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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 10m

I cannot believe that it had never appeared in French before now!

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 8h

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 6h

Can confirm that James Madison did not have “inflatable frog costume” on his free speech bingo card.

Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 8h

One reason why the Constitution broadly protects speech without regard to its content, and why it also protects expressive conduct rather than words alone, is that you never know whether the most profound form of protest against authoritarianism will turn out to be a frog costume.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 13h

So reminiscent of Buckner, too. Sure that was the last play, but a lot of his teammates put him in that position.

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

That was the first postseason series in history to end on a walkoff error.

What a crushing way for any team to end a season.

Bill Buckner might come to mind, but that was only Game 6.

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Hannah Keyser @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite thing in baseball is when the broadcast talks about how the manager should be feeling some sort of big feeling and then they cut to a totally stoic man spitting seeds or blowing gum bubbles

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Holy sh!t, this is bad. If they do this to engineering, I shudder to think what’s next.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response t...

www.thecrimson.com

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet Jesus. That’s a lot of people.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 1d

shrek is standing next to a donkey with the words do you think maybe he 's compensating for something below him

Alt: shrek is standing next to a donkey and says, “ do you think maybe he 's compensating for something”

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Book authors: You can't and shouldn't try to present the whole book in one talk. You'll lose people. I've gotten better at narrowing it to a *slice* of the book. Writing a talk for another college in which I slice into the book argument from a different angle.

Powerpoint slide of a 19th century map of states with title "Citizenship. What is it good for?" by Anna O. Law, Herb Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 1d

The AHA offers travel and childcare grants to help graduate students, early career historians, un/underemployed historians, and community college and public high school teachers attend #AHA26. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️

Annual Meeting Funding - AHA

The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.

www.historians.org

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 1d

Today in weird and unexpected research finds, 19c free love advocate Ezra Heywood deputized Adams, Jefferson, and habeas corpus into his argument about sexual freedom. (From Cupid's Yoke, the pamphlet that prompted Anthony Comstock to arrest Heywood in 1877.)

“Against all repressive opposition, Individualism steadily advances to become a law unto itself; the right of private judgment in religion, wrested by Luther from Intolerance in continental Europe—later asserted in politics by Hampden and Sydney against the English Stuarts, and by Adams and Jefferson against British-American centralization—is now legitimately claimed in behalf of sexual self-government. Protestantism, Magna Charta, Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, Freedom of Speech and Press, The Declaration of Independence, Jeffersonian State Rights, Negro-Emancipation, were fore-ordained to help Love and Labor Reformers bury sexual slavery, with profit-piracy, in their already open graves.”

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

This might be hard to read, but here is the article. Globe needs gift links!

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't been able to read the article, but I love this.

High school in Maine offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results. - The Boston Globe

The kids were skeptical. They would rather serve school detention in school than walk in the woods. But then they tried it.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 2d

I’m speaking about my work into the origins of the American union at the Old North Church’s Digital Speaker Series tonight. It’s virtual and free, although I hope you will consider a donation to the Old North Church to help support their history education work.

#Boston #History

The First Drafts of the United States: Early Experiments in American Union

Join us on Zoom for a conversation about the forgotten stories of America's "rough drafts": a series of failed experiments with unity.

www.eventbrite.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 2d

facilitated by RI Historical Society and hosted at Brown, History Day is an opportunity to encourage & provide feedback to local high school & middle school students interested in history. Rhode Islanders, save the date: March 28. register to judge here! #Brown2026 sites.google.com/rihs.org/rho...

Rhode Island History Day - Judges

Why Become a History Day Judge?

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Holy crap that’s bad.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 2d

With the announcement of 22 new "genius grant" recipients, I'm delighted to say that it's at least theoretically possible that the MacArthur Foundation may have ranked me as high as 23rd on their list.

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