I don’t ever ever ever ever want to hear one more ignorant person saying “hurp durp more vocational training”. If nursing ain’t that then nothing is. This Labour government do not want our young people educated. Period.

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, by @jennywoodley.bsky.social for @theconversation.com #AmericanHistory #USAat250 🗽🏛️📚 theconversation.com/usa-at-250-t...

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.

Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.

I wrote a piece about how African Americans have used memories of the Revolution to redefine what freedom means in the United States. theconversation.com/usa-at-250-t...

The image here borrows its title from Grant's 1868 presidential campaign slogan, "Let us have peace." Here's what Frederick Douglass had to say about that sentiment.

It is 90 degrees in DC and I am on my way to the Great American State Fair. This had better be funny, because it sure isn’t going to be good!

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

holy shit birthright citizenship is out, and the Court did do wtf it was supposed to do, but it was outrageously, unconscionably close 5-4? 5-4 to uphold BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP? this is galling honestly www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Maybe having 9 unelected and largely unaccountable figures with quasi dictatorial powers wasn’t the best move from a democracy standpoint

Years of painstaking research and writing co-opted by another. @rachelcleves.bsky.social and her extraordinary book deserve much better. Please read and repost. Let's extend the visibility of and endorse the many-faceted impact of her 2014 biography, "Charity and Sylvia."

Thanks, John. Should have thought of that: bookshop.org/p/books/char...

Reposting with alt text split over images b/c I think this is really important information for #skystorians There's plenty of productive conversation to have about the differences in citation/credit practices between popular/trade and academic publishing, but this is egregious, deliberate and wrong.

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

It is 2026, and people still think Saidiya Hartman and Natalie Zemon Davis invented historical information in their works. I am by no means an expert on critical fabulation, but it is not a practice about making up historical information.

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

Gutted not to have made it to Toulouse for SHAW annual conference today. It feels ironic that choosing a climate-friendly form of transport (trains all the way) was what put paid to my travel.

This is so true. After reading The Grieving Brain by O'Connor, I realized part of physical exhaustion stems from the fact grief is very mentally demanding. The brain "is utterly disoriented by the fact a loved one no longer exists," and needs time & energy for "neural rewiring."

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

when you've been relying on the social contract to keep you safe from society as you gleefully violate the social contract to attack society but then suddenly society informs you that you're somehow in breach of contract

Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.

Interested in #medieval #humour? #Borders and #borderlands? The #Marches of #Wales? Please give my PhD student @jasmine-celtel.bsky.social a follow! She's working with me & @adamchapman.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social on this fascinating project - and will have lots to share... #history #skystorians

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

There is a direct line from "not immediately condemning hooligans marking out their territory with flags as wrong 'uns" to "pogroms on the streets of the UK". One was always going to lead to another. The best time to stop this was then, the next best time is now. Not holding my breath though.

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

My book!!

Can't stop thinking about this now. The US is—unbelievably?—botching its sportswashing moment. We're a rich country with global sports competition infrastructure adequate to the task and somehow, we're gonna manage to use the World Cup to make ourselves look *worse*.

I’m watching episode 8 of #WidowsBay and I’ve got to upgrade my recommendation. If you’re not watching this show, you’re actually a loser. Please let me know your status so I can act accordingly. I run a tight ship.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed…then the lie passed into history and became truth.” Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, published #OTD 1949. George Orwell Statue, BBC, Broadcasting House, London George Orwell Archive ALT @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast. Warning: contains pillow talk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

My first World Cup was 1990. Glorious. Obviously: Sheedy - Bonner - Schillaci But also: Oman Biyik - Milla - Makanaky And Valderrama's hair. And Higuita's dribbling. And Claudio Cannigia rounding Taffarel in a game I taped because I was at my gran's in Dublin. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

It's just intrinsically funny to be doing this from an OpEd in the Telegraph - like the question is answered by the mode of its being posed, and answered in a way that negates the need to ask the question in the first place!

The World Cup for nobody is almost here: defector.com/the-world-cu...

You have to be really committed to US violence and racism to remove these anodyne panels

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

Widow's Bay is so good. The way humour sits alongside horror/ tension is just genius. One of the funniest things I've watched in ages.

"After Reform UK cut funding for the annual Pride Parade, trade unions stepped in, raising more money than was originally cut. the TUC, Durham Miners Association and Equity, replaced the lost council funding and keep Durham Pride running after the withdrawal." thetab.com/2026/05/29/d...

Spotted at Durham Pride 😀

Full manuscript submitted! A bit to go before I get it my hands, but this feels good...