profmkbyrnes.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

submitted 15 hours ago • 353 comments

Ramadan kareem to all who celebrate!

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes! Mine say the same. Fascinating turn of events.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

congratulations to everyone who did not write this www.wsj.com/opinion/if-i...

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 15 days ago • 604 comments

There is a lot of talk about blue states resisting, etc. and this educator would humbly suggest that this is not the way forward. I refuse to leave our people in red states behind. The Civil Rights Movement came from the Deep South. Red state progressives are some of the hardest working activists.

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

I wrote about Kendrick Lamar Superbowl performance-- its subversive messaging about America being a rigged, deadly game of survival-- especially for Black people. But we need to stop pretending revolution is going to come from celebrities. It'll come from us. Gift link here: wapo.st/42JVBs6

submitted 18 days ago • 107 comments

Asha has some vital pre kickoff misinformation check here.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

🧵 Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how they would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 20 days ago • 546 comments

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

submitted 19 days ago • 64 comments

Headed into the weekend, a gentle reminder that this whirlwind is specifically designed to make us feel exhausted, overwhelmed, resigned, & sapped of energy, and that it is more important now than ever to connect with your community. Hug your family, check on your friends, walk in your neighborhood.

submitted 21 days ago • 114 comments

Why USAID matters: www.instagram.com/p/DFvma1-yNA...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

More. Of. This.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Making these for every big ag state tonight. US foreign assistance supports farmers and producers at home.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 617 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 30 days ago • 2440 comments

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

"We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril." I wrote about the basements of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, what I learned there about historical method - and why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. 🗃 #histsci buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

Another important read for today "In the days ahead it will appear that they are winning, and we are losing. But if we use this opportunity to go deeper, to deal with the roots of our problems and national dysfunction, then we will be playing the long game - chess, not checkers."

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Yes to all this.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced local immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

submitted 102 days ago • 343 comments

We are looking for an activist or scholar in residence for publicly engaged humanities for next year. Please share with your networks--and consider coming to help us out for a year. Happy to answer questions. www.southwestern.edu/live/news/16...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

submitted 110 days ago • 87 comments

Somebody in your community is doing immigrant support already. Please take 10 minutes tomorrow and figure out who it is.

submitted 110 days ago • 22 comments

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋 go.bsky.app/Uf5.5iT

submitted 112 days ago • 55 comments

Helluva day to be teaching the Nuremberg Trials and their descriptions of the Nazi rise to power.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

I know we all know this but no one will care that Elon broke immigration laws because all of this is completely about white nationalism and everyone knows it but has to go on tv and pretend it’s about other things so everyone can go to work next week like things are normal

submitted 125 days ago • 9 comments

We call this the "moral equivalent of midnight."

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Couldn't possibly say it better.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

When hometown history has an element of horror. I likely spent years near this stone but never looked closely enough.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

Structural racism at work.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

speaking from my positionality as a geriatric millennial and looooong time teacher of gen z, I feel it must be said: I love them

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

Warm and excited bienvenue to @parisnoire.bsky.social !

submitted 201 days ago • 0 comments

well

submitted 303 days ago • 2 comments

Yes.

submitted 327 days ago • 0 comments

This is where we find ourselves. Solidarity with UT folks and all the pressures they are under from absurd TX state laws: academeblog.org/2024/03/25/a...

submitted 339 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, French historians! The @sfhs.bsky.social will have a virtual Grad Student Research Showcase before the annual meeting & I'll be hosting! Send a proposal to [email protected] by 2/25. The event will take place 3/3. Grad students, pls consider submitting - & advisors, share with students!

submitted 389 days ago • 3 comments

🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!

submitted 390 days ago • 1 comment