Our cat, Shark, has escaped from our South Portland home on Bellevue Avenue, on the edge of the Piggery. She is a petite tuxedo cat, about six pounds, with white whiskers. She is approachable but will react better to women than men. No collar, but microchipped. #lostcat #lostcats #maine 2077997324

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025. Tonight at University of Southern ME! Hosted by @mainehistory.org and the Osher Map Library. Reception: 5:30–6:00 p.m. Panel discussion and book signing: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m. www.mainehistory.org/events/shoul...

The new Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is out! The roundtable on curating #womenartists is required reading for #curators and other #museumpeople. It was also a pleasure to edit pieces by Virginia Girard, Larry Silver, and Angela Jager. #arthistory #museums jhna.org/issues/vol-1...

Please sign the petition to support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News, to include staff at the Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Brunswick Times Record, Portland Press Herald, and Morning Sentinel within the News Guild of Maine. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

"These nudes...do not bear the weight of the centuries that came before them. They are more free, less inhibited, than their predecessors." My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on "A Fountain of Forms" at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art: bit.ly/40DOwHE

#Mainers, know and remember this.

Once upon a time, a #Maine mom put the fear of God into the staff at the @newyorker.com. @rayrouthier.bsky.social on how a strongly worded letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother was the genesis of the magazine's #factchecking department. www.pressherald.com?p=7469341&uu...

Some reading for your #Juneteenth —the new issue of #JournalPanorama is out, with features on Dave the Potter, Edmonia Lewis, Blackness in the Ashcan school, and more. #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #AfricanAmericanArt @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social

“The League’s commitment to inclusivity, its willingness to break boundaries, is clearly one of its superpowers" My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on the capstone 150th anniversary show at the Art Students League of New York. bit.ly/4dzS4Qq

Shame on you, Browns. After what this city has done for you. Good luck filling an airplane hangar in suburbia. The Brook Park Browns, what a legacy 🙄

"What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History"—including my very transgressive chapter—will be published next month by @umasspress.bsky.social ! bit.ly/44PFo5O

Show us your writing process in a GIF

Oh FFS. Florida man runs for office in ME-2. #mainepolitics

Sorry I have all the pencils bro

Look at my panna cotta eggs with lemon curd yolks

On FB, I'm watching in real time as someone I once thought of as an ally gets steadily radicalized (reactionalized?). Truly; she's chosen *this* moment. She's "gender critical" and thinks anyone who isn't has been "brainwashed" by mainstream media. She recommends we watch more Fox News. God help us.

Ha ha OMG snow. Perfect, no notes. Eternal winter.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Important thread. Federal grants are contracts,and this is nakedly illegal.

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

New filing: "Ozturk v. Hyde (Detention of International Student at Tufts)" Doc #26: Response - not related to a motion Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69790775

Today, April 2, President Kumar at Tufts issued a University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk. "The University seeks relief so that Ms. Öztürk is released without delay so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University."

A declaration by Tufts Univ. in support of Rümeysa Öztürk filed in District Ct. today notes that she was abducted by federal authorities while her visa was in good standing in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. It was updated to reflect a visa termination after she'd been abducted

“Based on everything we know and have shared here, the University seeks relief so that Ms. Öztürk is released without delay so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University.” Proud of my grad school alma mater today. bit.ly/4jeXIcg

Cory Booker 💙

Well, this is very much in line with the current national ethos that leadership = wholesale destruction. Good luck with your capital campaign, you fearless disruptors (/s), and with your legacy. bit.ly/3FRaUpy

Kneecapping museums and libraries to own the libs

If anything can give us hope these days, it's Monhegan Island's story of resilience. Proud to share my Bowdoin Magazine story on the "Monhegan Wildlands" exhibition at the @bowdoin-college.bsky.social Museum of Art, traveling this summer to the Monhegan Museum. www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/04...

We know our job: to defend our campuses and communities and to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom, research that saves lives, and the institutions that provide crucial services that benefit every person residing in the US. We will fight and we will win. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

Dear Mr. Hegseth, thank you for your submission "War Plans." We regret to say that 330 million peer reviewers we sent it to do not recommend publication. Best of luck in finding another venue for your work.

Snow, really? OK, sure. Why not.

Three cheers for competence porn

Link in first comment. So much for free-speech absolutism, eh?

😧 www.pressherald.com/2025/03/18/h...

“The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters ‘DEI’ added to the site’s address… The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “ ‘deimedal.’”

I just found out about this forthcoming title from Adrienne L. Childs, whose work I deeply admire. I love it when great writers take on the decorative arts--and this looks like a fascinating subject! Available for preorder now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

"Rollicking thriller"?

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

"The She Made HIm Do It Theory of Everything," Rebecca Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

This is a must-read. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

I was so hopeful when Bezos bought the Post. I thought, if anyone can fix newspapers and figure out how they can make money again, it's the Amazon guy. It turns out that wasn't actually what he wanted at all.

This is the most embarrassing, pathetic, middle-manager-level whiff.

No eggs in the house so I just made chicken parm with mayonnaise. Pray for me.

Trump: We are the federal law. ME gov Janet Mills: See you in court. ❤️🌲🦞✊

God save me from well-paid professional opinion givers complaining about how no one is allowed to have an opinion anymore

Taxes are always a nightmare for freelancers, but it's especially grueling this year knowing what it's going to (or not). I'm consoling myself by just fully committing to getting that sweet, sweet medical expenses deduction, like hell yeah every one-mile round trip to CVS.

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

Hoo boy, every now and then the academic listserv just goes off the rails 🍿