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Job Opportunity! East Tennessee State University - Assistant Professor of Modern European History networks.h-net.org/jobs/69295/e...

“About 1,400 survivors were staying at community shelters” The typhoon really brought damage to entire Alaska Native communities in Western Alaska Climate change is severely impacting land, waters, and Indigenous communities www.kyuk.org/public-safet...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o... Good piece by Frank Bruni about the increasingly successful GOP strategy to turn the "real" scandal of January 6 into Democratic investigations/prosecutions of the perpetrators.

And since this is a movie about a Mars mission, I would like to make everybody aware of the work of Dr. Robert Zubrin. He has become the most renowned advocate of Mars exploration, forming a plan for sending crews to the planet called Mars Direct. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTG2W8X... #HATM

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

oh damn, Trump is gonna invade Oslo bsky.app/profile/adam...

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Making matters worse, his new university president is Bill Tate, who has no record of defending faculty.

Our annual PhD recruitment process @api.uva.nl is open!! Details of the process and projects are here, deadline November 3! 🔭 #astronomy #astrophysics werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

RFK Jr. is worse than cigarettes.

Episodes two weeks in a row?! That should tell you how much great stuff there is. I was so happy to get to talk to @andrewhartman.bsky.social about KARL MARX IN AMERICA (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and how he keeps going in the writing "grind." Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago. So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate! How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery? Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Kate Carpenter's podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social is fantastic. It was an honor to be a guest. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social just checking on you because of the shutdown. I don’t know if it’s affecting your work or not, but let me know if you need anything.

New job: Historian International Spy Museum jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69269

May you all have the fortitude of Wizard Frog today...

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Great week for memes in my Civ-Mil class. The topic of politicization may be inspiring?

Post someone who looks good in black…..

This photo should make you fume. ZIP tying a toddler. WHY?? What could be the reason???

Todd Arrington is an extraordinary public servant, a really excellent public historian - and a veteran. Superb educator! This was a relatively new posting for him. He didn’t deserve this treatment. I hope he sues the bejesus out of this administration.

Should be a great event for those interested in researching Cold War intelligence. Speakers are @deselv.bsky.social of the Institute for Historical Scholarship at Humboldt University in Berlin; Gary Keeley former historian at CIA; and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard.

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221/

Very well done documentary. youtu.be/1c7yzm7rtug?...

Out now!

Pete Hegseth is pro-atrocity.

The Onion's Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary sounds amazing www.wired.com/story/the-on...

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The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship 📚 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

new youtube on trump’s genuinely remarkable declaration that he hates his opponents

Mia will be killed tomorrow. This #furry baby needs a strong foster to save her! She’s struggling in the shelter! I need her reposts to be increased so if you can take a sec to repost her- I’d appreciate it! She’s not Trump and Epstein or Ryan Routh but she’s worth a REPOST AND MENTION! Pls!

Wish I could join. Please check out this interview with my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social bright and early tomorrow morning on @democracynow.org:

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Via #NASA - Press Release: NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates www.nasa.gov/news-release...

WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW

Stacie Kershner of GSU Law and I wrote this because we just couldn't let the Florida surgeon general's comments about vaccine mandates go without a public correction. theconversation.com/vaccine-mand...

A Brazilian drug raises hopes of reversing spinal cord injury. Scientists in São Paulo have developed a treatment based on the protein laminin. In animal trials, it reactivated dormant nerve pathways, restoring movement and sensation after paralysis. buff.ly/Jcj1euy #ShareGoodNewsToo

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Dorothy Vaughan US mathematician & human computer worked for NACA & NASA @ Langley Research Center. 1949 acting supervisor of West Area Computers, 1st African-American woman to be promoted & supervise staff there. Taught self & staff Fortran. b. #OTD 20 Sep 1910 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000. 🔭 🧪 www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Because this is what the founders would have wanted. apple.news/AH5nCsgxqSFO...