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the fact that the media is largely inevitabilizing a war with Iran out of seeming hopelessness rather than credulity is such a mark of... fatigue? abdication of responsibility? can someone get these guys some coffee and some Xanax so we can all do our jobs?

Pergunto à minha própria carne: és minha?

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An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

🇳🇱 Países Bajos ensaya gobierno en minoría con el liberal Rob Jetten, pero la ultraderecha suma casi un tercio del parlamento y marcará cada votación. Austeridad, recortes y giro migratorio: la derechización avanza aunque cambien las caras Escribe Sebastiaan Faber

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Tomorrow (Feb 26) at 12:00pm EST, the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities hosts Bruno Carvalho for a free discussion of his book, The Invention of the Future! With William Gleason, he'll discuss his history of cities in the modern world Learn more: buff.ly/tVTvnEe

New EPISODE!!! This week in the pod we talk to the inestimable @rachelschine.bsky.social about medieval Islam, issues of race, and how to use theory (and not be a dope). Have a listen, friends! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Have we already forgotten what happened in Iraq? Over 8,000 Americans killed. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Trillions of dollars spent. Nobody has explained how a war with Iran helps America. Because it won't.

There are parallels between the Polish government's refusal to allow investigations into Polish people's involvement in the murder of Polish Jews, and the way in which the US government under Trump is restricting the study of systemic anti-Black racism. www.timesofisrael.com/poland-inves...

I've spent years studying how authoritarian regimes criminalise inconvenient knowledge. This is that playbook. If the state bans teaching about certain issues as sociological facts, it tells you exactly what it fears. This is why critical, comparative, historical sociology matters now more than ever

I would rather a very simple "no war with Iran" like AOC said

first time as tragedy, second time as farce

A potentially devastating war of choice without strategic urgency, with strained troops and the backing of only one in every five Americans.

Pois, invocar o acordo é fácil. O q não calha é lembrar q o “acordo das #Lajes” não é um Tratado Internacional: o Senado EUA nunca o ratificou… não passa de um “executive agreement”, EUA só cumprem o q lhes vai dando jeito. Portugal não se respeita, nem faz respeitar. observador.pt/2026/02/23/i...

i will be using lower case letters for a while based on a complete lack of respect

🌹 A @usc.gal súmase á conmemoración do #DíaDeRosalía Con motivo do aniversario do nacemento da autora de ‘Cantares Gallegos’, a Cátedra que leva o seu nome impulsa esta semana unha lectura antolóxica da súa obra 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

I’ve admired this 1068 Toledo astrolabe in its case and I studied every millimeter of it on digital images, and today I got to handle it with the medieval manuscripts group. Oxford is wild.

📚✨ ¡Nueva publicación sobre el tejido andalusí! Se acaba de publicar «Trabajando en Casa: la Producción de Hilo y Tejido en el Espacio Doméstico de al-Ándalus (ss. IX-XIII)», fruto de la tesis doctoral del arqueólogo e investigador José María Moreno Narganes (Universidad de Alicante). 🏺🧶

Spanish dialext unique to portions of Colorado and New Mexico is fading away (the video is from 3 years ago but so relevant) youtube.com/watch?v=fVon...

Vol. 52.2 is now available on Project Muse. Featuring articles by Giles, Talavera Pagán, Udaondo Alegre, Cárdenas-Rotunno, and a special forum on Henry Berlin's "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia." For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu... #projectmuse

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Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

Que formidáveis crueldades acontecendo a cada dia, os humanos se encontrando e nos bom-dia boa-tarde que segredos, que crimes, que cálice de mentiras principalmente nos boa noite, boa-noite de maridos de amantes, de supostos amigos.

aw, well, this is kinda sweet... sllc.umd.edu/news/rachel-...

The Supreme Court:

TT job in critical theory and contemporary lit, UNBC: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Prince Andrew to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.

The early 20th century saw a flurry of left activism by Sephardic Jews in the US. This year’s winter gift is a deep dive into that history by Devin E. Naar, alongside six selections from a 1919 Ladino Socialist Songbook. Subscribe this week to get it in your mailbox: jewishcurrents.org/subscribe

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

A decapitated snake, for example a cottonmouth, can still bite you and kill you if you're not careful. No thought, no target, just unthinking instinctual violence. The essence of the snake, in its final moment, reduced to mindless violence.

A Maria do @fumacapt.bsky.social conta sobre o processo judicial lançado contra ela pela CCPJ. Vale a pena pelo plot twist! fumaca.pt/fui-obrigada...

just a few days left to get your red yenta bio in for the spring issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social! send 30 words or fewer (don't worry, we'll work with you on edits!) to [email protected] 💌

The #MLA Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a guaranteed panel on anti-authoritarianism. Abstracts are due March 15! We invite proposals on literary and cultural responses to authoritarianism across Spanish-speaking peripheries mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Join us on 3/18 for an open house for the new Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center! Meet department leaders and admissions officials as you learn about the program jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I'm very grateful to Emily C. Francomano, Sol Miguel-Prendes, and @albertlloret.bsky.social for their thoughtful responses to _Alone Together_ in the latest issue of La corónica. It's hard to express the feeling of being read with such sensitivity and critical acumen. I learned a lot about my book!

"Salazar was wary of seeing too much growth precisely because it would undermine the goals of the state in preserving traditional Portuguese society. When oil was discovered in Angola (then a settler colony), Salazar’s response was “What a pity!”" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pain-is-...

The Invention of the Future by Bruno Carvalho is now available worldwide! Discover a kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Urbanization #History #ReadUP

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Your honor, I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.

Really exciting!

Solidarity today with our friends in Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They are waiting to hear whether their departments are being dissolved.

this reminds me that my favorite fact uncovered in bibliomancy with the PEPP is that the Aztec sun stone, a 16thC “map of simultaneity,” was the prompt for Apollinaire’s first calligramme “Lettre-Océan”