Just finished @adambunch.bsky.social ‘s beautiful and densely researched book Toronto Book of Love, after savoring one chapter per night for months. This book is an absolute blessing, thank you Adam!

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Eagles game last night with the “city special,” hamm and cheese on rye

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

AI-assisted design hits another one out of the park

Need a political theory line of Dove chocolates. I want a wrapper that says “the logic of representation can never absolve itself of its own ultimate groundlessness”

MS word autocorrect is fighting me as I transcribe bits of this brilliant, flowery academese book written in the 90s

lol thanks, Dove

Here are the moments when we in Baltimore got to hear Kilmar Abrego Garcia speak in his own words—and when we learned form his attorney that Kilmar had once again been taken by ICE and separated from his family after reporting for his mandatory check-in at 8AM Monday. @therealnews.com

Was unaware that Bose was also a controversial early plant electrobiologist! From his book Plant Autographs and their Revelations (1927): "I have been able to make the dumb plant the most eloquent chronicler of its inner life and experiences..." www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Updated 1:30 PM CST, August 20, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly prized hatchlings.

The AHA has signed on to the @acls1919.bsky.social’s Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums. The review “supersedes the oversight of professional scholars and makes the museums tools of the presidential administration.” 🗃️

I hope SEPTA is saved. I’ve been lucky enough to experience a few months of septa’s glory days and it’s truly a great transit system for a North American city. Especially the trollies

I’m teaching a grad seminar on American religion this semester, and am really excited to introduce my students to these phenomenal books.

Why do I think there’s value in researching & teaching the history of art? For the same reason I decided to study it when I was 18: doing so made me think in new ways about my world, learning to question that which was handed to me as a given. It was my route to expanding how I act in the world.

These kids were amputees and badly burned CHILDREN

Are they dumping psilocybin in the Catskill aqueduct

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Thermidor in the year 233. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate otters.#JacobinDay More information on otters

It is genuinely shocking how little Trump's attack on universities relies on law and policy. Even this profile of May Mailman, a Harvard-trained lawyer, who is active in the Trump administration's plan to transform higher education, barely mentions legal predicates. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

New frontiers for "the royal We."

Horrific & cruel. ICE separated a breastfeeding mother from her baby and two other children for 2.5 months after a DV call. What happened to the children in her care? Plus the ill-equipped facility with no privacy, showers, pads, beds - 24 women crammed into a room for visitors.

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.

read our report which uses satellite imagery to map environmental catastrophe in gaza with @denisedslu.bsky.social 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

NEW: Christian orgs have filed another suit against the Trump admin over its decision to end a policy discouraging ICE raids at churches. That's four(!) lawsuits now. ALSO: DHS has been denying this ocurs, but acknowledged it to me today while insisting it's "rare" religionnews.com/2025/07/28/f...

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Some genocide experts like Raz Segal actually acted on their discipline's reason for existence when it could have helped: this is from October 16 2023

Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.

C’est la moindre des choses ! Macron annonce que la France va reconnaître l’Etat de Palestine en septembre www.liberation.fr/internationa...

John Gast's "American Progress"--now on the official account of the Department of Homeland Security. Constitutionalism is more than text, especially in domains like expansion, dispossession, and borders (where there isn't much text)--it is also ideas about "nature," values, principles, and ideology.

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

Emotional manipulation turns out to be one of the LLMs’ strong suits.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

What an absolute dream to have a Paris launch for my new book. And so lovely to be surrounded by friends and fellow French historians, many of whom (incl @willpooley.bsky.social) I’d never had the chance to meet in person before #GCFHSResist 🗃

Fascinated by this

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Such a good point. The humanities loom large in the “viewpoint diversity” discourse

It feels needlessly cruel to be harassing people for student debt while simultaneously dismantling the department of education.

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sharing for Bastille Day 1 of the wonderful inscriptions in the BL copy of the 1791 The Polite Repository or Pocket Companion, Containing an Almanack of the Births, Marriages, &C of the Sovereign Princes of Europe. See the page on the right: the book's owner evidently didn't think much of princes.

More from Sotomayor's dissent: "When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. ... The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive."