Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.

Guest, Host, Ghost open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Concentration Camp Labor open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️‍🌈and threatened to punish those who joined. The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.

Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!

One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here. medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...

See you there for this important demonstration!

Last Year's Move to Toronto open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself

If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/ You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.

ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it: www.mla.org/content/down...

In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development. www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...

Terrific news. “…the court ordered the administration to immediately take steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/13/r...

NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning. w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc t.co/BJ79oZAj9C

Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it. The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid. Why? To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.

‘The Library’ 1960, Jacob Lawrence

So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.

Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.

This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V. (@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

To be reckoned with from now on, for sure!

metro.co.uk/2024/11/25/i... Between 2018 and 2023, there was a 37% increase in crimes related to violence against women and girls.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... Congratulations on this stunning discovery, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social !

More than 190 leaders of colleges and universities have signed this statement opposing government overreach in US higher ed. Thank you! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Even staunch Republicans are castigating Trump, as Robert Reich reports.

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

Harvard today stood up to Trump, with board chair Penny Pritzker leading the way Her brother, Illinois gov J.B. Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov , has been firmer than any figure this side of Bernie in standing up to Trump. Thank you to the people who raised these people.

The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

Great turnout at the Hands Off rally in Honolulu today! This is just a glimpse of the crowd.

happy trans day of visibility!

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

This is a great conversation. Give a listen.

this is like an out take from The Office

This is so good. Long, but helpful, with useful links. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/coming-unglu...