🚨Per @kyledcheney.bsky.social, earlier today the DOJ and Texas colluded with Reed O’Connor to erase a Biden-era regulation permitting immigration judges to administratively close removal cases. Texas filed this morning, DOJ filed a consent decree hours later, and O’Connor entered final judgment.

Hancock - The Blood Donor (23rd June 1961). Post donation, Tony is delighted to find a kindred spirit (played by Hugh Lloyd) to chat to. A pity he's also a light-fingered winegum thief ....

"An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

Krista Diamond wrote a Los Angeles novel (with some help from F. Scott Fitzgerald).

A skeleton thought to be from the Battle of Towton in 1461 found at Towton Hall, Towton, near Tadcaster, N. Yorks. 👇 BBC News - Skeleton found at War of the Roses battlefield near Tadcaster - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are there any historians who don't constantly name drop? Other than my dear friend, Sir Herbert Butterfield, I mean

From my perch as a legal historian of Elizabethan England, I am sometimes shocked by certain ways in which present-day U.S. federal criminal law seems…almost unbelievably tyrannical by comparison? I assume people know this? What is going on???

I like this… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DC Circuit will REHEAR EN BANC the case involving Judge Boasberg's attempt to investigate possible criminal contempt by DOJ and DHS in sending 137 Venezuelans to CECOT in apparent violation of his order. Oral argument 9/29. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#America250 discourse, but it’s actually about how impossible it is to get a tenure track job in early American history and how hard it is to find research support because we defunded the humanities. 🗃️

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing a new system she says is "actively" and "haphazardy" purging "non-citizens" from voter rolls using inaccurate data. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The contamination and pollution from the fire in Boyle Heights is much, much worse than Los Angeles political leaders are admitting to. This is a huge scandal. So many people are getting genuinely sick.

deeply unflattering British tabloid pic of a politician through a car window? Oh yeah, Starmer is cooked.

#OTD 21 June 1905 Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born. He became a leader of Existentialism & French Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse.

*Everybody* is here in this photo by Brassaï: Jacques Lacan, Cécile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie Campan Aubier, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Jean Aubier, Michel Leiris Grands-Augustins studio, June 16, 1944

Remembering Jean-Paul Sartre on his birthday 🎂 📷 Brassaï , Café de Flore, 1945 "As a rule, philosophers found Sartre slippery; playwrights thought him didactic. But each supposed him a genius at the other activity." - Tony Judt

The map shows Switzerland’s 4 national languages without the uninhabited high mountain areas. Suddenly the country’s linguistic geography makes more sense: German dominates the north and centre, French the west, Italian the south, and Romansh survives in pockets of the east. Source: buff.ly/NP7SzMs

20 June 1789, Tennis Court Oath: Members of the Third Estate, meeting in Versailles, declare themselves the National Assembly, vowing "not to separate, & to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution...is established"

@reuters.com: UK PM Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit, Observer newspaper reports

Incredible things happening in England

BREAKING: DOJ refuses to submit the declarations that were requested on June 12 and due by today to end the anti-weaponization slush fund litigation, citing “serious separation of powers concerns.” Further, DOJ says that what has already been provided should be enough (relitigating a lost argument).

I have finally finished and posted the list of alternatives to Google Scholar, along with various thoughts about ethics and librarianship and why I'm not technically a librarian any more librarykirsten.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/t...

Burnham withs 55% of the vote to defeat Kippers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

BREAKING: Iran Suspends Entire 60-Day Negotiation Process With the U.S.

Sad to hear this ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥🛸Spectacular explosion of the fuel storage tanks at the Moscow Oil Refinery during this morning's attack.

I know I'm late to the Bluesky Marc Bloch party, but I love his quietly passionate defence of the humble footnote*. ("The Historian's Craft", tr. Peter Putnam, 1954) * Or endnote; for once that is not the argument here.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly rejecting immigration court bond hearings legally deficient exercises geared at continuing detention rather than providing a fair hearing. It's the latest front in courts' confrontation with ICE's detention policies. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Huge loss... apnews.com/article/ital...

the manorial system continued but the Black Death pretty much put paid to serfdom in England (reminder that 'feudalism' did not exist until the 19C when commentators on the 'dark Middle Ages' [sic] invented it)

I just recently talked to Alessandro Stanziani, one of Ginzburgs brilliant pupils, about how „microhistory“ is not microstoria, and about how little Ginzburgs method is actually applied. There is no space in academia for this an open, original and curious scholarship anymore. It’s not „excellent“

RIP to one of the last truly great historians, one who never stopped working on growing historiography beyond the borders of its field. A great Gramscian, too

very sad to hear of the death of the one and only Carlo Ginzburg as a PhD student had the immense privilege to hear him at an event organized by Lyndal Roper IIRC

RIP Carlo Ginzburg. What a legacy.

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Sad news: anyone who has read his work will know how inspiring and thought-provoking it is.

The ´Charter of Kortenberg´, a key document in European ´constitutional´ history. Issued by Duke Jan II of Brabant in 1312 It set out the rights / privileges of the rich and poor. It went further than the Magna Carta but for some reason has always been overlooked.

UPDATE: Regarding the ruling below, DOJ appealed and is seeking a stay from Judge Kelley. Kelley today asked for more information by noon Wednesday regarding that request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... At the First Circuit, meanwhile, the appeal is Docket No. 26-1714.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

At the hearing in the federal courthouse in St. Paul. Fifteen people were indicted on conspiracy charges etc. and are making their first appearances. The courtroom is full, with about 100 people. Five defendants came into the courtroom, a couple with fists raised, which some in crowd mirrored. (1)

Here is the indictment in the Minnesota conspiracy case: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wake up, babe, new Broadview 6 just dropped

What is old is new again

Me [chanting]: Dogger Bank Affair. Me [bashing my hands on the table]: Dogger Bank Affair! Everyone else in the cafe (joining in): DOGGER BANK AFFAIR!!!

Sailors on a Russian warship fired a warning shot at a yacht that came near it in the English Channel