"If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after."

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess

“The regents of Texas’s largest university system unanimously passed a policy Thursday setting “expectations of academic integrity and standards for teaching controversial topics” amid aggressive conservative pressure... The policy does not define “controversial.” Well, this policy is controversial.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.

Yep.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Child is supposed to dress up as someone who exhibits kindness tomorrow. He's wearing his Wemby jersey.

News & Reviews featuring @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social @alicerudge.bsky.social @amykohout.bsky.social @kelloggfireman.bsky.social @sherrieflick.bsky.social @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social and more!

Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Solidarity with all the folks in MN putting themselves out there for the good of us all.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

“A lot of things become possible when [the nation state] is not the only framework,” @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social reminds us in this deeply intimate local history of North African migrants in France. Listen to her interview in @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: bit.ly/49GIoC6

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

SLAC historians coming to #AHA26: come join our pre-conference workshop on Thursday morning! We also have a Friday afternoon session on navigating times of crisis and an interactive Saturday morning session, "Hands-On History."

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Sending light and warmth on this longest night. ☀️

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Everything about this is horrifying.

News and Reviews featuring @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social @wilderwriter.bsky.social @jimleeke.bsky.social and more!

Today was rough (campus bs). But three of my students noticed I was off my game and brought me a giant cookie between classes. Solidarity takes many forms--and some of those are delicious. ✊🏻 🍪

We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!

This is such an amazing lineup!

Things here in TX are looking dire.

This! Teaching students to write (and thus to think) is all about inspiration and confidence building.

Excited for this one!

I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases. As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors. (No paywall) www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

For anyone who wants to support an amazing, little, independent, women-owned bookstore that is a beacon of light deep in the heart of TX, please consider giving to their campaign here: givebutter.com/LarkandOwl (or supporting them through Libro or bookshop.org).

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Look even *if* AI could do the job of a historian, I still wouldn’t trust it. My research is on how elites used the past as a political tool and tried to control historic narratives. I wouldn’t trust tech companies and their connections to right wing governments to not rewrite the past.

Jim Collins is the reason I got a History PhD. 🙏🏻

As a historian, I have been curious (and appalled) by this choice of pseudo. The interpretation below is quite common, but not in fact correct. It was an 1865 law (sénatus-consulte) that made “Muslim Algerians” (a racial category divorced from actual faith) French nationals without citizenship 1/

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

👇🏻 Pride in Budapest year is shaping up to be a major resistance moment.

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

Something Ukrainians learned very well over the last few years is that even if you do somehow manage to maintain perfect discipline and give bad faith actors no openings to present you as evil, they will just run footage from some other country 15 years ago and claim it's you this week.

Brilliant read about Franco-Algerian Nutella affair "It was about nostalgia, memory, injustice, nationalism, globalization, decolonization, protectionism, racism, identity, immigration, invasion—the same things that all arguments are about nowadays, transposed to the realm of spreadable snacks."

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

This is horrifying.

Big thanks to @drpenieljoseph.bsky.social and the best indie bookstore in TX for inviting me to be part of this great event!

Did you know that the ICE detention center in Newark was opened without permission from the city & in violation of state law? Mayor Baraka has been fighting to close it down. Repost this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

"Some members of your coalition should make you uncomfortable." buttondown.com/monteiro/arc... #protest #community

Email your representativies! There's a new bicameral Dear Colleague letter in support of reinstating everything at the #neh ! It's important for them to sign on in support. Use the National Humanities Alliance direct action email to send 1 email to all yr reps. Customize the msg: p2a.co/SBQi8e7