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Pennsylvania Court Overturns Abortion Coverage Ban, Ohio Judge Mad He Can't Deny More Abortions: April 20 News Roundup Plus, more good news from Michigan and Montana.

In today's roundup, we have three "actual good news" items, which may be a record.

(Don't ask how many not-good items there are.)

i didn't think it would be as bad as it was 😬

Looking forward to this!

Cover for Forbidden Fruit: The Secret, Scandalous History of Contraception and Abortion by Jessica Cale. A woman peeks out at the reader, partially hidden by a collection of plants used for abortion and contraception throughout history

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY 📢

It's finally here! At long last, I can share the cover for my new book, FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION, coming this January from @putnambooks @penguinrandomhouse

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]

a girl with REALLY COOL NAILS is holding a book while she is blurred in the background. The book says "ESTHER KEEPS THE SCORE: trauma, body, and politics in the Hebrew bible" in cream font, with "Alexiana Fry" below this in a light blue. The book has a large red chrysanthemum, brown crown, gold mirror, grapes, and a yellow myrtle plant with spiky flowers on it.

Yesterday was the "official" release day for Esther Keeps the Score, and I am anxious and excited to share my words with you all. Many thanks to @scmpress.bsky.social for making this process so enjoyable.
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Harvard Academic Workers Open Strike Authorization Vote After 18 Months of Stalled Negotiations | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers launched a strike authorization vote Friday after 32 bargaining sessions with the University produced no first contract, marking a significant escalation i...

Losing patience.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Werewolves and furries, we're having a blast of a discussion to end our Blood Moon month with none other than @scareyoutosleep.bsky.social 🕯️ @princeis.me @bloody-disgusting.com

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

That part of working at an Ivy never failed to be wild to me

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.

a mustard yellow background with dark purple/maroon text at the top that says "book launch party." The book cover for "Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible" by Alexiana Fry is in the center - the cover has myrtle leaves, a chrysanthemum, a crown, a mirror, and grapes on it in a lovely collage style. At the bottom of the image, there is a calendar image with the words "Tuesday, April 7 6PM CET" - next to that is the SCM Press logo - and next to that is a location icon that says "online register for the link"

With a mustard yellow background and maroon/purple text it says "book launch party" underneath that, it says "join us in celebrating the release of Esther Keeps the Score! Our time includes a reading from the book, commentary from biblical scholars who specialize in Esther, time for Q&A, and a special book discount for attendees!" Under this, there are four names and four pictures - Alexiana Fry is first, then Esther Brownsmith, Sarah Emanuel, and Katherine Gwyther.

With a mustard background and maroon/purple text it says "book launch party" - there is a cream colored cloud in the middle with a QR code in the middle of that cloud in mustard and purple. All over the image are a bunch of random sized and positioned book covers.

You are invited! Join me and these lovely biblical scholars - Sarah Emanuel, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine Gwyther - on Tuesday, April 7th, to celebrate my forthcoming book.
www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

I'm hiring! 🏛️

This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history.

Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I am teaching again after a few years away, and I am utterly defeated by the rampant use of AI on every assignment (despite a course policy against the use of AI)

It is such an honor for @ssrn.bsky.social to feature my work! Thank you to Apoorva Anand for getting to know my scholarship and for writing this up!

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

I just read some Google reviews for fun, and someone said it's a "more mature" scent for "the older age bracket" 💀

You're welcome! So well deserved :)

Marlboro Reds and Vanilla Fields

whoa the mention of Sunflowers took me back

Congratulations!!!

🚨CALL FOR CHAPTERS!🚨

@amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

US Department of Justice website's age verification

It's ironic that you have to verify you're 18+ to view the Epstein files

Screen shot from an email, which reads: PHEN 11.1–2: Special issue "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," edited by J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus. 1. J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus: "The Critical Edition as Technology: A View from Biblical Studies." 2. Gregory Fewster: "Edition as Communication: David Wilkins's 3 Corinthians in the Eighteenth-century Republic of Letters." 3. Kristine Palmieri: "Philology and the Politics of Self-Promotion: F. A. Wolf's Symposium (1782) as Critical Edition and School Text." 4. Andrew S. Jacobs: "'A Clear Account of the Codex Simonideios:' Ideological Infrastructures of Biblical Vulnerability in the Nineteenth Century." 5. Isaac Landes: "Our Most Pressing Need is the Critical Edition: J. N. Epstein and the Rise of Talmudic Philology." 6. Jennifer Knust: "The New Testament Apparatus and the Rise of the American Cold War." 7. Mark Vessey: "Afterpiece - Roads, Bridges, Precincts, Thresholds: The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology since Late Antiquity."

Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.

Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...