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Hey, looky there at what appeared in my doorstep. An advance reader copy of a book!

If Solicitor General D. John Sauer had his way I would not be a US citizen since my father was born over 20 years before his own father (born in Canada in 1918) was naturalized. What then would happen ?

Wow is right.

Facts don’t change minds but stories can

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." -- Virginia Woolf, who died #OTD 1941, in "A Room of One’s Own"

Gas stoves cause childhood asthma and range hoods don’t help much.

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

🎉 FSU is hiring a 2-year postdoc in Public History!! 🎉 Apps (cover letter + cv) due March 11, finalists will submit additional materials (letters + writing sample) More info available here: careers.historians.org/jobs/2201954...

In case you think losing 95k scientists in a year is normal, it's decidedly not.

'groundwater in this area contains an untold amount of pollution from previous decades of oil production' They thought regulators would help them - their 2 year ordeal was just begining. Moving away from fossil fuels is critical to protecting drinking water sources. share.google/WPBx9rUJaXvQ...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

anyone out there writing about how women's health is denied and denied and denied and....? I'm so tired of my pain being dismissed by doctors

Loathsome child abuser boasts in church of assaulting kids with belt while they sit in congregation — and now he’s Trump’s guy to take over from puppy killer Noem

Laurie Hertzel on telling a story when your family wants privacy. Brilliant. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/p...

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

I've known Wallace Kirsop since I was a child. He and my father were keen book collectors, bibliophiles. They'd met in the 1950s. A nice profile of a lovely man, with some astute observations on our public libraries @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Cuba. Head on over to the @newyorker.com radio hour to listen to Princeton historian, Ada Ferrer, whose new memoir coming in May is a moving personal history about a country now targeted by our dimwit president. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I am baffled by the people who are saying this would be hilarious and that he should do it. Did you read it? Do you think ICE agents harassing brown and Black people at airports would be fun and funny? Because I don't. We shouldn't be intimidated by his threats, but we shouldn't be callous either.

Fun fact: plastic recycling basically doesn't exist. Only about 9% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, and only 1% more than once. www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1...

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...

The long-awaited @robertmoor.com In Trees: An Exploration comes out Apr 7! I've been looking forward to this book since reading Moor's brilliant On Trails. I just preordered. You can, too. Support an excellent author & have something great to look forward to. www.publishersweekly.com/9781476739250

Pretty sure this is what they used to call war profiteering.

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

I’ve been haunted by many turns of phrase from this outstanding book, but one that stood out to me and echoed in my head at least every week of 2026 is: “Not a single unexpected thing happened.”

THEY ARE BOMBING ISFAHAN USA folks: Stop this. Now.

I’m so excited for this! Who’s going? My talk will be about time, as ecology’s final frontier: dynamics, timescales, resolution and extent, historical contingencies, and the denominator of all ecological processes.

White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.” Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.

"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing. Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before." www.instagram.com/reels/DVMK-u...

I’m calling on ICE to investigate the death of Emmanuel Damas, a Massachusetts community member who died in ICE custody after being denied timely medical care. His family, and dozens of families like his, deserve the truth about ICE's treatment of their loved ones. ICE must be held accountable.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers But the greatest offender to peace on the Board is the United States. 🧵mega-thread🧵 theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...

September 2026, I was in Sweden enjoying the simple pleasures of fluffy rabbits jumping over tiny fences.

BREAKING: The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released. They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

Latest Lebanese figures: some 90,000 displaced. More than 400 shelters opened. 77 killed, 527 wounded since Monday #lebanon

NO WAY OLLIE NORTH, OF ALL PEOPLE, SAYING IRAN SHOULDN'T HAVE MISSILES? IS THIS THE UPSIDE-DOWN? FELLOW GEN-XERS, YOU KNOW WHY I'M CRASHING OUT IN ALL CAPS OVER THIS--WE NEED TO CALL AN EMERGENCY GENERATIONAL MEETING, STAT

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

A terrific essay about Carolyn Fraser's MURDERLAND in @g-ehr.bsky.social from Emily Brownell who's at the University of Edinburgh. Emily's take is personal but also connects the environmental. h/t @aseh.bsky.social g-ehr.com/essay/walkin... #walkingthroughmurderland

From four weeks to forever. In one day.

Epstein files.

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

I like “vandals”