@pfmcdevitt
Historian of Ireland, British empire, famine, gender & sport• NJ expat• mediocre bassist• WHU, NYK, Liberty, NYY• Assoc. Dean of UGE & Honors College @ UBuffalo “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle" - Orwell
When I was doing dissertation research at Croke Park in 1995, a groundskeeper I was chatting with invited me to walk the pitch. This was in stark contrast to when I stepped onto the grass at Lord's a year later and received a very strong rebuke, thus confirming all my prior biases.
New newsletter from me. We don't have many details about Pokémon Champions, but I think given how Pokémon has approached both the competitive scene and their other mobile games, we can say it's probably going to be bad.
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Field Notes From an Extinction by Eoghan Walls was just released yesterday in the US. I must have preordered it months ago. It was such a pleasant surprise. The first third (so far) is marvellous.
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
"It all started when he hit me back..."
I should have said Kind of Blue, which is the album. So What is the opening track. But yes, you should listen to more Miles.
I write to Morphine’s Cure For Pain, The Edge’s soundtrack to the movie Captive, The Brandenburg Concertos (no 4-6), and Miles
Davis’s So What.
Good luck. You’ll find the perfect pup soon!! We’ve also found that if you make contact with a local rescue, you can get pre approved and let them know generally what you’re looking for, and they will often make it less of a race.
We remind our rescue all the time: it weren’t for us she’d be living with the other, perfectly lovely and loving, family that wanted to adopt her but who came 10 minutes after us.
Let’s focus on what unites us.
Just a girl watching her team win a silver medal
Time to fix that!
who only has one guitar?
I actually have a name in mind but I wouldn’t trust my memory that I’m not eliding different uncomfortable RCHA talks to say it publicly. The person I’m thinking of did extraordinarily well for themselves and suffered no ill effects for this youthful misstatement.
Do you remember when that speaker at Rutgers said that they were going to speak about what they called "Identity"?
Did not see it
My class this semester is 100% old school. No computers. No PowerPoint. No take-home assignments. In-class writing responses to readings. Bluebooks exams. Lectures with a whiteboard.
It's been kind of awesome and fun.
That third paragraph! I hope that every AP story about every US athlete discusses our current political strife, attacks on democracy, lawlessness. If it's pertinent to a story about Haitian Olympians, why not about US athletes?
Sure, but after you sing it, the All Blacks play!
(At least in my limited experience;-))
Canada’s and NZ’s
If anti-immigrant policies aren’t about saving money, I wonder what they could be about?
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
Govt arrests Don Lemon for 1/18 Cities Church events while he covers the Grammies in L.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
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Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
“Disgusted” Breanna Stewart holds up “Abolish ICE” sign before Unrivaled game: defector.com/disgusted-br...
The massive nonviolent citizen response to ICE operations in Minneapolis is the way forward. Violence is what the fascists want. And it is not who we are.
Recap for episode 3 of Starfleet Academy is up! I can't overstate how much I loved the ending, and if they stay the course this will be one of my favorite series.
