This little creature landed on my parents' window... Looks kind of weird... And then I zoomed in...

There are no words for how evil this is

Loved that Celebrity Traitors final. We weren't sure the 'end game' was gonna bring the drama, but oh boy,it did! My daughter in actual tears at the betrayal and then Nick's "hopeful little face" at the end 😂

Appalling and short-sighted decisions at Nottingham. So sad to see the American Studies programme that saw me through from undergrad to PhD is being closed. Thinking about and sending solidarity to colleagues over the river.

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

My daughter has been learning languages at school and is loving it. By the time she leaves, I wonder if there will be any language provision left at universities in the UK... Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.

THIS IS SO GOOD

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

Love that my 12-year-old West Midlander, who has never set foot in the US, gave a little fist pump when I told her Mamdani had won (she mostly knows about him from tiktok!) It's nice to be able to share good news. This is what hope looks like.

The writers brought into Teen Vogue in 2017 (and through now) lit a spark that hit kindling. There IS a market for content that treats young women (and older women) like they are the smart, savvy, engaged and powerful entities they are. Hopefully something will rise to replace that. It’s so needed.

That Britain has a king, that the king's brother has been involved in serious instances of sexual abuse, that the consequence is for him to be stripped of a handful of abstruse feudal titles and that Britain's elite think this is a fitting punishment, is the mark of a truly fucking weird country.

'Rising postgraduate fees combined with the increased cost of living, particularly higher rents, can make it impossible for some students to afford graduate study. Offer holders for these courses may reject places because they cannot secure the finance they need.'

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

#tdih 1916. Abbeville, SC: Black landowner Anthony Crawford lynched for challenging white merchant over unfair price of cottonseed. Land seized, family forced to join Great Migration. #Terrorism More ⬇️via @eji.org, Green Book of SC & #Reparations lesson 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/an...

Read it, watch it, pass it on. 1:11 ✨

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

British.

Kids' primary school does a trip to France in yr 6 that cost approx £550. Our daughter was first year to go and they told the kids before they told the parents! Kids came home saying, "we're going to disneyland" and us parents were like, "wtf"!!

Important reporting, but also what we’re seeing is Republicans saying the loud part of GOP initiatives even louder. It’s the same ethnonationalist project that animates every aspect of the regime’s lawlessness & punitive policies, just with emojis.

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

At bedtime, my son asked which language is hardest for English speakers to learn. We suggested one of them might be Japanese...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

My great-aunt would answer the phone by reciting her number (which didn't include the area code, even years after they were introduced - she refused to acknowledge such a development)

PSA: Public Scholars I'm working on a resources page for our website to help scholars find homes for their op-eds, guest blogs, and otherwise expertise. If you run a site or podcast that regularly posts such things and would like us to share it as a potential place to pitch, please let me know!

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

The wilful ignorance of history would be funny if it wasn't so racist.

“American culture encourages a dynamic of ‘While we’re denying that the physical violence that robbed your community has effects in the present, we’re also going to dare you to call that denial violent.’” Koritha Mitchell www.publicbooks.org/white-medioc...

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

This is Bryan Stevenson— attorney, NYU law prof, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, author of "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption". He has 2 degrees from Harvard and has argued cases at SCOTUS. He say some judges instantly hate him and often mistake him for client he is defending.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Fantastic example of memory activism.

Sometimes, I agonise about the quality of the book I've spent years researching and writing and then I listen to an episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social and I feel better.

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

USA having an ethic cleansing. UK watching, wide-eyed. "I want one of those."

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK. Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

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Staffordshire County Council is ignoring the fact that many of the Union flags on the Western Bypass in Lichfield have 'Unite the Kingdom' written on them. Therefore, these are not just national flags, but far right political slogans. The county flag protocol say that modified flags cannot be flown.