Others have already named most of my favorites in this category (their legends live on) so I'll go with just very a good and underrated one: youtu.be/PjIV2OFoSXs?...

Why start in the colonial period? Because mechanisms of incentivizing certain migrant streams and disincentivizing others are pioneered in the colonial period, carried over & continued in the early republic. Some aspects of today's US immigration law like "public charge" is form the colonial era.

I had a great time talking about Helen of Troy with Evan on BBC Radio 4’s PM just now, and if you want to hear more about the Odyssey, here’s my 28-minute version! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This set of essays, led by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social, is really important. Folks should spend time with them. And their response to the responses reads like two scholars tired of bringing loads of evidence to a fight where some folks are just bringing vibes.

Onder het komende kabinet zien we een terugkeer van de BV-Nederland-gedachte, waarin het hele land als één groot bedrijf wordt voorgesteld.

Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)

Oh right I forgot this the morning I just get the death stare, it's when I do it again tomorrow that things get thrown at me.

PSA if you are planning to get woken up tomorrow by your spouse/partner throwing a pillow angrily at you, this is your LAST CHANCE to change your alarm to the 6:00 am radio from Groundhog Day

"Oh yeah I got a huge payoff betting online on the grammys" People, this is just gross. At least have the dignity to go down to the grammys track like we used to. If someone's grandmother has the dignity to run Suffolk Downs you should have to place your exacta bet in person, not your phone.

Look, not to "hand it" to anyone but the plans for the new Kennedy Center are actually kinda ok looking

One early prediction is a moderate a) resumption of ethnic diversity and b) drop in gender diversity (me, 2015)

I hear the new Dutch coalition agreement includes this (translation): “We are also investigating the introduction of an electoral threshold and a new electoral system for the House of Representatives, in which preferential votes are given more weight.” Fascinating to see how this plays out.

This article, new in Comparative Political Studies, seems relevant The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I went to the college Excel championships in Vegas, spending three days with people who REALLY love competitive spreadsheeting. Come along. Here's how that looked, sounded and felt: washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2026/college-excel-spreadsheet-championships/?itid=sf_sports_toptable_1_0

@ hanscastorp joins Bluesky at age 38, and after a week it is seven years later and he is still 38 but now there is a war going on outside. History keeps happening, on Earth and on Melmac. Nobody is cured (including him), but everyone is slightly better than they were before despite feeling worse.

Oldest child just requested an "everything bagel with nothing on it" and I am not ready for this level of existential conflict this early in the morning

@ hanscastorp joins Bluesky at age 38, and after a week it is seven years later and he is still 38 but now there is a war going on outside. History keeps happening, on Earth and on Melmac. Nobody is cured (including him), but everyone is slightly better than they were before despite feeling worse.

Great post and thread by @donmoyn.bsky.social, but I disagree with the core interpretation. Trump looks less like someone carefully consolidating authoritarian rule, and more like someone gambling for resurrection.

Lees dit interview met Steven Levitsky, een van de meest vooraanstaande democratie-onderzoekers., over de staat van de democratie in de VS. „Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan ik had verwacht.” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Very brief highlights of new Dutch government plans: Defence and security – raise annual budget to €19bn, partly though “freedom contribution“ (extra income tax) worth €3.5bn a year. Armed forces to grow to 122,000. Support Ukraine to join EU and Nato. Create European “Five Eyes” spy network.

I will never actually start a band but about 20 years ago I claimed "Flying Oscar" as a band name and will Forever fight anyone that tries to take it

Today Rev. Michael Neuroth (Director of the UCC Office of Public Policy & Advocacy) was arrested alongside dozens of faith leaders demanding the Senate stop additional funding for ICE. Thank you, Rev. Neuroth, and all the clergy who chose to #PrayWithYourFeet today!

Crew of the Mary Celeste:

Never, in a million kabillion years, when I decided to say "screw it" to mainstream philosophy and started writing about the philosophy of games, could I have imagined that this road would take me down to having the goddamn NY Times profile me and my new book. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

You know you're in the Boston metro when people have strong philosophical critiques of the post-snowstorm parking space practices.

King backs Dutch troops in wake of Trump’s Afghanistan slur www.dutchnews.nl?p=262841

Running for office on a platform of "An Internet so small you could drown it in a bathtub"

Any other political science associate or full professors, remember that we are eligible nominators *but* we are not allowed to disclose information about nominations we choose to make or even if we have made any nominations; govern yourselves accordingly.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Last Richard Thompson thing (whatever) Fairport Convention doing "Sir Patrick Spens" live in 1970 is one of my favorite early live RT performance. Timestamped. Say what you will about the 70s, but at least people were really trying some shit. youtu.be/-2Zc-ROukSI?...

My sister in Seattle made this cake for Minnesota. She says the flavor is "chocolate, caramel, rage." Phone number on the left is the Senate/House switchboard. Call it.

"You don't get to quote Scripture like a lullaby, while injustice stays wide awake"

Not exactly the same as what you're asking, but Android has a feature that can automatically record up to 45 minutes of footage, and automatically share with your emergency contacts. Triggered by pressing the power button 5 times. Located under Safety & Emergency settings.

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

remain surprised. the killing of human beings and the devaluation of human life (in killer and killed human) should remain a shock

this is horrifying, and the difference between the out-of-control federal agents brutalizing this man and the calm, careful residents taking care of his wife, making sure they know the man's name, and promising not to lose track of him is extraordinary.

Someone asked how to help and I truly don't know rn. Our local support networks are strong, we're all doing everything we can. We just want this occupation to end so kids can go to school and parents can go to work and we can all eat tacos and yell about the terrible local sports teams together.

If you are in Massachusetts and looking to support an organization right now, please consider giving to IFSI, which is led by and primarily serves our Haitian immigrant neighbors: www.ifsi-usa.org

This is one of the times you remember patriotism isn’t about flags on the Fourth

If you're in Massachusetts, contact LUCE. You don't have to go out in the streets and observe. They need people (especially bilingual people) to volunteer for the hotline. They need people to help with training and onboarding and data: www.lucemass.org

My dad got off with a relatively mild case, and even then still basically couldn't run or take part in sports for the rest of his life.

this is also a gospel.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Arthur McBride, Minnesota Style (new lyrics in the RT, I’m sharing the video for anyone who doesn’t know the song)!

The Wee Wee Man (Child 38) is an ancient Scottish traditional folk ballad. It can be traced back as far as the 14th century Cotton Manuscript. Only once has a tune for it been preserved. In 2001, from the singing of Stanley Robertson of Aberdeen who heard it from old people as a child in the 1950s.

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Per capita, Denmark had more soldiers killed in Afghanistan than the United States did.