Do you know when the term grotesques emerged? I’ve wondered for a while about its relationship to ableism…

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

Journalism treats elections like magic cleansing agents for democracy. That simple-yet-attractive story ignores that corrosive agents still eat away at democracy, even after these supposedly "sanitizing" elections. Journalism's job is to monitor that corrosion. No slate has been wiped clean.

“By using GenAI:

I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
I accept …”

I think he's genuinely brain cooked himself even if he started off doing it for the sake of the populist right. the mask ends up becoming the face almost all of the time

Res Diff 2.2 (2025) Special Issue: “Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives”Guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells. Cover Image: Evan Shannon, Αυτοχθων Ashley Lance and Tara Wells, Introducing Rez Diff: Indigenous Pers…

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025).

"Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells.

#OpenAccess

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A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print…

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Face à Mélenchon, la gauche oscille entre responsabilité morale et responsabilité historique Dans le moment pré-fasciste, la critique des propos de Jean-Luc Mélenchon se heurte chez certains à l’impératif de faire bloc contre l’extrême droite en 2027. Ces injonctions contradictoires tiraille…

Meanwhile, in France, the far right is growing in strength & confidence, the left is in disarray, & the media is calling this a "pre-fascist moment." Upcoming nationwide local elections could be disastrous. Luckily presidential elections are still a year away.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Reform on 13% of the registered vote seems about right and this is with all the major media and parties painting them as THE alternative

As always, far-right support is limited and its mainstreaming comes from the mainstream elite who try to use it as a distraction from their failures

Conversations: White Ain't Right, How White Supremacy Uses Classics to Defend Bigotry with Curtis Dozier Podcast Episode · Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · 01/06/2026 · 1h 26m

Thanks to @mythsbaby.bsky.social for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Delight to see myself and my lovely co-authors in print!