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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Aug 21

First They Came for Black History

The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.

hyperallergic.com

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Aug 18

For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Periodisation, Terminal Narratives, and the Beginning of the Middle Ages in Lowland Britain

This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...

www.tandfonline.com

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Jul 23

Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yup. Jetlag

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Jul 1

Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Jun 30

Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Apr 18

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 17

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 16

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 14

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · Apr 3

Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Apr 2

Cowards

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Apr 2

Liar

Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Apr 1

globalboston.bc.edu

Global Boston

Global Boston is a digital project chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods and ethnic groups, the site features ca...

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Apr 1

Be brave.

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · Apr 1

*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***

To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.

An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Mar 30

“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”

Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg. A photo suggests otherwise

Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News, "If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together."

www.newsweek.com

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Mar 30

There’s one appropriate response from faculty: fuck you

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · Mar 29

Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus

Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments

A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · Mar 27

A reminder about the Smithsonian: the Vice President has a seat on the Board of Regents (defined by law). But he’s not chair of the Board, or vice chair, and he’s not on the Board’s executive committee. Structurally he has one vote.

The Board of Regents | Smithsonian Institution

Learn more about The Board of Regents

www.si.edu

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 25

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Mar 24

The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million.

And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Mar 24

And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.

Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."

www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...

Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...

www.mediamatters.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 19

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · Mar 15

Just got back from a very fun protest at the downtown Boston Tesla dealership. Well attended, raucous, and a great antidepressant.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Mar 14

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.

This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year

Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Mar 13

They installed the TV...

At his request...

So he can play video games...

In his office...

In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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