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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A pretty key & funny theme in Rome worship is that the statues look very austere and white, ie “classical”. And arguably “white” in racial sense, tho I think that’s overstated. But most were originally painted. And they looked very different, more florid and certainly to modern eyes more eastern.
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New Yorkers: Protest Netanyahu at the UN on Thursday, September 24, 12:00 pm. Meet us at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. When Prime Minister Netanyahu comes to NYC, American Jews and Israeli Americans will be there to send a clear message: you have blood on your hands, and you are not welcome in our city.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nice to see so much solidarity for an anti-Semite.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going to the mat for an anti-Semite. Cool. Not helpful to the cause though.
Macklemore dressed up with a hook-nose and beard following an old anti-Semitic trope.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Which worked out so well in the 2024 Presidential election
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026
“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I would tune in to watch Andrew lounge around restaurants in a bathing suit all day long…
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a far bigger threat to the Jewish people in the long run than anything Zohran Mamdani could ever say or do. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...
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What an Israeli settler pogrom feels like
For the first time in my life, I found myself completely helpless. My car was engulfed in flames, but all that mattered to me was my family's survival.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It would be good if Bibi recognized this as well
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Unclear? It’s because FIFA sucks, example 6792.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Laughable to call Iran a major power. And while Israel’s attacks are awful, applauding Iran isn’t the way to stop them.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Public comments on Donald Trump's proposed "Triumphal Arch" are open until June 15. Please share. Thank you. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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President Trump's Arch and the Battle Over American Memory
The NPS comment deadline is June 15. Historians and citizens who care about Washington, DC's commemorative landscape need to act now.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Or just “Shabbas”
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Which means we’re back to the problem of the Yale study a few weeks back: all the discussion is about the Ivies. Who do a fraction of the post-secondary ed in this country
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The @the-rac.bsky.social posted a a statement Wednesday: We are deeply dismayed by today's Supreme Court decision weakening voting rights protections for People of Color. Read our statement from RAC Director Rabbi @jonahpesner.bsky.social and @wrj1913.bsky.social. rac.org/press-room/r...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So glad free speech on campus is back. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker’s Invite
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fair. Maybe as a retirement project I'll go run the numbers and compare them to the recent study that combined Guggenheims, NHC, and other prestigious fellowships. Their conclusion, IIRR, was that there might be both a bias and more support from an R1 institution in compiling an application.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
1) Yes, Congrats to all the winners, who are surely deserving! and 2) methinks it might be overpraising the AAR: 1/3 of prizes to Ivy League schools, another half-dozen to elite schools (eg Duke), and nothing outside of an R1. Monopolization looks different from different viewpoints. 🙂
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Steve Voght @voght.org · 21/04/2026
Fishlock scoring at Portland in only the second weekend of the NWSL’s existence back in 2013, then slapping the crest and gesturing in defiance to 16,000 hostile fans, set the tone both for the Cascadia rivalry and for the league as a whole.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sing it to the rafters!
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is a plan for the gradual but deliberate ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Tweet from Amichai Stein: "I24NEWS 
@inon_yttach
: The Israeli cabinet quietly approved the construction of 34 new settlements in Judea and Samaria—an unprecedented number approved at once, and during ongoing military operations.

Among the approved locations are areas within Palestinian enclaves in northern Samaria, as well as remote points that even the military rarely reaches.

In fact, this marks the largest single approval of settlements by any cabinet to date. Until now, 69 settlements had been approved across numerous decisions; this move brings the total to 103 in one step."
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you seriously think that way, you might be as unhinged as the guy in the Oval Office.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Definitely when your demands aren't met you should pick up your toys, go home, pout, and wash your hands of any responsibility. Because voters don't actually decide elections. That's how democracy works, right?
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You're right - that absolutely justifies letting the insane person become President.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Yes, you are all correct and the world - USA, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and oh yes, Palestine - is much better off because people refused to vote for a sane if misguided person rather than a lunatic.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Go see it in Montreal for the next few months. Much better in person!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/03/2026
Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.
Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.
We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Because Nazis are just like the rest of us.
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The pogroms tearing through the West Bank this past week are enraging and devastating. In the past two years, 76 Palestinian communities expelled. 152 new settler outposts. Soldiers standing aside - or joining in. And, this devastating state-backed violence is spreading into new territories.
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How settler outposts are seizing new regions of the West Bank
After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint…
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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today we honor singer Yvette Marie Stevens, better known as Chaka Khan, on her birthday! #ImEveryWoman #AintNobody #IFeelforYou
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We should boycotting CBS because Larry Ellison bought it.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So the powers that be have decided that Miami is hosting, right?
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Messina
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The Romans had some of this too: the pontiff had to touch the doorpost of the building he was consecrating. For more, see Bianka Misic's edited collection on senses, cognition, and ritual in the Roman world.
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Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It has a bit of the feel of Gospel writers absolving Pontius Pilate of blame for the death of Jesus in order to blame the Jews, when the Romans absolutely had decision-making authority and putting Jesus to death was fully in keeping with Roman practice.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You love to see it. I know the Rangers and @mlb.com don't give a shit and are happy to honor racism, but you love to see it called out at least.
Multiple news stories criticizing the Texas Rangers for putting up that statue of the segregationist
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating.

This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education:

Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield.
Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling.
As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students.    
That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium.

When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions:

Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks?
Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light?
Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and
Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? 
I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
70% of voters say the Dem Party is too weak 40% say it is too progressive So why is the money & energy in Dem spaces so tilted 2 moderation? Why is every "smart" analysis about how the party has been taken over by "groups"? How does that win over the 70%? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
An amazing review essay of Scheidel’s What is Ancient History and Padilla Peralta’s Classicisms and Other Phobias. planudes.medium.com/the-chains-t...
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The Chains that Bind: Two Visions for the Future of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Classicism and Other Phobias by Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Oh man, this looks awesome! Wish I were still on the Left Coast! At least there's a publication to look forward to?
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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.” www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026
By Amanda Goreman

We wake with
no words, just woe
& wound. Our own country shoot
ing us in the back is not just brutal
ity; it’s jarring betrayal; not enforcement,
but execution. A message: Love your people & you
will die. Yet our greatest threat isn’t the outsiders among us, 
but those among us who never look 
within. Fear not those without papers, but those
without conscience. Know that to care intensively, 
united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today
& a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel
we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait
ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may 
we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our 
humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open
ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor,
& save one more bright, impossible life.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You are why we can’t have nice things. There’s a war on and all you can do is decide you don’t need very available ally to fight it.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
(I can attest to the fact that Russ did a similar fundraiser for Bolts — and delivered plenty of resources thanks to all of you reposting!)
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Don’t know why they didn’t use one or more in defense. Clock was never going to be an issue for the Rams
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
1) she shouldn’t have been kicked out 2) it’s a deliberately provocative thing to do and shows no sensitivity to the situation.
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Eric Orlin @ericorlin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Depends on your course and your aims. I've often wanted to discuss white nationalism/supremacy and there are plenty of posts there. One I've used is pharos.vassarspaces.net/2021/06/04/r... but there are plenty of others.
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Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Basis of White Identity
At the end of 2015, as the white supremacist “Alt Right” movement had begun to attract mainstream attention, one of its leaders, Richard Spencer, released a video that he wrote “expresses our fundamen...
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