Just leaving y'all this link to a freely accessible copy of Plato's Symposium for no particular reason. Feel free to share, especially with college students in Texas

Thank you so much. I am hoping it speaks to other scholars’ experience with this material!

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

If Joe Biden posted this Memorial Day message, the mainstream media and Republicans would say he is completely unfit to serve, with many calling for the invocation of the 25th Amendment.

Because it's Trump, everyone remains silent.

A blue journal cover with the title "Studies in Iconography: A Journal of Medieval Visual Cultures" in gold letters above an arch-shaped photo of the interior of an old church filled with mosaic decoration.

The latest volume of *Studies in Iconography* is now online at scholarworks.wmich.edu/studies_in_i...! Congratulations to all involved! We like seeing St. Sophia in Kyiv on the cover quite a lot. Please encourage your library to describe! The cost is modest and the value is high.

Sign the Petition Save AmeriCorps! Protect national service and community support.

This program costs so little and its return is so great. My son has been teaching through it and I can see what a difference it makes to the students. Please consider signing.

Set in an outdoor space, a trapezoidal architectural block carved with a figure of a camel followed by a male figure holding its tail in one hand and a whip in the other.

This #IndexHumpDay, we thank Erik Gustafson for sharing this amazing medieval camel!

April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.

“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”

According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.

Detail of a manuscript page with two simply framed images of a camel and a dromedary leaping against a red ground. The camel has its mouth open.

Someone is quite surprised to learn that it's #IndexHumpDay already!

L’Image du Monde / Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais (Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, MS H. 437), folio 105r, 14th century.

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article) The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

Worth a read

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Apparently not that patriotic: the first share was not a gift link. But here it is! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Here you go. Kudos to The Atlantic for doing their patriotic duty and making this article accessible to all www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

Happy to see this

“Bezos said, … ‘You’ve probably grown in the last eight years. He has, too.’ Trump, he continued, ‘is calmer than he was the first time and more confident, more settled.’ This wasn’t the triumph of hope over experience; it was the elevation of willful self-delusion over all available evidence.”

#IndexHumpDay

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Good fact sheet and script for Ukraine on 5 calls. Please consider 5calls.org

Starting now. Charged the car, packed my lunch for work, planning a quiet evening. Haven't shopped at Amazon since Bezos drank the Kool-Aid, so that part's easy.

Albertus Magnus, De animalibus, lat. 16169, fol. 286r, 1301-1400. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Île-de-France, France

A red poster with a picture of Elon Musk laughing behind a tilted White House. The main tex says “Donald Trump or Elon Musk?”

WaPo to frightened to publish this ad? Fine, we’ll make sure people see it

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

I buy from small businesses as a general rule now. May take a day or two longer and a dollar or two more but well worth it. Also, for books try bookshop.org

People in snowy weather rallying forbtrans rights. They hold signs, eg Trans rights are human rights

Marshal in yellow vest leads chants through a megaphone at trans rights rally in snow

People rally in snow. Trans and LGBTQ fly above them

💙💕 When trans rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! Crowd chants opposition to Lurie Children's Hospital reducing care for trans kids at the behest of the Trump admin.

👇🏻👇🏻

I want to join the @50501movement.bsky.social on Monday but committed to work meetings I can’t miss. Anyone know about virtual activities we can join?

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT or create one.

It is staring us right in the face now

A federal judge, Amir H. Ali, ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze foreign aid spending halted in Trump’s first week, ruling that the freeze was based on dubious logic and likely causing irreparable harm to aid groups facing financial shortfalls and potential shutdowns.