Historian here posting for no reason whatsoever the state flag and motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Raven sitting on top of a tree

There’s a raven on campus, not common for our part of the US, and I’m delighted.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

I always tell students: a good university education doesn't teach you answers; it teaches you questions.

This NPR story on connections between Truth Social posts and trades on Kalshi and Polymarket is more than worth a few minutes of your time: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.

Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

You can annotate pdfs and do a lot of tagging in Zotero, so is the added benefit here the database of annotations specifically?
Genuinely asking, I’m an academic librarian.

This makes them look like wizards casting spells and I love it 🥹

Yup! “So this is how my mother felt watching my sister and me start wearing bell bottoms in the 90s”

It seemed like they were a lifetime apart when we were teens back in the 90s and the 70s were having a revival 🥹

I have both hear and smell this painting.

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year.

Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical.

So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Stream It Or Skip It: 'To Philly With Love' on the Hallmark Channel, where a historian researching a Revolution-era romance falls for a local archivist …and of course there the romance features cheesesteaks, it would be a crime if it didn’t.

Umm, this is NOT what I mean when I say that I LOVE LIBRARIANS! But if any #skystorians want to watch a Hallmark channel meet-cute romcom (crossed with Tom Stoppard's Arcadia) between a historian & archivist - in Philly, just in time for the 250th! - please report back.👀

decider.com/2026/04/18/t...

If you tell me ai is inevitable and we all Must adapt or be Left behind i will tell u to go fuck yourself btw

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania strikes down a law restricting Medicaid from funding abortion, and in doing so recognizes a "reproductive autonomy" as a fundamental right in the state constitution. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

JK Rowling’s support of transphobia has been absolutely catastrophic for the entire world. She funded a far right movement, tested, weaponized it—and it is a cancer eating away at multiple societies. She normalized a lying narrative about people that will plague future generations. She is a curse.

*Palantir execs trying to explain their glorious vision so we’ll invite them inside*

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays addresses a conspicuous absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, A...

my book is expensive because it’s an academic book, so while I’m so thankful to those of you who’ve pre-ordered it, requesting that your library order it is just as good.

it’s also going to be open access so any one can read it online. save your money!

www.routledge.com/Queer-Pregna...

An important thing to note when discussing this topic is that NASA has a MANDATE to do outreach and education and messaging about its science. It’s a core principle for them. And as such that outreach is FUNDED.

What we need is for more agencies to be rewritten to add mandates like this!

Same. I’m an academic librarian, my partner is a desktop engineer. We both understand, use, and teach others about technology daily. We’ve both also made a conscious point to avoid bringing surveillance tech into our home.

I would buy the book-length version of this thread on the brilliance of the English ""translation"" of the Les Miz lyrics

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

Really important piece in the Guardian, on Harvard’s slow-walking and stone-walling of its historical complicity with the slave trade, featuring testimony from amazing scholars @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and @carladmartin.bsky.social 🗃️

Cis people who did some thinking before coming out to themselves as cis tend to be some of the most reliable, honourable and secure people I’ve ever known.

a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! " ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "

Pardon me while I research the most effective rituals for cursing sports franchises.

They are refunding tickets and you have to rebuy with absolutely no guarantee you’ll get new tickets or as good of seats. And Ticketmaster is being super unclear about when or how. The show is in one week, we’ve had tickets since October 😭

Well my least favorite thing about Philadelphia, sports, is officially ruining my favorite thing, access to concerts and theatre. The fucking Flyers are in the playoffs so the Florence +The Machine show is being moved to a smaller venue in AC. I’m incandescent with rage.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

I wasn't super locked into that discourse bc I was in grad school at the time, but it always just seemed like the media decided her earnestness was "embarrassing" and decided to punish her for it. Like "this b*tch is too likeable, time to put her in her place." So gross.