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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 1d

“On the question of intent, much fudged and fettered by those legal minds who wish to keep the high standards for genocide untainted by Palestinian blood…”

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The only way to deny genocide in Palestine is to believe that Palestinians aren’t equally human.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts

Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 1d

Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"There are no analogies in this book. No symbolism or any other kind of radical left ideology. No one majors in humanities, and no professors get tenure."

Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned

This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 4d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Bix Caleen and Cassian Andor, who is one (two) of the people that made the rebellion in Star Wars possible

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 4d

This week on The Medieval Podcast: Medieval Wolves with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... #wolves #medieval #podcast

Medieval Wolves with Elizabeth Marshall - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Elizabeth Marshall about where we find wolves in medieval sources, how early English writers saw them, and how wolves both add to – and steal –…

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 7d

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

This journal issue is in memory of György Kara, a brilliant Mongolist who I studied with at IU. He passed away before I defended my dissertation. But he taught me so much about Mongolia and gave wonderful feedback on my research. So at least a fraction of his knowledge lives on.

Баярлалаа багшаа.

György Kara with his (at the time) father in law, B. Rinchen.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

#tengri #mongolsky

Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

This journal issue is in memory of György Kara, a brilliant Mongolist who I studied with at IU. He passed away before I defended my dissertation. But he taught me so much about Mongolia and gave wonderful feedback on my research. So at least a fraction of his knowledge lives on.

Баярлалаа багшаа.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

This paper came in third for the Next Generation American Mongolists Research Paper Prize Competition sponsored by the Mongolian government.

This is a key part of understanding socialist Mongolia, Mongolian animal history, and a major corrective to ahistorical scholarship on Mongolian animals.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

Veterinarians helped livestock health and spread state power. Apparently a controversial opinion, but vaccines that prevented diseases were good, and saved lots livestock lives! And new sheep breed, especially the Orkhon sheep, were a successful melding of modern vet science and Mongolian herding.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

In it, I argue while it did not receive all promised funding, vet science was the most successful aspect of the socialist livestock policies. Unlike what some scholars claim, vet science was not a foreign imposition. It was Mongolian led and made a strong case for socialist modernity.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

It appears it won't be officially online for sometime, but I don't care. I am excited to say that "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the Mongolian People’s Republic," is out (or will be soon) in Mongolian Studies. Please message if you want a copy! #envhist #animalhistory

Smiling Mongolian herder woman with an Orkhon breed sheep, Mongolian People's Republic, 1950s.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 6d

Avec Raphaël Morera (@crh.ehess.fr), nous lançons cette année un nouveau séminaire, à l'@ehess.fr, intitulé "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes", pensé comme un espace de discussion autour de l'environnement avant l'Anthropocène.
Et en voici le programme ! 1/3

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 6d

Merci!

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 8d

Outrageous and evil. Mark is a great colleague, teacher, and person. I am horrified.

This is how the right reacts to scholars they disapprove of threats of violence. They care nothing for free speech. They just want obedience.

Please amplify and spread the word. This can't be ignored.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 8d

Outrageous and evil. Mark is a great colleague, teacher, and person. I am horrified.

This is how the right reacts to scholars they disapprove of threats of violence. They care nothing for free speech. They just want obedience.

Please amplify and spread the word. This can't be ignored.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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