Good time to refresh this read from 2020. "DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence [that] would have served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa" [which] even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed." gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

We are the farthest thing from ‘war-ravaged’. We’re just a regular old bitesized West Coast city. This narrative is insane.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

If anyone had doubts about the predatory nature of for-profit genealogy services, now you don’t. They’re insipid data machines that seek to capitalise our archival resources right into the ground at the expense of the institutions who curate and safeguard them.

We leave for ONE WEEKEND and these bastards invade our city. What an absolute waste of time and resources.

First tour of the school season at Oregon Historical Society, which means autumn is right on our doorstep. We had a huge group of thoughtful, interested 8th-graders and they gave us far more back than we offered them.

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

As a historian, I do wish that people would actually engage with historical works rather than making up people online to get mad at in one's head.

Look what we have here then.

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Looking forward to wandering up the coast this weekend for this grand event at SFU in Vancouver. Excellent to mark the successes of our talented Canadian colleagues who are so deeply involved with #ScottishHistory and #JacobiteStudies. Remote access is available for those who might like to join in!

The university relies so deeply on its faculty to do our jobs with sensitivity and care, going far beyond the letter of our contracts to mentor and advise and assist our students. You would think that it would see the inadvisability of treating its entire teaching staff with contempt. And yet!

Shhhh 🤫 *whispers* the moth meeting is in progress. They have very serious business to discuss.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

There is an incredible amount of good history being done at the local level and in small museums--the folks who will actually engage the public during this anniversary

Happy Hobbit Day! Today's Classic Cover of the Day is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a cover illustrated by Tolkien himself

every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government

Sure, I'd love to come to your festive celebration!

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

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

The notion that Republicans are the more real Americans, whose authenticity Democrats must pay tribute to with imitation, persistence even though it is contradicted by more and more actual empirical evidence.

Have a good weekend

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Only just noticed we made the US President watch redcoats in c18th uniforms #trolling

Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books

Free speech no longer exists in America. Some liberal critics are troubled.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

If you're ever worried that your work is too niche, just know that I read all the book reviews on the medieval history listserv, and today saw one about crusader rhetoric contained within inscriptions on Baltic baptismal fonts. Get on with your bad selves out there.

I'm thankful to the Kaiser Permanente Health Network in Oregon for making the new COVID & flu vaccines free & available immediately to ALL members, despite the bullshit federal guidance/resistance. My wife & I walked in this morning and are doing our part to help bolster the health of our community.

I'm not getting this framework of the man having been a political figure. He was not in or running for office; he was at most an inflammatory media influencer and a pop-sociology podcaster. Interesting how this statement belies the same people's cries to keep politics out of sports, art, music, etc.

It's Baby Safety Month.

Historians finally have a way to save our discipline and also the very structure of liberal democracy, baby. Let the chanting commence!

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

“There is no where in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you are a weapon of the enemy in life” ~Pastor Howard John-Wesley of Alfred Street Baptist Church In DC #CharlieKirk (🎥: Etan Thomas)

This Wednesday we are visiting historians at the University of Aberdeen. The visit includes a public lecture, 5.30pm on 17 Sept, given by our guest speaker, Matthew J Smith (Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL) bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All in the region are v. welcome to attend.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Is it not clear to everyone now how disgusting this entire faction is? How can we allow them to persist?

Your regular reminder that, whatever problems they may have, there are exactly <zero> societal institutions that are <more> protective of disagreement & debate & viewpoint diversity than universities.

My editor while I'm struggling to finish a writing project.