James D'Emilio
@demiliopics2.bsky.social
Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity
New site: www.jamesdemilio.com
Swept up by politics these days, but I do post photos on ancient, medieval, and Christian art. Check @capitalsandmore.bsky.social for art only.
New site: www.jamesdemilio.com
Swept up by politics these days, but I do post photos on ancient, medieval, and Christian art. Check @capitalsandmore.bsky.social for art only.
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Send Aftyn Benn from Tennessee to Congress
and send the GOP and Trump a shocker
Join me in pitching in to her campaign
The special #election is December 2, early voting is on.
www.aftynforcongress.com
and send the GOP and Trump a shocker
Join me in pitching in to her campaign
The special #election is December 2, early voting is on.
www.aftynforcongress.com
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Even I'm a little surprised at what a relentlessly cheery booster the New York Times has become for AI.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Even I'm a little surprised at what a relentlessly cheery booster the New York Times has become for AI.
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Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
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Grotten des Catull – Römische Ruinen mit Seeblick
Die Grotten des Catull sind die größte zusammenhängend gefundene römische Villenanlage Norditaliens. Und an jeder Ecke hat man einen neuen Blick auf den Gardasee.
Mehr zu diesem Ort (und auch mehr Bilder):
www.miss-jones.de/2017/03/09/i...
Die Grotten des Catull sind die größte zusammenhängend gefundene römische Villenanlage Norditaliens. Und an jeder Ecke hat man einen neuen Blick auf den Gardasee.
Mehr zu diesem Ort (und auch mehr Bilder):
www.miss-jones.de/2017/03/09/i...
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Grotten des Catull – Römische Ruinen mit Seeblick
Die Grotten des Catull sind die größte zusammenhängend gefundene römische Villenanlage Norditaliens. Und an jeder Ecke hat man einen neuen Blick auf den Gardasee.
Mehr zu diesem Ort (und auch mehr Bilder):
www.miss-jones.de/2017/03/09/i...
Die Grotten des Catull sind die größte zusammenhängend gefundene römische Villenanlage Norditaliens. Und an jeder Ecke hat man einen neuen Blick auf den Gardasee.
Mehr zu diesem Ort (und auch mehr Bilder):
www.miss-jones.de/2017/03/09/i...
We struggle to grasp and say what should be obvious. The US administration is tacitly accepting ferocious Russian attacks, day after day, and making that plain to both sides, to end the war on Russian terms and do business with Russia. All to profit the Trump enterprise and its seizure of the state.
Donald Trump’s peace process is tilted against Ukraine: talks aim at reconciling Russian demands with Ukrainian concessions. And the Kremlin is likely to get the final word
Ukraine may be a step closer to peace, or to destruction
A baffling week of Trumpian diplomacy and plotting
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
We struggle to grasp and say what should be obvious. The US administration is tacitly accepting ferocious Russian attacks, day after day, and making that plain to both sides, to end the war on Russian terms and do business with Russia. All to profit the Trump enterprise and its seizure of the state.
Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
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Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.
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I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Giant sunspot AR 4294, appearing from the eastern limb. Really huge!
This is going to be an interesting 2 weeks to see how this fella evolve.
SW 120ED 2x barlow (F=1800mm).
Lunt Solar Wedge
imppg, PixInsight
2025-11-30 08:30 UTC
ShahGazer Observatory
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This is going to be an interesting 2 weeks to see how this fella evolve.
SW 120ED 2x barlow (F=1800mm).
Lunt Solar Wedge
imppg, PixInsight
2025-11-30 08:30 UTC
ShahGazer Observatory
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Giant sunspot AR 4294, appearing from the eastern limb. Really huge!
This is going to be an interesting 2 weeks to see how this fella evolve.
SW 120ED 2x barlow (F=1800mm).
Lunt Solar Wedge
imppg, PixInsight
2025-11-30 08:30 UTC
ShahGazer Observatory
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This is going to be an interesting 2 weeks to see how this fella evolve.
SW 120ED 2x barlow (F=1800mm).
Lunt Solar Wedge
imppg, PixInsight
2025-11-30 08:30 UTC
ShahGazer Observatory
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
Rubio on the Ukraine negotiations, "ending a war in a way that creates...a way forward that will allow them to be independent and sovereign, never have another war again"
I guess that's like Czechoslovakia at Munich on Sept. 30, 1938, "independent and sovereign" until, checks notes, March 1939.
I guess that's like Czechoslovakia at Munich on Sept. 30, 1938, "independent and sovereign" until, checks notes, March 1939.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Rubio on the Ukraine negotiations, "ending a war in a way that creates...a way forward that will allow them to be independent and sovereign, never have another war again"
I guess that's like Czechoslovakia at Munich on Sept. 30, 1938, "independent and sovereign" until, checks notes, March 1939.
I guess that's like Czechoslovakia at Munich on Sept. 30, 1938, "independent and sovereign" until, checks notes, March 1939.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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Nipped into St John’s at Stamford to see the Christmas trees this afternoon and this took my breath away.
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nipped into St John’s at Stamford to see the Christmas trees this afternoon and this took my breath away.
1/These debates recall the 1980s when Reagan supported an oppressive Salvadoran gov't and sought to reverse the Nicaraguan revolution. With reports and hearings, Congress huffed uselessly about curbing human rights abuses, but sidestepped the policy. Stop this war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
1/These debates recall the 1980s when Reagan supported an oppressive Salvadoran gov't and sought to reverse the Nicaraguan revolution. With reports and hearings, Congress huffed uselessly about curbing human rights abuses, but sidestepped the policy. Stop this war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
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Tis the seasona and all that, so I put together a little gift guide of cool artists, makers, authors and other good stuff I like a lot. All rad, no bad. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
All Rad, No Bad | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tis the seasona and all that, so I put together a little gift guide of cool artists, makers, authors and other good stuff I like a lot. All rad, no bad. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
February 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
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The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Great piece, makes you wonder if the real reason for not wanting to admit Afghans is because of what they know.
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Great piece, makes you wonder if the real reason for not wanting to admit Afghans is because of what they know.
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pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it
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Who could have possibly predicted this
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Who could have possibly predicted this
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The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.
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Today there was a planned federal operation in lower Manhattan.
We’re closely monitoring the situation, and we will keep working with our partners in government to ensure that New Yorkers know their rights, including those arrested today.
We’re closely monitoring the situation, and we will keep working with our partners in government to ensure that New Yorkers know their rights, including those arrested today.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Today there was a planned federal operation in lower Manhattan.
We’re closely monitoring the situation, and we will keep working with our partners in government to ensure that New Yorkers know their rights, including those arrested today.
We’re closely monitoring the situation, and we will keep working with our partners in government to ensure that New Yorkers know their rights, including those arrested today.
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Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another (Zechariah 7:9-10). #PrayForAmerica
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another (Zechariah 7:9-10). #PrayForAmerica