Not a weirdo. Tell them what’s happened.

I see what you did there! And James on cricket is so good!

Well, as the AHA says, everything has a history!

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social systemwide Academic Council today:

"There can be no clearer attack on academic freedom than [Trump's] attempt to dictate curricular content, research priorities, hiring decisions, & admissions standards."

senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

How do you cheat when choosing a topic? You choose what you care about!

@davidveevers.bsky.social and others discussed historians who could write but the name 'David Underdown' did not appear in it, regrettably @sdamussen.bsky.social

Yes, he could write, and he *cared* about writing! And a very distinctive voice, which became increasingly personal over time.

Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous. Or Keith Wrightson Ralph Tailers Summer. Both great microhistories that are good reads but open up worlds - so methodologically helpful

I still turn to it when I can’t cope with the news. Comfort watching.

It’s bread week. Something is always claggy!

He loved the game so much!

"Handled too roughly"?

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on.

They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.

This is authoritarianism.

An English mother (Mary Morgan) in India in 1779 writing to her aunt about the importance of “inoculating” her toddler son against smallpox: “the catching of it is very dangerous.” Yep.
Someone might want to tell RFK why vaccination matters 🗃️

Here is Senator Alex Padilla's entire full statement after being detained by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security.

Like he said, if they're doing this to a sitting Senator, imagine what they're doing to other people.

Unconscionable.

California Senator Padilla was thrown to the ground and arrested at a Noem press conference.

Is there a reason you cannot take a question from our elected Senator?

If you’ve never been to a protest, now is the time. If you've debated on going, now is the time. If you feel stuck and like you can’t do anything to help and a burning urge for Justice, NOW. IS. THE. TIME.
#Protest #e3 #FuckICE #AmericaHasNoKing #NoKingsDay #r/50501 #50501st

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social

Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.

I did! That's what made me remember it. Pinter had been invited to do something at Brown (honorary degree, I dunno) and they appear to have forgotten until too late that his wife was a scholar and writer. So David went downtown and had coffee with her, and then Pinter joined.

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