What Altering Historical Images Can Teach Us About History – AHA www.historians.org/perspectives...

Looking at the Colorado River basin largely being somewhere in the 38% to 0% range is pretty terrifying.

NEW: Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez is free after more than two weeks in ICE detention. She posted bond and was released from a Louisiana detention facility late this afternoon. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/19/e...

And her bosses forcing young journos to do “churnalism” are the real villains. I do think there’s an ethical way to do aggregated stories, and this ain’t it. Not even close.

Aramark is the largest provider of prison food in the country. A lawsuit filed by prisoner in West Virginia alleges that the company intentionally serves inedible meals to drive up sales of expensive snacks. theappeal.org/aramark-west...

Let’s practice calling historian “the clandestine trade.”

You can donate to @mn50501.bsky.social to help defray the costs of their ICE flight monitoring and FOIA-filing. 🙏 mn50501.org

I’m bowled over by the response to this. Thanks all, and thank you new subscribers. Please read the story, bc these activists trusted me with it when they could’ve gone somewhere bigger, and I want to ensure their work and what they’re exposing stays the focus. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

$200b would buy 100 million ebikes and reduce American gasoline consumption by like a third.

I would like to personally award Afroman the Bluesky Medal of Valor for Exemplary Service in Bringing Back Shame

We're more than halfway through it, but its worth noting Sunshine Week, which celebrates importance of public records and open government, coordinated by the University of Florida and supported by the Knight Foundation. Find out more about activities and events here: https://loom.ly/XNQ9iow

The plan lives in Canada. You wouldn't know it.

Relevant to the moment. The farmworker movement is not Cesar Chavez. It was (and is) a whole community of people doing the work.

While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.

Work prior to the construction of student accommodation in Rome has revealed a previously unknown area of a #Roman cemetery, including ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ tombs. Read all about it in the latest AWLOH! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

These courses are, in addition to being tedious, an assault on the study of history specifically They’re all warmed over 19th-century racism in course form

Gosh, Republicans’ Save Act mainly keeps WOMEN from voting. 69 million of us, to be exact. I wonder why…. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Remember how the nighttime battles in Lord of the Rings were lit up like college football stadiums and didn't worry about the diagesis of it? We need more of that.

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

this really summarizes the whole thing on the one hand, the power of the state to fire people, ban books, punish financially on the other, sometimes lefties want more inclusive language and use social (media) scorn as a tool, but mostly you're imagining it

For those who want to get a good understanding of this, check out this webinar: Myth Busting De-Extinction.

I read something (I can't remember where) that being a woman in your 40s is just getting back to being the girl you were in your teens and 20s, except this time, you love her. I haven't been able to stop thinking about that since.

Dating was a mess in the Star Wars universe. Most of the apps had been enshittified and/or had algorithms optimized for Sithlord hookups.

Hardly any fossil fuel car sold anymore in Denmark now.

Thus the centre right in Belgium long imagined that they were enthusiastic about European security, democracy, and government efficiency, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about cheap fossil fuels.

Philippa Islington-Smythe. What a huge celebrity she is now. Good for her. 😆

One of our youngest is obsessed with Carcassonne to the extent that it's the first thing we had to do today. Their 6th birthday is in a month. Any have suggestions for other good games they might enjoy?

I wish I could do this with every Iranian dead as well. It’s perverse that we kill so many people whose names we will never know and even never think about. When you come upon this post in a thread I fear I will keep updating, spare at least a moment for them.

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

I mean, it's pretty clear islamophobia is a hugely dangerous force in our country. We just went to war for no reason largely because everyone in this admin right now is a massive rabid anti muslim bigot.

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

I'm struggling to see how a Separatist couple represents “E Pluribus Unum.” The whole point of their voyage and settlement was to encounter less pluralism.

cannot emphasize enough that these people are genocidal mass murderers. 100s of thousands of people are dead because of shuttering of US AID. these people did that. they are Nazi mass murderers.

Goode people, [gesture of yntroductioun]... the weekende!

Important for pro-democracy Spaniards to know that the Minnesota State Fair has a paella truck with the tagline The Hotdish of Spain. I’m just saying the cross-Atlantic solidarity runs deep.

what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

One Hundred Years Old Sunday (1945) 3240 Humboldt Ave. S Source: Hennepin County Library Jacobson is served a birthday cake by her daughter

Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor. In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3OY2qBw

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

These are truly thoughtless guys, they just don't give a damn who they hurt or what it all really means, the words were the thing, so an AIDS grant that mentions LGBT is "crazy", but pretending you know what you're doing while being a total asshole to people bettering the world isn't.

In the spring of 1851, eight women were the first graduates of the school’s trailblazing three-year program. Students paid $10 — roughly $417 in today’s money — per class.

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower. n.pr/4bkaRi6

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...