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THIS is the pilot you want in this environment.

submitted 20 hours ago • 981 comments

Just as wasteful as Reagan taking the solar panels off the White House.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The DFG project “How Sasanian Science and Literature passed on to the Muslims. A Reassessment of Cultural Transfer by Translation in Late Antiquity” at the Ruhr-Universität is hiring a research associate. jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater. I was three. We brought my newborn sister who thankfully slept through the whole thing. The line that went around the building and we were entertained by a guy in a Darth Vader costume.

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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

If the series of university wide emails I've received over the past 24 hours are any indication (announcement of end of all DEI initiatives followed by a series of overnight messages about campus wide power outages, still ongoing), diversity was literally the University of Cincinnati's power.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 489 comments

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

submitted 9 days ago • 556 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 8 days ago • 135 comments

Alright #MideastMedievalists late game syllabus help. What's everyone's favorite sections of the Shahnameh to give students in an undergrad ME History survey?

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

donald trump has ordered the IRS to hand over all of your personal information to a Holocaust denier who works for the richest man on Earth, who is a Nazi

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

Cutting funding for kids with disabilities but no word yet about the billions of dollars in subsidies to any of Musk's companies.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Great show from Mdou Moctar at the Woodward Theater tonight. Check em out when they're in your town.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉

submitted 16 days ago • 147 comments

Again: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! We have to make plain what is being torn away from us!!

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

If you live in Ohio, would you consider sending a letter to your state legislators about SB1/HB6, dubbed the Higher Education Destruction Act? actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

USAID friends are asking this video be shared on social media at 5:30pm eastern, as En Mk has spent $40M on a Super Bowl ad to trash USAID, which accounts for 1% of the federal budget. Please spread the word. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

One of the rare university administrators who actually appears to understand what we are up against: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Don't be blaming Cincinnati for this suburban foolishness.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

'Not economically viable': Florida citrus industry rocked by Trump tariff tiff www.alternet.org/trump-tariff/

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

No worries, one of the teenagers who now has all your tax information is linked to Russian and Chinese hackers. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Suggestion to Americans: If you used a current bank account with funds on a recent tax return, it may be wise to contact your bank and request a change. Account and routing numbers are accessible, and Elon Musk’s staff have access to this information. Stay safe and protect your assets.

submitted 23 days ago • 304 comments

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

Rascal @rowanzeoli.bsky.social attended a January 6th wargame days after the inauguration.

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

"Rebellion and State-Building in Early Islam: The Case of the Zubayrid Caliphate" Join the next talk in our lecture series to hear Hassan Bouali (Paris Nanterre) talk about the second fitna and the Zubayrid polity! Next Tues, 11 Feb, 4:00 pm CET on Zoom! Email [email protected] to register!👇

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 24 days ago • 77 comments

Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected] MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!

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Bruce MacKinnon Editorial Cartoonist: "I drew this last November 26th knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper in the country would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 26 days ago • 132 comments

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

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Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

submitted 29 days ago • 122 comments