Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

It is my birthday today, and nothing would make me happier than if you’d donate to KIND, which provides pro bono representation to children in immigration court: supportkind.org/get-involved...

I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

Wait till he hears that the Odyssey wasn’t written in English

Sadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

And, “offensive to Jews” is really insidious, right-wing coded language. Implying that acts of bigotry are only really the concern of the people targeted by the specific act or language.

8yo is learning about the branches of government and boy is there a lot of “supposedly” and “the idea was” going around the dinner table

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college The Brontës Math 55 (this taught me I was not cut out for math) Atlantic Revolutions Plato Tang Dynasty Poetry

Welcome, new followers! I am a medievalist and, in normal circumstances, I mostly post little stories about the past that I find in my research. Unfortunately, I also live in the present. But I try to only pitch in when I have something useful to say. Abolish ICE.

There's a green stone in Alfonso's lapidario called aliaza that's apparently said to come from Arabia but is illustrated with a Black miner and an Arab supervisor. Wonder if it's related to discussions in Arabic about the origins of peridot (btw Abyssinia & the Red Sea)...

To give a sense of scale to the peat mining detailed by @elisewang.bsky.social here’s are Sentinel-2 satellite images of the (red) peat bogs near Athlone, Ireland, compared to New York City at the same scale (15 × 15 km). bsky.app/profile/elis...

Because I can’t help myself, this is actually a version of a medieval form of landholding called “seisin,” which was ownership not by title but by the labor and time you put into it. If you shovel it, it’s yours.

“make illegal things illegal or else” Great work guys by the way did you by chance run that by anyone or say it out loud to see how it sounded?

In case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013. #medievalstorytime

Just grabbing my keys, wallet, phone, and passport to go to the Loews. You know, normal behavior in a normal country

I have a five year old. The only time she slept through commotion and bright lights like that was when she had a 104 fever and pneumonia.

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third. This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.

Because I can’t help myself, this is actually a version of a medieval form of landholding called “seisin,” which was ownership not by title but by the labor and time you put into it. If you shovel it, it’s yours.

PSA 📣📣: In this time of the breakdown of norms and also great snow, it is more important than ever to respect that pillar of civil society, THE PARKING CHAIR

NEW: On an interfaith call, Cardinal Tobin encourages people to contact their Congressional representatives to encourage them to vote against funding ICE in order to help restore a culture of life.

LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN

This is a nuanced issue. Have those people been enacting incredible harm prior to their change of heart? Have they been actively attacking or dismissing those who did know as doomers or hysterical? Because then the proper reaction is “welcome friend, I think you have some apologies to make.”

Dr Starbird’s work is how we know how information travels in social media in the immediate aftermath of an event and she did one for the Pretti murder. It shows a RW propaganda machine that struggled to control the frame, even on X.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

RIP to lovely colleague and co-author Susan Klepp. Susan's brilliant scholarship, foregrounding women and the material realities of their lives including their reproductive bodies in revolution, is an enduring inspiration. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

LA: ICE this morning in Diamond Bar near the HMart. Store was in a panic. I’ve reported, but in case you find yourself in a similar situation, here are the numbers to call:

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

So far, literally one (1) dem hopeful I’d vote for.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social WHAT ARE YOU FOR

There is evil and then there is this

DAILY MEMO: About Five Schools Went Into Lockdown Do To Immigration Raids in Anaheim Today and A Question for Police @eltragon.bsky.social

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

There is a chance for an even broader and more successful sanctuary movement than the one in the 1980s. In El Salvador, the gov killed at least 10k by 1980. In Guatemala that figure was 5x, with another 10x disappeared. People were fleeing in the hundreds of thousands to the US.

Media studies people know better than I do, but it seems like it’s not just that these people focus on image, but that they genuinely think the image IS the thing. That jobs are ACTUALLY just dress up. Being a cabinet secretary IS just playing one on TV, there’s no other part of the job.

One-legged hopping buzzer-beater but also he looks like he’s kinda bored while doing it

Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜 search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...

This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

Something I remember from an interview with Ariel Dorfman: The dictator's concerns must be your concerns. He does not permit you to have your own private concerns.

After beginning my day with that bizarre threat/speech/free-association-hostage-negotiation it is hard not to feel like part of the point of all this is to distract you from doing your work, to debase what is most important in your life.

I often envy Americanists for their numbers and relevance, but boy you can have this one #historiansky

Yeah, that is NOT what the law says.

Please don’t EVER EVER put your ID on your phone!