Skeet from @wheedle from Apr 16, 2025: people make fun of Sun Tzu for his advice being basic stuff like "remember your soldiers need food" but considering most military commanders through history were inbred fails so of nobility you can see why it was necessary." Reply, also by @Wheedle, also dated Apr 16, 2025: "Pete Hegseth is not going to remember soldiers need food." This of course refers to images of meager, spoiled-appearing rations that US sailors in the Navy smuggled out of the dining facilities on board naval ships stranded near the Streights of Hormuz. They are running out of food and the Hegseth's response to this scandal suggested that perhaps he had allowed AI to do his assignment the day Sun Tzu was assigned in college.

This one certainly aged.
Well or poorly, you decide.

Nathan Bedford Forrest Massacred Surrendering Black Soldiers. A Print Shop Made Sure the Nation Remembered. The one image I keep coming back to when I think about the Fort Pillow Massacre is a chromolithograph published around 1892 by the Chicago firm Kurz & Allison.

I've always wanted to know the story behind the proliferation of this image of the Fort Pillow Massacre.
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The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

How an Interstate Wiped Out This Nashville Neighborhood by City Cast Nashville

Today, Ms. Jeneene and I talk about Bass Street, a community founded by Black Civil War veterans on @citycastnash.bsky.social.
I share what you can still see when you visit Fort Negley.

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The 1996 welfare retrenchment actually changed policy (for better or for worse).The 2025 welfare retrenchment-which will hurt more people than the 1996 reform-is administrative in nature. It's all about making it impossible for eligible people to actually navigate the system to receive benefits

Screenshot of flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE Socially Responsible Sweatshops: The Politics of "Ethical Capitalism" | Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m. Anderson Academic Commons 290 Over the past five decades, elites have absorbed left critiques into capitalism, framing racial equity initiatives, microloans, and fair-trade consumption as ways the system can address its own harms. These efforts sustain the belief that capitalism, aligned with humanitarian goals, can repair its violence. But what happens when even these modest reforms face backlash - not from the left, but from ethno-nationalists attacking "woke capitalism"? When gestures toward inclusion are cast as threats? Reflecting on her book,Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether argues that today's right-wing movements are not a rupture from neoliberal globalism, but another expression of its underlying logic. RSVP Live Stream Also Available • College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Join us on Thurs, 4/23 @6pm (reception @5pm) In-person/livestream

@uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies welcomes the incomparable @lhulseth.bsky.social to deliver this year’s Kirk Lecture.

She discusses her award-winning book Capitalist Humanitarianism & the anathema of “ethical” #capitalism.

Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP

Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)

Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy

Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.

Sounds like we're skidding into low-worth virtual credentials completed by AI for the iPad babies, and synchronous, in-person immersive learning experiences with timed/supervised assessment guided by experts from the top-20 for rich people's kids who played outside and had limited screen time.

Sounds like we're skidding into low-worth virtual credentials completed by AI for the iPad babies, and synchronous, in-person immersive learning experiences with timed/supervised assessment guided by experts from the top-20 for rich people's kids who played outside and had limited screen time.

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

Gorgeous little brown tabby flopped on his side with his legs up on the air showing off his belly. In the background are a scratching post and cluttered bookshelf and pile of books.

I got a new foster today and not to brag or anything but I got belly.

You really can't exaggerate it, no matter how hard you try.

We already have people who have done the work. Hire and elect them!

China tells citizens to avoid Sea-Tac China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 20 Chinese scholars were traveling to attend an academic conference with valid U.S. visas but were denied entry.

US Border agents harassed 20 Chinese scholars with valid visas who flew into Seattle for an academic conference. It's a race to the bottom!

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That's what happens when you divert federal grant funding to the Johnny Appleseed and Ayn Rand statue garden in DC.

That's what happens when you divert federal grant funding to the Johnny Appleseed and Ayn Rand statue garden in DC.

China tells citizens to avoid Sea-Tac China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 20 Chinese scholars were traveling to attend an academic conference with valid U.S. visas but were denied entry.

US Border agents harassed 20 Chinese scholars with valid visas who flew into Seattle for an academic conference. It's a race to the bottom!

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And you thought LLMs sounded too much like millennials before.

Alexa is there any history for what happens when a government stops feeding their military

There's also a kind of intentional myopia in focusing just on higher ed when diagnosing "declining trust." Only one of these explanations also has something to say about why there's simultaneously declining trust in elections, public health authorities, etc, in the same spaces over the same period

UNESCO sites damaged in Iran.

Under International Law, “the responsibility does not lie only with the state that violates the law. Under the responsibility to protect doctrine, this responsibility also lies with those states that fail to condemn, restrain, and hold that violator accountable.”

The most vicious part of the assault on US higher ed in general and international students in particular is that it is an all out assault on one of the most world historically effective systems of producing knowledge outside and beyond strictly policed social hierarchies, both local and global.

I was talking about exactly this problem today in the context of enumeration in the history of slavery. While Indian Ocean specialists have long struggled with enumerating because of the complex variation of form, it is equally complex in the Atlantic due to re-enslavement across imperial lines.

I'm going to guess exorcism is also off limits?

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"

Say it with your whole chest.

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UNESCO sites damaged in Iran.

Under International Law, “the responsibility does not lie only with the state that violates the law. Under the responsibility to protect doctrine, this responsibility also lies with those states that fail to condemn, restrain, and hold that violator accountable.”

The Canadian government planning to destroy 38k testimonies from Residential School survivors is blatant manipulation of legalese to cover white supremacist human rights atrocities. The International community can't allow Canada to self-determine what evidence of its crimes it can destroy.

Accreditation is performed by administrators of peer institutions because they are in the best position to evaluate how well a peer institution defines and meets its standards.

This proposal is like eradicating field-specific peer review in favor of "neutral" academic journal reviewers.

It's remarkable how most of the world's English-speaking democracies seemed to have gotten together and decided "let's destroy the main thing that led us to unprecedented prosperity: our systems of higher education."

This isn't twitter.