Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

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Perfect, Perfect, Perfect. Thank you.

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

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

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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.

❤️❤️

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.

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.

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

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Looking forward to this!

Hahahahahahahahaha

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.)

Celebrating the New Year, Medieval Style - Medievalists.net How did medieval people mark the passing of the New Year? Well, interestingly enough, it wasn't always celebrated on January 1st.

Celebrating the New Year, Medieval Style www.medievalists.net/2026/01/new-... #medieval #HappyNewYear

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.

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...

The Christmas season is upon us!

They might confuse him with one of the band. 🤣

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

I lasted about 9...couldn't do it.

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.

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)

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."

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]