were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. Sophie Scholl: "The greatest damage is caused by the silent majority that just wants to survive, submit and go along with everything."

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

When you visit the parks enjoy your time and you see the rangers smiling and helping. Just remember that they probably didn't sleep the night before and that they probably spent the evening crying. We've also been secretly training bears to use tasers so if you're an asshole...

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

I hate to be the one to get into semantics, but he won’t have that name if he’s Pope. You guys forget he’ll have to take a new hallowed name like Pope Calzonepuck XIV

submitted 5 hours ago • 31 comments

This is an article that prefigures very accurately what we will be reading about American (and American based) scientists in about ten months. The collapse of the top scientific research network in the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Americans don't like to be told what to do, Eric Brooks said, so having a banned books section makes good business sense. (Kut News)

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Absolutely.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

His brain is cooked

submitted 5 hours ago • 99 comments

Fun fact: something like 47% of preventable birth related deaths happen AFTER the immediate postpartum period. Access to solid follow-up care saves lives.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

Always great to be back in Philadelphia! Spending the week at Penn as the 25th Hyde Visitor in Ancient History—a great honor, not least because I remember the 1st Hyde Visitor when I was a grad student here! Lots of activities & a lecture: "Backwaters of the Roman Empire: The Case of Marmarica"

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

this guy would (very seriously) be a good pope and not just because he has the final boss of dope-ass Italian names

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

The stage of capitalism where companies advertise on a Nazi porn site for fear of government reprisal. gizmodo.com/it-sure-look...

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

Vor einem Jahr in Dresden. Gilt auch für die Bundestagswahl

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Reposting from @ericadyork.bsky.social on the other site but the office of the United States Trade Representative named countries composing ~90% of US trade as of “particular interest” for new tariffs.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

AP Lit prompt, 1959: Books have been attacked, suppressed, or disapproved of by authorities...Select a work which you admire and which you propose to defend against possible objections...Base your defense on...language, the people in it, its mood and spirit, and consequently its artistic purpose

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

This is terrible. It has widespread downstream consequences. It will lead to entire university healthcare systems collapsing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The reason behind canceling our “Wild to Mild” influenza vaccine campaign is revealed. “Informed consent”. Vaccines ALREADY require informed consent. And we do not consent to the spread of vaccine disinformation that could costs the lives of millions of people. #RFKJrlies #vaccinessavelives

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments