@massgovernor.bsky.social agreed to meet with us and hear our concerns in further detail. Stay tuned for updates! plug in and take action @ stoponlineIDchecks.org/MA

Hampshire College is closing in December after decades of offering unconventional, student-driven education. Its collapse reflects a broader shift in higher education toward vocational training and away from experimental learning.

My cat has excellent taste in books. Check out her staff rec at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social.

Did you know you could pre-order a copy of The Public Scholar from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social? Help a local bookstore. Help a local author. And if you want it signed, I'll drive over. We're about a month out. :) moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...

Do we have any lawmakers willing invoke the 25th rather than posting about it?

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wonderful new open access book on Hildegard of Bingen by Minji Lee! #medievalsky #HistSTM nursingclio.org/2026/03/18/r...

The information for our #IntelligenceProject's map of U.S. hate group flyering was compiled using a combination of social media platforms, news articles and tips. Have you seen any disturbing flyers or other hate activity? 📲 Submit a tip and review our map of incidents: https://bit.ly/3H0jMK6

Today on AOH, Dr. @sarahebond.bsky.social, an associate professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, discusses her book 'Strike' and the evolution of labor unions from ancient Rome to modern times, the future of classics & the impact of AI on jobs, and the significance of empathy in humanities.

wow, this is like a Legion of Doom of anti-trans researchers – spread the word!

We filed comments to the Cambridge City Council on the 2026 Annual Surveillance Report, that seeks authorization of around 75 surveillance technologies. We object to 8: ALPR, ShotSpotter, CCTV at Central Sq, BRIC, Magnet Forensics, Covert Cameras, police use of Sprout Social, & remote meter readers

Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, its history is being erased from our National Parks. Learn more at: pen.org/purging-hist...

Voters don’t think the Democratic Party is too progressive, they think it’s weak and ineffective www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have deployed ever more Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espoused ideas associated with the Nazi Party, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. He examines how this dark fringe reached the center of the GOP:

BEOWULF BY ALL: "Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation." FREE OPEN ACCESS PDF DOWNLOAD: www.arc-humanities.org/978164189471...

The Israeli government has advanced the registration of territory in the occupied West Bank as state land in a move that Palestinians have decried as “de facto annexation.” https://cnn.it/46bUqmd

Maura Healey cannot be allowed to have another term in any public office.

Seconding that I was there on this day, and noted multiple officers (snipers?) also watching the crowd from the roof of City Hall. A drone (operated by a civilian or police, I am unsure) also stayed over the scene. Helicopter behavior felt like an intimidation tactic and military show of force.

Still open: The Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, in memory of the beloved activist and author, honors lesbian/queer-identified women and trans/gender non-conforming nonfiction authors with at least one published book. Learn more and apply at www.lambdaliterary.org/special-awards

Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.

Protect our communities from ICE in Massachusetts courts. Sign here to pressure Gov. Healey to work on something that substantially protects our neighbors: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

Endangered whales at risk after Trump ends Cape Cod sanctuary’s fishing ban, NE Aquarium warns

Juan David Quichimbo, originally from Ecuador, has been in Plymouth’s ICE detention facility for nearly two months. Quichimbo, a Springfield resident, has no criminal record, but is in removal proceedings anyway. https://bit.ly/4qkAhlb

Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.

The White House press secretary has said she "can't guarantee" that ICE agents will not be at polling locations in November.

At least 556 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a U.S.-brokered truce came into effect in October, including 24 on Wednesday and 30 on Saturday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Hey #BookSky Moon Palace in Mineapolis is running a book drive for Spanish language books. Buying a few is a great way to support them! Gift Registry 21_pburk7u4 | Moon Palace Books share.google/ddfS1aWbCRGJ...

Of the 184 universities that made faculty diversity pledges, at least 108 have fully or partially rolled them back after a year under the Trump administration, according to a Post survey and analysis. Explore your university's diversity data here:

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast. trib.al/0lWZSnj

“The question is not whether we will be extremists,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail in Birmingham, “but what kind of extremists we will be.” @lilygeismer.bsky.social on the history of calls for moderation in our forum with @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social:

This is the collaborator platform. If the ask is “follow law that created this inhumane, ineffectual, evil system, but with more funding for surveillance tech,” then the platform is really just “add more funding to the inhumane system to make it eviler.” No votes for collaborators.

ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Sign the petition and let your legislatures know that you want Massachusetts to be a sanctuary state! Check out the Safe Communities Act and sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Anti-vax ideology is eugenics ideology, so that tracks.

The doubts sewn over the loss of Palestinian life laid the groundwork for shielding Israel from accountability. interc.pt/4qU6gJQ

Let’s get this straight: •More funding for DHS •More surveillance on the streets •Knowing that they are being filmed clearly hasn’t deterred agents from shooting innocent citizens, anyway. This is a win for DHS.

Palestinians rush to search for casualties in the aftermath of another deadly Israeli strike in Gaza.

★ Historian Peter Jones debuts with an illuminating and eclectic survey of how medieval thinkers grappled with perennial psychological challenges through the framework of the seven deadly sins. This captivates. @doubledaybooks buff.ly/MnmRF0c

Boston marching in 12° weather today with a huge turnout.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New book from @gauthamrao.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging into this one.

So…two more weeks of unmitigated DHS terrorism with the prospect of more funding in exchange platitudes.

On camera, immigration agents are shooting and killing people in broad daylight. Behind closed doors, ICE is also killing people with chokeholds, medical neglect, inadequate food, and other inhumane conditions. The needless deaths and suffering must end.

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov This isn’t even close to the bare minimum. As someone who has never missed voting in even a minor election, I will 100% never vote again for anyone who funds brownshirts.