Obsessed with this lady in the background

This kind of thing is why @danwphilosophy.bsky.social idea of a “marketplace of rationalizations” is useful. People are more willing to make up (supply) absurd things because there’s such a strong demand for them. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Me: Didn't get much sleep last night because of a sick kid, but I'm feeling pretty good! I think I can pull today off! Also me: *puts the coffeepot away in the fridge after pouring my mug*

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

This is precisely it. A historian doesn't just mush together a bunch of texts. And like 90% of the stuff she pulled wouldn't be available for AI to draw from.

At lemonade prices? Sign me up!

Law & History Review is pleased to announce publication of our joint special issue with The William and Mary Quarterly: New Legal Histories of the American Revolution [vol. 44, no. 1, Feb., 2026] Here is our table of contents with links. ALL articles are open access ✅ and ready for download/view.

Me emailing HH about Corey Williams, who was wrongfully sentenced to death for an alleged crime he committed at 16.

Cool to see them admit that the experience of air travel for the majority of people is a literal punishment

""Rather than slinking into a quiet retirement, Adams did what no American president before or since has done: he returned to Congress." Good to be reminded of committed public service at the founding. @lmchervinsky.bsky.social for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social www.inpursuit.org/lessons/shor...

A reminder to be careful about what jobs we apply for

Amplifying this and expressing my deep gratitude to and admiration for the very many Jewish friends and colleagues who remain at the moral and strategic center of Palestine liberation movements.

The “everything is about profit” take of exploitative capitalist systems is how and why economic historians continue to miss the boat on racial capitalism. It’s simply beyond their profit-maximization framework, but it’s an essential element of historical economic organization and development.

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

I'm SO excited to talk about some badass historical fairy tales with @janeharrington.bsky.social at the Virginia Festival of the Book! Come see me! vahumanities.cventevents.com/event/bookfe...

Happy Evacuation Day! While Boston celebrates the retreat of the British in 1776, let's also remember the Black Bostonians who found their freedom by leaving Massachusetts with the British. Pompey Fleet was a skilled printer enslaved by the Fleet family (printers/booksellers/auctioneers) in Boston

Holy cow

Are the US and Israel waging war on Iran’s cultural heritage? https://aje.news/xnrhaz

“New organizations such as Moms for Liberty joined forces with more established parental rights organizations like the Home School Legal Defense Association and mobilized rapidly, translating localized grievances into a national discourse on governmental control and intrusion into family life.”

While dropping off his kids, federal agents detained an Afghan refugee who served alongside U.S. special forces. He died less than 24 hours later. This is the 43rd death in ICE custody since Trump retook office. We need accountability and justice for all those who’ve died under their watch.

Doxxing myself with Airforce Museum, Erie Canal, Serpent Mound, Artifical flavor chemical factory

WUNC's Brian Burns recently chatted with Durham-based folk artist Anjimile about his new record "You're Free To Go." Anjimile begins a three night residency at The Fuzzy Needle in Durham tonight. www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...

Like their reputation deserves to be damaged though.

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

A man threatened me at my town hall last night. I want to tell you exactly what happened. 🧵 #mepolitics

Ah yes, of course.

Martha McTier encouraging William Drennan to publish in 1783: 'If you have equal talents ... make use of them - gain the honour and enjoy it. ... for politics now ceases to be local, and so great and open the foundation, every man may build upon it that has materials.'

@lhaasis.bsky.social any thoughts on what "F.E." might mean under the "age" column in a royal navy document?

See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !

"I have mentioned already a fact about slave ownership: that ordinary, even good, human beings will nearly always exploit those over whom they have absolute power. We have only to read the actual history of slavery in all all centuries and cultures to see that." Like, yup. That's it! Nicely put!

Let me be clear. There will not be a budget with Glenn Youngkin’s Data Center tax breaks in it. Glenn drove up YOUR utility bills to give tax breaks to data centers. Strong as battleship steel, I will fight for affordability for the people and encourage Gov Spanberger to join me.

Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #History

this is like the same stuff they said about why we shouldn‘t end slavery.

Truly "If it is to be said so it be so it is" level answers

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

I just had to fill out one of those "are you human" tests to access a website but the images were AI generated, so I had to guess whether the monstrously huge "hat" which took up an entire sidewalk and bled into a brick building counted as a "hat." I guessed no. I was wrong.

Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Tried to explain daylight savings to my two year old in terms she could understand, and I clearly failed, because she got really mad and yelled that she was going to eat the farmers

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

I lived in a conservative town during the Obama presidency. Did the contempt "radical republicans" displayed for Obama reveal their contempt for Americans? Or do you stop being an American when you become a liberal, as this phrasing implies?

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

UVA loves nothing more than extorting its employees. Park further away and spend less time with your children every day or pay us 972 DOLLARS

This is about political retribution. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to punish states like Minnesota that didn’t vote for him — ripping away funds from pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities. You don’t fight “fraud” by hurting the most vulnerable.

This sucks. Worldcat used to be amazing.

George Washington still has misguided hitters out here I see