William & Mary's Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program sponsors the Select Society Theatre's "An Audience with King Henry VIII: Conflict Between Church and State" on Tues., Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. in Ewell Recital Hall, Williamsburg, VA. Come hear "His Majesty" discuss his problem with the Papacy!

The reason a hillbilly scholarship kid like me got a great public education at William & Mary was because they invested in teachers, not bullshit computer magic. I guess that has changed.

Mine is — no joke — holding a fundraiser. H/T @jaaavis.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Vulnerable Republican Rob Wittman was caught fundraising at an expensive D.C. restaurant instead of doing his job to stop a government shutdown. He also claimed Republicans were working today, but they weren’t on the floor.

Williamsburg, Virginia Friday, September 26

I highly recommend a job where you get to work with manuscripts.

Oh this is BAD. The new TOC from academia dot edu. You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

Happy Constitution Day. constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let Rubio Strip Passports from US Citizens Over Political Speech. Contact your Senator/Rep ASAP. This bill comes up for a hearing on Wednesday. It’s buried in provision 226... www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-t...

Dream job alert! #medievalsky

UC Berkeley shares information on dozens of students, staff with Trump administration reut.rs/4mU8UNM

I'm not usually one to root for Harvard, but in this case, go team!!!!!!!!!!

Hard to believe that this is 2025 and this man is the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics....

Release the Epstein Files! (And put Ghislane Maxwell back in maximum security prison!)

the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:

Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.

BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.

Gen A.I. ys a machyne to make us lonelye.

Grade inflation at Harvard??? Who'da thunk it???? 😂

The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/

Today was the first Mass of the school year at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. It should have been a day of learning, worship, and joy. Instead, families are grieving the deaths of children. Thoughts & prayers are not enough—Congress must act to stop gun violence.

The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Here's what to know: politicians rail against nominal DEI spending but cheer on bringing back an 81-year-old guy who got run out of town. And they're going to line his pockets with $150k. This is what's *actually* wrong with higher ed--grotesque administrative bloat for their pals.

I’m with the late great Molly Ivins:

DOGE has our data....how long before bad actors on the dark web do as well?

#InternationalDogDay The interior of the House of Paquius Proculus, #Pompeii, #Italy, with its splendid 'cave canem' ('beware of the #dog') mosaic. 📷 My own 2019. #Archaeology #History #art #artwork #ancientbluesky

"Shared governance" has become an empty sign at the University of Virginia— I doubt there are many people who have experience working at a university on the UVA's board or on the committee seeking a replacement for Jim Ryan, who resigned under pressure. The corporate takeover of academia continues.

At the moment (with classes that begin in two days) I am more concerned about students using LLMs to generate papers in my courses than AI bots wiping out civilization as we know it, but it's still a worry—and a danger. As if we didn't have enough to worry about these days....

The University of Chicago! The fascists are succeeding in their thoroughgoing attack on education, top to bottom. More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Pause Admissions in Humanities, Social Sciences www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

Here's a video of reasons to buy a Razor Delta Wing, but here's one reason not to: my teenager rode downhilll on a friend's (NOT recommended in the manual, which my kiddo had not read!), crashed, and lacerated his spleen, resulting in hospitalization. Ride carefully! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORO...

Not a fan of McDonalds (bad for my cholesterol, but oh, those French fries!) but here's a big shoutout to the Ronald McDonald House in Norfolk near the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, which put me up on Sunday night when my son spent a second night at the hospital. Thank you!

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

How do we make sense of professional learners and educators willingly creating this kind of thing? TL;dr — we also often don’t have the sense that god gave a frog in the middle of the highway.

Really good point. Editing isn't just improving a text; it's improving a text *with reference to the reader's needs and the writer's intentions*. But when there are no writer's intentions...

A devastating look at the crisis fostered by decades of myopic leadership at the University of Chicago. Even as we were there in 2013-20 it was clear something was rotten at the top: buildings sold off, admin staff fired, talk of cuts, merging and integration… www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

Unfortunately, academia has become increasingly corporatized, so the destruction followed by inferior replacement trend continues....

Great news from Princeton! (And that's my nephew Nick in the blue shirt at the end of the first full row of students, giving a big smile to the camera!) paw.princeton.edu/article/prin...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

I saw Mozart's Don Giovanni at La Scala in the spring of 1993, and the audience was amazingly engaged: the soprano singing Donna Anna went on ill and was booed after a shaky aria by a claque, whereupon a fan yelled "cattivi" (You evil people!) and another claque began cheering. #operasky

Today's farmer's market haul: corn, tomatoes, squash, basil, and garlic from Westmoreland Produce, peaches from Drumheller's Orchard in Lovingston, VA, pasta from Bomboli pasta in Richmond, Biko from Philippine kitchen, fresh eggs and chicken (in fridge), plus a cat and a hat.

A ball of yarn from 2700 BC made from linden tree fiber? Now that's a cool artifact! (Must click and scroll down to see the yarn!) #knitsky www.bhm.ch/en/collectio...

Frankly, I'm surprised it took them this long...the administration changed the name of the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion office to Diversity & Inclusion right around the time Youngkin took office as Governor. flathatnews.com/2025/07/15/c...

Apparently Big Brother is busy rewriting history in real time:

Completely insane, A Canadian knitting instructor, Sarah Schira, was denied entry today by ICE without any reason given. Just how exactly is a class on how to knit gnomes with yarn purchased in the US a danger to US security?

If you see nothing else today, see this. 🤣 It’s a real treat. 🍭 #Pinks

Worth a read....Dr. Luther finally did step down as head of the independent Deutsch Reichsbank, but he held out against Hitler's demands for a long time (and was even shot for his trouble).