Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

Something from a Connecticut insurance attorney to brighten your evening. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

10/10 ICE protest sign

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just choked on my beverage

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

NEW: Jaylen Brown and the NBPA condemned the killings in Minneapolis this past week. “Our players, we don’t stand for it. We demand accountability." “Something needs to be said.” www.celticsblog.com/articles/130...

Facts matter. That's not a penguin, it's CBP’s Greg Bovino.

Haven’t seen many athletes comment on the news in Minneapolis outside of Haliburton, but here’s two time All/Pro Broncos guard Quinn Meinerz, who takes the field in an hour:

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Every Democratic member of Congress should be on a plane to Minneapolis right now to join the people protesting in the streets. Federal elected officials should physically place themselves between the public and these dangerous thugs sent to terrorize this American city.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Canis canescit

Doing this in a Dropkick Murphys shirt is ace.

The power of calling things by their true names. m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...

Re: Sean McDermott getting fired, I ask once again: why are all these GMs keeping their jobs when they bear more responsibility for team failure?

Moral intuition working right before our eyes.

New fragment of the SC de Bacchanalibus discovered.

Had to dust off “perfidy” from the attic of war crimes to cover their monstrous acts.

Tony Grafton on Conjectural Histories 🔥 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Well played, Transport for London

Terribly sad news. All my best wishes to David’s family.

Let’s Sniffin’ GO!

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

never forget

“Renee Good was a mother of three. She was helping protect the civil rights of people because it was the right thing. She was on the scene of an ICE action, as a volunteer observer. Let’s be her volunteer observers, now. Let’s not let them get away with this shit.” open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

My “Hey don’t kill people” brand is really breaking people’s brains it seems

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale

*The Mind of the Slave: The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society* is the most original and most compelling contribution to our understanding of Roman slavery that I have read in a long time. The Q: How were the subjectivities of enslaved persons imagined by the slave-owning class? 1/4

Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

As is traditional on this day: Samuel Beckett’s thoughts via telegram on the coming New Year of 1984

A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)

Sammy is judging your last minute Xmas scramble.

Ain’t Christmas time till the gulab jamun ornament goes up.

RIght now it feels like a bit in anc history: —Degenerate ruler puts up grotesque inscriptions denigrating predecessors —Literary source mention and quote them —Modern historians think it's fiction or satire —Archaelogists find fragment of inscription proving ruler was indeed grotesque

Elves busy in department library

Never in doubt 🦬

Sending our love to Brown.

Some fortifying rigatoni after a stressful sick cat day.

Look as this chonk of Latin papyri that just arrived for our department library.

Albright Knox.

Roquefort brightens any day.

Snoozing with Shack.

Friday night Negroni.