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Boy have I got a schism for you, honey

Leo, former head of the Augustinian order, visits the site where Bishop Augustine (future saint) developed foundational texts to catholic just war theory, about which convert JD Vance is trying to popesplain right now.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

A creature that is human from the waste up and somewhat like a lizard from the waste down is standing at the top right of the left-hand page in a manuscript. He is wearing blue and firing an arrow from a bow at a similar creature at the top left of the right-hand (i.e. the opposing) page of the manuscript.

A creature that is human from the waste up and somewhat like a lizard from the waste down is standing at the top left of the right-hand page in a manuscript. He is wearing orange and firing an arrow from a crossbow at a similar creature at the top right of the left-hand (i.e. the opposing) page of the manuscript.

Two creatures firing arrows at each other on opposing pages/folios in a late 13th-century Belgian Psalter.

(Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.155, fols. 6v-7r)

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

Officials in authoritarian regimes signal their loyalty to the leader by making obviously false claims in public (per @mcopelov.bsky.social)

Is it out yet? I’d be very interested (as a legal historian from the history end)

Screenshot: Alex Seitz-Wald posts "Grahame Platner to host Maine Passover seder." Jon Favreau quote posts with "Wow I guess they don't make Nazis like they used to huh."

Watching the Pod Save guys actively ridicule Jewish concerns regarding antisemitism makes me very not thrilled about the direction the Democratic Party is headed in.

This is the only constitutional answer for birthright. But it makes me so sick to have the question asked. Whether or not children like me, who were born here, who survived our childcare and healthcare systems, went to school here, did language arts and PE and learned how a bill becomes a law—

I do take some pleasure in imagining him sitting there, not even aware how badly he was losing.

he thought the other members of the group were gonna do that part so he went to the party

I really appreciate how Wang and the ACLU are holding the line, unwilling to make any concessions whatsoever on any of the fake edge cases, like native peoples, undocumented people, tourists. The 14th says what it says and that’s it.

You know who doesn’t have to think it through? Cecilia Wang. Because she did her motherfucking homework.

There are few things that give me greater joy than hearing Alito splutter. Just warms me to my toes.

As a fellow Taiwanese American birthright citizen, I feel very comfortable having this case in her hands.

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

THERE ARE NO HISTORIANS WHO SAY THIS BECAUSE IT WASN’T TRUE.

Do you know how not true something has to be to have absolute consensus among all of us?? We literally make a living on disagreeing with each other.

Grew up with our police and our justice system and our culture and our language. To now have 9 grown adults somberly and gravely consider whether or not we are like every other child in America feels like deep humiliation, like we were suckers for believing the ruse in the first place.

This is the only constitutional answer for birthright. But it makes me so sick to have the question asked. Whether or not children like me, who were born here, who survived our childcare and healthcare systems, went to school here, did language arts and PE and learned how a bill becomes a law—

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If I see one more reference to Edward Coke and no mention that he was one of thirteen judges— and if I see one more suggestion that the common law judges were trading opinions or that Coke was speaking for a court— I swear, my brothers and sisters in Christ, there will be a reckoning.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

“The [14th] Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States.”

Yes, we do them because our lecturer pool has different levels of priority based on seniority and performance and the standards are union negotiated so we need documentation.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Again, I know this isn’t a popular view, but turning AIPAC into this lurking bogeyman, treating it as the core villain of politics, the hidden hand behind all our woes, flies uncomfortably close to some far darker stuff.

The amount we’re talking about it.. just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.

Eid Mubarak.

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

A map of eurasia, done to look something like a pirate map with torn and aged edges. The label reads "Trade, Treasures & Shipwrecks in the Medieval World." There five medallions with drawings in them, and arrows leading from them to points on the map. From left to right: 1. A two-masted ship, with the label "Sirçe Limani, 1025." The arrow points to the mediterranean, just off of southwestern Anatolia. 2. A drawing of a jade buddha statue, with the label "Helgo Treasure, 6th C." 3. A drawing of a large oriental-style ship with 3 masts, with the label reading "Shinan Wreck, 14th C.: The arrow points to southwestern Korea 4. A two-masted oriental ship, with a label reading "Quanzhou Wreck, 13th C." The arrow points to the western coast of China. 5. A two-masted ship with the label "Beiltung Wreck, 830." The arrow points to the sea just east of Sumatra. In addition, the map shows lists a number of important medieval trade cities, and red lines showing major trade routes. The Red Sea is colored a dark, rusty red as a tip of the hat to medieval mapmakers.

A B&W map of Italy in the 6th century, with a number of cities noted. It is a Surprised Eel map, so there is an eel in the compass rose.

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