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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DNC chair: “Aftyn Behn’s overperformance in this Trump +22 district is historic and a flashing warning sign for Republicans heading into the midterms.”
1/There should be a warning sign for Democrats too. Rep. Behn ran an unapologetic campaign. She didn't just talk about costs and affordability, she connected dots. She described "the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the rich in American history"...
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
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I'm currently travelling through the fjords towards Bergen, & I am once again struck by my deep love for the Norwegian ferries. They enable us to take a break in our travels, get refreshments, & enjoy the scenery. It is an important bulwark against the hegemony of car culture.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm currently travelling through the fjords towards Bergen, & I am once again struck by my deep love for the Norwegian ferries. They enable us to take a break in our travels, get refreshments, & enjoy the scenery. It is an important bulwark against the hegemony of car culture.
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Kash Patel today:
"When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
Never ever forget #January6th !!
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Kash Patel today:
"When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
Never ever forget #January6th !!
💠 👊 💠
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Kash Patel today:
"When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
Never ever forget #January6th !!
💠 👊 💠
Kash Patel today:
"When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
Never ever forget #January6th !!
💠 👊 💠
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If you want to know about the charges against Congressman Cuellar, the Democrat Trump just pardoned, here's my breakdown from when the case was indicted.
Trump's abuse of the pardon power is so destructive to the rule of law, in so many ways.
www.sidebarsblog.com/p/unpacking-...
Trump's abuse of the pardon power is so destructive to the rule of law, in so many ways.
www.sidebarsblog.com/p/unpacking-...
Unpacking the Cuellar Indictment
Husband and wife corruption
www.sidebarsblog.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you want to know about the charges against Congressman Cuellar, the Democrat Trump just pardoned, here's my breakdown from when the case was indicted.
Trump's abuse of the pardon power is so destructive to the rule of law, in so many ways.
www.sidebarsblog.com/p/unpacking-...
Trump's abuse of the pardon power is so destructive to the rule of law, in so many ways.
www.sidebarsblog.com/p/unpacking-...
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A soft, small, hopeful thing.
January 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A soft, small, hopeful thing.
I appreciate the care I received from attentive healthcare workers for many years at North Country Healthcare, Flagstaff. It's a shame they're going through this, another of so many examples of the administrative and financial chaos that afflicts our healthcare sector
azdailysun.com/news/local/m...
azdailysun.com/news/local/m...
More North Country HealthCare employees speak out, as CEO promises ‘transparency’ in health insurance situation
Following the Arizona Daily Sun’s report last week that North Country HealthCare had abruptly terminated the health care plan for its hundreds of employees -- while facing a federal lawsuit
azdailysun.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I appreciate the care I received from attentive healthcare workers for many years at North Country Healthcare, Flagstaff. It's a shame they're going through this, another of so many examples of the administrative and financial chaos that afflicts our healthcare sector
azdailysun.com/news/local/m...
azdailysun.com/news/local/m...
I'm glad for good things #Arizona senators @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov say and even do, but then there's this kind of cooperation. Do they see what we're facing? Do they grasp its scale? Or is it just 5 bucks please and presidential ambitions, like it was 1988 or something.
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I'm glad for good things #Arizona senators @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov say and even do, but then there's this kind of cooperation. Do they see what we're facing? Do they grasp its scale? Or is it just 5 bucks please and presidential ambitions, like it was 1988 or something.
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"Trump's new judges want to put me in prison: can you spare $20..."
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Trump's new judges want to put me in prison: can you spare $20..."
Hiring may be trending up in some sectors.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the president and the original architect had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hiring may be trending up in some sectors.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Cold supermoon, earlier this evening, Cébron lake in Deux-Sèvres, Poitou, France.
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Cold supermoon, earlier this evening, Cébron lake in Deux-Sèvres, Poitou, France.
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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
(1403-1482, born and died in Siena)
The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1450
Zoom in on the très chic magus on the left in his red tights and little ermine coat:
www.nga.gov/artworks/15-...
(1403-1482, born and died in Siena)
The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1450
Zoom in on the très chic magus on the left in his red tights and little ermine coat:
www.nga.gov/artworks/15-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
(1403-1482, born and died in Siena)
The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1450
Zoom in on the très chic magus on the left in his red tights and little ermine coat:
www.nga.gov/artworks/15-...
(1403-1482, born and died in Siena)
The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1450
Zoom in on the très chic magus on the left in his red tights and little ermine coat:
www.nga.gov/artworks/15-...
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Some 1,900 years ago a child was buried with an array of terracotta figurines in the #Roman town of Arae Flaviae, #Rottweil: 2 pigeons, 2 dogs, 2 roosters, a chicken, a duck, and a female figure, commonly identified as Iuventas, the personification of youth. Rather than....🧵1/2
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December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Another outstanding piece on international justice from @mashagessen.bsky.social
In the bleakest of times, the heroic work of Palestinians and Israelis documenting a genocide is poignantly uplifting, a glimmer of hope that we might all see the stars again, together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
In the bleakest of times, the heroic work of Palestinians and Israelis documenting a genocide is poignantly uplifting, a glimmer of hope that we might all see the stars again, together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | ‘This Is Illegal,’ He Said, Spreading His Arms. ‘This Is Illegal.’
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Another outstanding piece on international justice from @mashagessen.bsky.social
In the bleakest of times, the heroic work of Palestinians and Israelis documenting a genocide is poignantly uplifting, a glimmer of hope that we might all see the stars again, together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
In the bleakest of times, the heroic work of Palestinians and Israelis documenting a genocide is poignantly uplifting, a glimmer of hope that we might all see the stars again, together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
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Jonathan is apparently the world’s oldest known land animal, has had a male partner called Frederick since 1991, and has met Queen Elizabeth II and her father George VI, as well as Prince Edward (luckily not Andrew).
Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Jonathan is apparently the world’s oldest known land animal, has had a male partner called Frederick since 1991, and has met Queen Elizabeth II and her father George VI, as well as Prince Edward (luckily not Andrew).
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What did dogs do to deserve this.
Robot dog with Elon Musk’s head poops out AI generated art
The dystopian art installation features billionaires and Silicon Valley's elite.
www.yahoo.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What did dogs do to deserve this.
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The villain isn't the technology or the media we use. It is the "for profit" model and the profiteers who extract wealth from the many for their own enrichment. We should cast this technology as a public good to be developed transparently with public investment for public benefit. Name the enemies.
"'The cultural and economic impact of AI is going to be the biggest issue in politics over the next decade,' Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told me this week." There's an opportunity there: lnk.thebulwark.com/48Q7j6Z
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The villain isn't the technology or the media we use. It is the "for profit" model and the profiteers who extract wealth from the many for their own enrichment. We should cast this technology as a public good to be developed transparently with public investment for public benefit. Name the enemies.
The key point:
"Focusing on the shipwrecked is a distraction insofar as it suggests everything else preceding and after that strike was all legitimate...Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, and we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder."
"Focusing on the shipwrecked is a distraction insofar as it suggests everything else preceding and after that strike was all legitimate...Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, and we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder."
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The key point:
"Focusing on the shipwrecked is a distraction insofar as it suggests everything else preceding and after that strike was all legitimate...Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, and we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder."
"Focusing on the shipwrecked is a distraction insofar as it suggests everything else preceding and after that strike was all legitimate...Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, and we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder."
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As someone who researches the history of the far right, sometimes it feels like we’re just living in a never ending Groundhog Day sequel about “Operation Water Moccasin” ca. 1963.
Absolutely fascinating and terrifying story on how a fake "immigration invasion" of a small town in Alabama got tons of social media and FoxNews attention - and was completely wrong.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Invasion That Wasn’t
Conspiracy theories in small-town Alabama
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM
As someone who researches the history of the far right, sometimes it feels like we’re just living in a never ending Groundhog Day sequel about “Operation Water Moccasin” ca. 1963.
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📜 Catch up on everything the @materialwills.bsky.social team have been up to with this latest project update 👇
#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #History #CitizenScience
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@leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #History #CitizenScience
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@leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social
📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢
We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜
@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians
We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜
@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📜 Catch up on everything the @materialwills.bsky.social team have been up to with this latest project update 👇
#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #History #CitizenScience
@uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #History #CitizenScience
@uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social
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Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)
This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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NEW — This evening, several organizers were arrested during a Tax the Rich Rally on Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s Gold Coast.
The organizers are part of the People’s Unity Platform, which has been gathering support for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s head tax proposal.
🎥: Corli Jay for The TRiiBE
The organizers are part of the People’s Unity Platform, which has been gathering support for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s head tax proposal.
🎥: Corli Jay for The TRiiBE
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
NEW — This evening, several organizers were arrested during a Tax the Rich Rally on Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s Gold Coast.
The organizers are part of the People’s Unity Platform, which has been gathering support for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s head tax proposal.
🎥: Corli Jay for The TRiiBE
The organizers are part of the People’s Unity Platform, which has been gathering support for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s head tax proposal.
🎥: Corli Jay for The TRiiBE
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Its super neat that TPUSA’s culture of harassment has gotten worse than ever and there’s weekly stories about their leads generating deaths threats against some poor teacher or student yet their CEO hasn’t been asked about any of that as she speaks at shit like the DealBook Summit and w/e tf this is
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Its super neat that TPUSA’s culture of harassment has gotten worse than ever and there’s weekly stories about their leads generating deaths threats against some poor teacher or student yet their CEO hasn’t been asked about any of that as she speaks at shit like the DealBook Summit and w/e tf this is
When you run the tape tonight, go around the room for suggestions on the stride, sway and swagger. It's looking a little forced.
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
When you run the tape tonight, go around the room for suggestions on the stride, sway and swagger. It's looking a little forced.
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