States are often some of the best laboratories for democracy. Here's what they've accomplished recently for women's rights:

All this looksmaxxing and what girls really want to see is boys painted gold and wearing art nouveau headgear

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Who amongst us hasn't fled screaming into the night after researching in a library? #HATM #HistorianProblems #Ghostbusters

This is an open call to any and all of my friends in academia: if you have some graduate students doing great work and you want to promote them, please hit me up & tell me about them. I want to support the next generation. This is not limited to history, science profs hit me up too!

Pretty sure I see this guy when I go too long without sleep

Some modern people have a vision of contented 1950s housewives merrily whipping up meals for their husbands from scratch. In reality, there was Peg Bracken. A busy copywriter, she wasn't the vision of the perfect housewife and knew she wasn't alone, so she wrote a book. Male editors passed.

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Have you ever seen a tandem penny farthing? I found this in an old catalogue I got at Oxfam and I can't decide if this would be safer or just a more horrible way to die

"She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

It's 10:00pm and I'm starting a new book. I am telling myself I will just read a few chapters and go to bed at a sensible time. Never in my 40 years on earth has it ever worked out that way. But maybe--MAYBE--this will be the first time?

“The company has long supplied condoms to government-funded programs for AIDS prevention and family planning. That segment of the business took a hit last year after the Trump administration cut funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which supported condom distribution initiatives

SLAMS THE PREORDER this looks cool as hell

So hell seems to have frozen over "I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people." Carlson regrets helping Trump get elected www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Oh fuck off "Republicans have accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for investigating hate groups, of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

So hey that's eugenics

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

More like William Butler BASED am I right fellas

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY 📢 It's finally here! At long last, I can share the cover for my new book, FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION, coming this January from @putnambooks @penguinrandomhouse

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY 📢 It's finally here! At long last, I can share the cover for my new book, FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION, coming this January from @putnambooks @penguinrandomhouse

Everyone's talking about Aqua Tofana again, but did you know the same thing happened in 1670s Paris? It was a massive scandal known as The Affair of the Poisons. A network of women sold poisons door to door along with common cosmetics. Nicknamed "inheritance powder," it was probably arsenic

For somebody who doesn't believe in vaccines, he sure needs a lot of them

I love tulip season. Pretty wild to think that during Tulip Mania, certain bulbs could cost 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan, and now they're only about $2 a pop. I want to fill my yard with them. Rows and pots everywhere like I'm a seventeenth-century Dutch millionaire

Can we stop calling women paranoid now? edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

And also because evidence does not simply find itself.

📢 Call for Papers! The 10th Global Congress on Gender & Sexuality Studies 2026 is open for abstracts (3rd round). 🗓 May 18–19, 2026 📍 Amsterdam Share your research & connect globally. 🔗 genderstudycongress.com/abstract-sub... 💬 Interested? Comment below! #CallForPapers #GenderStudies #Academia

This is really interesting. I only really started collecting magnets last year when I traveled around Europe. They accumulate quickly! I especially like museum magnets that have the name of the museum or exhibition on them, but these have been surprisingly hard to find

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Having a baby is scary enough *with* modern medicine, but what did people do BEFORE epidurals? ✨Some tips from a medieval medical manual (Treasury of the Poor, 1277):✨ •Anoint the "privates" of a woman with the ashes of an ass's hoof •Drink another woman's breast milk (!)

Made out like a bandit at the Rotary Club book sale! Lots of Historical Romance. I love Regency as much as the next person, but I miss the days when weirder time periods were just as common. Hell YES, I want to read a romance set in the ninth century. Thank you, Johanna Lindsey

For British citizens and residents. I have filed a UK petition to ban Grok in the UK. I need three more citizens or residents to sign for it to he considered. DM me for a link to sign it.

History friends: how difficult/time-consuming is it to do your own index? Any pros or cons you're willing to share?

This is a really good thing, actually. What it shows is a massive decrease in teen pregnancy. Women are still having children, but they tend to wait until their thirties, when they are better prepared to be mothers. This makes for happier and healthier families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE PARTNERS WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD ON TOUR AMID ‘LIFE & DEATH’ FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS Welch says that reproductive healthcare is being "relentlessly attacked."

This is a really good thing, actually. What it shows is a massive decrease in teen pregnancy. Women are still having children, but they tend to wait until their thirties, when they are better prepared to be mothers. This makes for happier and healthier families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

I mean, you don't really need a translator

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

he medieval mind believed in a lot of very strange stuff. Have you ever hear of a bezoar stone? They were once fabulously expensive and believed to be a cure for poisoning. Where did they come from? Read on to find out! www.thebookdelight.com/2026/04/bezo...

We sure feel like it

That there is no single truth but multiple truths.

I'm putting together an interior decorating board on Pinterest and *this* is the kind of ad it's giving me. I don't know what this says about me, but...it's not wrong? If you could choose the medieval manuscript to print on your booty shorts, I would order some immediately

The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.

friends, as I am still awaiting an answer after a few job interviews, I would very much appreciate support to pay rent. goal: 600 EUR. deadline: April 10th. #MutualAid

New research suggests humans have been keeping dogs as pets for 14,000 years, trading them between cultures and feeding them (and burying them) like people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s...

From The New Yorker.

My cousin has an aggressive brain tumor (glioblastoma) & as soon as he can put down a deposit, they can manufacture a vaccine for him in an experimental trial in Germany This tumor has been incurable up to this point, but it might not be with this new vaccine help if you can! gofund.me/b2a6dd24a

Eel smuggling was in the news again yesterday, and I got some questions. Like: "WFT?" & "Why? & "How?" So let's take a look. Eel smuggling is maybe the biggest wildlife crime going. It's a c. 4 billion a year black market industry. Interpol has called it "Europe's ivory trade." 1/7

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.