Gay history in Northern Ireland.

A newspaper article in the Belfast telegraph, titled ‘Before the 1960s, this idea of comingohtdid not really exist in Northern Ireland’.

If you’re based in Northern Ireland, I have a piece about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk today!

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

Dette blir spennende! selveste Maia Kobabe kommer til Stavanger i september! Passer veldig godt når jeg skal undervise emnet mitt, Global Sexual Politics igjen!

As one Vermont college finishes its last semester, a new projection shows that 442 more are at similar risk A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or hav...

More and more colleges in the US are closing their doors.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

Congratulations to Sade for their well-deserved induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2026! | Explore more here: album.ink/Sade

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

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Absolutely!

#BookSky

Why Hungary Matters Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism

Why Hungary Matters

Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism.

The most important one: Nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable.

My new piece:

Schwarz-weiß Porträt einer Frau mit kurzen, gewellten Haaren, die einen neutralen Gesichtsausdruck hat. Die Person trägt einen Anzug mit Krawatte. Der Hintergrund ist unscharf und die Bildkomposition ist kreisförmig.

🎉 Happy Birthday, Johanna Elberskirchen (*11. April 1864)! 🏳️‍🌈 Die deutsche Frauenrechtlerin & Sozialdemokratin war eine mutige Vorkämpferin für LGBTQ+-Rechte. Schon 1904 forderte sie offen die Entkriminalisierung von Homosexualität. Eine wahre Pionierin! ✨ #WomensHistory #Feminismus
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I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Picked up almost 1000 followers this weekend, simply because I posted that we should read books together and talk about them. Something is happening out there.

A final thought: the most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old normie Dems, "wine moms," "resistance libs," whatever condescending term you prefer. They're the ones doing the actual work. But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.

Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

Touval: „What this war exposes, then, is a failure not only of strategy but of literacy. Literature and history, at their most serious, train precisely the faculties these leaders lack“

Not Drunk, Not Dry: What It Means to Be ‘Soberish’ (Published 2025)

US-Americans discovering moderation.

deal!

Yes, the landscape is beautiful but have you ever done a presentation at the University of Agder? If not, next time you are doing “Norge rundt” stop by and the floor is yours.

Florida is so scared of people who can think critically it demotes sociology.

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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

Fraser on Habermas.

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

Solnit: “(…) change is made by people who refuse to forget.”

Opinion | It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.

Lumumba’s arrest and execution by Mobutu with the help of the Belgian State and the CIA derailed a decolonization and democratization process from which the Democratic Republic of Congo has not recovered.

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity' The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

„The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity…“

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Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet.

This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

In the words of the great Frederick Douglass about the cult of Robert E. Lee, “is it it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?”