This dog was spotted bopping to a beat so sick, even her vibes are contagious. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: ws.take)

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

When a Colombian is warning you about corruption and authoritarianism, believe them.

It is vital for everyone to look at this thread

Apparently, opposing law enforcement, fascism and border policies is now terrorism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of federal agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. This is the oral history of DOGE, as told by federal workers:

So much for everyone who thinks these things are just cute toys that let parents take video of their kids discreetly. Meta is building facial recognition and AI into future models.

#AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Two weeks later, the dark and musty corridors of the nunnery were abuzz with improvements arranged by a network of about 200 supporters who had joined a WhatsApp group’

RELATEDLY: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Basically me now

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Known as the Thompson Sisters, Alice, Jean and Shirley were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

If you are currently abroad and on a valid H-1b visa, starting Sunday you'll be barred from re-entering the U.S. - unless you or your employer pay $100,000 to the U.S. government. This de facto travel ban will cause chaos throughout tech and the entire economy. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Here's a gofundme to help out Josh Bregy, who recently was fired from his tenure-track job at Clemson

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

Re-upping this list of "Against GenAI" resources - updated, with more links! catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

The ACLU has written a guide to basic protest OPSEC that addresses the very basic risk factors -- it's nowhere near fully comprehensive, but it's the absolute table stakes for responsible protest: aclu-wa.org/story/Protes...

A wonderful opportunity with good financial support for a scholar of British periodicals of the 19th c to have time to research, write, think for a period of 4 mos.

#OtD 15 Sep 1845 5000 women cotton mill workers in and around Pittsburgh went on strike for a 10-hour day and an end to child labour. Although unsuccessful, it got national attention and led to a 10-hour law which unfortunately was not enforced stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8736...

Good timing .... Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (@pbs.org, #skystorians): www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

🍂🧡🐈‍⬛ #art #illustration #cats

Apropos of very little: I have a bunch of knowledge about navigating the healthcare/eldercare systems when a parent’s health is failing that I had to teach myself and I now have a compulsion to use to help others. If anyone knows of, like, networks that one can plug into for volunteers, lmk.

The Trump administration’s move to classify birth control as abortifacients is utterly batshit science and completely predictable policy. It will have devastating outcomes open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Your institution will not love you back

New research from one of members of the University of Huddersfield's crack team of historians. Their teaching is also innovative and ace. If you're in the area, check out their Heritage Quay: heritagequay.org

#OTD September 12, 1692, led by Giles Corey, more than 50 specters of witches allegedly gather in Salem & partake of the devil's sacrament.

My dear friend Stephanie's 26-year-old son, Jaden, was recently shot and killed in Atlanta. He leaves behind a fiancee and 4-year-old daughter—"his whole world," as Stephanie put it. Stephanie has created a fundraiser to help cover rent and bills as they face the unimaginable. Any amount helps.

Well, that's terrifying. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

"For the first time in history, the entire United States Constitution will go on display, to celebrate 250 years of American Freedom." The display at the National Archives in occupied downtown DC opens Tuesday, Sept. 16 and runs through Oct. 1.

My latest column for National Geographic is on Joseph Smith. It features the amazing new biography by @georgemasonu.bsky.social prof. John Turner and quotes from @benjaminepark.bsky.social's American Zion. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century): A manuscript that pairs illustrations of cats with poetic descriptions and notes on what mystical benefits their owners might hope to accrue. publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Is there an academic’s mutual aid group or anything we can organize to help support the Lecturer at TAMU and to support those who will follow? I really hope the people who know this composed and competent PhD are doing everything they can to support them or help with finances from loss of income

The power of metaphor.

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

The U.S. economy probably added half as many jobs in the 12 months ending in March as previously reported, according to the preliminary benchmark revision data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday. #NumbersDay www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court really said

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

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I regret to inform you that this is a White House governmental website: www.whitehouse.gov/america250/a...

I guess operation ubermensch krieg was taken.

lets start with the Supreme Court letting Trump fire an FTC Commissioner despite federal law and decades of precedent saying he cant do that shit no way to read this but the Court saying Trump isnt bound by law and lower court judges should stop acting like he is ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Supreme Court rules ICE racial profiling is GOOD! Colleges considering race? BAD! My column on a big day for racism and hypocrisy: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...