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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

basically every federal law enforcement agency has broadened its mandate to include gross surveillance of American citizens and the right to impede their movement throughout the country

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This is not law enforcement it’s a slave catching militia

there is no purpose for ICE besides assaulting democracy wherever it finds it

in the all time pantheon of Cool Bassists

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A crucial first step. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

This photo says, “movie star has arrived”

Every one of these agents should prosecuted for this shit, along with every person who approved the raids

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

#AcademicSky Needing @zotero.org help please! Two authors working on separate sections of manuscript. Both using Zotero, but using separate libraries. Can we MERGE the Word files into one file? How? cc @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social

Perfect timing for this meme:

Timeline cleanse: ☕️ time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-h...

I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍An’ fellow-mortal! —Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785” #BookWormSat #poem #C18th

Seth Rockman: 'Experiential research as a method for IDing questions you didn’t know to ask, rather than providing answers you wouldn’t have had...an experiential research method lets us envision more things we want to know about the past' (experiential=do something the way it was done in the past)

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

Checking the socials for the latest updates on our fallen, corrupted political class

This essay talks about a major turning point in my approach to digital humanities, which has directly shaped what I've been doing for the last 5 years. I can show it to you soon once we finish dealing with some UI issues and do a little bit more data cleaning. But really, it freed me.

The real problem is that administrators view faculty as problems to be solved, too, rather than as colleagues and certainly not as allies. This narrow posture has reinforced their bunker mentality, keeping them from aligning with faculty, consulting world experts among us, and being united.

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.

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This is how we got Douthat or Parker for a million years

Time to primary any of the guys in safe seats from the left

we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him

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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."

Every vote like this makes me want to throw all the Dem representatives into a dumpster

My dream would be to have this setup but then to have a bunch of nonexperts dictating what the experts can and can't discuss with the students who are there to learn from and engage with them, has anyone come up with a system like that?

It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.

Upending this cultural compromise by effectively destroying trust that the institutions can effectively and consistently diagnose merit is an existential crisis for the entire sector, but we seem to be sleeping on a parallel crisis in knowledge acquisition/production as such

On 16 December, Jane Austen fans celebrate her birthday. This year marks 250 years since her birth. To honor the occasion, University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Roderic Bowen Library and Archives will showcase Austen treasures from its Special Collections. www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/uwtsds-...

Did you know gurning, or 'pulling a face', has a long and fascinating history? You can find out more in our guest blog from @uoylibrary.bsky.social colleague Simon Batchelor who takes a closer look at one of the rare books in our Cooper Abbs Collection. blogs.york.ac.uk/borthwick-in...

Cook? *Cook* is starting to believe?

impunity for leaders, thugs & enforcers just builds up the forces to start all over again

Gary Mounfield aka Mani, bassist for the Stone Roses and Primal Scream, has died at 63. Mani laying down the groove with the Roses in a 13-minute live version of “Fools Gold” at Heaton Park . #RIPMani m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRsw...

I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy. mikaelbrunila.com/information-...

gonna be a beautiful day

a great opportunity "We are pleased to invite distinguished writers with an interest in serving as the next Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at the Bard Prison Initiative to apply for the role. Please do spread the word!" www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...

Very important piece here - we really need to escape the pundit-brain thinking that imagines voters think about politics in the same ideological way people who think about politics all the time think about politics. Because they don't.

Coming soon -- early 2026: Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. I have a chapter in here called "Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures". www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

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