At March Madness today in Providence, @sethrockman.bsky.social, a historian at Brown University, and profs from other local colleges will be conducting a mobile teach-in to draw attention to how DOGE cuts will negatively impact the students and communities associated with the schools playing today.

Peter and I at the #marchmadnessteachin. Full Court Press against Trump's Education Policies!

This guy is human. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pa...

The God Abandons Us. Substitute "liberal democrats" for "Anthony" and "democracy" for "Alexandra. There we are at the window, watching her leave. Playing music as she goes. We were not worthy and now she's gone. The God isn't intervening. www.onassis.org/initiatives/...

Flat out assimilationism, www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

I asked Chat GPT for an image of an angry African grey parrot and got this:

Last week and this week, I'm teaching on South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s. I feel something as momentous as 1948 in SA has just happened in the US. I don't say this only to rage at MAGA, but to think about what was lost and what will be required for recovery.

I had a Twitter account for a bit. I considered myself in the Twitter world, but not of it. Now I'm trying BlueSky. I'm following people who share my politics, but I'm seeing a good amount of the binary thinking and purism that sent me off Twitter.

Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro - @carsoncenter.bsky.social “Toxic Narratives of the African Wasteocene: Gold Mining and Arsenic in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe).” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5U... #envhist #mininghistory

I wonder if Mitch McConnell ever thinks about Faust..

Hello Bluesky world! What if I raised my head above the parapet and said things?

I talked about parrots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgF8...

My review of a terrific book: Gabrielle Hecht, *Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures* networks.h-net.org/group/review...

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