Trump cares so deeply about Nigerian Christians that last week he banned them from getting any business, tourist, student, or immigrant visas. Merry Christmas!

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

something is going on with my quince tree and I am terrified it is fireblight. thoughts, gardeners of bluesky? 🌱 #gardensky

Update about fraud by a (former, but active while the crimes occurred) Aquinas College professor: www.woodtv.com/news/grand-r... #PureMichigan

Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info. Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries. Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized. Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.

The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/... Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.

Killing the poor and disabled will not bring the price of your bills down. Nor will killing and deporting immigrants, nor will killing trans people. Your enemy has always been the rich. Its time for you to direct your anger at them and the politicians who ensure OUR tax dollars go to them

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Don't forget this. Hold your states accountable.

Only 7 new work emails overnight but 2 spell my name wrong in new and irritating ways

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets

#earlymodern if I were to (note the conditionals) edit an anthology of verse by early modern women, what would you want to see in it? And what would you want it to do that isn’t covered by current options?

you know whose airport experience needs to be transformed? DISABLED PASSENGERS. That's who. Instead of installing fucking Pelotons, maybe find a way to make airlines give wheelchairs back, intact, ALWAYS?

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢 “Genocide as a weapons experiment.”

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.

don’t miss the 2025 @contingent-mag.bsky.social book list! inclusive & welcoming as ever, Contingent curates a list where the hard part is not getting on it, but rather, the hard part is researching & writing a book while contingent contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...

Rebecca Solnit: the top US pronatalist and white supremacists are: “…haters inadvertently demonstrating that their claims to superiority have to be based on race and gender, because otherwise they’re incoherent idiots.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Yes, the fuhrer has banned World AIDS Day, &, just in time, I'll be in this nation’s crooked capital to read from TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on… World AIDS Day! Yes, 7 pm on Monday, December 1, please spread the word!!💐 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕See you soon💕

Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono

Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US. In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US. Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez. Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

(once again, I point people to medium.com/the-canadian... because NAFTA / CUSMA is the best way for US citizens who have disabilities to get out, as there are no medical checks required for the CUSMA professionals or intra-company transfer visa routes)

This is a really good New Republic article about trans people leaving the country. Do some research about getting visas. Start now. It is harder and slower than you think, and there are no opportunities for asylum right now. It also is entirely doable. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.

Shout out to the clerk in Batavia in 1737 who took good notes- you’re making my job easier!

We will be granting 15 Black-led organizations $100,000 so they can provide direct payments to Black mamas and caregivers who have been disproportionately affected by SNAP. We refuse to let them starve our people into cages. Support National Bail Out’s Food Freedom Fund: bit.ly/FoodFreedomFund

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

Reposting this. If you're interested in the early modern Low Countries, these are the people to follow. #earlymodern

Verschenen: 'Amsterdamse gasterijhoudsters. Vrouwen in de maritieme huisvestingssector, 1636-1665', in: Women and Ports, Jaarboek voor Vrouwengechiedenis 43.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Imagine any job, where one person demanded death for their coworkers from the branch office for simply posting a video about maintaining lawful conduct. They’d be fired. Now imagine that same person was already a felon, and associated themselves with a convicted pedophile. They’d be fired.

An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment. www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Houlahan points out that courts have found Trump has taken at least 150 unlawful actions since re-taking office, "so yes, those kinds of things are going on. Just because you are the president doesn't mean everything that comes out of your mouth is lawful."