This is open white-supremacist fear-mongering, just a reminder to boycott anything tied to Elon Musk.

Scottish Gaelic Songs in the San Francisco Bay Area - Part 2: An analysis of the authorship of folksongs collected there from oral tradition gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/scottish-g...

Reports and videos show ICE agents asking American citizens whether they’ve “learned their lesson over the last few days” are deeply troubling. Language like this implies intent and raises serious questions about premeditation and mindset on the scene.

Can we please have a debate about how much tech we *want* in our lives? Not whether it's possible, many things are technically possible, but whether we desire a world with robot taxis/nurses/waitors... and where machines reduce us to decorative items?

Exploring Celtic Civilizations: The Age of Warrior Kings / Art and Culture: Cultural analysis of period 410-600 CE gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/exploring-...

On Trump's designs on Greenland and the spirituality of lament as articulated by a martyred African priest - my Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast today - text below or listen about 1:20 in (0720 hours, 8 Jan) at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Scottish Gaelic Songs in the San Francisco Bay Area - Part 1: A harvest of Gaelic folksongs collected 1938-40 amongst immigrants in California gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/scottish-g...

Resistance members are being targeted this week. It appears to be the return of Stalinism. What’s happening right now looks uncomfortably familiar. It feels like the return of Stalinism, not in the old, Cold

Exploring Celtic Civilizations: The Age of Warrior Kings / Society and Power. Social analysis of period 410-600 CE. gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/exploring-...

An article by Simon Rodway (University Aberystwyth) about his current project for a dictionary for early Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.

Slàinte mhath? A Drink To Your Health? Perspectives on the roles of alcohol in Gaelic society – when should we embrace, critique, or transform tradition? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/a-drink-to...

Decolonization Is For Everyone, Especially “White People” How can we unravel the generations of imperialism and its effects of destruction and trauma on all societies? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/decoloniza...

Exploring Celtic Civilizations: Introduction to Medieval Period Materials. How should we contextualize and analyze Celtic-speaking communities in the medieval period? What forms of evidence are available for analysis? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/exploring-...

Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

Prof Deborah Hayden commissioned an artwork from the Irish-Scottish graffiti artist and calligrapher Thomas Keyes for the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie. It combines manuscript ogam in the Book of Ballymote with motifs from medieval Irish literature and graffiti art. Its launch merited a report… 🔖

From J. G. Campbell’s “Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland”, on Feill Fionnain/ St Finan’s Eve. The winter solstice is also known as “Oidhche nan Seachd Suipearan” - Night of the Seven Suppers, so don’t hold back…

Everyone knew this was retribution (Nixon’s enemies list all over again) but now it’s confirmed. Trump’s own chief of staff said she urged him to stop “settling scores” against political enemies after his first 90 days in office.

To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency. Jim Douglass's new book “Martyrs to the Unspeakable” makes this crisis clear.

The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic (part 1) Commentary about the origins of the book and pronunciation for the first part of the text gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/the-naught...

Trump signed an executive order that attempts to pull authority over artificial-intelligence regulation away from the states and concentrate it at the federal level.

Farmers are celebrating the bailout as “Christmas coming early.” Meanwhile, many of the same voices insisted students didn’t deserve loan relief because they should “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”

A heads-up to anyone traveling to the U.S. from abroad: Be prepared for increased scrutiny of your online presence. Travelers from countries like Britain, France, Germany, and South Korea could soon be subject to a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a

What is Scottish Highland Heritage Allowed to Mean? Assumptions of inferiority and angloconformity are still pervasive in writing about Scotland gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/what-is-sc...

Wow. Trump personally intervened to block more than 4,100 Jan. 6 documents records that injured police officers had subpoenaed as part of their lawsuit after being violently attacked by MAGA rioters. The Department of Justice confirmed in a new court filing that Trump invoked

Aiste 8 just published with articles by Duncan Sneddon, Mary Low & Michel Byrne, @macailpein.bsky.social and one by myself. clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

A heads-up state and federal agencies are actively monitoring online activity tied to criticism and protest of the immigration crackdown in New Orleans. That includes social media comments, posts, group chats, and other digital spaces.

Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give.~Francis Weller, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸

Trump has decided to exempt coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act rules for the next two years. He issued a proclamation allowing coke oven facilities to sidestep existing limits on toxic emissions including mercury, formaldehyde, soot, and dioxins.

We can’t cultivate violence in other countries without it eventually coming back to harm us. ‘These units specialized in night raids and clandestine missions; Taliban officials and human rights groups described them as “death squads.”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

TIL that Theodore Roosevelt - while sitting president in 1907 - published an article on medieval Irish tales and called for the establishment of chairs in Celtic Studies in US universities. (fun fact from Ian Stewart's excellent book The Celts: A Modern History)

The message angered Trump, who accused Kelly and five other Democrats featured in the video of committing sedition, calling it “punishable by DEATH.”

The result was one of the largest youth-led demonstrations Charlotte has seen, with around 30,000 CMS students taking part through absences, walkouts, or organized rallies.

We are amazed by the resistance in Charlotte, NC. The Trump administration named the operation there “Charlotte’s Web,” and people have been mobilizing fast. Students, especially, have become the heart of the resistance. This was

Where the Wild Things Were and Should Be: Civilizing all wild spaces and entities will spell our own doom gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/where-the-...

Gaelic Futurisms Launching 21 Nov, Glasgow – free A multimedia contemporary art exhibition examining the endangerment of Gaelic language as a collective loss of shared knowledge, heritage, & culture, echoed throughout all people who have lost their native tongues www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-fut...

All Trump seems to know how to do is threaten people and attempt to force them into submission.

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

Sradagan san Iarmailt Sparks in the Firmament Ginealach Ùr Bhàrd Gàidhealach A New Generation of Gaelic Poets Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir Pre-order the perfect stocking-filler, here 👇🏻 francisboutle.co.uk/products/sra... #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #GaelicPoetry #ScottishPoetry #Poetry #Scotland

Seanfhocal an lae: Like Oisín after the Fianna // To be alone in this world. fionnfolklore.org/en/lays/pvo01 www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/fiann #gailge #gàidhlig #fiannaíocht #irishfolklore #scottishfolklore #béaloideas #beulaithris #irishmythology #fionnmaccumhaill #oisín

Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize — and to keep dancing.

Another @erskineproject.bsky.social article is out: 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish Magazines'! It is a rare pleasure to be part of such a lavish and carefully curated publication, and I am grateful to the SSAH ssah.org.uk for the possibility to contribute to their journal.

Understanding Sources about the Highland Clearances: Who were the various players in these historical events and how can we interpret their voices and agenda in the documentary record? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/understand...

A new poem on allyship in Poetry Scotland. Thanks to the editors.

The president demolished the East Wing to build a ballroom. It’s hard to think of a better metaphor for what’s happening to our health ecosystem—gutting Medicaid, weakening the CDC, and cutting SNAP. The symbolism isn’t subtle: luxury expands while the systems that keep people healthy contract.

The Truth of Folktales: What functions do folktales provide for a community and what is lost when people no longer tell their own stories? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Trump’s AI video targeting the No Kings protest is a sad reflection of how far he’s slipped from reality. Hillary’s comment about it made us laugh. 😂

The MAGA crowd seems very triggered that yesterday’s protest was historic, their comments are everywhere. In total, 22 MAGA individuals were arrested for attempting to attack peaceful protesters. Arrests were made in OH, KY, CA, SC, NC, MI, OR, FL, VA, TX, and PA.