this is not the description I was expecting for the reverse "at. left naked athlete standing right, left foot advanced, holding palm (?) over right shoulder; before him, naked runner crouched, right, for start" rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/217

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Nero looking very much like an imaginary pirate king! New to me type. Not the coin I was looking for but good stuff. rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5296

When you go to Snopes to factcheck an internet meme and it tells you it is mostly true just the original was far less pithy.

Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, & Immigrants is at Oxford University online in Jan '26 + in print (hard/soft cover) April '26. Next semester, I have more flexibility b/c sabbatical if you want me to give a talk. Fall '26, full teaching load.

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"

If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i...

when your job suggests doing an "AI hackathon" just so folks can learn how this stuff works, the bosses are trying to get you to train your replacements. Then they can fire you and rehire/hire a few humans to supervise the AI at a lower pay rate and much higher client load.

YOU BEAT ME TO IT!

Fascism is bad, people. When did we lose sight of this? Fascism = BAD, really bad, icky bad, nasty stuff for pathetic losers. Mainstreaming it is pretty much like the water companies pouring raw sewage into rivers and onto beaches. Which is also a thing that is happening. Christ Alive.

Your astonishing artifact this week is a bronze statuette of a Roman actor pretending to fart. 🎭💨🏺

my question for ahmari: the federal reserve is subject to democratic control — congress can, whenever it chooses, alter the terms of fed independence. how and why is the unilateral authority of the president, exercised outside of rule if law, more democratic than congress’s legitimate authority?

How many times have conservatives been caught faking these cup writing things?

Soilent Green (isn't food it) is PEOPLE! LLMs (aren't AI they) are US.

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE.

A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.” The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted. 🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Obvious problem aside, why is he written as "Timothy Cardinal Dolan?"

"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical." @dehypotheses.bsky.social

Kimmel and Colbert must have a road tour and it must have lots of loud music of all genres and I want them traveling to state and county fairs, family arenas and town squares and I want them to do some song and dance and jokes and offer lots of free food. And talk endless shit about our President.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Deadline approaching (9/22)! Tenure-track faculty search in public law, constitutional law, and civil rights -- all hugely important in this political moment. We're a liberal arts college with good colleagues and strong students, located outside Philly/NYC. Circulate widely!

An actual quote, translated by me: "we paid a lot of money for the war, now we gotta split the percentages of the land. We already did the teardown, the first step in urban renewal." This is Israel's minister of the treasury. I feel sick. Physically sick.

#WCCWiki is back on Wed 24 Sept 2025, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Online editing session with Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email [email protected] for more information

I feel something has been missing in the analysis of the rise of far-right, anti-immigrant sentiment. I wrote about this on my new Substack. When the far right says they are protecting women, they aren't simply lying; they actually believe they are. This is dangerous. shorturl.at/TrKIS

This weekend's rally in London served as a stark reminder of what we, as humanists, must always stand against and, more importantly, what we must always stand for. 🧵 humanists.uk/2025/09/15/h...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

This is a very good round up of some very powerful people in the media and government blaming higher education for Kirk’s death. They don’t need evidence because they are lairs with a pre-existing agenda of destroying dissent in America.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield quits saying Unilever ‘silenced’ social mission

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern. But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws. Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

I just hope she got a lawyer, THEN cooperated. Do not speak to cops, not even as a cooperating witness, without a lawyer.

Concerned about the Berkeley release of names to the goverment? You should know that on June 10, 2024 CUNY signed a OCR agreement to similarly hand over all such names of faculty *including personnel files* upon government request. p.5, sect. B. drive.google.com/file/d/1H_2D...

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Amplifying this opportunity. www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/16/v...

NYC AREA PEEPS. SAVE THE DATE. 29 Sept doors open 12.30 pm. A public lecture not to be missed.

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The Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. For those new to the AAH, we have preset panel themes; you pick 1 to apply to. The theme overall is Ancient Exchanges in a Global Antiquity. See CFP: abstracts are due by December 1. aah.conference.uiowa.edu

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

NYC AREA PEEPS. SAVE THE DATE. 29 Sept doors open 12.30 pm. A public lecture not to be missed.

Judith Butler:"It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are..invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal & rising authoritarianism. It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA 🧪 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

This week’s astonishing artifact is an Indigenous map of the heavens that tells the story of the Skiri Pawnee. 🏺🧪

Something analogous: in physics it's usually 'proofs' that relativity is wrong; in maths, various things eg trisections of the angle or proofs that there are as many integers as real numbers, which the author can't publish because of professional jealousy/the conspiracy of the hidebound orthodoxy.

AUGUSTUS ISN'T REAL. (it's not just the birds!). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_A...

Virgil enters the conspiracy chat! This. This right here is why we open our work email on a Monday morning. Do other disciplines get this type of conspiracy email?!

8.10am. Monday. step 1. Coffee ✅ step 2. Walk ✅ step 3. avoid opening work email, and instead wonder aloud if it is soon say their is only one Kirk for me. But his brother isn't have bad either.