remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

We have just published a newly discovered 1493 Arabic letter written by Boabdil, the last sultan of Granada, addressed to the Catholic Monarchs. It is the only known Arabic letter produced after the fall of Granada and documents his attempt to renegotiate the terms of his departure to North Africa.

How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events

For anybody in the tristate area, Princeton's German Department is hosting a chamber music concert on February 19, with the wonderful Gabrielle Ferrari lending her voice to Bettina von Arnim. Program to follow! german.princeton.edu/whats-on/eve...

Historic Win: Staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UAW, with about 76% voting in favor after years of organizing. https://seiu.co/4qw2qq3

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“. The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory

And my personal favorite from a mss from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1528, added to a mss copy of Cicero’s De officiis by a monk of Osney Abbey about John Burton, the local abbot (&, according to other historical sources, an actual massive POS). So much solidarity, dear little monk.

Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography

planning the semester like

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

updating my syllabus for next week

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Yesterday, a federal immigration judge ruled to deport UUP Upstate member Alcibiades “Alex” Lazaro Ramírez González. UUP will continue to stand by Alex and his family as we have since he was first detained in October. Read UUP's full statement: uupinfo.org/communicatio...

A University at Buffalo researcher was detained by ICE after he made a wrong turn on the Peace Bridge. UUP President Fred Kowal said, “this situation is frightening because it’s clear that there are no limits on what ICE can and will do.” Read more: uupinfo.org/communicatio...

One of the giants of harpsichord performance in the 20th century. This write-up conveys vividly the darkness and trauma of her years interned in Nazi camps, and the ways music was made and learned in such unimaginable circumstances

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

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it's giving gated community vibes

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

This is an act of self-harm to Canada. Especially coming at a time when the United States is destroying its own statistical capacity and reliable data has never been more needed. It's another signal that this Liberal government sees no value in the work of government. Utter, utter foolishness.

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

Leonardo da Vinci A horse with lines of proportion c. 1480 (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

Alright, marching back, just adding more harmonies as they go.

Still singing: “we grieve together, stop the deportations.”

At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood. They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”

right? I love the calmness of 'nope, you're not going crazy'. Those of us who are trying to protect another sense of what university is and does are told so very often that we're too unrealistic and too unversed in actual financial thinking that you end up internalising it. Good & clear reminder.

Useful and clear reframing of higher ed budget crisis discourse

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

This is what Minneapolis is like right now: City staff in city uniforms are being harassed by fed immigration enforcement for being not white.

British reporters often ask the best, most direct questions

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

This is a postdoc in Germany called a "rescue fellowship" for scholars "whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA" You used to see this kind of thing for scholars working in Myanmar, Turkmenistan, etc. This is how unfree US research is now. academicpositions.com/ad/early-car...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

is the concept that you can kill 40 random people in executing a criminal warrant for one guy

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Punjabis in the house 🥰 Manhattan vich munda renda Brooklyn vich munda renda Staten Island vich munda renda Queens vich munda renda The Bronx vich munda renda The boy lives in Manhattan, the boy lives in Brooklyn,...in Staten Island, ...in Queens, ...in The Bronx www.youtube.com/live/tL4y7rY...

As individuals, we have no say over when something reaches the regional processing center. How should people know when their vote will count, especially if they are in a district Trump targets or dislikes?

Make a Bond movie academic? FROM RUSSIA WITH ANNOTATIONS

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Night nativity by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, ca. 1490. Nobody does humble simplicity (and infant radiance) quite like Geertgen.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

The only way to responsibly teach students how to use AI is to teach them to read and think and understand for themselves. We don’t need an app for that. We never did.

I’ve been offline all day so have we already made all the Robert Schumann jokes about this nightmare contraption