Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.

BIG: Trump has rejected efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start Iran ceasefire talks. A White House official said: “He’s not interested in that right now… we’re going to continue with the mission unabated.”

So is Netanyahu dead or not?

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

The sick irony is that Zionism was supposed to make Jews safe. But building up a Jewish Sparta, as Arendt once called it, at the crossroads of Empire did the opposite. Today the Israeli war machine, fueled by siege mentality, feeds on the antisemitism birthed out of its entrails

Gas went up 30 cents from 2 hours ago.

Looks like Randolph-Macon College and Longwood University have also received threats today, and I am working on getting information about those as well.

Assistant Professor in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/03...

the US operation in Iran

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Bomb threat alert called to the UVA Library?

I'll be presenting virtually on AI & the Study of Antiquity, hosted by Rutgers, sometime around 4:30pm. I'll be presenting on natural language processing for improved searchability and some other projects on using computer vision for die studies. classics.rutgers.edu/ai-the-study...

Scott Bessent got called away to the Situation Room mid-interview. When he got back, he was asked what was happening. Bessent said Trump was in "great spirits." He then randomly volunteered that he had a teen "considering military service" and would trust his child's life with Trump and Hegseth.

They are going to turn the war colleges into Liberty

Has … anyone whose NEH wasn’t canceled? Anyone who subsequently got funding? … been willing to go on record and talk about it? My email is Lollardfish at gmail if you’d like to.

The MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed a lawsuit against DOGE's illegal termination of NEH grants. I don't need to hear what DOGE bro Nate Cavanaugh has to say, so I made an edit of his deposition that completely cuts out his voice. Leaving you just his gum popping and eye rolling.

**CONFIRMED: the temperature fall from 87° yesterday to 33° today in 21 hours is a record temeprature fall for Charlottesville (54 degrees) since records began at CHO in 1961. Big props to Peter Forister (GOAT) for the information!

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

*sound of dishes, plates, and glass crashing* You'll also find snow covering the ground west of I-64 MM 104. Roads are actually slippery west of Afton. Use caution!

This is probably the most extreme temperature change from one day to the next I've ever seen

More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted: More and more rot.

<sigh> One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript. How do we know? Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth. Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.

Amazing opportunity for a Assyriologist to translate a digital cuneiform library into Arabic. 🏺 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Gathering to sing songs of protest is very boomer. I just don't think it's effective.

Do you think this guy for the Orioles named Creed is named for the band?

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

In the chaos in Iran, you might have missed the news that Russia's operational momentum has slowed, even reversed, on the frontlines in Ukraine.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Friday: Trump demands Iran submit to an "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" Sunday: Ayatollah's son is named Iran's new supreme leader. Today: Trump says “I think the war is very complete, pretty much.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fox Sports graphics department going hard

If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A

lmao

Jesus Christ…

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Read the motion for summary judgement and view discovery documents and videos at www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy

There is zero reason in a functioning democracy that we should express any news in terms of odds on a betting market. “Iran invasion odds 5:2 per xxxxx” is dystopian nonsense

Explore the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity, from Greece to North Africa to Iberia with us on our new Graduate Diploma and MSc programmes at #ucdmediterraneanarchaeology in @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and @ucdclassics.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Holy fucking shit. 'If Trump says we won then we won' is even further down the hole than the Orwell quote people always dig up about eyes and ears. He attacked Iran so he could win another fake award. That's it. That's the whole thing. That's wild

ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues. 20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint. Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Thanks Trump!!!!!

What gas prices are you seeing around the city? The price has gone up nearly 50 cents at the Fifth Street Exxon ($3.39). It's $3.19 at the Shell down the street though

Trump on terrorist attacks in America: “Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

Latest in @theatlantic.com . In only a few days, there are small but worrying signs that the corruption and incompetence of the Trump administration is affecting US military and diplomatic power. A fish rots from the head down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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