Just want to say that I agree with Tulsi Gabbard on this one. Release the MBS call transcripts.

Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans." thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Sulzberger. Bingo.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

“Franklin was an equal member in a group of four scientists working on the structure of DNA. She was recognized by her colleagues as such, although that acknowledgement was both belated and understated.”

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

This changes everything.

I love these figures but her work looks completely different. Hard to believe it’s the same artist. www.kleurkeramiek.com/webshop/

The only way to stop this is to delete your Academia account. “Opting out” only stops you from seeing ai slop; other people will still be offered the ai slop they make from your work.

And consent for seizing Venezuelan resources, and distracting Americans from hungry kids, deportations of working parents, and rising costs for everyone. Someone should tell them how the Iraq war ended up.

The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored. Period.

Yeah, I saw this coming weeks ago.

God don’t like ugly.

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

La Universitat de Xicago busca algú per a un contracte de 4 anys, cofinançat per l'Institut Ramon Llull, d'Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan and Spanish academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/17...

Communities are being gassed despite having a restraining order Chicago

If you want to see Doug Ford’s Reagan anti-tariff ad, here it is. Trump hates it, so it would be a shame if you shared it, esp with your GOP relatives.

My article is in the new issue of the Jrnl of Medieval Iberian Studies. Its aims are two-fold: 1) show how this text leveraged ethnic and religious IDs to construct a local, city ID, and 2) challenge historians to *show* local ID mattered, not just assume it did. tinyurl.com/5e5arv2e #medievalsky

It looks like a bomb went off. Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully. H/t Annette Weiner

It looks like a bomb went off. Seems like a bad idea. White House is an inalienable possession and you don’t mess with inalienable possessions except very carefully. H/t Annette Weiner

The way the pants and the tie clash with each other, and the beige suit and jacket is certainly a crime.

Police just detained two protesters. One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Scenes from Grant Park in Chicago right now.

I remember the first email I read. It was a prominent medieval historian who will remain unnamed, writing that she was leaving university X for university Y but don’t tell anyone. She had sent it to a medieval listserv instead of the one person she wanted to write to.

I’d vote for him without hesitation if I lived in NYC but I do not believe you can make up for lack of experience with integrity and I don’t know why American voters don’t demand both.

I do think the now 40 billion dollars to Argentina while American crops rot in the field is the thing to ask your MAGA uncle about this Thanksgiving.

“Effectively disband“ is a false way to characterize what the pope is planning to do. He seems to want to break it into three orgsnizations — priests, priest affiliates, and laypeople. “Disband” sounds like he’s putting an end to it.

I think this is really bad actually. It’s bad that news media has collapsed. I want my news from people trained in journalism. I’m a history professor. I know what we know and what we don’t. No shade on HCR but she’s incapable of doing what WaPo is supposed to do and used to do.

I’m sorry but as a Canadian, I don’t see the problem here.

There’s no reason to believe she didn’t call him and say exactly what he says she said. She wants Trump to create regime change in Venezuela. She knows what she has to say to get it. He is her ally.

Something fucked up and dirty is playing out. First he menaces Venezuela with a military presence, starts blowing up little boats. Then ( not sure who initiated ) he enters negotiations with Maduro to take a *dominant stake in Venezuelan oil and resources. Suddenly /1

Freedom frogs.

Fun interview about my latest novel, with lots of history — Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Secnd Crusade, the Templars etc, including the burning question: did or didn’t she sleep with her uncle? (Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think) 📚💙 ⌛️📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/the-queens-c...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

brb, declaring myself the Nobel Committee's Opposition Leader and advocating that "legitimate pressure" be brought to bear

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

Fun interview about my latest novel, with lots of history — Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Secnd Crusade, the Templars etc, including the burning question: did or didn’t she sleep with her uncle? (Fun to do. Still haven’t dared listen. Tell me what you think) 📚💙 ⌛️📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/the-queens-c...

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

And people wonder why Canada says no thanks to the “blue” states.

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University: memorients.com/news/assista...

ok so what are we calling this look