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A side effect of so many influencers being LDS is that one of the past presidents of the church (and a US Secretary of Agriculture) wrote a foreword to "The Naked Capitalist" by Skousen and that book references the Protocols. It's not explicitly agreeing with them, but it doesn't exactly push back

Conferences are vital for academics because we need to know which of our peers are: A) 15 minute conference papers B) 20 minutes EXACTLY C) 25+ minutes dear god kill me now

Reposting this again in case it helps some people. Do it if you can! It doesn’t hurt for more than a few seconds, and you might save some kid’s life.

We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month. Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the hippopotamuses, for yesterday was their special day! For World Hippo Day, here is an illustration of a (smiley?) hippopotamus from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [Reserve 590 BUF] #WorldHippoDay #RareBooks

"The way in which the ÖAW have done this makes instantly obsolete the lists of volumes available elsewhere online. In a sense, they have taken back control of their own series, and drawn traffic back to their own site." #openaccess

Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our #ArchaeoFINS pots that lack 🐟! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”

This is criminal.

the whole damned thread. PS, to those who want to complain that it was all in Spanish... I had a pretty good idea what was going on, because Puerto Rico is part of the US, and I pay attention,

If anyone can gift me a copy of the front page article on Bezos’s torture and dismantling of WaPo, I would truly appreciate it. Also, if you aren’t mad, go watch a movie based on a huge WaPo story

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Maybe we should stop letting there be billionaires.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities

The GOP is outraged that Jack Smith, with judicial search warrants, accessed the phone records of half a dozen GOP Senators who Trump and his people called on or around J6. Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.

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@democrats.senate.gov @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social In addition to body cams for all ICE and CBP agents in the field, as well as removal of masks, please require that all agents wear uniforms & carry equipment that are clearly labeled ICE or CBP. “Police” is misleading

More of this, please! Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies. California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire. 🧪 archive.today/fj8nT

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

Btw… I would not be unhappy if a certain leader of (New) Labour & PM showed up in the Epstein files.* Might get him out of the BS Board of Peace, and off to where he can do less harm. *I doubt it, even w/ Mandelson’s being an Epstein buddy. Can’t really see Cherie allowing it.

Part of me thinks there’s a strong possibility that the DOJ deliberately redacted the suspects’ names & left visible victims’ unique identifiers for two reasons: They’d be able to pull a lot pages down w/o ppl tracking. Intimidating the victims while protecting the suspects.

A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪

Every single one of the people involved in this, whether they actively participated in these horrors, or just enabled them and were complicit in their silence. Any of R*pestein’s friends, associates, and/or guests, no matter who, who knew and did nothing needs to be treated as a pariah.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

Happy Black History Month!

I second this idea!

This Black History Month, let us celebrate the heroes who have paved the way for us and recommit ourselves to the work still ahead of us.

Trump sues US taxpayers for $10 billion, then decides whether US taxpayers have to pay him the $10 billion. I guess the billions he made overseas in the past year selling out America to his foreign business partners isn't enough.

Sunday morning cartoons in Canada.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments." This broke me.

My brain can’t get past wondering if there’s some sort of odd connection to “Succession”

The DOJ releasing Epstein files with the names of 32 victims, 31 unredacted, is a bizarre way to “protect victims,” especially since thats the same excuse they used to avoid following the law and releasing the files in the first place. It’s grotesque. These are horrible people

Dems need to demand Miller's removal as a condition of funding for DHS past the 2-week CR. There are two weeks for them to plaster this judge's ruling into their public statements, constituent newsletters, TV hits, and more.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

Do you get it now?

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

These are, again, not law enforcement. They are armed, masked thugs. Approaching her with guns drawn, we’ve already seen they will kill people at the slightest provocation, or no provocation at all. This woman was very fortunate.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Oh wow. As if people in the DRC didn’t have enough to contend with

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

Shout out to my main hometown and county!!* . . . . *parents were native Angelenos raised in SBCo, I lived there till I was almost 9, had the excellent fortune to be raised in Oakland in the 1970s, moved back to SB County for uni. It’s a good mix.

THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND

Realizing now that I did not post this week's Historians At The Movies film on Blue Sky. So join us on Netflix this Sunday, February 1 at 8pm eastern to talk about the West in the early 20th century with TRAIN DREAMS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing! See you tomorrow! youtu.be/_Nk8TrBHOrA?...

As long as it still exists in the generic store-bought forms we had (we couldn’t afford Minute Maid) I’m not sad. But if the entire concept is going away??? Nooooooo

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."