"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

"the aptly named Bernard Capp"!

BREAKING: TRUMP JUST LOST SAUDI ARABIA Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, "It's over".

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I first looked at the title thinking I should read that. Then the description, and, oh, I guess I have.

Three Generals Ousted as Pentagon Shakeup Hits War Command Hegseth's move represents a rare leadership shakeup, raising questions about strategy and command stability.

Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy
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Yes don't forget to register your works with @britishlibrary.bsky.social to receive your PLR monies as well

www.bl.uk/services/plr

Economic Inequality: The Unequal You Will Always Have | Common Good Magazine The problem of economic inequality owns a long, frustrated story.

Was delighted to do an extended interview with the editors at @commongoodmag.bsky.social. This covers many of the major arguments of my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues. As I told my PUP editor every time I missed a deadline, it's all still relevant!

I don't need this because I live about an hour's train away, but this is a lovely bursary and targeted at a set of us (mid-career), who don't get much, and whomever gets it, HMU I want to hear what you're doing!

The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

I was thinking of getting socked in and returning to 🥚🥚 s!

Sounds like you're due for another snowstorm

I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

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The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

For anyone who has rented a car, Mr. Moylan, we salute you.

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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

This is a great post, looking at death, law, mapping, and the physical book itself.

#History

"The Improvement Police," my article on a scheme, c. 1700, to force people to use new scientific knowledge to make their government rich, is out in a fantastic issue on Projects, edited by @tedmccormick.bsky.social, Vera Keller, and Kelly Whitmer.

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Bulletproof No More Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.

It would have been a wat crime if we were at war, if not, its just murder. As congress gets ready to hear closed door testimony later this week, here’s what you need to know. joycevance.substack.com/p/bulletproo...

The prohibition is rather specific.

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

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#dh #c19 🗃️

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

No healthcare for you peasants but a ballroom for the queen, with an illustration of Trump dressed as Marie Antoinette