All of those churches who turned away the woman looking for formula to feed her hungry baby will soon be retelling the story of the pregnant woman who was turned away at the inn and forced to put her newborn baby in a manger.

I welcome this administration

211 is a national hotline number that refers people to service providers-including for SNAP benefits Since Trump refused to fund the program, calls to the number have QUADRUPLED And while millions of Americans are desperate to feed their families Trump is throwing lavish parties at Mar-a-Lago

Bird friends: is this a Northern Flicker? I’ve actually never seen one before

“Some hospitals still sterilized patients against their will as the price for agreeing to offer an abortion.” Karen Weingarten reminds us of Lawrence Lader’s book “Abortion,” the first book to make a case for repealing all abortion laws.

LOL.

Do the math. It don’t add up

Every once in a while I'll stumble across an advertisement for some luxury car and think "Even if I was extremely rich, why would I buy that when I could instead buy several museum-quality dinosaur casts?"

Happy Sunday!

Meet Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the historian whose expertise is on Black women, ensuring ‘The Gilded Age’ drama rings true news.emory.edu/stories/2025... 'We have an opportunity to show something that’s never been onscreen. We have to widen this lens.'

Honestly, isn’t military history and a singular focus on wars and battles the ultimate “grievance studies”?

In 2013, the remains of 36 Black people were uncovered in downtown Charleston. They had lain hidden for some 200 years in an unmarked 18th-century burial ground. myclintonnews.com/stories/opin... Gullah Geechee traditions and descendant collaboration shaped scholarly investigation & reinterment.

The Heritage Foundation is making it clear exactly whose heritage matters, in their eyes.

I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this. Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage. Let people find joy where they can, please.

Lolololol. What a scammer

Why do all bot and spam accounts have some version of “No DMs” in their bio? Genuine question. Do they think it makes them look more authentic? It’s a dead giveaway to me.

I know Slaughterhouse-Five is often on banned books lists but I do think it’s funny how these books from the 60s and 70s full of the most “woke” ideas out there mostly slide under the radar cause they are written by an old white man

The amount of people who think this is a funny gotcha moment is shocking. It’s gross ableism, no matter what side of the aisle you are on

Men will literally destroy the planet to build an AI to create weird images of girls to tell them that they're loved instead of going to therapy.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper. They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer. If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help." 🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

That's...creepy. she's definitely going to murder you, dude.

I'm incredibly moved by this piece by @lmansley.bsky.social in AHA's Perspectives on History. I've watched Laura's professional track over the years and I've been proud to be a small part of her journey. Please read and share widely! I also think it's an important piece to share with grad students.

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

I think what we’re learning from the new Frankenstein is that almost no one responsible for writing about the new Frankenstein has ever read Frankenstein.

Excellent response to THAT op-ed.

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

I mean, who doesn’t want to watch a woman skillfully gild a hedgehog skull?

Trump "has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there... but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are." @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

you don't say

This forthcoming book from @lollardfish.bsky.social looks good: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

My spouse pointed out that I’m weird because I follow dress restoration accounts, a lady who does gold gilding, and a whole lotta drag queens.

This guy beautifully restores this 116-year-old wedding dress. And he does it all while wearing his cowboy hat

Omg

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

get in bitch we're destroying the west

of course this was going to happen

I sort of love this!

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

November 8th marks Intersex Day of Remembrance. Intersex Day of Remembrance is a day to remember those who are no longer with us and highlight issues that the Intersex community face. We stand in solidarity with our Intersex siblings, team members and supporters! #IntersexDayOfRemembrance

Great American panics

That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating

Southern California in the early 80s.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Because I'm a historian of medicine and often have to look up images or documents on medical disinformation, I have the "pleasure" of seeing what the algorithm can do. Searching for an image of an anti-vax rally for my PowerPoint and now I'm getting allllll these suggestions. @bachynski.bsky.social

Stay tuned for the definitive and possibly magisterial Watson biography!

Yeah, I’m not a Schumer fan, but this is just smart politics.

Every Watson obituary should begin with some variant of "James Watson, whose uncredited use of Rosalind Franklin's research led to fame, fortune, and the Nobel Prize..."

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.