www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oovx... 😑

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

They're now running this across multiple markets. Which is a signal of two things 1) They have more money than they know what to do with, for which you can thank Republicans in Congress 2) They're struggling to recruit through normal channels, even with the $50k signing bonus

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg. Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

@davidveevers.bsky.social and others discussed historians who could write but the name 'David Underdown' did not appear in it, regrettably @sdamussen.bsky.social

Nassau Co Exec Bl*kemore is always at the front of the Drumpf Toady Queue

On the other hand, some were just chancers like Friedrich Drumpf @paulecohen.bsky.social

(to put it mildly, if I may add)

In Case You Missed It: Last week we circulated our Autumn 2025 Newsletter 🍂✉️ Want to catch up on what we've been up to recently? You can now read it over on our website 👇 #history #EarlyModern #skystorians

We are excited to announce that Volume 53 Issue 5 (2025) is now out! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Nine months into 2025, it shouldn't be too much to ask of journalists that they pause, reflect, and expressly raise questions in their stories—prominently, at the top!—about whether an executive pronouncement like this is lawful or simply yet another attempt to engage in a lawless power grab. 🙄

@deborahhamer.bsky.social @jaapjacobs.bsky.social

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There's still time to submit a paper proposal for our autumn conference on the theme of 'Church and Society'. For more information and to book tickets - www.eventbrite.com/e/schs-autum... #scothist #churchhist

In the Netherlands, an army under Philip of Hohenlohe (usually called 'Count Hollock' in English sources) and including various English companies under Sir John Norreys, sets out today from Deventer to attempt to raise the siege of nearby Lochem. 3/

Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.

🤔 @MarshaBlackburn: Trump is “draining the swamp” — she wants to make us “#1”? We are #1, Marsha! In: medical bankruptcies, disenfranchised black folks, rural hospital closures… bottom in infant/maternal mortality, poverty, violent crime, per pupil💰… She’ll make it worse

tbf, this pezze di merde had long form animationguild.org/about-the-gu...

not holding my breath @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social who can't even work out what anti-Semitism is

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

NEW: Kremlin insider statements continue to indicate that 1) Putin remains committed to his strategy that Russian forces will be able to win a war of attrition against Ukraine & the West, and 2) that the West has thus far failed to convince Putin to reevaluate his strategy.🧵1/7 isw.pub/UkrWar092025

and has done for five decades of 'public service' 🙄

To be extremely extremely clear to anyone reading, these ⬇️ posts are all from bots

“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 23/🧵

December 1835, the Euphrates Expedition was very ill prepared for the Turkish winter... [Edward Charlewood's journal] #NavalHistory

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

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This scenario, of course, is also 'normal' in 'Murica

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

This new article by Jeroen De Wulf may be of interest to @csschmitt.bsky.social @thiagokrause.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social and others if they haven't seen it (the latter almost certainly has) muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/arti...

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

In late June 1973 news broke that the Nixon admin had compiled an "enemies list." Among those listed were journalist Daniel Schorr & actor/activist Paul Newman. Hunter S. Thompson was disappointed he wasn't included. Here's Paul Conrad's editorial cartoon on the Nixon enemies list in the LA Times.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/

Republican lawmakers in Missouri have advanced a constitutional amendment that would make citizen ballot measures much more difficult to pass. “If we can’t use the citizen-led initiative petition process, we’re done, we’re cooked,” says an advocate.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Go fash, lose cash

it is absolutely fair to say that hakeem jeffries has, in the last year, shown more support for charlie kirk's life work than he has for the democratic nominee for mayor in his city, the largest city in the country

As a member of the Oversight Committee, I just questioned Alex Acosta, the US Attorney who negotiated Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal. His answers were evasive and non-credible. What is clear is that there is A LOT they are hiding. I won’t stop until the full Epstein files are released.

Spanish Politician Mar Espinar raised the Palestine flag and gives Madrid’s regional President Isabel Ayuso a history lesson after she announced a ban on symbols supporting Palestine in all schools.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Meanwhile in Australia. (When I said the HE rust belt was global, not just US or UK or EU, I meant it : (

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

This is disgusting

Derby XI: @gauthamrao.bsky.social @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @provatlantic.bsky.social @mbarcia24.bsky.social 1 Alisson 2 Bradley 3 Kerkez 4 VVD 5 RG 6 Ibra 7 Mo 8 Gakpo 9 Ekitike 10 Szoboszlai 11 Mac Allister (good to leave out Wirtz and Isak)