we have a pedophile & rapist president. I am going more insane by the hour at this point

Me to Reader 2

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

This!! I always felt very siloed off from everything when I was a grad student in German, then when I went to English for my PhD I learned that depts like History and English are often not aware *at all* of the amazing things happening in area departments beyond language learning.

MAGA are the kind of people who would show up to Carmen and then bitch that it was in French

the bushes were people 😂

More about this soon (I’m writing a blog post with the details) but we now have a Kelmscott Chaucer at Emory! 🤩 Our copy is one of the “unlocated copies” in the KC census, and was previously owned by author & activist Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Absolutely stunning Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding.

A “progressive content hub”… on X… with 67 in the handle…

There is a person on her team trying to sabotage her. I feel bad for her that she hasn't figured out who it is yet. Future voter outreach is a fantastic idea though. She should have asked Stacey Abrams how to go about it.

Teaching on translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey (with guest speaker Emily Wilson!) later in March, and now I have a sixteenth-century Aldine (both 3rd editions) and an eighteenth-century Pope (both 1st editions) to play with! 🤩

I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone. In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.

Me at the 8am meeting

Snow day* at the movie theater *everyone in Atlanta said it was snowing today but it dusted for maybe 45 minutes

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

So important to see queer victims of the Nazis recognized in this new documentary. www.zdf.de/play/dokus/v...

A few highlights from the week

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

One of the funniest reviews I ever read www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

we use an accession number system for rare book shelving instead of LC numbers (pros and cons, tbh) which means you can find our 1607 Orlando Furioso & 1609 Faerie Queene next to queer pulps like Sucked into Success, Weekend Homo, and Young, Hard Hitch-Hiker

Gorgeous manicule in this manuscript collection of works by Italian Humanist writers, including Bartolomeo Facio & Giannantonio de’Pandoni (known as Porcellius), written in Italy c. 1450-1500. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by Stephen Gaselee in 1919 & now MS Add. 6188.

The Nuremberg Chronicle is one of my favorite books! We are lucky here at Emory to have two 1493 editions: the Latin edition (in my library) and the German-language edition (held in the Pitts Theology Library). Neither of our copes have these beautiful hand-colored illustrations, though!

Another thing for me and @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s ever-developing roundtable plans on bibliography, Trump, and fascism

Wearing my daddy cap at Publix while I scavenge for food

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

has he ever seen how his troglodytes show up like... everywhere?

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Check out the CFP for this pair of VIRTUAL mini-conferences on SLOP and NOSTALGIA, held by DLC+. I attended some of the previous mini-conference they put on it and it was great. Highly recommend. Keynote by the great Tess McNulty @dlcplus.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If President of Columbia University didn’t just get filled today I’d think that would be his next move

#DH #BookHistory Postdoc: printprobability.org

More anti-ICE print history , brought to my attention by @chancebonar.bsky.social

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Everything I wanted to do in NYC today is cancelled/closed because of the snow! 😭 im just trapped in my hotel, which doesn’t serve food

This is resonating on multiple levels atm

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It’s not enough to say Abolish ICE. It’s not enough to vote no on ICE funding. It’s not enough to confront Kristi Noem or Greg Bovino with Stern Words. If you are a leader, what are you doing to protect your community? How are you using your power, privilege, and position to confront this threat?

Live on MS NOW: A man being pinned down by multiple federal agents. He is shouting that he's a U.S. citizen and adds: "I have done nothing wrong." To the side: A woman sobs on the street. She says she's the man's wife. She says they were just running away from the tear gas when he was taken.

This resource is EXCELLENT.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

dude wanted to be VP and he won't even defend his state -- do something, literally anything that stops the violence and terror

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

ICE just shot someone outside of a donut shop while he was being held down and beaten by 3-4 other men. Broad daylight. It's so harrowing and disgusting. When will anyone stop this? Nobody with any power or authority is taking this seriously

More anti-ICE print history in Minneapolis! 💪🏻

looking at everything on my calendar for Monday disappear

I learned more about men in one 48 minute episode of Heated Rivalry than I did watching 37 Marvel movies

Walking pedo corpse

Flight attendant just announced to “lay your baggage flat like a book in a bookshelf” leading to more confusion #bibweek

Anyone planning some fun bibliography week pop-up events for those of us from the southeast who get stranded in NYC over the weekend? I have a Sunday flight back to ATL but I don’t think I will be back in ATL on Sunday… ❄️

Any good critical writing on the relationship between bibliography and genealogy?