Kevin, I had not thought about Jon McNaughton for so long. Thanks a lot.

Respectfully remended. Thanks for the remender.

Bridgelady’s Jameson Blue

@bocadelperro.bsky.social A corgi? Here’s mine

She’s still in Siena… I saw her head and her finger 😝

I’ve been off of Bluesky for too long and I missed your posts… Missed them terrib-ly

Dislike!

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

This Guardian story from 2020 asked:
"Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?"
I think we know the answer.
Release all the Epstein files. End the Trump cover-up.

Ok but what about Greek witches?

Actually, I just came here looking for Sam Kennerley because I just found his book on the early modern reception of Chrysostom and I have a pile of questions for him.

USA bomb… 😬

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.

See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Important article from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social integrating research on how Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Check it out.

History Now! On Presentism and a Strange Online Debate in American Historiography (Part 1) Georg Gangl - James H. Sweet is the current president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the largest scholarly organization of historians worldwide, and he recently found himself in quite a situation. As part of his function as president of AHA, Sweet writes the monthly column From the President in the organization’s news magazine Perspectives on History. While I imagine the column is usually read with some interest by AHA members and other readers, the text in the September issue of this year entitled “IS HISTORY HISTORY? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present” garnered rather special and outsized attention.

Historical methodology reflections by @ggangl.bsky.social
gtw.hypotheses.org/9274 #presentism #historicism #anachronism #history #historiography

Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance

"It is still a free country. You can still say what you want. So why are so many powerful institutions behaving like it isn’t and they can’t? If a few bratty cartoon kids can peel off the emperor’s clothes, what are the grown-ups so afraid of?" [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...

Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance

Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly

His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance

zeus.atilf.fr/dmf/

Dictionnaire du Moyen Français has been down for a few days. 😒
I use this resource daily. I hope they get the site back up and running soon.

And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs.

One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.

There’s a tariff on root vegetables now?

Catholic Priests Barred From Ministering to Detained Migrants in Florida Miami Archbishop slams lack of access at so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz', calling it a denial of dignity and faith.

Florida’s Republican administration blocks Catholic priests from ministering to immigrants jailed at Everglades detention camp: migrantinsider.com/p/catholic-p...

Science and Democracy Under Siege Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.

Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

It’s not even good blasphemy

Utter corruption and malfeasance. It also opens them up to a potential lawsuit in the future.

😠

@saracharles.bsky.social Loving this

I'm sure a strongly-worded letter is in order.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out