My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

I criticize all the time so credit where credit is due. Just state the plain, damning facts, without any euphemisms or both sides double speak. More please.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social could not have beat this headline, but the article is delicious ( in a Hannibal Lector sort of way). Dig in, and try not to puke. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social

I don’t do hyperbolic blurbs, but I do credit The Book Proposal Book with having gotten me a book contract and 2 fellowships. It forced me to figure out what I was trying to do. Painful but effective.

JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

RIP, the actual #NEH. And f*ck this zombie pod-person walking corpse that bears its name, and the grifters who feed on it.

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

"There go the people, I must follow them, for I am their leader"

I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

NY-24 is "represented" (scare quotes intentional) in Congress by one of Trump's greatest sycophants, Claudia Tenney. The one who proposed making Donald's birthday a national holiday. Would you like to see this smart, energetic military veteran mount a strong campaign against her? Chip in!

Yes, watch, it will make you smile.

Today is our fundraising deadline and I'm asking for you're help. We're a little behind and any contribution helps. Please donate and share this post to help the campaign! DONATE HERE: secure.actblue.com/donate/aliss...

So absolutely yes to this thread

Small group in a red county in central NY state. I am darn proud of us! Thousands can turn out to march in big cities, but around here a few people standing up can make a difference. I hope we have changed the conversation and given others courage to join us. www.fltimes.com/news/residen...

Shattering and beautifully written. Please read and share this ⤵️

Of course, this is exactly why they hate it.

What you're asking for is literally the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, which you would know if you had ever gone inside

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of the literature, history, and culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700/the adjacent periods? Or tracing Restoration texts, ideas, and culture anytime up to our current moment? Submit! blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/submissions/

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

These, and their comrades still growing outside, are the spiky survivors of the horrid little critter garden incursion of 2025. My belief that there is no such thing as too many cucumbers is about to be severely tested.

Lament from the keeper of Ilchester Gaol, 1821: "Tom Paine’s works had been assiduously introduced even into the upper debtors’ ward, and the general topics of conversation were now, either skepticism on the bible, reflections on the state, or infuriated debates and cries of radicalism for ever!"😀

Love the #earlymodern shout-outs in this piece. "Covenants without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all." -- Thomas Hobbes, on why Columbia's deal with Trump will not protect Columbia.

It’s now less than three hours before the first Texas redistricting committee hearing and, as of yet, there are no official draft maps for public to engage with and/or comment on. #txlege

"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor. sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...

Another NY Times Headline that could have been written by the Pitchbot. Breathless speculation about his “tone.” How about “ Desperate to avoid responsibility for the effects of his own policies, Trump makes empty promises of reform.” There, fixed it for you.

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

wow i wonder who writes "some other news outlets"! sounds like someone really hot and smart, it's too bad they don't have a name @politico.com

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

A new account here on Bluesky, for the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, scheduled for the end of October at the University of Exeter. @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Please do follow (and make plans for this autumn)

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

Postdoc Opportunity! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History University of Exeter - Department of Archaeology and History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT433/p...

Ah, finally figured out the sub-skeets. And yes it is outrageous. An aid for the perplexed: www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

We are looking for a native French speaker to translate (from English into French) a document on Catholic responses to mining. Approx 20,000 words. Needs to be conversant with Catholic theology and intersection with ecology. Generous payment on offer. Any takers?

Your cancelled #NEH grants and our terminated staff positions? That money is going to a statue garden that has been proposed to be built on Indigenous sacred land. #NativeAmerican #SouthDakota #Section106 #humanities 💸 $ 💸 $ 💸

And yet another reason to love the pre-2025 NEH and rage at its destruction.

I feel like it should be a bigger deal that ICE arrested the leader of the largest union in California.

I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.

Every single book that gets published in this country goes in there you piece of ****

Yes! Class action lawsuit filed against the National Endowment for the Humanities by scholars and writers whose awarded grants were unlawfully mass terminated by the NEH.

BREAKING: The Authors Guild and a group of scholars and writers filed a class action lawsuit against the NEH, its leadership, and officials within the “DOGE” for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants. Full statement: authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

Registration is now open for 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800' on 5th and 6th June: eventbrite.com/e/corruption... Join us at the IHR or online for what promises to be an exciting conference!

The representative on earth of the DEI Dei

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Plus probably clear the way to disappear some archival documents, make Americans even more illiterate, and injure a brilliant black woman because she is brilliant, black and a woman.