"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

They're literally silencing students of color. fb.watch/ymhORcLdlW/?

Tonight I think of all the old men who spent a lifetime screaming to everyone about Russians infiltrating America only to end their lives as ardent defenders of Russia. A lifetime that is ending with a giant "NEVERMIND!!"

From @guante.info's book, A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poem #poetry #kyletranmyhre #books #writing

If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

Muitos anos depois, diante do pelotão de fuzilamento, o presidente Donald Trump havia de recordar aquela tarde remota em que resolveu taxar o café colombiano

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The whole thread is amazing, but this post in particular makes me so happy.

If you see this post an archer

My quotidian answer is chocolate napolitanas, because that's my special lazy-weekend-morning treat with coffee and the newspaper.

This thread, friends, is what the internet is for.

Excellent thread on how people get drawn into the far right.

This skill has inherent value. But also, if you can’t thoughtfully interpret a text, I’m worried about your ability to interpret a music video, a moment, a news event, a statement or action by yourself or someone else, etc etc. In the absence of critical thinking… well, just look around.

Signal-boosting this thread on the importance of the humanities. They're under attack pretty much everywhere, and we will be much the worse for it.

<considers coming out of retirement for my dream job>

My last video poem of the year is up on my Patreon and it includes the cheapest of ploys (Cute Puppy!). I appreciate the support as it helps make more school and community visits possible (Plus, it's fun). Join in, tell friends, support a poet (and a puppy) today! www.patreon.com/posts/year-e...

Medieval people carried sporks. You have never known fear like a horde of burgundians racing down on you, battlesporks aloft.

The medieval thing I want to bring back is super vaginal depictions of the wounds of Christ. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Another example of the right-wing Madrid city government trying to avoid any acknowledgment of the violence and persecution of the civil war and the Franco regime. Similar to US conservatives’ desire to silence any history that makes people “uncomfortable” 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

I've just learned that cranberries are not actual berries and GODDAMNIT why are berries so full of lies and deceit, how hard is it to have fruit standards Fuck it, I'm making the call here Nothing is a berry anymore Everything is a fucking legume now Cranberries are Bog Peanuts Deal with it

Also terrifying. I was among those who thought once people suffered from the Republican policies they voted for, they'd be sorry. This suggests that won’t be the case.

This thread is spot on and also utterly terrifying. There's no point in pointing out Republican hypocrisy; they've invented their own reality.

Morning walk: oaks and pines.

just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking

And this was very purposeful.

Health and education will be the biggest targets of the Republican administration.

@betsyphillips.bsky.social is trying to figure out how to make #carverblue and I am so here for it. (and trying to resist the urge to start a research project in a time and place I know NOTHING about)

If you like books that make you go “No!” “What?!” and “Ha ha, Bull Connor is a dumbass,” DYNAMITE NASHVILLE would make a great holiday gift for yourself or your loved ones.

this thread 😆😆😆

As a historian of food and social identity, I heartily endorse this essay. It also helps me articulate why I love some “medieval” movies and hate others. Yes to “A Knight's Tale” for the vibe, yes to films like “Martin Guerre” for authenticity. No to anything that lands awkwardly in between.

Two days late and four thousand miles off, but we did it! Thanksgiving in Madrid.

What's the best thing to get someone for Christmas? Donuts! But at #2 is, of course, books of poetry. Button Poetry has every book on sale at half the price through Dec 3rd with coupon code: bfcm50 They have a plenty of great titles, including THIS little beauty! buttonpoetry.com/product/rock...

Best Thanksgiving thread ever. Thank you, farm workers.

The rest of us are certainly likely to come across difficult material - I’ve read more Inquisition files than I care to remember - but we fumble our way through that on our own, or through informal discussions like this.

And now I’m curious - for fields like Holocaust studies, or the history of slavery, or war crimes, is some kind of preparation for that trauma incorporated into one's professional formation?

My friends often ask how historians handle the trauma of historical research - when you find, and have to explain and interpret, stark evidence of the atrocities in the past. This post got a fascinating collection of responses.

Confirmed, y’all: this is one excellent book.

Morning walk: brokenhearted tree

This thread, you guys. Beautiful and helpful, not just for staying alive, but for all of us who could take better care of ourselves.

“No voting on who gets to be people.” - @nkjemisin.bsky.social

1. Editing a Routledge handbook on the history of Madrid, and 2. what will become of higher education in the next few years?

Appreciative of David Perry's support of book culture and excited to read this…

YOU GUYS there's a new Humbugs album! And if you don’t know the Humbugs, well - go listen. ❤️

RFK’s elevation is going to be such a disaster for the autism community. Divisive. Fraudulent. Abusive. Ignorant. Dehumanizing. I’d like you, right now, to read this by @juststimming.bsky.social and me. /1