Shahnameh blacksmith

For the first time: IDF issues evacuation for all residents of southern Lebanon to move beyond the Al-Zahrani River.

Ah, "free market efficiency" at work.

The market efficiencies of campaign contributions and lobbyists are finding more efficient ways to bypass things that benefit constituents in favor of guaranteed, risk-less corporate profits.

ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.

And unlike the larger economic crisis which is due to the US-imposed sanctions regime, the water crisis is completely an own goal.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Kelly, Stratton Vow to Block Additional Funding for Iran War During WTTW News’ Senate Debate While U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton flatly ruled out supporting any additional funding for the war effort, U.S. Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi did not.

NEW: Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly vowed Monday to vote against any additional funding for the war launched by President Trump against Iran in the last debate in the intense Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, hosted by @wttw.bsky.social.
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi did not.

They just murdered over 3000, perhaps 10,000, demonstrators. Going back a few years, they spent enormous political capital and impoverished the country backing Asad in Syria's civil war. Israel is now trying to annex southern Lebanon (600,000+ displaced) on the pretext of fighting Hezbollah.

These days I like to incorporate the reports of cannibalism and other crazy behavior by the Qizilbash into my lectures, and then explain the reason behind the name.

I’m sorry did someone say… BACKBONE? (vote Kat for IL-09)

The Dan Ryan Expressway was built to increase segration in Chicago, displaced tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans and increases polution in neighborhoods. Why is naming it after someone supposed to be an honor?

They're kind of desperate to force Islamophobia on a culture that embraced it quite willingly in the early 2000s. I don't think proximity to the 9/11 attacks is the only difference between now and then, it's also the way US society came to recognize the existence of islamophobia and confronted it.

II. No public school, school district, or public employee acting in an official capacity shall engage in the pedagogy, praxis, or inculcation of critical theories or related practices that promote division, dialectical world-views, critical consciousness, or anti-constitutional indoctrination. This includes, but is not limited to: (a) Teaching or advocating that American societal structures, including the U.S. Constitution or legal system, are inherently illegitimate or designed to perpetuate oppression based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identity categories. (b) Compelling students to adopt "critical consciousness" by requiring them to identify personal or societal "oppressors" and "oppressed" through lenses derived from Marxist analysis, intersectionality, or critical race theory. (c) Implementing culturally relevant or responsive pedagogy that prioritizes identity-based division over individual merit or shared American values. (d) Inculcating LGBTQ+ ideology, such as requiring affirmation of "gender fluidity," "non- binary" or "queer" identities, or requiring affirmation of LGBTQ+ sexuality as ethical or normative. (e) Using dialectical analysis to frame history or current events primarily as class, racial, or identity-based conflicts intended to foster division rather than resolution.

New Hampshire said "Fuck Socrates".

Yes, and also people who lost jobs or federal grants. This is probably more achievable than prosecutions although we should absolutely do those too.

If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history

Goblin & The Grocer

The Goblin and the Grocer
www.thegoblindunesidebarandeatery.com

Might be more believable if the doc also had apostrophe plural's.

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Mum reports heavy snow in northern Tehran today, and with the fuel shortage (US blew up 30 reserve fuel tankers around the city…), the municipality cannot run the snowplows. So grocery & other delivery services have been interrupted. I hope the electricity does not cut off in the snow.

These Are the True Things | Naghmeh Sohrabi | Substack I'm an historian who writes about politics, history, and culture of Iran and the Middle East. Also about television, books, and whatever catches my fancy. Click to read These Are the True Things, by N...

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:

truethings.naghmehs.com

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Pope Leo XIV Mourns Maronite Priest Killed by Israeli Tank Fire in Southern Lebanon Father Pierre el-Rahi ran toward the wounded after a Merkava tank shelled a home in Qlayaa. A second shell killed him. The Vatican named him within hours.

Father Pierre el-Rahi told his parish three days before his death: "We carry only the weapons of peace."

An Israeli Merkava tank fired twice at the same home in Qlayaa. He ran toward the wounded after the first shell.

The second one killed him.

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-x...

2/2 frogs

Chicago skyline over blue water.

Sun and trees reflected in water covering forest floor.

Red neck of turkey barely visible through bare branches.

Backs of houses with big tree and blue sky.

False spring with elusive turkeys and LOUD FROGS. 1/2

So this is one more reason the next Dem administration needs to make reparations to people deprived wrongfully of jobs, funding, visas, &c. a top priority.

There were two states that explicitly denied Russia recognition of its rule over Poland-Lithuania for their entire existence. They were the Ottoman Empire, and Qajar Iran.

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.

ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

New from me:

An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.

Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5