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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 1d

Kwigillingok is a warm, hardworking Yupik community, which I long ago had the great fortune to visit and teach in briefly. My heart breaks for them. Please help.
(Its life and customs are recorded in a documentary called Village of No River.)

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 3d

Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is calling on Coloradans to turn out en masse for Oct 18 demonstrations against President Trump’s use of the military in American cities. “Don’t be afraid,” Weiser said. “Don’t be afraid to show up.” #copolitics

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 3d

The Roman Republic fell apart when oligarchic generals began to pay their troops directly, replacing loyalty to the republic with loyalty to wealthy paymasters.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 5d

David Simon is my new hero.
How is it hard for a journalist to understand that writers like to write?
And that a writer as successful as David Simon is good at a it?!
And that sometimes working hard at something hard is rewarding?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

That got dark quickly.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 7d

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 10d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social · 14d

Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

cuny.jobs

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 16d

So exhausting..

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17d

I talked this week with Chris Hayes and Anand Giradahadras, highlight was Chris mentioning No Kings protests on October 18th. Free speech is action not spectacle. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17d

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17d

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 18d

Tenure track position in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley in HEBREW BIBLE.

The appointment will include the option to join the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, which I am chairing at the moment.

Happy to answer questions.

Assistant Professor - Hebrew Bible - Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 19d

No historian can fail to be appalled by this exaltation of murder.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 19d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 24d

Me.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29d

We need your help to make October 18 the biggest peaceful protest of the year. Please spread the word, register your local event as soon as you can, and start RSVPing for the local protests to help build momentum: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 28d

Here is the deleted report in it's entirety: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is an excellent thread on the drawbacks of a computational approach to history that doesn't take historical methodology or scholarship into account.

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Aug 28

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nothing that any university has done has "helped make it a White House target". Universities are targets bc they are *always* targeted by authoritarian regimes, and anything would have been a pretext. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

How Harvard’s Ties to China Helped Make It a White House Target

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · Jul 2

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

www.rollingstone.com

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 1

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Jun 19

On Juneteenth, I celebrate Homer Neal, whose interest in ham radio acquired in the segregated south sparked an interest in science that led him to leading experiments in particle physics and positions of leadership as chair of the U of Michigan Physics Department, Stony Brook U Provost,...

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