It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

"there is a reading of Glaukos’ use of Bellerophon’s narrative that shows it works similarly to Odysseus’ lies: he weaponizes a story...that allows him to avoid fighting the most dangerous person on the battlefield." sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/12/06/m...

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Just out! As @sarahsemple.bsky.social says, '544 pages and 190 images of pure sculptural joy!' A fantastic cast list and a tremendous achievement @ascorpus.bsky.social. boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

To know Susanna Elm is to stand in awe of her writing, kindness, & depth. Her new book from @ucpress.bsky.social is out now and open access: The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity. I do love a tale of Theodosian beauty luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1... 📕

Calling all teachers and professors of Classics, history, mythology, etc. please join us in VA next June!! We’d love to learn and hear from you, especially if you are from the VA area! www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institut...

Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes: “Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” inthesetimes.com/article/i-qu...

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

behold, a woman

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.” Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

"A large coalition of religious organizations is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for what it describes as a policy that has intimidated their parishioners through the 'threat of surveillance, interrogation, or arrest' at houses of worship." #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

RIP Tom Lehrer, musical master of satirical and "blithely subversive" wordplay - the Post's term. I'm sure my dad's love of Lehrer and my multiple listenings to his records helped embed a love of language and a skepticism toward authority in my young self. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?

This is also something the Nazi regime started doing in their first few years. Exactly this

The regimes media stooges are working to recast Maxwell as the victim in the Epstein files. We can’t forget this lying lowlife was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity & conspiracy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ghi...

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

Journalists should *always* be prepared when interviewing a politician who "refuses to deal in hypotheticals" to respond with examples of when the politician previously dealt in hypotheticals.

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

Also let’s note that JD Vance has the kind of Christian who thinks you should apologize for saying “bullshit” but not for lying about a group of immigrants stealing and eating pets in order to fan the flames of immigrant-hate.

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Whoops Don't ya just love live TV?

Why are House Republicans blocking the release of the Epstein files?!?

So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

The United States summed up in two headlines.

BIG new poll shows Trump has completely lost the public on immigration. Here’s what it means.

Jen and Rahm Emanuel have a tough conversation on Tuesday’s episode of I’ve Had It.

cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real

Insisting boys must be strong is “gender ideology.” Telling girls to be nurturing is “gender ideology.” Assuming that kids ought to grow up to be heterosexual and get married is “gender ideology.” This gender ideology is everywhere. It just goes unnoticed because society mandates it as “normal.”

These people are… evil. In a self-conscious, gloating way that we don’t like to imagine exists outside comic books or history’s darkest chapters.

Philly is a union town!

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

So many people will die because of this deeply evil and deeply stupid man. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

DefSec Pete Hegseth was asked at Pentagon presser about the US intelligence community conclusion that Iran was NOT proceeding with a nuclear weapons program. He refused to answer and praised Donald Trump. That’s one big tell.

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

The correct response to state violence is more protest, more people. Make it clear that a free people cannot and will not be oppressed.

Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

Bride’s side or groom’s side?

1/ The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is more than just tax cuts and spending shifts. Buried inside are provisions that quietly centralize power, weaken accountability, and erode democratic safeguards. Let’s talk about the authoritarian red flags 🧵

Flooding the zone works. We know that, so we have to reconfigure some of our ideas. Which ones? I have found that to be a hard problem. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is where I grew up. ""With ICE, it's a war, and it's really combative, and it's all about fear," said International Institute of New England President Jeff Thielman, who runs the immigrant support center in Lowell." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

Andor is the show we need at this moment. youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?...

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive: