Crypto Scam Targets Stranded Ships in Strait of Hormuz: Report Fraudsters posing as Iranian authorities are reportedly demanding Bitcoin and USDT from shipping firms for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, as vessels remain stranded.

The latest fight between two powerful sectors of the crypto industry - fraud vs. money laundering.

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UK Museums Association Code of Ethics:

2.2 Support freedom of speech, expression and debate, as consistent with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Anthropology Professor Laura Ng receives $10,000 grant for Wyoming Chinatowns research project The Far Western Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Anthropology Professor Laura Ng’s research project, titled “Wyoming Chinatowns and Emigrant Home Villages: Archaeologies of Labor, Racial...

A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-...

I laughed until I cried

This severely kneecaps journalists, archivists, researchers and more from keeping government accountable.

This is dangerous.

@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social has presented the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust category) to People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This award “represents the best of Jewish literature.”
#NationalJewishBookAwards

POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.

Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.

Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)

War. It’s bad. Don’t do it. As more elegantly expressed here in 1570 via the Triumph of Mars by Antoine Caron, whose day is today.

This is an informative, interesting, and well-written piece on medieval Irish and Welsh law codes and manuscripts.

112 The Boer War On this episode of the Irish History Show we spoke to Dr. Spencer Jones about the Boer War. The Boer War, also known as the Second Boer War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the…

Really enjoyed recording this podcast with
@historian1914.bsky.social
on the Boer war 1899-1902 and Ireland's role in it. We discuss: Irish Brigades on both sides, Afrikaner nationalism, British empire in S Africa, guerrilla war, concentration camps and more. irishhistoryshow.ie/112-the-boer...

Come enjoy my research rabbit holes via a mix of free & paid #Substack articles on #AllAndSundry!

-Part 1: spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/conquerors...

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Technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing “Gugusse and the Automaton" – which features, by the way, the first known moving image of what might be called a robot – so that it can now be enjoyed by anyone online!

Social media post: Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter That beautiful ending to Trump's SOTU address reminds me why we can't have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president. Love for our country has to be in your genes. Readers added context they thought people might want to know: President Trump is a second generation immigrant through his Scottish-born mother and a third generation immigrant through his German-born paternal grandparents.

Context will get 'em, every, single time.

110 years ago, my great-grandfather sent this home.

“It’s cold. And when we are in the trenches, outside at night, it will be even worse. We leave for 8 days. On our right, at Verdun, it has been non-stop.

I’m sending you a photo 👇 it will be a memory for me after the war.

#WW1 #OnThisDay

Two favourite eighteen-century words just dropped: arse-ward and arsy-varsy. Let’s bring them back! (From Francis Grose, ‘A Provincial Glossary’, 1787).

In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...

Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement i...

Today is my book's second birthday! It's relevant for understanding how militias both function think about themselves, including why many have a disjoint between their complacency about ICE alongside longstanding concerns about govt tyranny.

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How the fuck is Corey Lewandowski in any position to fire a Coast Guard pilot?

What is his title?

What is his job?

What is his official position in the US government?

If you are Kristi Noem’s boyfriend you get to fire Coast Guard officers?

Happy corporate spending day!

1837 Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour 1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri 1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy 1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant. He proclaimed his innocence to the end. 1967 Capitol Records releases the Beatles' double "A" side single "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" in the US 1976 American Dorothy Hamill (19) wins the free skate to clinch the women's figure-skating gold medal at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics 1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW 2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz died

🧀 Happy National Cheddar Day🧀

🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊

TGIF

Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Who am I to dis a brie
I cheddar the world and the feda cheese
Everybody looking for stilton

How Did the Cheese End Up Rich?
It Made Some Sharp Investments.

Have a cheesy day
We will be okay

Love
Foxy 🦊

You could also throw in the Chicago Manual of Style ornament for next holiday season if you really want to be romantic. www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...

Cover of "The Whiz Kids: How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant, Lost the World Series, and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever" by Dennis Snelling

"Snelling delivers the fullest account of the surprise winners of the 1950 National League pennant," writes R. C. Cottrell for CHOICE. bit.ly/4af0Y4y

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.

New on @npr.org: The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims

It was also initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.

The preliminary program for the SMH 2026 Annual Meeting in Arlington has been posted. There will undoubtedly be changes and updates between now and the end of March, but now you can start planning all of the sessions you want to attend.
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Rep. Walkinshaw leaving today’s ICE hearing: “All of this comes from Stephen Miller’s sick, twisted, deranged Great Replacement Theory.” He says when Dems have the majority they will subpoena Miller to testify: “If he doesn’t he will end up in prison for contempt.” @pabloreports.bsky.social

Before Dred Scott Cambridge Core - Early Republic and Antebellum History - Before Dred Scott

Some books on how Black people and white antislavery allies used writs of habeas corpus to challenge slavery:
Anne Twitty, Before Dred Scot

#histbookchat

🥈 Top 10 of 2025 – No.2
✈️⚔️ Returning rager @spitfirefilly.bsky.social reminds us the Luftwaffe was never invincible — and the RAF knew it fast. The myth collapses almost immediately.
🔥 Still believing in an unbeatable enemy? Correct the fantasy.
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#HistoryRage #BattleOfBritain

A pleasure to act as the guest expert for the latest episode of BBC Radio 4 #GreatLives! This episode is on the legendary Spitfire test pilot Jeffrey Quill, chosen by the equally inspirational Tim Peake 😊

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