Good longer read on Justice Jackson’s response to a very tricky situation tonight from @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

www.gc.cuny.edu/events/certi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social has so many advanced certificates! Come find out!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

www.gc.cuny.edu/events/certi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social has so many advanced certificates! Come find out!

Great line up of classes in the fall for @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/voting-riker... “voting in DOC sustody” @hellgatenyc.com

Un rapport du ministère de l’intérieur montre une hausse de 16% du nombre de personnes se disant victimes de violences sexuelles entre 2022 et 2023. Une constante, en revanche : celles-ci portent toujours aussi peu plainte. @mediapart.fr

The deadline to send in your proposal is Nov 3rd. We invite proposals to work with the editorial board to build on and expand WSQ’s intellectual scope and audience reach within and beyond the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @feministpress.bsky.social

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All that stucco, molding, and wood from the East Wing of the White House had to go somewhere. So @nancywalecki.bsky.social tried to find it.

‘AI should not only be prohibited in the lower-level courses students most often take to fulfill their core requirements. These classes should also be restructured to make AI use functionally impossible.’ By the student newspaper for Notre Dame, Holy Cross, and St Mary’s:

The freshly stabilized Liberty Library I built for @indivisiblequeens.bsky.social tabling events will now reside (when we’re not tabling) at Loveday 31, thanks to the generosity of store owner Ivana. Which means you can actually grab a zine or ‘know your rights’ card anytime Loveday is open!

“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.” @lollardfish.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news... thanks to @hellgatenyc.com for reporting this fresh hell

In recent years, research has illuminated the ways that climate change is threatening pregnancies. Now, a new pilot program is teaching doulas the skills they need to help their patients understand the growing risks and provide them the tools they need to adapt. 19thnews.org/2025/10/doul...

📢 The JHI invites applications for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD. Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers 📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST 🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27 #digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral

Join O'Neill's @michelebgoodwin for an evening with Irin Carmon discussing her new book Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. Register at https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/14508923 Politics and Prose

@lyz.bsky.social For @slate.com

Lyz Lenz “We get to the protest at 9:30. It’s not scheduled until 10, but no one wants to be late.”

UC Santa Barbara - Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies (Medieval/Late Antique): #medievalsky memorients.com/news/uc-sant...

First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan. Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

#skystorians #medievalsky my kingdom for someone with the bandwidth to Write a grant proposal and get funding and do something with this amazing preliminary work from @lollardfish.bsky.social

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained. 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

expert views from @artcrimeprof.bsky.social on the Louvre theft

SCOOP: (gift) One of the top prosecutors who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal had dinners, meetings with the convicted sex offender after the prosecutor left DOJ. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Worth rereading www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-...

BREAKING Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

Wow!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u... Texas schoolbook Christian David is quite the guy…

@manongarcia.bsky.social @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social “It’s not because they’re dumb. It’s because there’s something about what it is for them to be a man, and to be entitled to women’s bodies, that makes them, I think, at least some of them, deeply convinced that they haven’t done anything wrong.”

For two years and one month I have been coveting this book and tomorrow it will be mine! 🥳 @lancerichardson.bsky.social the best reviews in the right places

The second time around can we possibly hope for signs of an effort to limit “secondary victimization?” @diane2v.bsky.social Merci Gisèle

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn. The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time. "People can be fun loving people and still protest." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

THIS is a fabulous website The #Chester Consistory Court Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory #Cheshire

📣 “Knowledge is a Public Good” 🖊️ Apply for the NEW Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship launching this fall @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

Check out Prithi, the head of @cunygcps2.bsky.social , talking about the new Public Scholarship certificate at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! "Scholarship that is deeply rooted in social justice, responsive to community needs, and accessible beyond academic walls." www.gc.cuny.edu/news/buildin...

“Email is the most reliable distribution method in the oligarch algorithm era”… resist the “regriftance”

Merci Gisèle www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

En contact avec Dominique Pelicot, un Lyonnais sera jugé pour viols et soumission chimique france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/auvergne-rho...

⚖️ Prostitution d’adolescentes : treize membres d’un réseau de proxénétisme condamnés à Toulouse Le proxénète en chef, un détenu de 29 ans qui opérait depuis sa cellule de prison à Béziers, a écopé de la plus lourde peine : quatorze ans de prison. Lire ⤵️

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

J3 au procès #Mazan2 ajd LT des réquisitions et des plaidoiries de la défense Queen Cecile Hautefeuille vous raconte l’énervante journée d’hier par ici 👇 « La victime, c’est moi ! » Au procès en appel des viols de Mazan, Gisèle Pelicot remet l’accusé à sa place www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Tout à fait clair, même depuis New York, mais tellement pénible à entendre ce que ces avocats et l'accusé osent lui dire. Merci pour ce reportage @valeriemanteau.bsky.social

On reprend directement avec la prise de parole de Gisèle, à chaud. Elle est visiblement très remontée. Elle sermonne HD, "J'ai honte pour vous! Il n'y a qu'une seule victime ici, c'est moi! Assumez vos actes!"