Right, because the 25th Amendment requires that the Cabinet and VP all be responsible, rationale adults, who are willing to act when democracy and the safety of the nation are at risk.

I am so glad that I bought my airline tickets for my summer research travel on March 1. I don't usually do that. Still, I worry that exchange rates, etc, will make my trip more expensive than last year, which was already higher than usual.

Wow, a Damascus moment, perhaps?

Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last year.

Here’s what you need to know: https://cnn.it/4vfcGG1

Republicans in Congress are complicit.

It’s okay to say that out loud

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Tulane Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit poster, April 15 and 16, 2026. Lightning talks on April 15 at 1:30 pm. One by Dr. Susann Lusnia, Associate Professor of Classical Studies.

I’ll be speaking at the Tulane Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit. Join me for my lightning talk on Wednesday, April 15, at 1:30 PM at the Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse on the Roman gravestone found in New Orleans. RSVP to attend for free at trics.tulane.edu.

Truly despicable.

Talking to himself…

Talking himself, since he’s a former president.

Talking to himself? He is a former president, after all.

Tulane Scholar Solves Roman Artifact Mystery Susann Lusnia identified a 1,900-year-old gravestone discovered in a backyard.

We approaching the first anniversary of this incredible discovery: tulanian.tulane.edu/spring-2026/...

That is f--ing creepy!

Minnesota DVS warns ICE agents they’re violating state law by switching license plates The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services told federal homeland security officials to stop license plate switching immediately. Gov. Tim Walz called tampering with plates “criminal activ...

They’ve been putting false plates on vehicles they use. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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.

Stupid autocorrect inserted “many”. 🙄

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How many I’m walking out of 2025

SNL had a digital short on this theme a few years ago.

🎄Merry Christmas!🎅🏼

My top 5:
1 & 2.Claudius’s history & Etruscan dictionary
3. Septimius Severus’s autobiography
4. Trajan’s Dacian commentary
5. Sallust’s Historiae.

Terribly sad.

Yes, and even better before cellphones.

This reminds of the time a student asked me what life was like before email. 🤣

Yes, Medicare for all would be ideal.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

You can book hotels outside Concur, or so we’ve been told.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Why is Donald Trump protecting left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires who associated with Jeffrey Epstein from justice?

Why is he hiding that from the American people? What else must be in the Epstein files that he so badly wants to hide that he's protecting political opponents to do it?

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.