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Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Every new "innovation" in teaching amounts to teachers doing twice as much work to track something that has nothing to do with their job and won't improve student learning

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

{{New paperback}} Medieval France at War by John France www.arc-humanities.org/978180270447...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

Throughout the middle ages, abbesses and abbots had concerns that went well beyond the walls of their communities. Whether this concerned issues of legal jurisdiction, or more worldly matters such as economic or political questions, monastic leaders invariably found themselves torn between their responsibilities for their monks and their authority in the world outside. The three papers in this panel will explore various such themes and how they affected the (self-)image of abbots and abbesses.

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Perfect, Perfect, Perfect. Thank you.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 20/02/2026

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature.

This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/02/2026

NEW: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s legal effort to access Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, ruling that federal law does not require states to disclose the data. The decision comes after an Oregon judge last week concluded the DOJ can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith.

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Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter rolls

Michigan is just one of two dozen states wrestling with the unusual demand from the DOJ.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion. That is your money. Never in our history have we seen something like this. The billionaire President always has a new plan to make himself richer, but never a plan to make your bills more affordable.

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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026 Deadline: 28 February 2026 Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers. Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.

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Baron @333baron.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hahahahahahahahaha

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Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Are you a PhD student studying urban or metropolitan history? Apply to join the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium that we're running at the SACRPH conference this October. Come for the snacks, stay for the mentorship, camaraderie, and writing help.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is literally the plot of the 1935 dystopian novel “It Can’t Happen Here” in which a fascist wins over FDR and among other awful things, starts a disastrous war with Mexico. Republicans successfully blocked the planned movie version, too.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 13.—Movie Czar Will Hays has banned the filming of a picture based on Sinclair Lewis' novel "It Can't Happen Here," Lewis revealed today. The author said Hays was afraid the film might offend Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini or the Republican Party, "which might win the next elections.”

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026

Trump: "They emptied out, if you think about it, they emptied out all of their mental institutions into our country." (Trump doesn't understand the difference between insane asylums and political asylum claims.)

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/12/2025

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

MAJOR congratulations to all of the contributors and editors of this issue of Speculum, commemorating one hundred years of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social journal! Dozens of short essays on the past, present, and future of Medieval Studies. It's SO good! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/curr...

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Only in the Trump admin is archival footage of someone saying “don’t do illegal things” considered embarrassing www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u... (Another good find from @kfile.bsky.social nonetheless)

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2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN

Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful: 1. Fake news, it didn’t happen. 2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened. 3. So it happened, so what. 4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day to all who celebrate!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025

Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This, again, is an impeachable offense. No kings. No monarchs. We are not England. We are not Rome. America has no throne to sit on.

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 17/09/2025

This regime clearly wants to abuse its power and begin policing speech throughout our country. Let today, Constitution Day, be a reminder that our Constitution affirms it is our fundamental right as Americans to speak freely, even if those in power don’t like what we’re saying.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Job offer for medievalists at the University of Warsaw: historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer.... My dear friend & colleague Grzegorz Pac is looking for a postdoc to join his project Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages.

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Job offer for postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History – Faculty of History

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hello! For a mere 50k per student I will also provide you a school with no teachers.

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This Friday marks the The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, a battle during the Civil War of Stephen and Matilda. It took place on 22 August 1138. The exact site near the town has been much debated with variations in source texts and .

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is pathetic even if it wasn't an incomprehensible betrayal of our allies.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The whisker admirer has logged on. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a white woman in a dark checkered coat, smiling at the camera and pointing to the beautiful medium haired tabby cat she cradles in her arms. The cat also looks at the camera.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/08/2025

This week we announced a vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA The Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date 8 Sept #Skystorians

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Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Attention all Norman postgrad scholars! Here are the details for the Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026. The Battle Conference will be in Swansea next year. Supervisors, please talk to your students and encourage them to submit. battleconference.wordpress.com/marjorie-chi... #skystorians #medievalsky

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Marjorie Chibnall Prize 2026

The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize: call for submissions The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, offered in memory of the former director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and co-founder o…

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"nine of the ingots – accounting for nearly a third of the hoard’s silver – were geochemically matched to silver minted in the Islamic Caliphate"

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Job Opportunity! Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...

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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) | H-Net

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