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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology

An early medieval traffic bollard (!??!) sighted outside a T-station in Cambridge, Mass.

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.

Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥

Be brave.

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“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”

There’s one appropriate response from faculty: fuck you

A reminder about the Smithsonian: the Vice President has a seat on the Board of Regents (defined by law). But he’s not chair of the Board, or vice chair, and he’s not on the Board’s executive committee. Structurally he has one vote.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million. And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

Just got back from a very fun protest at the downtown Boston Tesla dealership. Well attended, raucous, and a great antidepressant.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

"The White House has directed the military to draw up options for increasing the US troop presence in Panama to achieve Trump’s goal of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal" And *yes*, this does include: the "option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force" www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Ugh. The arrival of my books, freshly translated for the Chinese market, is perfectly in sync with today's launch of Trump's trade war with China.

Time to find a copy since it’s now happening here: apnews.com/article/dei-...

Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum: "The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."

New research on the earliest image of Pope Gregory the Great, painted in the C7th on the inside of a C5th ivory consular diptych, reveals not only how it was made but also that in the C8th new names were added including 5 Anglo-Saxons, pilgrims perhaps. artsandculture.google.com/story/nwVxkd...

12th-century feline-shaped incense burner from Iran. Seen at the exhibit “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World” at @bostoncollege.bsky.social.

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Animal-shaped sword pommel with human masks from Kirmukarmu hill, Vesilahti, Finland. 550-800 #earlymedieval #medievalsky #finland #animalart #germanicart

A hard-working equid from a fourteenth-century Egyptian manuscript. Seen at the exhibit “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World” at @bostoncollege.bsky.social .

The US has become a lawless Country Governed by a Crime Syndicate.

12th-c bath scraper from Afghanistan. One of many highlights at @bostoncollege.bsky.social ‘s McMullen Museum show on Islamic science.

Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online: doi.org/10.58117/M4H...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

I’ve been arguing for four weeks that Trump is basically a ceremonial head of state while Musk is the actual head of government. There is nothing in today’s Cabinet meeting that argues against that theory. Musk has even paid Trump $10M for the privilege! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Visited the #MedievalWomen exhibition at the #BritshLibrary? Learn more about Mathilda of Flanders in the upcoming book, The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083 by Laura L Gathagan. Now available to pre-order. https://buff.ly/4i6x8BE

I'll not only be looking back to look forward on Friday, but I am looking forward to Friday's symposium.

USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

Fantastic new exhibit at #BostonCollege ‘s #McMullenMuseum “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World.” 170 extraordinary objects and MSS used to explore the intersections of art and science in Islamic intellectual and visual culture from the 9th century to the present.

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports